Our first midwife appointment tomorrow.  The way it works over here, the midwife is the primary care manager for a pregnancy.  You see your GP first, who passes all the details to the midwife team.  The next step is the scan, followed by your first midwife consultation, and that’s tomorrow.

It’s another step forward and will be our first chance to discuss the monitoring and diagnostic options for the next few weeks.  We’ve got some questions to get answers on regarding blood tests, our options for CVS (chorionic villus sampling), amniocentesis and/or a 20 week detail anomaly scan. I’m expecting that we will have an invasive test recommended because of our age, but naturally we’re worried about the associated risks.  So, depending on what the detail scan can do, we’ll map our next steps.

There’s a lot to work through, in rather a short space of time, but it’s just so exciting.