Globetrotting Foetus*

Basil is already a globetrotter, with trips to NZ's South Island, to Taiwan, a quick flit through Thailand, and now a couple of weeks in the UK under his belt. He is very tired from all that flying and the late nights visiting, but is enjoying being asked about so much. I do hope it doesn't go to his head and make him big-headed - not if I'm to have a natural birth!!!!

Daddy is making sure that I don't eat naughty things and that I get my naps - he is a fully fledged member of the Baby Gestapo! Mind you, he has humoured my "craving" for mushy peas (which, let's face it is no craving, just a long term obsession) by getting extra portions of the green mush with just about every meal we've had - yum yum! Maybe Basil will come out green...

* Still sticking with the proper spelling of foetus - none of this Americanised spelling for my baby ;)

Fuzzy Logic Scan Pic

Here he is - Basil, in the flesh. Well, in my flesh, strictly speaking!

Now there's no point straining your eyes to see if it's a boy or a girl, because the scan image was so fuzzy that Dan and I are still debating just exactly where the foetus even is! It's definitely in that big dark patch somewhere, though.

If you look at the bottom of the dark patch, there's like a letter C in white... got it? Just above a black star shaped patch? Well that faded blotch above the C, sort of sitting on it, in fact, is what we think is Basil.

And dashed good looking he is too, for a fuzzy blob. Looks just like his dad...

Basil goes cyberspace

Since emailing folk about the scan, and setting this site up, we've had heaps of lovely congratulations messages through email and Facebook, and it made me wonder how long it'll be before Basil has his very own email address! And I bet his bump makes an appearance or two on Skype as the months go by. It's good to know we're starting baby's electronics/gadgets/computers obsessions early, eh?

7 weeks and 4 days - the first scan

Today I had a scan, and our wee baby had a perfect little heartbeat and was just the right size.

Of course that's nothing unusual for many people, but we've only ever had scans where the specialist says "I'm sorry to tell you ..." so it's no wonder that I was very apprehensive.

But not this time :) Oh no, the specialist said "perfect" and "just where we'd want him to be" and "lovely little heartbeat" and other wonderful things. And the nurse said "textbook hCG levels" and "all looking very promising"!!! No-one's ever said those thing s to us before.

We're cock-a-hoop!

It's well worth a bit of morning sickness for that kind of joy, I can tell you.