5 Weeks and 6 days ... or am I?

Well, had my scan at the Rosie today, a nice black lady with dreadlocks - think little Whoopie - did it, Beatrice. On top of my tum first, and she could kinda see something with fluid in, inside my uterus, but needed a better look see, so in we went with the transvaginal thing ... wasn't that bad, Iain held my hand and my breathing is really very good now so I was fine. She talked me through what she saw which was considerate. 

There was a marked difference in what we were looking at - I was interested in the baby, she was interested in ascertaining I don't have anything looking like an ectopic pregnancy. Interesting, and she commented on it too. Also, I think she is good at seeing stuff and describing/labelling it - but she's no RE, she's not an expert in PCOS or anything, so she couldn't really tell me what any of it meant for my pregnancy. 

There is still a chance that something is ectopic and we won't know till later, but it's unlikely now, and it would be in addition to whatever is in the yolk sac. The baby, such as it is, we couldn't see him/her - looks like we are 5 weeks not 6 weeks pregnant - may or may not be developing as s/he should. We are to have a viability scan on the 11th Feb at the Rosie. 

I'm glad we are going to the Surrey Park Clinic on Monday, as I would like to know more, and have another Beta done. My beta HCG was 4363, which is fine for 5 weeks, but the level is unimportant compared to the doubling effect that should be going on ... so need another test. [See www.birth.com/au] 

Like I said, today she rooted around a fair bit, and my gestational sac is within the intrauterine cavity, measuring 13 mm x 4 mm x 5 mm, and the yolk sac is 3 mm x 3.9 mm x 3,.7 mm. She also saw a small amount of fluid somewhere in there, which she said is not unusual (31 x 8 x 9 mm) and there were follicles on both ovaries (again, not unusual) - I'd like to know what they are for, which one is the corpus luteum etc. The largest follicle on the right ovary measures 22 mm wide, and the largest on the left is 'septated' and measures 46 mm wide. 

We're telling Rafi & Fi tomorrow morning! Hurray. Told Areeba, she called about Rafi's birthday. I think things are gonna be fine, and if not, will deal then. 

What annoyed me is the real downer the nurses were on, scaring me, when they gave me my results - like it's all over already!!! WHY?? All that has happened for sure is that a pregnancy has begun that is about 5 weeks along to look at, and we'll know if it's going well once enough time has passed ...! Duh!