This morning, I went with my girlfriend Alice (and our son Oscar) to the Foetal Medicine Unit at St. Thomas's Hospital, where she had the first ultrasound scan of her second pregnancy.
Alice has just entered the second trimester of the pregnancy, and the foetus you see above is just 6 cm in length. Our baby's due in March of next year.
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Congratulations on the expected addition to the family!
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