A Step Back In Time

I am now just going to go back a few steps in time, I really want to have this moment captured so will write about it now.

At 16w 4d I had my first appointment at the hospital in which I will be giving birth.
She was lovely and I was so happy after the negative experience we had there for my 12 week scan.

First of all I was weighed and then had to give a urine sample and then all the paperwork began.
There was lots of paperwork, I also had to do a quiz which gauged my mental health (Not surprisingly I passed with flying colours!) we also had a chat about appointments, hospital tours, antenatal classes etc, I also got my bounty bag.

Then the part I had been most looking forward to came… listening to bubs with the Doppler.
I was a little nervous as I layed down on the bed, not really sure why.It took a little while to find bubs heartbeat as they were moving around so much and kicking/punching the Doppler away (I didn’t realise that was the interference sound we could here through the Doppler) anyway she then found bubs heartbeat but couldn’t hold it for very long as bubs kept wiggling away.
The midwife said to me “Are you sure you cant feel that” at this point I hadn’t felt any movement, which I told her. She replied that it wont be long and I will be feeling bubs since they are so active.

I was really sick that day with gastro, and was for the rest of the week, I only went to work on the Friday.
After my appointment we had to go to the bank for Cameron to put a cheque in and we also had a look around in Baby Target however I was feeling very ill so we went home.

Later in the evening we were lazing on the lounge watching TV when I began to feel small pulse like feelings quite low in my belly, it took me by surprise and I told Cameron about it we weren’t sure whether it was bubs or not.
About 5 minutes later the same thing happened and continued to happen every couple of minutes for a little while.
When I have explained it to people they say that this is what the beginnings of movement feel like, I was so excited!!!
Sure enough the next day I was sitting on the computer at Uni working on an assignment and I felt the same thing again so then I was a little more convinced it was bubs. Now it is much more definite and in the coming weeks I very much look forward to the movements getting much stronger again.

I hope I see the same midwife next time so that I can tell her she was right, it wasn’t long until I started feeling movements, about 7 hours to be precise!