Baby photos!

We had our 20 week scan on Tuesday morning. Everything was absolutely fine (as far as she could tell) so we can relax a bit more now! Baby was very active and strongly reacted to the cold of the gel on my tummy. It better get used to cold if it's going to make an appearance at Christmas time in Scotland!

We forgot to ask the radiographer if she could ask the baby how relaxed and chilled out it was feeling, as we feel we are due a baby who is laid back and doesn't enjoy crying non stop. Thinking back however, the body language the baby was expressing makes us think it is fairly chilled - it had it's hands clasped and resting on it's tummy, and it also had it's legs crossed in classic "lounging" position.

Following the scan, we were trying to think of fun activities for the day as Hannah was spending the whole day with her grandparents. We stared at the list of daytime festival shows for a while and made no decision, as so many things are hit and miss! We didn't want to end up spending money on something that would be a complete waste of time and cash.

We wandered to the High Street to look at the performers and when we got there we remembered Camera Obscura, a museum right at the top of the High Street near the castle. It's a really cool, interactive museum with loads of optical illusions, holograms, machines that change your appearance, and sparkly light tunnels!

We had been told about the infrared video camera which shows up the different intensities of heat on your body. The room had an icy bottle in it that you could hold against yourself and see the difference it made to your skin. But the most exciting thing about it for us, is you can see the baby through my tummy!! The reason for this is that the baby blocks out some of the heat from my internal organs so you can see a slightly cooler shape of the baby's body, the yellow colour in the bottom of my abdomen. Amazing!

We're going to go back in November/December to see the effect a bigger baby will have on the image, we might even catch it moving!!

I'd also like to point out the angle of the camera isn't very flattering, it makes me look a LOT rounder than I actually am...