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06-10-2005, 05:01 PM
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06-10-2005, 05:27 PM
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| | | Aaahh! Is that yours? |
06-10-2005, 05:31 PM
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| | Forgive my ignorance - but what is it?  |
06-10-2005, 05:37 PM
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| | | It's a baby scan - head on the right, legs on the left
You can also make out an ear, nose, brow and is that a hand above the head? |
07-10-2005, 09:24 AM
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| | I've been really suprised by how people can't make it out, but I guess it's a lot easier when you've seen it moving about on the scan 
Not sure about the facial features but yes it's a hand above the head, you can make out vertebrae at the bottome and a leg and foot on the left. I'm assured s/he has another! |
07-10-2005, 09:55 AM
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| | So is it yours Jo? When is it due?
Looks to be about 12 weeks in the scan so I'm guessing April 3rd  |
07-10-2005, 10:12 AM
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| | | no, next scan along (although it does look almost exatly the same in the picture as our last one) this was 20 weeks last Thursday, due 18th Feb. Hopefully enough time to get the house decorated, buy all the associated gubbins, and get my head round the whole idea! |
07-10-2005, 10:29 AM
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| | Crikey, so they'll be able to tell you if it's a boy or girl soon, or would you rather wait for the surprise?
No pressure, but 18th Feb will be here before you know it  Forget the decorating, get some sleep while you still can |
07-10-2005, 11:41 AM
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| | | Thanks for the advice Stuart, sounds like experience talking! We chose not to know the sex, but have suspicions of a boy from what we saw ourselves on the scan.
Unfortunately we're halfway through decorating the whole flat and can't sort the nursery out until we've made storage in the living room, which we can't do until I’ve finished re-wiring, which I’m trying not to do until I’ve finished the kitchen and we're happy with the lighting, which is lower on the list then re-laying the bathroom floor which is.... |
07-10-2005, 11:46 AM
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| | | Oh my lord! Sounds like you've just moved into this house. Is it an old place? |
07-10-2005, 12:03 PM
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| | Hi Joe,
No, thankfully it's not first-hand experience talking, but plenty of others who have passed on the advice. A friend over in Oz has just had her first and never realised just how little time she'd get to herself once the baby was born.
So in fact, nows definitely the time to decorate the house, because you probably won't get another chance until the little one is a big one - 18 and gone off to uni
Look forward to seeing more pics and hope that mum is doing fine. Maybe play her some calming sounds of nature (trickling stream, gently lapping waves etc) if the little one starts kicking |
07-10-2005, 02:05 PM
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Originally Posted by mirandashell Oh my lord! Sounds like you've just moved into this house. Is it an old place? | No Marinda if was 'properly' old it would have been fine, just built in the 60's and badly looked after by it's owners since.  We keep finding lots of botched jobs that need re-doing or patching back up, like dreadfull wiring. I even found an over flow pipe from the water heater that disappeared under the bath and didn't come out the other side, so water had been dripping out under the floor. Should be good when it's done though.
Our problem was that we had grand plans and took two weeks of work ages ago to get started, ripped everything out but didn't have time to put it all back together again! I've now changed job so don't commute for 4 hours a day so can tinker in the evenings and am making more progress. We also had lots of delay by getting scared of a task and so not doing anything at all, but have now learnt that its ok to not do one job as long as you do a more manageable task instead. The whole project seems less daunting when the focus is on one little job, rather than the entire thing.  |
07-10-2005, 02:07 PM
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Maybe play her some calming sounds of nature (trickling stream, gently lapping waves etc) if the little one starts kicking
| It should be able to hear stuff now so thats not a bad idea. It gets lots of purring as the cat is quite taken to the bump. |
07-10-2005, 02:35 PM
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| | | Yeah, I've found that too. Things don't look so daunting if you divide them into little jobs.
60's architecture and building is pretty oeoeoeoe isn't it? It amazes me that the Romans built concrete structures that lasted 2 thousand years and we can't build one that will last for 40! |
07-10-2005, 04:39 PM
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| | | bump
hello jo pedder,
keep working, light stuff only take vit.C and pontefract cakes put the headphones on the bump play it good music relax and enjoy it make notes or you will forget what it was like
good luck! |
08-10-2005, 11:23 AM
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| | | It's me again Jo; the lack of identity is what threw me. I thought you had come across the scan on the net! Anyway, elusive tends to suggest that you have been looking forward to this event for some time - well done. Keep us up to date with progress reports. As Stuart says, make the most of your time before arrival - the days fly by afterwards. Good Luck. |
10-10-2005, 05:50 PM
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| | nightshade - Thanks for the adivce - i've started to take lots of vit c and eat plenty of pontefract cake. What do you recommend for my wife? |
10-10-2005, 05:53 PM
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| | | Thanks Tinkerbell, the baby (called tictac for the moment as it was the size of a tictac according to one of our books at some stage ages ago and it stuck) was playing hard to get during the scan with it's head obscured so they couldn't take the measurements they need, which was great for us as we get to spend ages looking at the scan while they tried to get Tictac to jostle into the correct position. |
10-10-2005, 06:09 PM
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| | | I think Tictac is a good name, why change it? |
10-10-2005, 10:01 PM
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hello jo peddar
the vitC and pontafract cakes are good for both of you! | | |
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