Hi Anna,
I feel exactly the same and we're due around the same time. I had an appointment with a midwife last week at my local GP surgery. I thought it was my booking appointment and was quite excited at the prospect that it would finally feel as though I was "really" pregnant, but no. The midwife was only a stand-in and she simply took my name and address and gave me a print off (fom the internet) about which foods to avoid! She didn't even bother to mention taking folic acid (luckily I knew to do this already), or to weigh me or anything. And, using her handy card calculator, told me I was a week "less" pregnant than I thought. I tried to explain that my cycle was shorter than their standard 28 days, but she just said I'd have to wait for a scan to know my due date.
The NHS in Scotland is pathetic. You only get one scan here and it's a dating scan, not the nuchal fold test.
Yesterday, I booked myself in for a dating scan at my local private Nuffield hospital. It costs £75 and it's on 4th April. I'll put it on my credit card if I have to! Once I know how far along in the pregnancy I am (and that, touch wood, everything looks ok), I'm going to then book the Nuchal Translucency scan with blood test (which I think should be done between 11 and 13 weeks).
Like you, I'm impatient to know what's going on. I guess I just want some reassurance that everything's okay. My cousin and my sister-in-law both got to what they thought were 12 weeks only to be told at their scans - (in my cousin's case) that her baby had died at 6 weeks and (in my sister-in-law's case) that she had a blighted ovum, not a sustainable pregnancy.
Logically, I know that these incidences are rare and it's more common to have a developing fetus in there by the time of your first scan, but I can't help worrying. The longer you are pregnant - even just these early few weeks - the more you're geared up for this baby and you just want reassurance that everything is going to be fine. I was the same in the first tri with my last two pregnancies - and they were fine, but I still want to get past the first 13 weeks.
We'll just have to fret impatiently together till we cross over to 2nd tri!
Have you thought about paying for a dating scan privately?
