Hi Lani nd welcome to our group. You are so far along that you have now jumped the queue from some of our other girls in here. Wewlcome and I will enjoy sharing the second half of your pregnancy with you.

Theresep: So sorry about your loss, a lot of the girls in here have also suffered the same as you (including me with 2 previous m/c) and we all know how you are feeling. Hopefully you will have some time to absorb all that has happened and if you are able to take the positive out of it that you can get pregnant and hopefully you will be back here in October with some more good news.

Murph: The 4D scans are not part of the usual scan process. Not all places do them as yet, so check with the current place that you get your ultrasounds done and hopefully they do them for you. All I needed to provided was a referral from my OB and pay the cost of the scan up front ($190 at my ultrasound clinic), you don't get any rebate back from Medicare as the scan is not classified as "diagnostic" it is just something extra offered for parents wanting something a bit extra. They recommend the best time to have the scans is between 26-32 weeks but supposedly getting done closer to 26 weeks is better while there is still a bit of room in there and the baby is not all squashed up. They also rely on the amniotic fluid around the baby to get the pictures (no full bladder required...yay) so if the baby doesn't have much room and the amniotic fluid has started to drop you don't get as good pictures. I am so happy that we got the scan done and DH & I sat up last night and watched the DVD to see our little girl again, it was great as you miss so much when you are getting the scan done that it is nice to be able to view it again in your own time.

Greenslw: In regards to the 4D scan and the blue/pink bits. I asked the sonographer to check the sex for me and she did this in normal 2d ultrasound not in the 3d version and to be honest I have no idea what she was looking at. She did ask in the beginning if we already knew the sex but it seems that they focus the scan mainly on the face area anyway to make sure that you don't see something if you don't want to.

Smithy: Poor you and your m/s. Hopefully as baby Charlee gets bigger the m/s will start to die down for you and you can feel more normal.

Hi to everyone else.

Getting 28 week bloods done tomorrow. I know a week early but this will ensure the results are back before my ob appt next week. I am just having my Gestational Diabetes test via blood test (thank god, I didn't really want to go through the sweet drink stuff) and I think if the blood result come back high then I will have to do the full test. Seems like ages since I've been needle stuck.... Strange when you think how many times we have blood taken during this whole process.