A 4D scan in an ultrasound examination that lets you have a full view of your unborn child. Seeing it in three dimensions, in color and moving around is a very special moment in the life of any parent.
The Dunedin branch of LookWho’sKickin’ is pleased to offer 3 and 4D ultrasounds to all its clients in the area and beyond. Having this procedure done at one of our luxurious locations is one of the most emotional moments in a parent’s life. To see their unborn in real time while growing inside the mother. Not only does it give us an idea of the growth rate and health of the child, it gives the parents and family a chance to meet them long before they enter the world.
The 3 and 4D scan uses exactly the same ultrasound technology used in medical ultrasounds. The only difference is with the computing that interprets the signals. Our computers can create 3D images of the child where many of the standard ultrasounds cannot. The 4D is exactly the same as 3D except it’s a movie instead of a picture, the extra “D” or dimension being time. It is truly the best way possible of seeing your child growing, and moving around inside the womb.
The procedure is perfectly safe and has been used on millions of mothers throughout the world for over 30 years now. It is recognized as the best form of non-invasive study of unborn children currently available, which is why we at LookWho’sKickin’ take pride in being able to offer this kind of service to parents.
The scan, while offering an unrivalled view of your child doesn’t replace the standard ultrasounds your physician will make. They are the only ones that will identify any issues and be medically valid for diagnosis. Our ultrasounds is more for the emotional value rather than physical. We offer the ability to create more of a bond with the unborn and allow the rest of the family to join in the excitement.
There may be times when our procedure discovers something and we will suggest taking the picture or movie to a doctor for further diagnosis. While out staff is fully trained and qualified, there is no substitute for the dedicated medical attention that your physician provides.
The best time to come and visit LookWho’sKickin’ is between 24 and 32 weeks. Before 24 weeks there isn’t much physical substance to the child. It will appear skeletal and not move all that much. After 32 weeks there can be a lack of amniotic fluid around the baby, which makes getting a good ultrasound difficult.
The next time you’re in Dunedin why not pop into our office and schedule an appointment? Let our staff look after you and give you one of the most emotional journeys a parent can make.
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If you need ideas for holiday gifts that work for stay-at-home mothers, look no further. The following gift ideas have the stay-at-home-mom seal of approval. You’ll find service-oriented ideas meant to give a little respite to stay-at-home moms who feel overwhelmed as well as suggestions for gifts that work for all stay-at-home mothers.
Three Ways to Give Stay-at-Home Moms Who Feel Overwhelmed a Break
Following are three ideas for gifts that are sure to relax stay-at-home moms who feel overwhelmed. If you also arrange the babysitting necessary so that these gifts can be enjoyed, you’ll earn bonus points from the stay-at-home moms on your gift list.
Spa Gift Certificates—One of the best ideas for gifts that work for stay-at-home mothers, especially stay-at-home moms who feel overwhelmed, is a gift certificate for a manicure and pedicure. An hour or so in the massage chair with her feet soaking in the hot bubbly water followed by a good foot rub and some pretty polish will perk up that special stay-at-home mom on your gift list.
Similar gifts that will help relax stay-at-home moms who feel overwhelmed include gift certificates for full body or shoulder-and-neck massages, facials or even complete spa days.
If you’re not sure which salon or spa the stay-at-home mom would like, you can purchase a gift certificate through SpaWish.com. You choose the amount of the gift certificate and how to package it. The stay-at-home mom can choose to spend it at one of more than 1,000 spas across the country, or she can use it to purchase spa products online.
Dinner Out—Another one of the best ideas for gifts that work for stay-at-home mothers is dinner at one of the mom’s favorite restaurants with her spouse or her girlfriends. Stay-at-home moms who feel overwhelmed from what feels like nonstop meal planning, cooking and cleaning will relish a dinner out of the house, especially when someone else has to do the dishes.
