I'm so sorry to hear of the loss of your niece How heartbreaking. But... how awesome would that be if the toy's chiming IS telling you something!! I had a similar situation a couple of years ago... DD1 was a baby and she had a toy that made noise when you pulled it (it had about 10 or 12 random 'boing' etc noises that would chime when you pulled the ends apart), and the day after DH and I conceived our second, it started chiming two or three times a day... while it was put up on a shelf, not being touched! I knew straight away I was pregnant (nothing to do with the toy at first, I just had *that* feeling), and the damn thing just kept singing out in the middle of the night, up on the shelf, and during the day when it wasn't being touched, every day until Christmas Eve when we lost the pregnancy at around 7 weeks. After we got home from the hospital to get blood tests, it only ever chimed when DD1 was playing with it. Soo... you may well be in luck All the best hun, hope the New Year brings a wonderful new life for you to cherish!!