Belated hello and welcome to you MaggiePie! You're right - thanks to the medicare changes OB = ridiculously expensive. We'll be paying $2750 for our management fee and I think we get something like $450 back from medicare.

LondonMiss, I promise not to ask you how it's going. I will just wait for you to tell us the good news! I can imagine it must be frustrating to be couped up in a small house with everyone anxiously awaiting the big event. Can you let her know you need some "me" time and shut yourself in your room for as long as you need whenever you're getting tense?

Lairdoz, I've been too scared to work out what this bub will have cost us. This was our 5th IVF, so it's been a big investment if we include the entire TTC process. Not to mention that DH has gone into "nesting" mode. New fence last week, a quote this morning to fix the roof (which has needed work since we moved in 4.5 years ago) and he intends to add a (large) covered patio before the year is done.

Still laying low here a little. Had b/w taken for the NT scan this morning. NT scan is next Tuesday. We see the OB for the first time on Friday, which seems an eternity away. I keep telling myself there's no reason to expect anything has gone wrong in the last 1.5 weeks since the last scan, but I can't help but worry. Work has settled down now that the project-from-hell is finished (hopefully - I ended up having to do it twice last week). I've got an urgent task sitting in my inbox (boss wants it by 11am, which is 25min away), but he's only sent me half the data so I can't finish it.

I'm trying to keep up with everyone here, but my brain just doesn't seem to absorb information at the moment and I have to re-read everyone's posts about 3 times, which I feel bad about. So, sorry about the limited personals again.