Well, it’s a boy! (Still Not Due Until August, Though)

We had a scan a couple of weeks ago to see how the baby was doing. (Note to Expectant Parents With Children: Not a good idea to take two under-fours to an antenatal appointment!).

The lady doing the scan couldn’t see everything she needed to see (chambers of the heart, I think), so they made another appointment for us to come in on Monday 2nd May. Good thing, because I was off due to the Bank Holiday!

So, we got to the hospital at around 12:00 in the afternoon. Kids were asleep in the car, so Mrs Levee went in by herself. And promptly came straight back out again because the scan unit was closed for the Bank Holiday too! Turns out the appointment was for Tuesday 3rd May!

So, while I was sitting in the office stewing over the latest edition of Trend Micro’s NeatSuite, Mrs Levee was having her scan. I caught up with her on the phone around 13:30 and she gave me the news - baby #3 is a boy! Well, that reduces the number of baby names to consider!

I called my parents shortly afterward, but it was a bad time. Apparently, an ambulance had arrived to pick my mother up. She’d slipped a disc a week or so ago and had been bed-ridden ever since. So I passed on my news and let them get on.

I’m a wee bit shocked. I think everyone (including me) had expected a girl, due to some of the symptoms Mrs Levee was having. (Note to Expectant Parents: Ignore the old wives’ tales!) Jay’s been a bit rowdy recently, and my immediate thought was “Not again!!!”. My next thought was, “I don’t think I know a family where there is one eldest girl and two younger boys”. I think this unsettled me, because I don’t have a frame of reference for this type of family, but it won’t perturb me for long! I’ll pop some of the scan pictures up shortly. . .