Private 4D scan at 30 weeks.
After a difficult week or so, it was so reassuring to see our baby again, to know rainbow was fine, despite being a pickle. As usual Ben has been struggling, bless him being pregnant does not come easy for him, while others may fly though pregnancy with joy and bliss this is not the case for us. Ben has been having braxton hicks, cramps and tightness almost constantly for the last few weeks. The pains come and go but the aching and tightness has become his daily norm. Plus he has had a bit of sickness coming back. On top of this his welcome new symptoms, such as acid reflux, heart burn and ingestion, which does not help the sickness.
He is also now anaemic, thus been put on iron tables. He has really low blood pressure and dizziness to the point that we feels so faint and struggles to get up without having the feeling that he will pass out. This meant that he been having to go to his aunts so that he is not alone while I am at work. Hopefully after a few more days on these iron tables things will settle and he will start getting some energy back. Over the last week he has been in a lot of discomfort generally, therefore has not been able to get comfortable or sleep well. He has a cold too, with hot flushes. The bottom line is Ben just is having a hard time, with almost very pregnancy symptom's going however he is bring our miracle rainbow into this world and we only have 8 weeks and 3 to go.
We have the midwives in two days so we will see how he goes. This appointment is to set out our birth plan to prepare for our C-section as well as postnatal care afterwards. She is also going to put an action plan in place if anything is to happen before the planned c section, that he is to be put on the bay and that I am allowed to stay with him. this is after the confusion we had when we got moved and isolated because one staff decided we were allowed on the ward due to Ben being male. But she has spoken to this staff member and sorted it all out. So I will update next week on how this appointment goes and what our plan is.
On a better note we got to see our rainbow in 4D and high definition today. This was a treat from me to Ben. The place we went was peek-a-baby in Mitcham London. I will post the link to there website below. The staff were lovely and we had no problem at all, they were professional, welcoming and friendly. We were not asked or treated any differently, they respect the fact Ben was male and we were both dads. Which is all we expect, while it is not the norm to have a pregnant man go to clinic's as such, but they did not even question us. The actually scan and photos are lovely and very good quality. I would recommend anyone to go to this private clinic. They are also reasonably priced for what is included. Our package was the cuddly cub, at £79. Which included 10-15 minute DVD of the baby in 4D. Scan photos on a CD, we got around 20 images, as well as 6 colour prints including one that is A4. The staff also gave us a gift bag with a journal, mam bottle and dummy.
We did have longer in there purely because our rainbow was not co-operating, as usual, baby was being cheeky and hiding. Firstly Rainbow was fast asleep, snuggles against the placenta, with both hands over their face. Which is the position the baby is often in, can be seen in the first photo below. We reckon that this is going to be rainbow's sleeping position, and comfort. The sonographer tried to wiggle and get Ben to lay on his side to prompt the baby to move but no hope. We were sent to the waiting room, with instructions to eat or drink something sugary and for Ben to go to the toilet before we try again. After some time we went back into the room for a re-scan, in hope that the baby had moved. Regardless of Ben having Fanta and a doughnut Rainbow was still asleep with one arm across their face this time. Again the sonographier wiggled Ben's belly, getting him to turn and tilted the bed but rainbow was being tricky. The baby was slightly opening their eye which we could see through their fingers but still had that hand in the way. The nurse suggested we played some music, literally moments later Baby was moving around smiling and yawning. It seemed the music woke the baby up, It looked like Rainbow was smiling and singing along which was funny. Defiantly a little dancer in the making. In the end we got to see our baby's face, which was so detailed. It was very special getting to see what our baby will look like. inevitably the baby looked so much like Ben, with chubby high cheeks, his chin and the Guthrie family nose, which all the kids had. It was just magical, then to be able to pick which photos we wanted to print and watch the DVD when we got home so really memorable.
He is also now anaemic, thus been put on iron tables. He has really low blood pressure and dizziness to the point that we feels so faint and struggles to get up without having the feeling that he will pass out. This meant that he been having to go to his aunts so that he is not alone while I am at work. Hopefully after a few more days on these iron tables things will settle and he will start getting some energy back. Over the last week he has been in a lot of discomfort generally, therefore has not been able to get comfortable or sleep well. He has a cold too, with hot flushes. The bottom line is Ben just is having a hard time, with almost very pregnancy symptom's going however he is bring our miracle rainbow into this world and we only have 8 weeks and 3 to go.
We have the midwives in two days so we will see how he goes. This appointment is to set out our birth plan to prepare for our C-section as well as postnatal care afterwards. She is also going to put an action plan in place if anything is to happen before the planned c section, that he is to be put on the bay and that I am allowed to stay with him. this is after the confusion we had when we got moved and isolated because one staff decided we were allowed on the ward due to Ben being male. But she has spoken to this staff member and sorted it all out. So I will update next week on how this appointment goes and what our plan is.
On a better note we got to see our rainbow in 4D and high definition today. This was a treat from me to Ben. The place we went was peek-a-baby in Mitcham London. I will post the link to there website below. The staff were lovely and we had no problem at all, they were professional, welcoming and friendly. We were not asked or treated any differently, they respect the fact Ben was male and we were both dads. Which is all we expect, while it is not the norm to have a pregnant man go to clinic's as such, but they did not even question us. The actually scan and photos are lovely and very good quality. I would recommend anyone to go to this private clinic. They are also reasonably priced for what is included. Our package was the cuddly cub, at £79. Which included 10-15 minute DVD of the baby in 4D. Scan photos on a CD, we got around 20 images, as well as 6 colour prints including one that is A4. The staff also gave us a gift bag with a journal, mam bottle and dummy.
We did have longer in there purely because our rainbow was not co-operating, as usual, baby was being cheeky and hiding. Firstly Rainbow was fast asleep, snuggles against the placenta, with both hands over their face. Which is the position the baby is often in, can be seen in the first photo below. We reckon that this is going to be rainbow's sleeping position, and comfort. The sonographer tried to wiggle and get Ben to lay on his side to prompt the baby to move but no hope. We were sent to the waiting room, with instructions to eat or drink something sugary and for Ben to go to the toilet before we try again. After some time we went back into the room for a re-scan, in hope that the baby had moved. Regardless of Ben having Fanta and a doughnut Rainbow was still asleep with one arm across their face this time. Again the sonographier wiggled Ben's belly, getting him to turn and tilted the bed but rainbow was being tricky. The baby was slightly opening their eye which we could see through their fingers but still had that hand in the way. The nurse suggested we played some music, literally moments later Baby was moving around smiling and yawning. It seemed the music woke the baby up, It looked like Rainbow was smiling and singing along which was funny. Defiantly a little dancer in the making. In the end we got to see our baby's face, which was so detailed. It was very special getting to see what our baby will look like. inevitably the baby looked so much like Ben, with chubby high cheeks, his chin and the Guthrie family nose, which all the kids had. It was just magical, then to be able to pick which photos we wanted to print and watch the DVD when we got home so really memorable.
Nico was there with us we could feel his presents, Also after the photos were printed we noticed a small face which we believe was Nico keeping her company, probably encouraging her to be a pickle and hide from us haha.
References:
Peek-a-baby- https://www.peek-a-baby.co.uk/
(Written at 30 weeks and 3 days)
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