Pregnancy after LT TTC #11

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Gees, I go out of town for a week and then it takes me an hour (on my boss' time, of course) to catch up on everything!

Firstly, congrats and welcome to KitKat, Loula, Leabie & S'Rose!!! (S'Rose, I LOVE your enthusiasm and excitement!)

Renee - happy belated birthday for the other day, hope you enjoyed yourself.

Miss K - the Wesley DOES sound good, but Nth West is less than a 5 minute drive from my house so I figure that I'll probably be at home when I go into labour and that will be quite handy. I currently work 5 minutes away from the Wesley so if I was working right through to the date then I might consider going with Wesley.

KitKat, regarding EDD - when I went for my first scan and we got the photo printout of little munchkin, the EDD in the bottom corner said 19th December, and that I was 6w3d. If I go back to date of last period, I was actually 7weeks on that day, and therefore in my signature I've put the date that I have worked out - 15th December.

Brunette - I am so pleased that your health insurance got sorted out and that you escaped in the crazy wheelchair for a few hours! Did you manage to fit in any baby shopping? How much of a tease are those catalogues that have turned up in the junk mail lately! BabiesRUs (ToysRUs) had some great prices, so I'll be sure to jump onto bubs.com.au and pramwarehouse and compare. I bought a Baba Sling from Ebay the other day ($26 plus postage, hardly used) and the lady I bought it off used it for her twins so I thought of you and wondered if you had worked out how you're going to carry your pair around? The Sling is the only thing I've bought so far as am waiting for 12weeks to hit (my birthday!) and I am still wearing those horseshoe earrings for us both.

Lise - a boy! Imagine how simple the 'facts of life' talk is gonna be ;-)

Mitf - my hubby proposed to me at the base of Mt Fuji. I absolutely fell in love with Japan and we'd love to go back once bub is born and a bit bigger. Where did you go? Would love to hear about your experiences over there.

Mift, LondonMiss & Lise - when did you need to book your hospital? Do I have plenty of time, or is this something that should be booked as early as possible?

So pregnancy yoga - when should I start it, and Glenny & Brunette & MissK, did you want to sign up together? I'm not much of an exerciser much to my gym junkie DH's dismay. Also, re the classes at the hospital, did we want to do that as well. I was talking to someone at the wedding that I just went to up north and he said (the father of the baby) that classes were a waste of time, so I'm in two minds about it. [B]LondonMiss[B] - did you do them, any good?

Glenny - I think I'm resigned to the fact that I'll stay with Titiz, I've got the scan on Monday arvo which would be 10 and a half weeks (by my count, or 10 weeks by FS count). Should hear the heartbeat. I feel like such a ditz, because at our first scan he turned on the doppler and there was a heartbeat. So Dirk and I turned to each other and had a lovey dovey moment. It was only about a fortnight ago that I was talking to Kris next door to Titiz and she informed me that it would have been MY heartbeat - DOH!! Would have really appreciated him telling us that what we were hearing was not our baby's heartbeat.

So, at 10 weeks I've not put on any weight. I've found that my appetite hasn't been that great, I don't feel like cooking so have been relying on convenience meals (and a lot of deep fried stuff), so I'm a bit worried that I'm not giving the baby the best start in life especially at this really crucial stage. In WTEWYE, there's a pregnancy diet but there's just so much on there that I need to be eating, and I just can't do it.
LondonMiss - I think it was you that was saying that there's been zero or one case of listeria which makes me feel heaps better as I've avoided salad (in pre-made sandwiches) like the plague, hence I'm not really getting many greens in my diet as I'm too tired at night to prepare something myself. DH and I ordered and antipasto plate the other day and I didn't eat the cold meat, salami, fetta etc. I ended up with roast capsicum and artichoke hearts - lucky me ;-)

Oh, regarding the baby book debate, my WTEWYE is the Aussie edition and I got it for $15 at Aldi, so it wasn't much to outlay. Hanging out though for another week and then the next book in the True Blood series is released (WaaaHooo!) and then I can read something other than baby baby baby!).

So much has happened so I've probably missed some vital things that have happened in everyone's life for the last week, sorry!

Take care everyone, don't work too hard ;-)

Chrissy xx