So yesterday I went to have my Anatomy Scan...Dr wanted me to go a tad earlier than 20 wseeks becuase I turned down the 12 week scan, plus I am going away on a camp with CanTeen (the national organisation for young people whose lives have been affected by cancer) so would be away at 20 weeks.

I drank my litre and a half of water, showed up, got dressed in one of those funny three armed gowns, and lay on the table thing.

My sonographer (?) was named Camilla and she was in training, really nice lady. A real improvement on the smug man I had last time!

Anyway

The baby was moving around too much for poor Camilla to get any measurements or anything!

Her supervisor came in to have a go, no luck.

Two more ladies came in to try, no luck again.

Baby was just moving and twisting and kicking so much there was no chance of getting any part of the scan.

After an hour I was told I could go empty my bladder, jump around a bit etc to see if baby would untwist and lie in a more ultra-sound friendly position.

No luck. Hyper baby was moving like nothing else.

After another hour, baby had curled itself up in a tight little ball and whenever he or she was poked with the ultrasound wand thingy would throw out it's arm as if to say "p*ss off!". Hahahaha.

I was given - as a last resort - a cup of hot tea with 2 teaspoons of sugar to try and give baby a sugar high so it would move into a nice position where they could all se it and take the measurments and etc.

Tea didn't work.

After moving around too much to do anything, baby was not about to uncurl itself from it's tight little ball and hence no actual scanning that was meant to be done, was done.

So I am out of pocket $180 but they booked me a new one in a week and a half to try again...and I apparently don't have to pay for the next one, which will be nice!

My belly is bruised all over! Oh well.....no one can control what that little baby is doing, not even me!