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happy birthday Kyson!!! hope you have a great day - wish we could be there to help you celebrate!
not a lot happening here so i'll be brief. am still sore from Wednesday night, but have kept pushing on. have been doing some gardening for friends this week - they're a lovely older couple that just can't physically do it themselves - so we're working on it for them - it's not toooo hard physically - though the stuff we had to do yesterday had me swining on a shovel moving damp gravel - heavy so feeling a healthy fatigue in my muscles. DH is getting some beer out of this, so it helps out a bit. we started pulling down a hedge today - two plants out and the back of the ute was full, so we called it quits (is raining too!). F (who we are doing this for) HATES that he can't do this stuff anymore and feels bad when i get in and help C. he is 76 and believes in men doing the hard labour and women the lighter work - so it's really hard on him - thing is, i LOVE destroying and rebuilding gardens like this - i can see the impact as the work comes together so it's worth the effort... E is loving the outside time too - she tries to help but just gets in the way! today we left her inside with Aunty G - so she stood at the window supervising the whole time lol
ahhh, must get food now - starving but NOTHING is appealing at all
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Happy Birthday Kyson xoxoxoxox
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Happy Birthday Kyson!! Cara wishes she could have been there with you to celebrate!!! Hope you got spoilt rotten and had a ball!!
I just went to Big W this afternoon and was there at the right time. They were selling all the summer tops for $1 each..woohoooo I grabbed a bundle..mostly for the girls.
BG: Sorry to hear you're still not feeling the best. But that's so kind of you to help out your elderly friends. :)
I might be getting some photos of Cara and Laura done later this week by a facebook friend of a friend. Bit of a mini photo shoot (for free). I think she wants to stick angel wings on Cara and put a frilly tutu type red skirt on Laura. Laura has been scratching at her face lately....so I am waiting for it to heal. She's just one of those kids that HAS to scratch at the slightest thing..very annoying. Band aids help sometimes...and then I take them off..and she might even scratch AGAIN!
You are all very quiet...enjoy the weekend everyone! :)
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Just a quickie from me
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYSON!!!
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Happy Birthday KYSON!!!!!! I hope you have all had a fantastic day!!!!
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Thank you all for such lovely birthday wishes for Kyson. He had a really wonderful day. I couldn't have asked for the party to go any better (although a slightly bigger house may have been nice, hehe). In the end there were 43 people (plus, me, DH, Kyson and the 2 DSS's) and 17 of them were babies/kiddies. It was great though. Kyson was spoilt rotten, and has got lots of marvelous presents that he has been checking out all afternoon. I wish you could have ALL been there, but big thankyou's to Cerys, Logan, Andy and families for coming. Bridg I still can't believe you drove 2 1/2 hours to get here! It was absolutely awesome to meet you and Logan though!
In other news, I have my egg collection on Tuesday. I'm actually sitting up still because I have to have my trigger shot at 1.30am, so I'm just waiting until then seeings as I'm still up at the moment. I'm sure that we are going to get more eggs this time because I'm feeling much more swollen and tender this time. Filling up with nice, ripe eggies! Apparently they are doing ICSI this time instead (didn't cost any extra...), so even though our fertilisation rate last time was pretty good (70%), hopefully this time it will be even better. And I'm sure we'll get better pgd results this time too.
Also, DH's cousin is still working some miracles. She continues to improve. She's still in pretty serious condition and still in ICU. But she is now off dialysis, has been extubated, is on lower med doses and is even communicating with people. Her brain has been effected to some degree, but they can't tell what yet. She's fairly un-coordinated, but that may improve with time. She's asking sensible questions about her son, about family and about her health, so that's a really good sign. We don't know how she's working these miracles when last week the docs thought she had little chance, but I think from now on SHE can buy my lotto tickets!
Kat - How did Ivy's party go? I hope she had an absolutely wonderful day! I hope her teeth didn't bother her too much. Poor thing getting four at once. That's just not fair! How sad that her mouth is so sore that she actually bit and cut her hand. I guess that shows us how much these teeth cutting through really hurts.
Don't feel bad about getting sad. I had two cries on Kyson's birthday. One at 2am when I was in bed feeding him. I sat there crying telling him that even though it's his birthday, that he wasn't actually one yet because he was born at 9.40am. I was in a bit of denial that he was turning one. Then I cried reading all the messages on facebook too, lol. You had a tough time when Ivy was first born, and you are allowed to grieve over for the separation that you had from her, and for all that happened. But then you can look at your amazing little girl and feel happieness knowing what a perfect and strong little girl you have :hug:
Nay - Babyhood ending at 2? I like it!!!
Bailey's party photos are wonderful. Did he even try to smash the cake at all? I was going to give Kyson a cupcake to demolish, but by the time I got around to it they had been devoured by the guests, lol! I'm so glad people liked them. I thought about a pinata, but the kids we had were generally all around Kyson's age. No whacking with sticks for these bubs!
TM - I'm really sorry to hear about what happened with you PND. It must have been a really tough time for you. Then to have a break-up too, well gee, you've not had an easy run of it lately have you hun? Hopefully things will only improve from here! I wish you all the luck with your studies. Hopefully Jade will start sleeping nicely for you so you can study at night time.
