Skip Tracer's head. His ex-wife was interviewed and her testimony was damning as to the Skip Tracer's shady financial dealings and his flirtation with the extreme right wing. The former Mrs Higginbottom stopped short of the nosebag, although she did suggest that 'Barry has... issues he'd rather not look at. Issues of dependency.' Nevertheless, despite his fickleness when it came to the practicalities of childcare, she supported his right to see their daughter, while maintaining that 'his... behaviour in the past means I don't have a lot of confidence... in his motives'.

'Why'd she marry the bloke, then?' Phyllis observed tartly. She was sitting in the humpbacked armchair that had become 'hers' and sewing a name tape into a pair of Steve's boxers. Dave grunted – and Phyllis gavelong bones. We experienced a case of type I sirenomelia complicated by severe oligohydramnios at 13 weeks of gestation. We consider that this is the first report on type I sirenomelia with severe oligohydramnios diagnosed in the first trimester.

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The patient was a 22-year-old nulliparous Japanese woman. Her medical and family histories were noncontributory. She had no previous history of smoking, habitual alcohol drinking, or drug abuse. She was referred to our hospital for fetal anatomical evaluation because of severe oligohydramnios at 13 weeks and 6 days of gestation. The gestational age was calculated from the first day of her last menstrual period. At her 10 weeks and 6 days\' visit to the previous clinic, the crown-rump length of the fetus was 34.7 mm and no remarkable