Saturday, 28 July 2012

"antenatal" appointment

Apparently, determining the gender of your baby during an ultrasound is against the law here.  A friend here told me that this is due to the prevalence of “female feticide” (the aborting of baby girls due to families not wanting to pay a wedding dowry of a bride more so than merely preferring to have a son).  The hospital that we visited today is Catholic, so they do not ever perform abortions or terminate pregnancies since they are highly pro-life.  Thank God for that!  However, even though we are highly pro-life we cannot find out whether our Little M&M (baby's nickname) is a boy or a girl until we leave the country on a visa run.  
Here is a picture of our Little M&M's amazing smile... (s)he was yawning in this picture, but they shot the picture when his/her mouth was nearly shut.  (S)he should be yawning!  (S)he is quite the roly-poly wiggler!  It took forever for the ultrasound doctor to get a still shot of him/her!  It was quite a happy day!

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