BG - Sorry to hear that you are still sore. Hopefully it will all feel better tomorrow. How lovely that you are helping out some friends with their gardening. I wish I enjoyed getting into the garden more. I should re-do my vegie garden soon...
Cathy - Awesome sale at BigW! Wish I could have gotten some deals like that! Although, I think it's long sleeve tops that I need to stock up on. Kyson got a best n Less vouchers for his birthday, so I might have to go on a shopping trip for him. I hope that the photoshoot goes ahead. It sounds really cute!
Well, exhaustion has hit so I think I should stop here for tonight. Take care all!!!
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Hi girls,
Our thread has been really quiet! I hope you are all well.
Kyson is doing great. He's learnt to say "Ta" when he wants something and it's so cute. He also walks around clapping his hands now too. I'm amazed at how much he understands. When I say "come on" he follows me, when I ask him to "get mummy a balloon" he goes off in search of a balloon and brings it back to me, when we tell him "let's go for a drive" he heads straight for the door. He's just amazing! He's loving all his new toys, although there is a toy he's a bit scared of, lol. It's Chuck the Truck and when it comes driving towards him he backs away. I'm sure he'll like it soon though.
I had my egg collection on Tuesday and things went well. I was getting mighty sore before the procedure so was looking forward to having them out, but I've been in lots of pain since the procedure. Enough that my Mum took a day off yesterday to be home with me, and DH is home today (although, that's also because the 10 year old DSS is home sick too). I got 21 eggs which I was really happy with because we were aiming for 20. But I was rather upset when I got a call from my nurse yesterday and she told me only 11 fertilised :( I really thought there would be more. Tomorrow we find out how many have grown strong enough to be biopsied, and then we'll get the results wither later in the afternoon, or saturday morning. All going well (which I have to tell myself it will!) we'll have an embryo transferred on Mother's Day. Surely everything has to go well because it seems like fate, because we found out we were pregnant with Kyson on Father's Day, so having embryo transfer on Mother's Day seems perfect. Fingers crossed! Feb 25th sounds like a great day to have a baby! (Yes I've already worked out an EDD....).
Squish your babies for me!!! xoxox
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Sorry I have been out of it. We've been sick again and Phoebe and I are still sick, this time with colds. The last 2 nights have been better (I've gone to bed by 8:30 JIC!) but prior to that she was waking every 2 hours for several nights cause she just couldn't breathe. Even with the vaporiser going and me attempting to use the nasal spray (boy, that was difficult!). I think things are finally calming down and I feel able to post a decent one on here - it was just a bit too overwhelming this last week ;)
KL: Yay, I'm so pleased Kyson had such a great birthday :)
That is awesome about your cousin! A miracle. I hope she continues to recover rapidly and has no lasting effects from her illness. I feel such relief for her husband and little boy.
And so glad the EC went well on Tues. And the thought of having a little emby transferred on Mothers day is wonderful! 25th Feb is my BIL's birthday. Good thing next year isn't a leap year - I had a friend born on 29th Feb and we used to tease him mercilessly in school because he was only 4 etc. Tee hee.
Sounds like Kyson is getting so grown up!
Cathy: Woohoo @ the BigW bargains! I love a bargain. I usually find some at my local KMart but I didn't get there early enough this year - the summer stuff is long gone. It's a bummer because I really need more clothes for Natty now - we're out of hand-me-downs :(
Have you had the photo shoot yet?
LOL @ the babies being 'in love' with the boob. Sometimes Phoebe comes off after a feed and just stares at it... I wonder if she's going to latch back on so I just sit and wait. She will sometimes just look at it for ages, LOL!
BG: Hope you are feeling better?
Vic: So sorry I haven't sent a pic of Phoebs. DH has been too hard to nail down and with P and I being sick and getting no sleep I just haven't managed it yet. If I am holding up production just go on without us. What's your email address BTW?
Still haven't managed to get to the nurse with Phoebs :rolleyes: I'll probably just wait until after her birthday now.
We have had the crappest time with our car lately. Feels like every pay check I get goes towards that stupid car. But we're off on a driving holiday early next month so we want it to be reliable. I am not looking forward to this holiday! I think I am the only person on the planet who'd rather stay at home than go on holidays, LOL.
A week after we get back the lady I jobshare with is going overseas for 5 weeks and I will be pretty much fulltime for that period (with maybe a couple of days off here and there - all a bit up in the air atm). I am not looking forward to it (it is winter - the kids will definitely get sick at some point. Agh!) but the money will definitely come in handy - hopefully we can get ahead a bit rather than just catching up.
Hope everyone else is well and those babies are all keeping you busy but happy. xx
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Quick update as I run out the door. 10 of our 11 embies have grown big and strong enough to be biopsied today. Hopefully I'll get results later this afternoon. I was reading some sites on the net last night and for someone that is 30 the risk of an embie having any chromosomal abnormality is only 1 in 385. How on earth did we get 5 out of 5 with problems last time?! Fingers crossed that this means all our embies will be nice and healthy this time!
