6 Days till Take off!!!

We can not believe how quickly things are now starting to move, we take off for Mumbai next Thursday on another chapter of this life changing journey and we can not wait!!!!! I (Michael) finished work yesterday and this still has not really sunk in, more importantly I was also granted parental leave equivalent to that of Maternity/adoption leave and have been assured the state department I work for will add surrogacy leave into their policies by July of next year (not before time)...

Everything is now in order bubs bag has been packed and ready to go for sometime, we are yet to book our flights but think today will be the day as we received a scan report yesterday and all is on track. Still have a few little loose ends to tie up and get organised, today we are getting the baby seat fitted in the car another job to tick off.

Both our mums are starting to get very excited as are all our family and friends.... We will keep you posted..

Special congratulations to Ula & Saul we can not wait to meet you guys, we hope all is going well with your little ones.

THIRD TRIMESTER SCAN

A single, live intrauterine pregnancy with longitudinal lie and cephalic presentation with spine on the left is noted.

Foetal cardiac activity and limb movements are observed. FHR: 129 B/M.

The placenta is localized on the posterior uterine wall, extending up to the fundus.

There is no evidence of placenta previa. It shows grade 2 maturity.

Mild polyhydramnios is noted. AFI is 20.6 cm.

Various foetal parameters are as follows: BIOPHYSICAL PROFILE SCORE:

BPD:	8.8 cm.	35.5 Weeks.	FOETAL BREATHING	2
HC:	32.5 cm.	36.1 Weeks.	FOETAL TONE	2
AC:	33.9 cm.	37.6 Weeks.	GROSS BODY MOVEMENTS	2
FL:	6.9 cm.	35.5 Weeks.	LIQUOUR	2
FL/AC:	21 % -- NO IUGR.	EBW: 3097 gm. +/- 30.9 gm.	TOTAL SCORE	8/8

No obvious foetal anomalies are detected.

(Third trimester scan is not ideal for diagnosing foetal anomalies.)

Following epiphyses are visualized: femoral, tibial (Approx. gest. age --- > 35 <>

There is no evidence of a nuchal cord. Umbilical artery S/D ratio is normal.

IMPRESSION: A SINGLE, LIVE FOETUS WITH CEPHALIC PRESENTATION.

BY ET, THE GA IS 36 W. 3 D. EDD: 22.11.10.

BY FIRST USG (3.4.10), THE GA IS 36 W. 2 D. EDD: 23.11.10.

BY LAST (29.9.10) USG THE GA IS 37 W. 2 D.

BY PRESENT USG, THE GA IS 36 W. 3 D. EBW: 3097 GM. (60^th CENTILE)

(CENTILE IS CALCULATED ACCORDING TO THE ET.)

BIOPHYSICAL PROFILE IS 8/8.

MILD POLYHYDRAMNIOS IS NOTED. NO FOETAL CAUSE IS DETECTED.

WAM's Baby Shower

We celebrated baby WAM’s baby shower on Saturday and it was wonderful to have our nearest and dearest (in Australia) here to celebrate with us. It is days like this that we wish Australia and England were not half a world away and we could celebrate with Wills family and our friends in England.

We had a great day and baby WAM was very spoilt, it reminded us how special and supportive our family and friends are and how lucky we are to have them.

The baby shower has always been an event in our calendar that seemed some way away. So it makes things quite surreal that we have surpassed this milestone and really hits home that we are definitely having a baby!!! It came and went in a flash!!!

We would like to thank everybody for all there beautiful gifts, we love them all so much. We would also like to thank our very special friends Jason Mark & Charlotte for organizing all of the wonderful baby shower games, they were great fun!

We are in love!

Isn't this the most adorable face you have ever seen? As you can see we received the 3D images of our little baby WAM today and we are in love. Only a few more weeks and we will have our little one in our arms. We are the luckiest Boys in the world!

Baby Bump

How impressive is our surrogates baby belly? She looks so well and her face is glowing. What a wonderful woman she is, we are forever grateful for what she is doing for us.

We also received a clinical update with the photo and all is going well.

We cant believe that on monday we are 33 weeks pregnant.

Not long now and we will be in India, Just 4 weeks!