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This is the ultrasound done last week. She was 33 weeks and 3 days old. At the start it`s focused on the head . You can see her lips move and her limbs and fingers.

Around the one minute mark it goes into a 3D rendition. It`s from this that Reiko reckons it looks like me. It has a long nose and big eyes. The big circle is the eye.

Reiko`s getting REALLY big now. I tell her I`m glad she`s big (and I am) because it means there`s a healthy baby inside her. It looks very strange. There`s a normal size Reiko and then suddenly a big beach ball inserted underneath her skin.

There`s around 6 weeks left until the due date and I can`t wait to meet her.

I feel sorry for the doctor. The first minutes are the important part as he measures bone length and head size to see if the baby is progressing healthily and to estimate the weight. The rest of the time is spent trying to produce a clear picture of a squirming foetus to please the parents.

One of my friends` sisters was pregnant and he told me it looked so strange it was as if she could detach it and leave it in a cupboard when it got too much to handle. If only that were so easy.