From Pink To Blue

This morning Katie and I drove down to Chelmsford for our twenty week baby scan. In the weeks before, Katie had been told she wouldn’t be allowed any further scans with the NHS because she “had exceeded her quota”, even though she is classified as a high risk pregnancy.

So this scan was a private scan, allowing us to make sure all was right and that we had an accurate identification of the sex of the baby.

Coming back to today, we found the place with plenty of time to spare, going into what looks like a very corporate environment inside a busy office block. Arriving on the fourth floor, we were ushered through empty corridors and offices into a scanning room with a few leather chairs and a scanning bed for Katie to lay on.

Initial questions we asked and then we were straight down to business. The assistant applied the jelly and BAM! a babies face was straight on the monitor. As she moved across Katie’s stomach, we could see it was laying on it’s front, moving it’s arms and legs as the ultrasound scanner was passed over it.

Then, after a small consultation with the supervisor, we were delivered a bit of a shock…our baby was a boy! The assistant passed the scanner over the lower half of the baby and I was passed a piece of paper indicating what a typical scan would look like for a girl and what it would look like for a boy. Sure enough, my baby had a penis!

Other checks were done and a due date was given to us. We will be expecting our baby boy on the 22nd February, all being well.