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Today was a bit hectic. We had to leave work early and dash out to Lower Hutt for an appointment with Dr Sood at 3:45, then come back into Welly for the second breastfeeding class at 6:00.

Baby's all good, still got a strong heartbeat, though Meera had some problems doing a proper scan on her dinky little machine, so we're going to the lab in town for scans on a real machine.

Latest check-up

We had another appointment with Meera on Monday, and everything's good: baby's the right size and weight for his "age" (1.9 to 2.0 kgs, or 4.2 to 4.4 lbs), heart is beating strong, and he's in the head-down position (gives him plenty of room to kick Juliette in the ribs!).

Ever better odds

Just heard from Meera again, and the blood tests are back from Australia. The odds of our chickling having Downs syndrome have gone from 1 in 350 (based purely on Juliette's age), to 1 in 6800 (based on mucal translucency) to 1 in 70,000. I like dem odds!

Okay, now it's real

We had our first appointment with the specialist today. She's very nice, and we both felt really comfortable around her.

The highlight of the visit was the ultrasound scan, where Dr Sood gave us our first view of our chickling -- we even got to see the heartbeat! Dr Sood said it was very strong, and everything looked good.

And yes, there appears to be only one chickling.

Next scan is set for 29 May, which is where they do the test for Downs' syndrome. Then we have another appointment with Dr Sood on 3 June. Hopefully, everything will continue to be good, and we'll then start letting everyone know. :-)