KitKat, great news about your scan. You must be thrilled! Shame DH couldn't be there because I think at the early stags it's easier to make sense of the bub on screen and a little harder to do so when you only have the pic to show people. Yep, definitely hard being home alone and then relying on DH to do stuff when he's had long day at work plus he's doing heaps around our new house with landscaping etc. I figure I have only a couple of weeks to go now before I might be able to go back to work on a gradual basis. I really, really want to just be able to drive myself somewhere. Never thought I'd look forward to going back to work either!
Londonmiss, it's good that you are forward-planning for when your DH is away so you don't have to do all the bending etc. I must confess, though, that you and Lise are making me a bit fearful for when I (hopefully, FX) get to as many weeks as you both, with Double Trouble and all! Did you have trouble also sleeping during the first trimester? I drink a lot of water but I try to stop at about 4-5ish, although I have to swallow the usual 12 tablets with dinner at night, so I'm forever on the toilet during the night. Then I have to set the alarm to take a progesterone pess at 2 or 3 and after that I can never get back to sleep. So if I don't get a nap during the day I'm a moody, grumpy witch
Renee, seems like you've got some good advice already about negative Rhesus factor. I think one of my first cousins had this, too. Great you know about it now and it can be treated. Shame to hear your MS is back and still so bad.
Paula, your high tea/baby shower sounds like it went swimmingly. Sound like you have an auntie like mine - one who speaks her mind without thinking first ... I still haven't forgotten a comment from this particular auntie I'm thinking about when I was just a teenager and sitting on what was then called a "P-O-O-F" (probably not very PC nowadays) and she said, "Gee, you've got a big future behind you." How rude! Here's to Tiana staying put right until you want her to!
Lise, sorry to hear that you, too, are really uncomfortable with bub getting bigger. I totally hear what you say about the moodiness etc and your DH and finances. My fiance and I have separate bank accounts, too, and we've usually gone 50/50 in everything, except the very early days when he was doing the courting! For the first few weeks of bed rest, I took sick leave and then found out I could get 75% of my earning paid for by my superannuation. But I have to forego two weeks leave without pay first in order to qualify. So DH has offered to pay half of these two weeks and then half of the 25% of my salary that I will miss out on by being at home, but he has made comments about "subsidising" me. I am only at home because of doctors orders to look after our two babies. I have gotten so mad at him that I have threatened to leave a couple of times already! Apparently I'm very "high maintenane" but he forgets that his life has not changed; it's only mine that has completely changed. Sorry, doing my own rant today, too. I suppose I was just trying to say that I get where you're coming from. And I worry about how things will now inevitably change once the twins arrive (FX). I, like you, have wanted to have a baby and have tried many IVF cycles but it's this whole dependence versus independence thing I am really going to struggle with.
Well, after that cheery little post, I'll be off then!
Big hello and belly rubs to everyone else xo
Last edited by Brunette; May 31st, 2010 at 11:36 AM.
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