29/30 week 4D scan

I've been a bit of a scan addict this entire pregnancy and had one at 6, 7, 9, 12, 15, 17, 20 and 22 weeks, some private, some as part of my treatment and some through my hospital.

Since we weren't able to confirm the gender at 20/22 weeks, I knew I would want to have another scan later on in pregnancy.

I ended up booking a 4D scan with the same company who did my reassurance scan at 15 weeks and the gender scan at 17 weeks.
At least booking with them I knew that I would get a free re-scan in case baby was in a funny position.

The appointment took place at 29+5 weeks.

We were called in and immediately the sonographer saw that baby was facing the wrong way, so after doing the necessary head and tummy measurements as well as confirming the gender(though somewhat vague "I'm thinking girl") they sent us out to go for a walk and advised to drink and eat something sugary.
We were asked to return 20 minutes later.

We did and while baby had turned around, she now had both arms and one leg in front of her face.
I was asked to turn to the left, to the right, to the left...just to get her to move her arms, lots of jiggling of my tummy, yet still no change.
For a brief second she removed her arms and legs and we got this gorgeous picture. Clearly baby takes after me and got my family's big nose ;-)

 

 



As we had paid for a 30 minute 'bonding scan' we were once again sent out of the room, this time to the waiting area and I was asked to drink lots and lots of water to fill up my bladder.
After another 20 minutes we were called back in, but despite lots of turning from side to side on my part and jiggling around there was no change, so the sonographer called it a day and told us to re-schedule.
I immediately called the next day and was able to book an appointment for 30+3, and while my girlfriend wouldn't be able to come along, my mum would as she was visiting from Germany that weekend.

So the day of the second appointment came and my mum was very excited.

Unfortunately baby seems to be a little bit camera shy, so while she was facing the camera, she was only showing us half her face.
The sonographer tried her best, again lots of turning and jiggling and then she even made me get up on all 4 on the bed and shake my tummy around to wake the little one and shake her into a different position. So glad nobody filmed this part as it was a bit embarrassed.
But no luck.
We managed to get a couple more pictures, but nothing amazing and I'm definitely glad I didn't pay extra for the dvd as it was non refundable and wouldn't have been worth it.
We actually chose a picture from the first scan attempt to be printed as the colour picture as it was better than anything we got the second time.
I find the last picture a little scary...

 

I'm still glad I did the 4D scan as we were able to confirm (twice) baby was a girl and we got a few glimpses of what she will look like once born.
She seems to have rather full lips too, I remember saying after the 12 week scan that she had pouty lips so nothing has changed since then.
I can't wait to meet her and compare her features to these pictures we have.