The 16 Week Midwife Appointment

This appointment actually fell on our 17th week. As you can see by the pictures it looks like the wife has eaten a large Chinese buffet (her fav).

So for this appointment we met our midwife who we’d be seeing at our dr surgery throughout the pregnancy. She was blooming lovely. She seemed to understand us being a same sex couple so avoided all donor related questions. Relief.

This appointment was just a lot of questions and paperwork really, as we are having the baby in a different county to which we currently live it’s just a case of tallying up what the hospital of said with the midwife. (How all hospitals don’t communicate in this day and age, considering they are all NHS, I don’t know)

So all is good on everything.

She then asked if we had heard the heart beat.

We said no.

She said we were In Luck 🙌🏼

After a little wrestle with jelly bean, by which I mean they were kicking the dopla we managed to get a nice clear heart beat sound. As soon as we had the recording, we went to Basingstoke, BUILD A BEAR!

We had the heart beat put into 2 bears, one for us and one for my mum. The rate she’s going with pushing the button, we’ll have to rip the bear apart to recharge the sound 🤣

Not long until we find out the GENDER.

The wife is also feeling more movement. like a lot. I often turn round to her in a shop and she's poking her belly with a smile on her face!

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