I never had a connection with the foetus such as you describe, but with my first pregnancy at 38 I felt incredibly contented and cow-like. Since I was of an age where the risk of problems was much greater, I was offered amniocentesis and we thought seriously about it but I was absolutely certain that everything was well with the baby and that the amnio would be the greater risk. I KNEW that there was nothing wrong. So we didn't have the test and everything was fine. With my second baby when I was 43 I was certain, again that there was no problem but we had the amnio anyway, partly because the risk had increased considerably and partly because any problem would have been more of a problem since we had another child to consider. Again...no problems.

I've known many women who were absolutely certain of the gender of the baby too, though I wasn't

Love Lynne