Is it a bird? Is it a badger?

[j4]

I reckon it's more predator than alien. That may not be the most flattering photo. But the detail visible in the scan was really amazing (that one doesn't really do it justice) -- we could see all four chambers of the actual beating heart actually beating, every bone in the spine, tiny feet with even more tiny toes kicking, tiny hands reaching out in their first miraculous attempts to punch mum from the inside... :-}

Fortunately, it's also apparently just the right size, in the right place, & with all the right bits functioning as expected. And moving about all over the place. And if you do want to know: it's a girl!

I promise that not all my posts this month will be about babies, honestly. I am still thinking other thinks. But it is quite new and exciting having a small person living inside me.

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[ghoti.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, I'm going to be hanging around Oxford a lot in the next three years or so, and apparently the park we found is near your house (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~kjwatson/October10.html), so if you'd like to meet up, that would be nice. Also, I can offer more practical babysitting/washing up help if that wouldn't make you feel self-conscious.

Hurray for spines and toes and everything working!

[j4.livejournal.com]

That would be great! Both the meeting up and the practical help - that's really kind of you.

Can't work out from the photos which park that is (there are a couple quite near us) but gosh, didn't realise Judith was that age already! She looks lovely. :)

[ghoti.livejournal.com]

The directions I got included 'go past Janet and Owen's house(don't knock, they're at work)and turn left' (or it may have been right, I forget), which was no help at all as I didn't know where you lived! He did give me more sensible directions as well.

Judith is giant and very active. She is nearly two.