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16 September 2004

Today Mamma and Daddy went to the Fetal Medicine Centre in London for a Fetal Wellbeing Scan. This was an opportunity for them to see how I was developing and whether the situation with the choroid plexus cyst had improved.

Read on to find out what happened...

The Pictures...

My first portrait! Mamma says I have Daddy's lips. 28w1d, 16 September 2004	Goal! This is why Mamma has had difficulty sleeping (kick kick) 28w1d, 16 September 2004

What Daddy Said About Today

Since finding out about the choroid plexus cyst in July we have approached our baby's ultrasound scans with mixed feelings. We have had to weigh up the pleasure of seeing our baby in utero against the dread fear of some other problem being discovered. However, we decided that we had to see the baby again. Cristina believes that it is better to know you have a medical problem and then learn to cope with it than to ignore a potential problem in the hope that it will go away.

Today was a beautiful sunny September day which at least made me optimistic. Cristina really wasn’t very well; she had a cold and a backache. I felt so sorry for her. Baba was slightly sleepy on the way into London, so Cristina ate a packet of crisps with a bottle of orange juice to wake the baby up. In previous ultrasounds, the baby had stayed resolutely asleep and we were not going to let that happen today!

We explained to the sonographer that a CPC had been discovered in a previous scan and we were wondering whether it had disappeared. Unfortunately it is still present albeit in a much reduced state, both in comparison to the baby’s head and in absolute size. Cristina started to cry when she heard the news. We were hoping that the CPC would have disappeared by now. Despite this setback, we were assured that an isolated CPC was nothing to worry about, and that it should disappear by the time the baby is born.

The sonographer continued with the examination, measuring and observing many aspects of the baby’s physiology; the skull, brain, legs, arms, chest, hands, feet, heart and so on. Baba was reasonably co-operative, only kicking the ultrasound wand once during the examination. We saw the baby’s face, hands and feet clearly for the first time. After fifteen minutes, the sonographer smiled and said that the baby was healthy, developing well for its age and that we should not worry. For the last ten minutes of the examination, the sonographer give us a guided tour of our baby, which we have captured on VHS tape.

Finally we found out that our baby is a girl. Cristina said that she saw a little vagina too. As I wanted a little girl, I was overjoyed at the news. We can now call our baby ‘Giulia’ and not worry that our little one is actually a 'Matthew'.

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