Service “Certificates”—If you’re a husband looking to do something nice for your wife who is a stay-at-home mom, another service-oriented gift idea that would work for stay-at-home mothers is a helping hand. “We moms have so much to do during the day, so a good idea would be to take over a few of our duties to lighten our load,” suggests Lucy, a stay-at-home mom of twin toddlers. “Give the kids a bath, fix dinner or get the kiddos ready for bed.”
If you want the stay-at-home mom to actually unwrap a gift, create a homemade gift certificate that tells her what you have in store for her. For example: “Good for one diaper-change-free weekend.” A gift like that can work wonders for stay-at-home moms who feel overwhelmed.
Two More Gift Ideas That Work for Stay-at-Home Mothers
Books on CD—Between trying to keep the kids entertained and out of danger and getting the household chores done, stay-at-home moms don’t get to sit down and read books very often. But books on CD can work for stay-at-home mothers on the go. “I used to love to read, and now that I’m chasing after two toddlers, my time is spoken for,” Lucy says. “But I can pop in a bestseller on tape while I’m driving or cleaning.”
You can find books on CD at most bookstores, or you can shop online. Simply Audiobooks (www.simplyaudiobooks.com) has more than 20,000 titles to choose from. This company also offers a rental plan; a subscription to this service is also a gift idea that would work for stay-at-home mothers.
TIVO or Other Digital Video Recorder—It can be hard to concentrate on a gripping episode of “Lost” if you’re also trying to stop your toddler from pushing every button on the TV. No wonder there are stay-at-home moms who feel overwhelmed! Give these stay-at-home moms the gift of peaceful TV viewing.
Digital video recorders such as TIVO can record all the episodes of your favorite mom’s shows, and she can watch them after tucking in the kids. Best of all, she can fast forward through the 15 minutes of commercials and hit the hay early herself. Visit www.tivo.com for more information.
I hope you’ve been inspired by one of these gift ideas that work for stay-at-home mothers. Happy holiday shopping!
More than 6 million viewers watched BBC1's all-star concert at the Royal Albert Hall in aid of Children In Need, but it was still no match for ITV1's Coronation Street and I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! last night, Thursday 19 November.
Children In Need Rocks the Royal Albert Hall, which featured Take That, Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney and Cheryl Cole, averaged 6.1 million viewers, a 25% share of the audience, between 8pm and 10pm, according to unofficial overnight figures.
But the charity gig lost out to ITV1's Coronation Street, in which killer Tony Gordon confessed at a police station, which brought in 8.9 million viewers, a 35% share, between 8.30pm and 9pm.
Then I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! attracted 8.1 million viewers, 32% of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm.
The Albert Hall concert also lost out to the second of two instalments of Emmerdale, which had 7 million viewers, a 29% share, between 8pm and 8.30pm. The earlier edition, at 7pm, had 6.6 million viewers, 31% of the audience, beating BBC1's The One Show, which had 4.8 million viewers, a 22% share.
Earlier, BBC2's reality show The Restaurant had 1.5 million viewers in the 8pm hour, a 6% share, beaten by Channel 4's River Cottage, which had 2.2 million viewers, 9% of the audience. River Cottage had another 238,000 viewers on Channel 4 +1.
At the same time on Channel Five, Building the Super Tower: Megastructures, had 700,000 viewers, a 3% share.
Channel 4 documentary Confessions of a Traffic Warden averaged 1.2 million viewers, 5% of the audience, between 9pm and 10pm. Another 202,000 viewers saw Confessions of a Traffic Warden on Channel 4 +1.
BBC2's Natural World, about the black mamba snake, had 1.3 million viewers in the same slot.
Alan Carr returned to Channel 4 with a new series of his talkshow, Alan Carr: Chatty Man. The show had 1.3 million viewers, 7% of the audience, between 10pm and 10.50pm, and another 121,000 on Channel 4 +1.
An episode of BBC2's documentary series Wonderland, about two people with Down's syndrome planning to get married, had 1 million viewers, a 5% share, and Newsnight averaged 500,000 viewers between 10.30pm and 11.20pm.
Another showing for Clint Eastwood movie In The Line of Fire had 1.1 million viewers, 6% of the audience, between 9pm and 11.40pm.
