Miss m...I haven't been able to follow your whole story as have only recently joined in this forum...but CONGRATULATIONS...and wow!! you sound like wonderwoman!! I hope things start to fall into place routine wise with your wee Trent, and you get some well deserved rest.
It's so nice to read stories about the 'outcome' as well as all the bits in between
Smithy your camel story.....!! I know it's early, early days but I am so tired in bed at 8.30 most nights, napping during day etc... I knew poor DH had been soooo patient since half way through the IVF cycle....I also knew he was getting desperate, although he didn't say anything except compliment me A LOT! .... so I offered to 'help him' but not 'fully participate' He was happy
AIRLINE... oh i no just how you feel hun i didnt let dh actually touch me until about a week ago i was just so scared of something happening so i would do the same and help him out with other things ,the good old tub of sorbalene cream and the hand does wonders but now im feeling like i want the real thing
i just have to work out how im going to do it next time as my dh has a very big belly to (from beer lol) so just imagine 2 huge belly hitting each other theres a big gap in between us pmsl ...gotta get creative here i think
MissMag - CONGRATULATIONS! Hope everything begins to settle down and ditto to all the other ladies advice re: BF - do whats right for you. Take care. xxx
Gosh everyone seems to be "getting a bit" atm ha ha!
AFM - nothing to update. Everything has gone quiet! Still having BH on and off all day and so much pressure and groin pain when i'm upright i feel like not only are the babies going to come out but they are going to take all my insides as well!!! So not moving very far from home esp alone. DH has started his holidays early so at least he can take me out and about now and i will have some entertainment - going quiet stir crazy.
Off for ultrasound, monitoring, bloods etc tom so will wait and see what tom brings.
Hi girls!
Well it has been 10 weeks since I last read this thread...time flies!
Have just seen that Miss M and Neptune have had their babies - congratulations!
Will try to follow everyone's progress a little more closely, but am always thinking of you.
AFM, baby Zach is doing well - such an amazing precious time.
Take care all!
Mels xxx
awww Grub never mind, although all this DTD talk I reckon your DH will barely make it through the door and you'll be pouncing on him, he'll think all his Christmases have come at once YAY for only 2 more weeks though!
Miss Magpie: CONGRATULATIONS on the safe arrival of your little man! Hope everything settles in soon for you!
Smithy: thank you so much for the visuals, I have these images of two bellies in my brain Love love love your little tum though! Thanks for giving us a good laugh with your story though!
Grennslw: For $17 they'd want to wash your car too! And valet service at that! Nothing wrong with the sarong, I do it often. Although ATM just as happy wandering around in bra & undies. Have warned people to call first before they come around and if they choose to ignore well they can just enjoy the sight LOL. Oh but I do have to remind myself every now and then, almost caught myself going out in my undies to bring in the bins this morning!
Bella: Hope you're doing ok, keeping our for you that there's movement at the station soon!
to everyone else.
AFM: well I must be one of the few who are not on the casmel-riding bandwagon. I'm unfortunately just not enjoying it that much right now. A bit uncomfortable with the belly and still a little paranoid that something might go wrong. Luckily for me DH has been working huge hours lately (he normally does about 13hrs a day but last week threw in a couple of 15hr days too) so it's the last thing he wants when he gets home. I was all for it at the end of the first tri but now...
Had a busy weekend, had my first Braxton Hicks start on Saturday! Right in the middle of watching a wedding! Luckily they weren't too bad. I was a little worried that they had started too early but did some research and apparently you can get them as early as 2 months but anything from 20 weeks on is about average. Had some more this morning that were a little stronger and I stopped what I was doing and got a couple of funny looks but just made out like nothing was happening. It's interesting to know what they feel like though.
Stage 1 of nursery decoration has commenced! Went to Sydney to visit DH eldest son & family and picked up our gorgeous change table console. It's awesome, has 3 drawers on one side, 2 cupboard doars on the other and the change table has a slider that opens to reveal a slot to put a baby bath! I'm just wondering though, it's timber and I really wanted white, but it's also a little scratched so I'm thinking we will prob paint it white. Also picked up all my soft furnishings so hopefully over the next few days I'll get started putting things together, then next week I'll be going cot shopping with my mum.
