After my flying trip to the nearest city for my somewhere-around-14-weeks scan to ascertain my birth dates, I was assured by the ultrasound team that everything looked 'normal'.
It wasn't until I was sitting with the local ante-natal (ante-natal? lol - anyone who is pregnant ends up anti natal) nurse that I asked 'yes, but what counts as normal - it's a big curve eh?'.
She said to me "I've been doing this since before you were born Sasha and no one has ever asked me that - let's look it up".
So, according to the approved Country Health SA literature my baby should be 'around' 4cm at 14 weeks.
According to my scans though, at 12 & a bit weeks, the baby was 6.7cm.
Now for someone who had almost 10lb babies this is not reassuring.
I remember with The Boy that they could never decide on my numbers because the baby's size was always bigger than its other development factors would suggest.
Hey, I'm not panicking yet.
Bubbles is not even touching the sides of his/her 'bowl' yet, but my nurse is making bets (according to her own heart rate theory which the locals assure me is pretty spot on) the baby is a boy & I've got to say that the numbers suggest, at least to me, that she's right.
Because, while this baby may be 'normal' it's also 'above average' already (we're just that kind of family really).
And damn it! I'm just not as stretchy as I was a decade ago...
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