Pregnancy: Week 8
I wrote this post back in August when I was eight weeks pregnant, and absolutely over the moon following our first scan. Now that I’ve made the official announcement, I’m finally publishing and sharing it.
Normally I wait until the end of each week to write my weekly update – but I can’t help it tonight! I had my scan today! According to my own dates, I am 8 weeks 3 days pregnant, and according to the scan, I’m 8 weeks 2 days pregnant. Perfect! On Little Man the scan was two days different to my dates – and it didn’t matter in the end because he arrived 10 days early!
Time to meet peanut!
Source: Josh Kenzer on Flickr
So now, all I feel is relief. There wasn’t much to see today – a little peanut shaped blob, not even an inch long. But it was our blob! And its little heart was beating away strongly – a little fast. That’s an indicator of a boy right? – according to those old wives tales anyway! 😉
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Seeing that little flicker of the heartbeat is so amazing 🙂 I thought faster heartbeat was a girl according to all those old wives? 😉
Ah that little heartbeat is such a relief! At one of my antenatal checks my midwife said she’d bet a hundred quid that the baby was a boy based on his fast heartbeat. She didn’t lose any money 🙂
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🙂 My mother always insisted in finding out the heartrate after my appointments. She was convinced the high rate meant girl. If one of the appointments indicated a lower rate, she insisted it must have been wrong. 🙂
Healthy baby wins my vote every time and old wives tales are often wrong!!!!