Anyway better stop rambling, just got a phone call with an urgent job assignment that needs to be done in the next couple of hours and they're going to double my fee for the inconvenience!
well hi all, Thought I would come and tell you I am so bored that I have been actually writing my reports for some fun. Thank god for play group in an hour. Campbells toilet training is coming along nicely but he prefers to pee in the garden. LOL
If you think you have had a bad day.... Warning WAY TMI...
If you are squeamish turn away now... Well.. My bad day kinda started yesterday... I swallowed the ball on the top of my tongue stud .. So I rang my midwife and after explaining what a dufus I had been she reassured me that eveything was ok and that I just had to make sure it re-emerges out the other end... I think you get my drift.. So anyway... I have had the worst constipation since the day I found out that I was PG so I figured this may take a couple of days for anything to "emerge" as it were and it had pretty much only been at night that I have had to go so I was confident that I had this under control... But no... At about 9.00am this morning the urge takes me and... Yep... I'm at work... Now I move around a lot for work and work with a heap of different people so while I know these people I haven't worked the side by side type of thing with them and were besties or anything like that... So I have to decide what I am going to do about this because disappearing into the only toilet in the building for what could take a while (and armed with a bizarre array of containers and implements) may cause some consternation... So I have to fess up to what I am up to... I have found a new and darker shade of red than I knew existed... So anyway... I am now armed with an icecream container and a piece of wood with a nice flat end cause it was all pebbly and I had to smash each one open to check if the ball was inside... It wasn't... So now I have to wait and do this all over again and I hope that it won't be tomorrow at work again... Sorry if this freaked you out but I just figured that if I could help one person feel better about their day then it would kinda make it worth while (lol.. not even close to worthwhile but what choice do I have)... And I bet that at some point in our parenting lives we will all have to sift through the poo of our child to relocate something weird they have swallowed... I'm just getting in some practice... Enjoy your night ladies...
littlemisshavachat! i felt mortified for you reading your post. Not so much the digging but the having to share what you were doing! lol. you poor thing. Found it yet? I did find my digestion changed completely with pregnancy... personally i like the comfort of home iykwim and then all the sudden it's happening at work and we only have 1 loo... hated it.
anyhoo, saph that is a sad case of the boreds! lol. If you are looking for a giggle and want to waste time go and hire Lesbian Vampire Killers from the video store. Yes it's about lesbian vampires who kill...it's a britsh comedy/mock up of those vampire movies and it''s hilarious and very cute image in my head of a little boy weedling in the garden lol.
boc - yep, I have dreams nearly every night now about dtd with Dh... but not exotic erotic dirty dreams.. very pedestrian and real to life. I also dream about kissing him! i love it, it's like sleep time is my little DH fix! They pushed the coures out ANOTHER day! so he'll be home 2 weeks on Friday... considering I'm 37 weeks this Sunday, I"m not particurly over joyed at that. But what do you do? Glad my sis is here atm but i can feel i will very much struggle in those 2 weeks. It' hard! I need DH home now. Plus bub is making me very uncomfy, i've gotten very big and get tired. it's all a bit much to do alone really. ... ah well... gotta go get my cup of cement, as they say.
Boc, it's weird getting BH hey! sometimes i'm not sure if its them or not. but have notice them more lately.
Did a breastfeeding class at our hospy yesterday. Loved it (boc make sure you do it if you are going to NPH), they very much push breast, bonding, cosleeping and getting what YOU want from your stay. We can even have skin-2-skin and a feed in theatre if having a c-sect - all we need to do is demand it and the midwife said "they can't say no, so you tell them'' lol. But in even more exciting news, she showeds us how to hand express! it's so easy! i had a play while waiting for the kettle to boil and THEY WORK! i got colostrum outta them babies! It was a strange experience and i was surprised... (can you tell i thought my equipment would be faulty lol why not? every other woman bit of mine apparently is!).
ooh dear, written too much. SIs and i are off to take a look around and get some final flourishes for bubba's room oxoxo
Grub - I can sympathise with the disscomfort - have fun out shopping - don't do to much and glad your equipment is in working order ha ha!
Hello and big belly rubs to all.
AFM - had appt at hosp yest - it was great! I finally got some answers and a definate plan. I was scaned by an obstitritian/consultant and i had a bit of a winge about that other ****er junior doctor who keeps leaving me in limbo, i also complained that i felt i was falling through the cracks a bit and that i wanted a definate plan - she really listened and sympathised with me so from now i am only to be seen and looked after by her or her senior registrar .
