Frogs and snails and puppy dogs tails........
' Are you sure you want to know? ’ asked the German doctor as I stared up at the squirming, leaping form on the screen in front of me. ‘Yes, god yes please yes’ I begged, thinking pleasantly of the gorgeous pink, frilled things I’d spotted in Carter's baby shop the day before. The four children sat silently wrestling each other in the corner, squashed into two armchairs, watching the show. Occasionally there would be a muffled giggle as someone would whisper ‘I see its butt!’ I started to daydream- ‘I’ll call her Delilah….or Jezebel’ I mused , ‘ and she can share a bedroom with nine year old girl…it will be perfec t….all pink and sage toile de jouey I think…’ ‘I see a little penis ’ said the German laconically, jolting me in to reality. I fell silent for a moment, confused and disoriented. I had been absolutely certain this child was female, the pregnancy to date having been a carbon copy of my first. ‘Oh! ’ I quickly adjusted myself, brightening, ‘lovely, anothe...