Paul McCormack’s Web Site

We had our 20-week ultrasound on Wednesday of this week which is exactly half way through the “standard” 40-week pregnancy.  Happily, we have been told that our baby is perfectly normal and healthy.  My Mum and Step-Dad are staying with us at the moment so Mum was able to come along to the ultrasound and see the baby jiggling and wiggling around.

We chose NOT to find out the gender of the baby at this stage to avoid family and friends trying to catch us out!  You will find out straight after we do - around 3rd July if all goes to schedule.

Debs is now able to feel the baby moving around and kicking.  He didn’t like the curry that we went out for last night … (I said “he” just then, but you can’t catch us out remember) … and was kicking like crazy afterwards.  We have been listening to her (!) heartbeat on a hired ultrasound machine, but now that Debs can feel movements we’re going to send it back.

Before we send it back though, we thought that we should record a bit of the sound.  So, if you follow the link below, you will hear an MP3 of three things:

1. Blood passing through the placenta (sounds like wind blowing through trees) - 5 seconds
2. Deborah’s heart beat (about 70 bpm) - 13 seconds
3. Baby’s heart beat (about 130 bpm) - 45 seconds

Click here to download / listen (726kb download).

Seems a little late to be making an announcement, but as this web site is new this is the first opportunity I have to announce that we are expecting our first child in early July 2008. We are obviously both delighted and we’re really looking forward to the excitement and challenge of becoming parents.

I think that Deborah that posted some ultrasound pictures on the Humblebee web site. There should be a link in the right column of this page.