Time gentlemen please!

After the question "Is it a boy or a girl?" which we can't answer, being in India, the other question often asked is "When's it due?". Which we are having a hard time with too! We have received very different dates from the approximately 8 week, 13 week and yesterday's 20 week scans: ranging from 13th May to 21st. Elsewhere than in India, this perhaps wouldn't pose much of a problem, doctors would let nature more or less take its course, as long as the baby seemed OK.

However, here in India ALL the doctors we have seen let you go 7 days over your due date. And no more! After this, birth is induced. So if you want to go for a natural happening birth (like me), every day is important. So I'd rather the doctors think the baby is due on the 21st!

We're talking either Taurus (before 21st May) or Gemini (after 21st) - so hey, we'd like to know, when should he or she come?! ;=)

To help clear up the due date mystery one of the doctors we have seen has asked us to go and see a different 'scanner' (her recommended one). And she'll follow the date given by this one. So we'll have another 20 week scan next week. I don't know what date the other doctor will use (we are shopping around before deciding on one). Will keep you posted.

Yesterday everything looked fine, apart from the placenta is still low. So we'll be going for another scan around 34 weeks to see if it's moved up (it does in most cases, so fingers crossed). There isn't much to see on the photos from the scan. The Doctor has to be very careful giving pics out to make sure the sex isn't visible. During the scan both me and my hubby were on the look out for something to indicate girl or boy (would be so much easier if we could show it a pair of shoes) but we were rubbish and the doctor avoided this area as much as possible.

Thanks for your comments on feeling the baby move. I have been feeling it move, and had a definitive "hello, this is me, not indigestion" moment on the 24th, which was great. Even better, hubby felt a hello from the other side on the 25th! :=)

Correction: the baby can hear sounds from appox week 21! She/he can recognise voices from about the 26th week, so we've been singing Spandau Ballet & Roxy Music! (Photo by Computer Science Geek on flickr)