Scan day nightmare

[mouse9210]

Had a complete mare of a day yesterday, was my 20 week scan day, was so excited, wanted it to be an amazing day - esp as we had decided to find out the sex of the baby....and now that I think about it all, it's pretty funny how literally everything went wrong!!

At 120 I realised I had got appointment time wrong (don't even ask me how this happened!!) - I thought it was 1:30 but it was actually at 12:30 - it takes 45 mins to get to the hospital so I had to call them up and luckily they moved appointment back 15 mins, so we had a mad panic to just get to the appointment!! Got to the hospital with a few mins to spare, but couldn't find a parking space....then husband scraped all down the side of the car when trying to squeeze into a space....

Husband is now furious with himself, neither of us feeling relaxed, or happy...run to appointment only to be told, there's a delay, they'll be another half hour....brilliant! So we sit down, husband starts a whispering row with me, and I'm like 'can we just leave this for now and try to focus on the baby???' Am just thinking, don't cry don't cry don't cry!!

Anyways, go in for scan, all is fine except baby is in a funny position, so they tell me to go for a walk and to eat (they told me off for not eating yet that day - which is really unlike me but made me feel like I am already a bad mum!)...so off we go to get food, but cafe doesn't take cards and we have to walk to the nearest cash point...then by the time we have done that we only have time to eat something while we walk back so again....neither of us relaxed! Both grumpy to the max, stressed out and not having the special day we had planned.....

Scan went well, baby is perfect, and we find out it is a girl which is fantastic. We are starting to calm down and be happy, but when we get home find another scrape on the front of the car! So both unhappy again....last for a few hours then we have a cuddle and make up.

But we were just so disappointed that our special day felt ruined at every turn. We had been so excited and it was a huge let down - I struggled to feel pleased about finding out the sex because it felt so overshadowed.

Anyways, all fine now, we went to mothercare this morning and bought pink baby clothes! And now we are looking forward to having our gorgeous little daughter!

Bit of a pointless thread, but thought I'd share my story of a bad day - surely I'm not the only one who didn't have a perfect scan day?!!!

 

[SARAHSTAR]

It's know it's sooo frustrating when you have an image of how a special moment like that is going to be then it goes a bit wrong! The main thing is that all is well with baby... Poppy is a lovely name!
Congrats on team pink hun! x

 

[mouse9210]

Thanks SARAHSTAR, it was a huge letdown, but after a good nights sleep things felt better and we could actually feel excited about it all.

Yeah my mum has been calling the baby Poppy since I told her at 3-4 weeks - when the baby was the size of a poppyseed! She was convinced it was a girl all along - she's well smug now! lol

 

[coco_cukoo]

Aww sounds like a stressful day, but many congrats on team pink xx

 

[calphurnia7]

Yes that sounds awful, I really hope the rest of your pregnancy goes smoothly.

 

[CARNAT22]

My OH missed half of my scan on Tuesday.... He was stuck on a Tube and it really wasn't his fault!! I wasn't even angry, just gutted for him!!

Of course as it was an early scan main thing was bub was OK (it was!!). The sonographer stopped half way through and OH was outside the room so he joined us and the amazing sonographer went through all the 'best bits' with us again and let us listen to HB! So OH did get to see bub!!

xxxxxxxxxx

 

[Violet]

Aw hon what a day my scan day wasn't as bad as that, because the lead up to the scan was fine apart from a very long delay waiting for the scan itself and then to see the consultant after (in all we spent over 3 hours at the hospital). However, it was later that day I had an accident in the car and thanks to the extra damage the recovery people did, it was later written off.

I'm glad your scan went well and congratz on team pink

 

[Em91]

Aww well at least everything is ok ! x

 

[frankie247]

sounds like a really stressfull day - but congrats on team pink!

 

[mouse9210]

Carnat - that sounds stressful too - I think it's so important for the OH's to be there for the scans cuz it's such a moment, and makes everything seem real. Thank goodness yours got there in time and got to see the 'highlights'!! Bet he was delighted, and great that all is ok with your LO.

Violet - Are you ok? Sounds really scary! Hope you're alright, although what a hassle to sort out now!

At least we were just about able to put it aside for the scan and we held hands throughout which was nice - just the bits on either side were horrid.

And now it's all behind us we are just focusing on being team pink - it's weird cuz I never looked at girls clothes in the shops, was drawn to boys clothes so I kind of thought I was having a boy....so it's come as a complete surprise to me that I'm having a girl - it's brilliant though! I must be really silly to be so surprised though when theres a 50/50 chance of either!! lol