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Don Christie

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:32:40 +1300

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/this-is-prayer-for-blueberry-girl.html

Don Christie

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:57:44 +1300

Jackie, that's a very good point you make about scrapbooking.

David "first stabber" Haywood has a nifty python script which automagically turns your PA ramblings into a perfectly formed paper back publication.

He might be able to pass it on in between bouts of coughing up gunks of Newcastle's finest…

JohnS

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:41:40 +1300

Don't mock Darwin. Just be thankful that it all works.

I'm nearly 80, have 3 daughters and a son, and I just loved your blog.

Goosebumps summed it up for me, too.

David Slack

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:32:03 +1300

Thank you for the kind comments, everyone.

Jackie, that's a very good point you make about scrapbooking. I plan to try out some new digital ideas this year.

andrew llewellyn

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 13:11:45 +1300

Heh – wait till she's 15.... you & Karren will need all the backbone you've got.

But they seem to come right at 16.

Grace Dalley

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:23:49 +1300

"Honey, we're having a vertebrate!"

What a delightful piece, you've made my day.

Don Christie

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:57:15 +1300

Re the bike ride...good job.

Jackie Clark

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:45:22 +1300

David, I hope that somewhere on your HD you are saving all your writing that pertains to your lovely girl (s). What a great legacy for her – the fathers' version of scrapbooking.

Paul Williams

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:33:04 +1300

Isn't it interesting how clearly fathers' recall these events; the scan's the first direct experience, albeit technologically-enabled. I also vividly remember the first sighting. I have mixed emotions about it though. My anxiety levels were the highest I think they've ever been. A perfectly normal foetus, phew. Immediately after though,…

Sam F

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:21:26 +1300

What we appeared to have spawned, according to the grainy black and white image, was a small fossil.

Sonography recapitulates phylogeny?

As other have said: beautiful post, although we've come to expect nothing less.

linger

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:20:39 +1300

4D = next-generation 3D.
(What else would you expect in this context?)

BenWilson

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:32:30 +1300

Lovely post David. I had a similar feeling last week, looking at my wife's ultrasound, seeing a curiously tadpole-like creature. Then it rolled over and you could see hands and feet, and it settled on it's side, much like a cat settling down to sleep. The radiologist (is that the…

Gareth Ward

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:40:31 +1300

Beautiful stuff, as per.

When I was sitting in that (presumedly same) Ponsonby Scans'R'Us last year my nervousness took on the form of ranting about the "4D" images they were advertising. "It's a still image? What's the 4th dimension FFS?"
Quantum mechanics can help distract the nerves of the expectant…

Kyle Matthews

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:35:14 +1300

I think, given that the in utero shot is the photo of my oldest that I showed to people the most – the first substantial proof! – it's now the photo that I care about the least. I don't even know if I still have it.

Once they're two seconds…

Kebabette

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:08:54 +1300

beautiful, and your timing so on the button ... we are about to have our first baby and all we know so far is the ultrasound vision from when they were just a little thing, now so big my belly feels like a seed pod eager to pop ...

samuel walker

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:57:47 +1300

awww david, you're giving me moosebumps.

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Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:57:47 +1300

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