Ok, don't judge me, but I have done something a bit silly and which has been met with some disapproval from the husband. It's something I heard about through the grapevine and, after long deliberation, I decided to go for it. I have paid for, and received… a pregnancy prediction courtesy of some lady called Cheri in Canada! Basically you pay about £4, tell her what baby number you're working on conceiving, and she gets back to you about a week later with a reading predicting the sex, the month (conceived or birth) and a personality breakdown. After seven nail-biting days, I finally received my prediction this morning:

"Thank you for being patinet with me while I got back to your reading. they are showing you wtih a GIRL and they relate her to SEPT. They do show you using a specialist for conceiving;

When ti comes to your daughter wouldt ell you that shes got amazing strength and determiantion to succeed. i would consider her to be somewhat ambitious and really enjoys a good challenge. Shes someoen who is always on her feet, and loves to be mobile, really prefers to ahve something to do and be doing it. Really good at multi-tasking, someone who seems to thirve on the "chicken with the head cut off" syndrome and would rather have "too much" on her plate than not enough.

Shes fairly good about being direct about what she wants and where she si going. Shes someone who knows how to get things shes going after and can at times appear a bit on the agressive side. Definately someone you want on your side, as she can be somewhat intimidating (if someoen is bothering her) and really carry her own weight. Shes not one to be bogged down by other peoples mistakes and iwll often rise above them.. works hard towards what she wants in life.

Shes someone who likes to play volleyball, is someone who has just as many male friends as female and can actually say she has alot. People believe in her as she always says what she means and means what she says.

When itcomes to career paths, they show her linked to wroking for a relator and his partner. She handles all the closing documents and paperwork, often bringing in clients of her own for them and getting a percentage of the sales, and running their entire office. Delegating work, upgrading her schooling in this field to better understnad more of the job and take on more responsibilities.

When it comes to marriatge they show her closer to 22, they wull have two boys and one girl of their own."

According to her website, Cheri says she "relies solely on intuition, channeling and automatic writing, and have the help of my spirit guides Tomas and Serlina." I think the automatic writing explains why the copy is littered with typo's – you'd think Tomas and Serlina would point that out being higher beings and everything.

So, according to this prediction, I will have an aggressive little girl who will pummel anyone who tries to stop her getting what she wants. Why do I have the feeling this child will end on on Crimewatch, wanted for the murder of her parents? Either that or I'm going to go to many school meetings with headteachers to discuss why my child is beating other children to a pulp. Maybe adoption is a good idea after all…