Three quarters of the way there!

Little fighter is getting there!

This weekend saw us reach the 30th week of the pregnancy, an amazing three quarters of the way there. Having had a love/hate relationship with statistics during this pregnancy, I can safely safe I'm happy with this one, and chuffed that baby Chappo is still fighting hard, with only 10 weeks to go.

Something as silly as a slip...

All has been well during the Christmas-New Year limbo week, well that is except from my fall in a shopping centre car park! Unfortunately due to unsuitable road markings in the said carpark, I fell and landed flat on my back, leaving me with more than just the usual 3rd trimester aches and pains.
On reflection, the back injury I received from the fall wasn't the worst part, it was the realisation that something as ridiculous as a slip on a badly designed surface, could have affected our little one. Given that the odds are against her anyway, we could have very much done without this added stress. However, baby Chappo has been wriggling away ever since the incident, which has reassured us, and the GP, that she is fine :)

What's so important about that missing x?

This week whilst watching the Big Bang theory (one of our favourite shows), we had to chuckle at Sheldon's comment when he was trying to understand the female of the species.....his words "that second X chromosome contains nothing but nonsense and twaddle" made us both wonder, so what is in that second X which the females have, and the males (and girls with Turner Syndrome) don't?!

After a lot of research, it seems the second X chromosome in females is in its simplest terms, a copy of the first x. And whilst it doesn't add a great deal of extra information, it is needed for normal function in females.

Still, important as it is, our baby girl doesn't have it, and I think I like Sheldon's comment anyway :)

Happy new year!

We hope that whatever you are up to, you enjoy this evening, and have a happy new year. We have had an AMAZING 2012, with our wedding being one of the highlights. We have also had a few lows amongst our many highs, however we are hopeful that 2013 will be just as amazing, and that our baby Chappo continues her little fight to be with us in March. We can't wait to meet her!