In Utero Entertainment

An interesting thing happened the other night.
Debbie’s stomach moved without her involvement. And then it moved again.
Little Flump is already strong enough to have her kicks be noted from the outside which we’re both amazed at. It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were starting at a 6 week old dot on a monitor [...]

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Twenty Week Scan and Our First Purchases

The pregnancy highs and lows continue.
The day before our twenty week anomaly scan, Debbie had some more minor spotting. Although it was brown which indicates old blood it was still a worry. This put a real dampener on what was going to be a fairly enjoyable experience. The combined worry of discovering an abnormality and [...]

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Alive and Kicking

What a twenty weeks it’s been. I can’t believe that we’re already halfway through this pregnancy. We have our NHS twenty week ‘anomaly’ scan booked for this Friday and we’re looking forward to it, nervously. We have no reason to believe that they will find anything wrong but it’s still a very significant scan.
We’re planning [...]

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The secret fears of fatherhood

With twenty weeks, the half way point, in sight I find my thoughts filled with how we’ll adjust to life with a newborn.
I’ve had almost twenty weeks to think about this but it becomes more and more real each day. Indenti-kit images of a grinning gurgling baby staring up at me are being replaced with [...]

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Flump’s First Film

We recently discovered that our local Babybond (and most likely others nationwide) have the ability to record the 2D scanning session onto DVD. This isn’t a service they advertise but we wondered if they could do it as they record the 4D scans. A quick phone call confirmed they could so we made an appointment.
I [...]

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