The scan
Well, for those who want to know it is a girl. Things aren’t as straight-forward as they should be though. After the sonographer telling us the sex and how well things looked she saw something on the scan.
She couldn’t quite tell what it was and neither could the colleague who she called in. Initially she thought it might be a cyst on the umbilical cord. The other possibility which her colleague pointed out was that it might be part of the bowel outside of the body.
We have to go to Saint Marys in Manchester on Friday morning for another scan and so some specialists can have a look and diagnose exactly what is wrong. Then we have to go back to the Royal Oldham on Monday to discuss what happens next.
Obviously Amanda and I are very upset about this - there isn’t much else to say about it really.
We got the high of hearing we are having a daughter and then this. I have to say that hearing that the baby is a girl was the greatest thing anyone has ever said to me. I don’t know how anyone could feel happier than I did at that moment.
Down to earth with a bang after that though 
Cheers to all,
A very very miserable Chris.