BBC1's Question Time, which saw the return of David Dimbleby after he missed last week's show following an unfortunate encounter with a bullock, averaged 3.1 million viewers, a 22% share.
A repeat of Piers Morgan's Life Stories interview with Vinnie Jones had 1.4 million viewers, 10% of the audience, between 10.35pm and 11.35pm.
Earlier, BBC1's EastEnders had 8.7 million viewers, a 38% share, against ITV1's River Monsters documentary, which investigated claims that a man was swallowed whole by a giant catfish in the Amazon.
The documentary was watched by 3.6 million viewers, 16% of the audience.
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the UN's adoption of the convention on the rights of the child. But 18 years after it was ratified by the UK, thousands of children in prison are still waiting for it to become a reality. Following the death of Baby P, the government focused attention on improvements to the child protection system, recognising that the best way to keep children safe is to respect their rights. However, we still do not see the same strong leadership over children in custody. The tragic implications of this vacuum were highlighted at the conclusion last week of the inquest into the death in prison of 15-year-old Liam McManus in 2008. The jury found extensive “systemic failings” had contributed to Liam's death, exposing the government's failure to institute the radical reforms required (Report, 14 November).
Liam was the 30th child to die in custody since 1990. Inquest after inquest reveals unsafe institutions and practices, yet these failings continue. The UK is regularly criticised by international human rights bodies for our treatment of the UK's most vulnerable children, including locking children up unnecessarily in the juvenile justice and immigration systems. And yet the government continues to resist a public inquiry, fails to hold institutions to account for the unlawful use of force on children and endorses the use of deliberately painful restraint techniques by staff. We urgently need a public inquiry into the UK's treatment of all children in conflict with the law.
Deborah Coles Co-director, Inquest
Katy Swaine Legal director, Children's Rights Alliance for England
Children in Need 2009
7pm, BBC1
Terry Wogan, Tess Daly and Alesha Dixon present hours and hours of charity frolics from TV Centre. Treats forthcoming include the cast of Hollyoaks murdering Queen's back catalogue, John Barrowman duetting with Myleene Klass, and Lady GaGa beseeching you in that nasal, disinterested way of hers to give your money to the kids. But the main attraction is always the newsreaders undoing their top buttons. Or at least it was until Kate Silverton ruined it by being rather too showbizzy in the first place, thereby diminishing the power of the comic juxtaposition.
Unreported World
7.30pm, Channel 4
This probing showcase for the best investigative journalism arrives in Malaysia, where Burmese refugees are reputed to have been sold by immigration officials to Thai human traffickers. Aidan Hartley meets refugees who claim that, having just escaped from a bloody regime, they're being rounded up and whipped in detention camps, or beaten up by self-styled anti-immigration militia, only to then suffer the threat of being sold into prostitution and slavery. A country where immigrants appear to have no rights whatsoever.
Don Carlo from the Royal Opera House
8pm, BBC4
Nicholas Hytner's production of Verdi's Don Carlo at the Royal Opera House has been much acclaimed, so this broadcast – introduced by conductor Antonio Pappano – should be a treat. Certainly, Hytner knows the material well – 20 years ago, he directed Schiller's play Don Carlos, on which Verdi based his opera. In the current production, Mexican-French tenor Rolando Villazón plays the eponymous 16th-century Prince of Spain, who becomes understandably vexed when his intended, Elisabeth of Valois (Russian soprano Marina Poplavskaya) is married off to his father, King Philip II (Italian bass Ferruccio Furlanetto).
Animate TV
12midnight, Channel 4
Since 2D animation is, at its best, moving paintings, it's strange that more artists haven't explored its possibilities. Some have come tantalisingly close, such as when Salvador Dalí collaborated with Disney for his Destino test footage. Here, contemporary artists Cordelia Swann, Sarah Wood, Petra Freeman and Thomas Hicks all take different approaches and use different techniques such as paint on lightbox, pixelation, found photographs and low-res video. The results may vary, but are consistently interesting.
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