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Week Nine: Tuesday 4th March 2008

Week nine was marked a little earlier than expected with the scan last Thursday. As it turns out, Elwood is growing very nicely thank you very much, and was almost a whole week ahead size-wise for it’s age. God help me if this is a big baby – Ash will want to be running for the hills. Measuring 1 inch at the moment, and with a heartbeat of 170 beats, everything is looking really good at the moment, and we are now in the over 95% category of bringing a healthy baby into the world.

It’s not hard to get carried get away and start wanting to share the news, particularly as there is a fair amount of news happening around work at the moment, but I guess we keep coming back to the fact, it just gets too hard to explain if things don’t work out.

About four weeks into the pregnancy, Mum made this outrageous prediction that I was having a girl. Kym too seems convinced that I am having all the Parmenter girls, and she the boys (as the tradition goes). So I decided to look into this in a little more detail and came across the ancient art of the Chinese Gender Chart…


Now while Ash believes this is total rubbish, who am I to knock the Ancient Chinese? Although not quite sure if Mum and Kym’s thinking is nearly as well thought out. Just to add fuel to the fire, I think it’s important to note, that I once saw a psychic who told me I would have two girls and then a boy. She said the first girl would have an avid interest in horses and be very creative but somewhat “head in the clouds.” Then she went on to say how overwhelmed and scared I would be with most first baby – what do bloody psychics know anyway?

We heard some very exciting news this week, with Margaret, Nick and Livinia Holt welcoming their little bundle of joy into the world, Elyssia Lauren on the 1st of March. Margaret is really the most amazing woman, having brought 9 pound Elyssia into the world with only the aid of gas. Very impressive, but sets a dangerous benchmark for the rest of us! Looking forward to catching up with Margaret and her beautiful girls during my maternity leave – yeah!!




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