So new plan - BP/monitoring Friday and review by the registrar in preg day care if all good then same again Tues but she will also do an internal on the Tuesday to see if i am dilated further then induction Friday 27th November . If i'm at least 3cm or so dilated they will just break my waters no need for the gel (which is great) This is all assuming i don't go natural in the meantime - so 9 MORE SLEEPS AT MOST FOR ME AND MY BOYS!!!!!!!
I feel so much better having a plan and i know i will be watched closely.
My scan yesterday was good but my little twin (twin2) is only 10th percentile now weighing 2.0 so they would like him in a bit longer if possible. Twin 1 was 2.6! But blood flow and fluid levels are perfect.
Sorry for the me post just wanted to update everyone. Please send lots of labour vibes my way!
Take 2 at post yesterday I got so sidetracked at work I closed the post
Well done MissMagpie thank you for sharing your birth, it sounded like you had to work hard. I hope all is getting easier day by day.
Saph is somebody NESTING?
Bella glad DH is with you I think I'd want as much support as possible. esp when the birth is so close. Glad you have a plan. Bet that is making you feel more relaxed.
Hi Mels glad Zach is going great
Grub your DH isn't going to get 1 foot in the door before you pounce is he? lucky man.
BOC Lol I wrote the post for Grub seams you and I are on the same wave length LOL about the bras and undies. Bugga the warning just put an entre at own risk sign on the door. Oh no the neighbours may have got a nice surprise in the morning.
Lilmiss dam about the ball swallowing, did you gasp? last time I did it infront of a class. I almost choked. I never looked for it though
ATM it's 39C in Adelaide, the gods are crazy. It's NOVEMBER!
Had a team building session this morning which I paid big bucks for out of my budget and asked the presenter to go slow as my staff can be "emotional" well the little buggas all thought it didn't haven enough meet to it and they wanted more. I can never please them, they are like 12 year old girls and 55 year old menapausal women all in one.
It was DSS b'day yesterday 16. He had a great day went with DF to the firing range, DSS want's to go to the army so it's up his ally. DF made roast (I had vegies) and we had a cake, I sang but nobody else. Oh well then DSS helped me through a tricky part in a game he gave me. It was so nice seeing his joy. Now he's practicing for his L's He's so big. I've known him since he was 8. He's a real man these days. Kind heart, is being so helpful with me being pg. I know it's the hormones but I'm teering up. Just wanted to share how lucky I am to have DSS.
Hi girls, remember me?
I'm so sorry I haven't been back to post and probably still won't be able to come in for a while (and anyway, I'm meant to move on to the next thread but I will miss you all so much til you are in there too).
I have read lots of the latest posts to catch up today and again, I'm sorry for no big personals, it's mostly about me to let you know where things have been and how things are going. I can't take on the newbies, so I have to leave you in the care of the gorgeous old hands in here (i.e Grub, Smithy, BOC and others). You'll know yourselves when you reach the point and have to move on and shock horror, with babe in arms, you no longer get quite as much joy from other relationships.
Miss Magpie...huge and mighty congrats on little man Trent and your big effort to get him into the world safely!! I have to tell you though that staying an extra day was the least of my worries, if I hadn't fought to find common sense in the whole of the hospital system in Cairns, we would have only just got let out yesterday when Jasmine reached the magical healthy weight range they wanted her in (2.5 kilos)! Somewhat ridiculous when we have been gaining that weight at home happily and healthily.
