In life, once in a while there are surprises that will shake you off the rocking chair, while some surprises puts one in a fix, others may come in the form of "pleasantness"... As for me, it came as a pleasant surprise when my wife-to-be passed me a strip of pregnancy test after a normal visit to the clinic and asked me to decipher... I went, "So what does this strip tell...?

I really haven't had any pregnancy experiences before, and definitely dun know how to read the stripes on the strip...." Well, my wife then told me, one stripe means negative...... I looked again, and there were two stripes... I went " You sure or not....?" and we were looking at each other in disbelief... after some thorough discussion, we went to a pharmacy and got a home pregnancy test kit.... went home and tested it.... after five minutes, the were two stripes... WOW... I'm gonna be a daddy....

The excitement was unbelieveable because about 3 months of months ago, while my wife was admitted to a private hospital, she was "diagnosed" with possible endometriosis, while the doctor explained that the chances of conceiving a baby is very minimal, and may cause infertility...

Thus, this surprise came as a blessing in disguise...

Now, after two weeks later, we have gone to see the gynae for the second time, as was amazed that a life form is developing in my wife's body....

The first visit to the gynae, the doctor advised to do a ultrasound scan, the image was so vague, all that we can see was a round little white sac, with a black inner core, that's about it....

On Mon (4th September 2006) after two weeks since the last visit to the gynae, the doctor did a follow-up check and a subsequent ultrasound scan was performed, while in the scan room, we were so amazed at the massive development of the fetus, from the above round little sac to a view of a formation of actual baby.... It was only a two weeks time frame and 8 weeks old, I was amazed at the stages of development of a new life being....

The below ultrasound scan picture was done on the 4th September 2006, at 8 weeks old: