The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

Such an exciting week. We picked mum up from the airport on Wednesday and rushed her home to show off all the changes to the house since she'd last been out. She's thoroughly impressed and intends to show her appreciation by fattening us up with great food for the next five weeks. I can already hear the people at work grumbling with jealousy at the packed lunches to come.

The big news this week however has to be our visit to the hospital on Friday for the "big scan". We've been asked a few times if we intended on finding out the sex of the baby and thankfully Alison and I both see eye to eye on this issue. We figure there are more than enough surprises in parenting that saving this one for the birthday seems unnecessary. Just incase the title of the post weren't enough of a clue, the next addition to the Chua clan will be a girl.

The report was once again totally positive, in fact she seems to be growing a lot faster than expected with quite a few measurements ahead of the curve. That's my girl, excelling already.

Biparietal Diameter	44.6 mm
Occipitofrontal Diamater	59.6 mm
Head Circumference	169 mm
Transcerebellar Diameter	20.1 mm
Abdominal Circumeference	142.8 mm
Femur Length	33.3 mm

We were given a DVD to take home that included a recording of the entire scan. Of course I couldn't resist the urge to edit this and put a few highlights on YouTube. Do you need to get a fetus to sign a consent form?



Future baby purchases should be a lot easier now that we have confirmation of gender, as will selecting a name obviously. The final moniker will have to wait till we meet face to face without sonographic assistance; till then we have decided to keep the potential candidates a secret too until the final selection has been made. People seem a little too candid with their appraisal of names if they think it hasn't been finalised and it's enough of a challenge as it is for Alison and me to reach consensus. Regardless, I imagine that I'll continue to refer to "Daddy's little girl" for as long as she'll let me.