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yay for good number of embies to test! will post again soon - just about to feed E then hopefully c will be home and we can go shopping!
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:crossfingers: for you, K. Let us know how you get on. xx
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Well, we still didn't get the best news. Of the 10 embies tested, one is healthy at this stage for transfer. Please please please let it keep growing healthy over the next couple of days and then want to make a home in my tummy.
Seven of the embies all had chromosome problems. The other two had cells removed and had no nucleus. They were able to only take one cell from one, but the other they could take two cells from, and both had no nuclei. She said that was rather strange. What was even stranger, was that one of the other embies had a cell removed and had no nucleus too. They were able to take a second cell from that one, but there were major abnormalities (two X's, two Y's, triples of some chromosomes, four copies of others...). I don't know why we are getting so unlucky with these precious embies :( She said that they generally see a rate of about 50% of embies with abnormalities, so I'm guessing that the 1 in 385 statistic that I read about is problems found at birth or maybe amnio's... She said when they are looking at embies that are so young the rate is much higher.
I just want my healthy baby!!!
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Oh hun sending you the bigest cyber :hug:
Stay positive it truly does sux BUT all you need is one as they say and I :pray: that this little one is a fighter.
Although we did not have any testing done prior to transfer I understand the stress of only having one. Both my cycles even with all the eggs we only ever got to transfer one and had no back up.....but here we are with Aaron...so it proves that one is all you need one.
Sending your little embie all the growing vibes in the world!!
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Agreed with Nic - Krystie we only had one 'good' embryo, we used to call him Rocky remember? Cos he was a fighter! These days we call him Bailey ................ tehehehee
It only takes one!!
Will post properly later, busy busy as are we all!
Nay
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Evening girls! How are you all? Looking forward to your first Mother's Day (newbie Mums)? It will be a quiet one for me..maybe I'll go shopping and buy myself a new doona.....you do NOT want to know how many years I've been sleeping under the same duck down feathers.ewww. I will have to ask Yassie to get Cara to hand make me a little card with her handprints or something. :)
Krystie: All the best with the embie..I am sure she'll be the fighter that you need! Like Nay and Nic say, Bailey & Aaron were their only ones. :)
Haven't done the photo shoot. Mostly because Laura keeps picking at her face. It's just really getting me down...this has been going on about a month..started with one chin scratch (from falling over outside), and then 2 or so more..and keeps going... She constantly picks at any little scratch on her face and I put a band aid on, and it will come off, or she'll scratch as soon as it's almost healed again.. I don't know why she is doing it. :( If anyone has ideas..please feel free to express them. And no, I don't think wearing mittens or having her nails cut short has helped at all.
AMY: LOL@Phoebe staring at the boob. They are so cute when they do that. It is their first love (besides us) I guess hehe
Cara has taken to bitting me a lot during a feed....I try to tell her again and again not to use teeth....but I wonder if she really gets it.. I have teeth marks in my nipples after she goes to sleep feeding.. ALl the kids did it though... Geez us Mums are tough!
I am getting a photo book done sometime, and I might get one of those mugs done (that you get free with this weeks WOman's Day). I sent away for some persoalised playing cards yesterday too (from usa company)..you can add 57 different designs (photos) to the cards..it's something for my Mum and me. Hope they turn out ok. Love that you can buy anything from anywhere in the worl cause of the web. Snapfish and some others only seem to use ONE photo for a pack of playing cards..that's a bit boring I think. I like how I can choose princessy photos of Cara for the Queen of Hearts card for example hehe
I took some pics of Cara as Snow White..I'm so happy with them!! I would love to buy an even better camera than I have.....I keep seeing ones with more mega pixels coming out hehe..I have 10..I want 14!! LOL
Cara is just this week starting to use her walker (you know..that Hello Puppy Vtech one Nay?). Took her to a friends house and she was using the walker there too. SHe stood up today on my bed and let go a few times too...testing out her balance. :)
She saw some kids on tv having a bath tonight and she pointed and said "Bah!" (for bath) ...so cute. It was actually that Tori Spelling show..>Tori and Dean in HOllywood...and it was her kids hehe
Ciao ladies....have a great day Sunday!
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Hi girls, this is just because they are going to shut us down on here for awhile I think tonight.
Krystie- Hope it all goes well for your transfer tomorrow? Will they do it on a Sunday? I agree with the girls about only needing one. And considering that you are so fertile then i guess you would have only transferred one in anyway? Or would they let you put in two? Anyway fingers and toes crossed that you get a BFP very soon.
Amy- Honey so sorry to hear that you are sick again. You must be knackered!
We are well. Jemima has her 8th tooth and she seems to be settling down again and being alot more happy. She has had a tough couple of months with 6 teeth coming thru since feb. I won't stay. I will see if I can come on and post again tonight. but I have to keep cooking tea
Love Bella
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Krystie - hope all went well today
Amy - hope your Mothers Day was sickness free
Happy Mothers Day everyone, I am off to look up slow cooker recipes ......... now that I have one - VERY exciting! Thought it would be a few more pays till I bought one, but my Mummy turned the tables on me and bought me one! YAY for lovely Mums!
Will post properly soon
Nay
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