Jasmine weighed 2.44kg at birth and for the lack of 60 g she was threatened every 5 minutes with being supplementary fed, placed in special care again and taken from me. I'm happy to say that she got one supplementary feed (though fights and tension ensued between special care nurses and breast feeding advocate midwives. Score 1 to excellent midwife and us, Jasmine threw up her only supplementary feed. It's very contraversial, you have to sign papers to say it's okay to supp feed and they didn't do that with me. the midwife was livid and it was mighty tense. Its my choice, it's not that I judge what other people choose or are forced to decide. It was a wholly stressful ordeal for me and I so nearly came to blows with one hovering (get your boobs out midwife). We finally got a conditional leave pass, we were released to my local hospital which is a gorgeous warm and welcoming old heritage hospital. I cried my heart out that first night because I had no idea how long it would be before they released us and watching my beautiful DH walk away yet another day without his girls was heartbreaking. You have to feel for these wonderfully supportive men of ours who support us the absolute most and can't even stay with you and share that time in your life. My hospital room in Mossman was lovely and I was a guest there really, with Jazzy the patient. the staff were excellent, had loads of common sense, never once threatened to take our baby and set me up with my own bathing and changing station where after 5 days we gave her her first bath and we had a lovely old cane bassinet. I had a single room and ensuite which opened to big sweeping verandah in an old people's ward. How gorgeous, I was woken to the sounds of Slim Dusty and one morning one of the locals brought in her 4 month old grandson to visit me. How funny. It was the complete opposite experience to the surgical environment in Cairns. Surgical environments have their place, but not long term. You get treated like a number and not a person. In Mossman we were celebrities, we had visits from every staff member rotating through a shift as babies are such a rare thing there these days. Even me as a caesarian case was useful to train staff up on so it was an amazing experience to feel so welcome and embraced and in charge of my baby above all else. It was a relief to get out of cairns, it was freezing cold and sterile and don't get me started but every girl I met, hated the experience, the culture of threatening to take your baby and supplementary feed and every nurse and midwife expecting you to get your boobs out and show them your attachment. Man I wasted so many years being a prude when i could have been a porn star or at least a lot less inhibited! I've had my boobs out for every man woman and dog I've seen since starting this breastfeeding gig and although we are pretty good with the whole thing, you don't have the rapport with everyone you meet to flop em out and get going iykwim! And I tell you what, there are occasions where you just can't be discreet when your boob is exploding and spraying and you are laughing behind your wrap which is threatening to expose you as your baby tugs both boob and wrap and milk is pouring out. that was my experience yesterday (just an ordinary day out at the audiologists where even there, they expect you to breast feed you baby as part of relaxing your baby...what the...??? Anyway after two visits I'm an old pro and what's a bit of exploding breast milk between you and a young male audiologist!!! You have to know me to know I'm kidding, although it's true and it's all just a huge learning experience.
Oh, oops, by the way, thank you all sooooooo much for your support and congrats to both me and DH on our birth. It was an overwhelming feeling of love and warmth and we both appreciated it so much. Now promise there won't be tears when I tell you a little bit of our news and what we have been dealing with. Promise!!! I have made my family and friends cry when we havent' even cried ourselves (yet maybe), but Jazzy has been diagnosed profoundly deaf in both ears. It was confirmed yesterday and honestly we are not upset. It's a challenge and poses hurdles and we will do everything to give her the best life and best chances at hearing or communicating but we dont' have a clear picture yet, there are lots of tests to find out what her damage is and if she can be fitted for hearing aids, cochlear implants or whatever other options. for now we continue to talk as normal and treat her no differently. There are masses of support available and someone is even doing a house visit way up here tomorrow, so that's pretty damn impressive. So no tears for us...this girl is gorgeous and her Dad said yesterday "she is the most beautiful thing I've seen in my whole life". Being the scientist that he is, he backed this up by saying that he'd thought long and hard about saying it but as beauty is in the eye of the beholder it is most definitely true. I have to admit, all bias aside, DH never looked more beautiful to me than the moment of looking into his eyes at her birth and nothing looks as beautiful as my little girl. You will all feel the same and it's amazing and I believe Janie when she says, it just gets better.
P.S I love everything about these early days and weeks. Ithought it would be a time to just kind of get through and I'd be scared to be left alone and feel overwhelmed, but it's just wonderful and cheesey as it sounds, we are just so incredibly blessed.
Love and miss you all stax but can't really come back til I get my new computer.
oh bella, i'm so glad your concerns were taken seriously. good on you for standing up for yourself
had to cut our shopping trip shrt... i did a major stack comign out of a shop, fell down the gutter and onto the road. Was considerate enough to land mostly on my sister LOL so she got a bloody knee while i got a grazed leg and a big fright. Lucky didn't land on my belly but rang the doc and she so long as there's no bleeding and bub is moving its okay. But scared my sis and i all the same.
but bub is on the move atm so i'm very relieved. fur baby is providing comfort cuddless.
greeslw - oh i feel how much you love your dss. i'd say he's a lucky boy! good luck with the driving lessons lol.
