I'm not sure if that belly is actually starting to pop out or if it was the McDonalds Angus Deluxe cheeseburger and fries I ate last night. Maybe a little of both? It does seem my belly has done some growing in the last few days. I'm up about 4-5 lbs now. Nausea continues to be improved (although not absent!) and I'm still tired but I'm hopeful that the first trimester experience is becoming a thing of the past. I'm still having food aversions to vegetables and cravings for junk food. It's a bummer because it's amazing how strong the cravings can be. I've never experienced anything like it. I've gone through fast food drive throughs four times now. I've gotten quite sick after two of them, including last night. The worst was the Burger King Whopper with cheese. Oh man, I was up a bunch of times in the night all the way through to the morning!
Anyway, onto a more exciting topic. Great news today! We had a nuchal translucency scan this morning, which combined with blood work I had a few weeks ago, gives us odds of Down Syndrome and two other chromosomal abnormalities with 87-89% accuracy. Our odds of having a baby with Down Syndrome is about 1 in 1,592 (0.06%) and Trisomy 18 or 13 1 in 8,481 (0.01%). This is fantastic! Before the tests, odds were about 1 in 231 and 1 in 425 respectively, just based on my age alone. The other benefit to having the NT scan is that we got to see our little one again, this time in more detail. Here is one of the photos they gave us. Baby now has fingerprints, vocal chords, and teeth!
Today is a good day.
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