Today's our first encounter with NHS maternity system. We have registered with the Maternity Department of Queen Charlotte and Chelsea Hospital in Hammersmith. They are supposed to be one of the newer hospital and therefore are better equipped with supposedly high tech machines...
After a short wait, we were called upon by a midwife, who happened to be a Chinese Malaysian lady. The UK system is much more personal...the midwife patiently explained to us the various procedures and did the various tests (apart from blood test and ultrasound), and gave us stacks and stacks of free magazine, and brochures to read. Over in UK, u don't see the doctor/gynae himself/herself at such an early stage, and only do so if you have a problematic pregnancy or are about to give birth. Praise God that so far, the pregnancy has been really smooth.
Unlike the Singapore system of "public hospitals" (which only admitted the mother into the ultrasound room, at least that was what happened to us in KK Hospital), Yuan Liang was allowed into the ultrasound room this time, and had the pleasure (for the first time!!) of seeing his Bambini stretching his/her hands and feets and sucking his/her thumb, all these "live and real time". It was all very exciting for him! The nice ultrasound lady printed two images for us, one of which is shown below.
The baby is currently approximately 15cm long head to toe. Too bad, we couldn't yet spot the gender. The ultrasound lady said we should be able to have a better look at it when we next come back at the 21st week. We're now only in the 15th + week.
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