Blood In The Water

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With grateful thanks for all their help to: David Bowen, Douglas Edington, Lesmoir Edington, Diana Griffiths, Jinty Kerr, Dr Elizabeth Lim, Aidan O’Neill and Alisdair White. Any errors in the text are my own.

Thursday 1st December

‘Look, you can see it on the screen. That’s the baby… there. It’s now about, say, two inches from crown to rump and weighs, maybe, a quarter of an ounce… you can see the little heart beating… and everything that should be there seems to be there…’

Dr Clarke slid the transducer over her patient’s pregnant belly, keeping a careful eye at all times on the black and white image on the ultrasound screen. Mrs Greig smiled and grasped her husband’s hand more tightly. He craned over her towards the screen, attempting to make out, amongst all the shades of grey, any recognisable human form.

‘Can you tell the sex yet?’ he asked.

‘No. The sex organs only begin to differentiate in the third month, and even then assessing gender can be difficult. We’ll do a more detailed scan later on in the pregnancy and we should get a better idea at that stage. Otherwise, if you are having amniocentesis the fluid can be checked and a more certain result given. What are you hoping for?’

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