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The Baby Comes… Ultrasound Images

“If you look at this thingy here…” Dr Ang pointed on the screen, “it’s fairly obvious that it’s
a boy.”

The ultrasound scan is never 100% accurate, as most doctors would point out. But it tends
to be more accurate when the sypnosis is that the baby is a boy. (Unless our baby has a
dark sense of humor, and decides for some reason to fool us all by holding a middle finger
sign with her hands.)

So mum and dad are fairly excited because it means that shopping can be done, finally.

“Oh, evil marketers, and all your cute colour coordinated offerings!”

From TWeaK Me
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The Baby Comes… Month 4

Not quiet anymore! The baby’s coming!

From TWeaK Me

It’s been a while since I’ve updated, but at least now, it’s not so quiet any more!
We’ve announced about a month back, when at the end of the first trimester, we
went for a scan, and the baby is healthy!

Also we’ve completed the Oscar test, OSCAR stands for “One-Stop Clinic for
Assessment of Risk”, and this is a 90% accurate test for evidence of Down Syndrome,
and came out negative too.

As we are fairly young parents, the risk of having a child with Down Syndrome is
pretty low, but it helps to be prepared anyhow.

We have asked ourselves seriously… IF our child really had Down Syndrome, what
would we do?

We both agreed that it would not be right to give up on our child even if he/she had
down syndrome, as it is not a condition where the child has to suffer after birth.
The child would need a little more time to learn, that’s all. The gift of life is still a gift
of life.

In discussing this, and realizing our common stand, it affirms our relationship even
more. I suppose we both have very different ways of explaining why we decide
this way, she would mention about God, and I would mention about the Wheel of Life,
but our respect for life is there, and something we hold in common.