Murph - I'm sorry, but I did have a tear in my eye - but it was because of how much love I heard in your voice. How lucky your little Jasmine is to have you and your DH as her mum and dad. I am sure that there will be challenges ahead but having you two to guide her and love her, Jasmine will do just great. And trust me it does just get better and better.
I'm looking forward to hearing more about how you guys are going. In the meantime - soak up those early days because believe you me - one day you will wake up and she will be 7 months old and you will wonder where did the time go! I look back at my Jasmine's early photos and can't quite believe how much she has changed - it really does happen in a heart beat.
murph, we must have posted at the same time No tears here lovely. I'm sad she has this hurdle in front of her, but she is loved, and she WILL communicate - she might not be a chattering box but I bet she'll write as much as her mummy and be expressive and as kind as you and DH.
its only one small part, albeit a improtant one for those who have it, but she will never know and she will make up for it in so many other ways. not only that, the developments in science thesedays means she will have the world open as her oyster like all others bubs born today...
Big hugs for the times ahead lovely. We all know what a strong woman you are and what a wonderful man you have by your side.
I was soo moved by your words about your DH. what a lucky man you have, you both obviously adore each other.
glad mossman were able to make it up to you a bit for cairns' rubbish care.
Murph - sorry but i have shed a tear not for saddness but because your post was so moving. You are an amazing person and i believe jasmine is very lucky to have such a person for a mum! I can also feel the love in your family and you will all travel along this path of life with strength dignity and love. Take care and enjoy this special time.
oh murph i to am shedding a tear hun but also not because i feel sorry for you or anything like that but at how bloody strong you are. i tell you what you have one very lucky little girl there with a mummy and daddy with such a wonderful attitude and spirit, that post you just did hun is just beautiful and i thank you for sharing ,you have been such a support to so many of us now i hope we can all be here to help and support you. IM SO VERY PROUD OF YOU
take care sweety of you and your beautiful little family xoxo
Murph: So happy to hear from you and I too have felt quite emotional reading your post. After all the problems you have had with your pregnancy from the d/s scare to your traumatic birth I am so proud of you and Jasmine couldn't have chosen better parents. I'm sure that you will treat her like any normal little girl who is just a bit more special than all the others and it is a whole new world for you to experience as a family together.
I look forward to hearing more of your journey and am sending you lots of hugs and best wishes.
AIRLINE... oh i no just how you feel hun i didnt let dh actually touch me until about a week ago i was just so scared of something happening so i would do the same and help him out with other things ,the good old tub of sorbalene cream and the hand does wonders
but now im feeling like i want the real thing
theres a big gap in between us pmsl ...gotta get creative here i think
never mind, although all this DTD talk I reckon your DH will barely make it through the door and you'll be pouncing on him, he'll think all his Christmases have come at once 
YAY for only 2 more weeks though!
Love love love your little tum though! Thanks for giving us a good laugh with your story though!
for you that there's movement at the station soon!
to everyone else.
.. So I rang my midwife and after explaining what a dufus I had been she reassured me that eveything was ok and that I just had to make sure it re-emerges out the other end... I think you get my drift.. So anyway... I have had the worst constipation since the day I found out that I was PG so I figured this may take a couple of days for anything to "emerge" as it were and it had pretty much only been at night that I have had to go so I was confident that I had this under control... But no... At about 9.00am this morning the urge takes me and... Yep... I'm at work... Now I move around a lot for work and work with a heap of different people so while I know these people I haven't worked the side by side type of thing with them and were besties or anything like that... So I have to decide what I am going to do about this because disappearing into the only toilet in the building for what could take a while (and armed with a bizarre array of containers and implements) may cause some consternation... So I have to fess up to what I am up to... I have found a new and darker shade of red than I knew existed... So anyway... I am now armed with an icecream container and a piece of wood with a nice flat end cause it was all pebbly and I had to smash each one open to check if the ball was inside... It wasn't... So now I have to wait and do this all over again and I hope that it won't be tomorrow at work again... Sorry if this freaked you out but I just figured that if I could help one person feel better about their day then it would kinda make it worth while (lol.. not even close to worthwhile but what choice do I have)... And I bet that at some point in our parenting lives we will all have to sift through the poo of our child to relocate something weird they have swallowed... I'm just getting in some practice... Enjoy your night ladies... 
Well done MissMagpie 
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