First trimester screening

Today we had, or actually just Michelle, a first trimester screening. During a first trimester screening, they look if there is a higher risk for a child with the Down syndrome or if there are any birth defects and such. They did this today through an ultrasound and by taking some blood.

I can’t say much about it, really, just that everything was perfectly ok, that is at least what they could tell us from the ultrasound. The results from the bloodtest will take a bit longer before we know a result of it but I think it will all be ok, I am not really worried about it all :)

It was pretty fun to see the echo today because our peanut starts to look more and more like a real baby. The length of the child was about 5.1 centimeters, or about 2 inches, according to the info on the screen, which reflects a pregnancy of about 12 weeks and 1 day, this is about right (it should be 11 weeks and 6 days according to our info).

There actually was a double surprise (the first was that they actually did an ultrasound, which I didn’t expect as they told us up front that they would just take some blood from Michelle), the second surprise was that they also did a 3D echo (or is it 4D? I don’t know lol).. that was something we really never expected, we thought we had to do something like that later at some different place but now we got it for free along the whole thing :D

They gave us some pictures on paper, of course, but we also received a CD-rom with some pictures and some short movies on it (all just a few seconds). I placed the movies behind each other in one movie, you can see them below:

And then to think that Michelle told me yesterday “you don’t have to go with me, if you don’t want to”, this was mostly because we didn’t expect that something special would happen. So, yes, I am happy I did go after all, this was really great to see.

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6 Responses to “First trimester screening”

  1. On April 15th, 2009 at 1:49 am, Anonymous said:

     

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  2. On April 20th, 2009 at 10:17 am, Suzanne said:

     

    Ik heb het al eerder gezegd, maar ik vind het zo mooi! En zo duidelijk! Je ziet gewoon het hartje (hartklepje) kloppen! Echt geweldig!

    Hihihi…

    liefs,
    zusje.

    		  
  3. On April 20th, 2009 at 10:18 am, Suzanne said:

     

    Oh ja. 4d noemen ze als de 3d beelden bewegen ;)

    		  
  4. On April 20th, 2009 at 12:09 pm, Jeroen said:

     

    Dan was het dus toch 4D hehe

    		  
  5. On May 18th, 2009 at 6:15 am, Amanda Harding said:

     

    Hello! Congratulations on your baby! Did you have the first trimester screening done in Honolulu? Could you tell me where? I am going to be there in my 13th week and was wondering if I could have my test done while I’m there. Thank you!

    Amanda

    		  
  6. On May 18th, 2009 at 11:42 am, Jeroen said:

     

    Hi Amanda,

    I will send you an email in a bit regarding the address and phone numbers of the place we went for the screening.

    		  

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