One of the things i have been asked most this pregnancy is whether i have had any weird cravings - and my answer is that though i tend not to go for crunchy food, i am loving a few things that i would normally not go for because they are crunchy foods. I have never been that partial to apples or snow peas or any kind of crunchy biscuit for the simple reason that i don[t really like crunchy food! But i am loving them at the moment!
Fooled you, this is not a post about crunchy food, that would be a little bit daft!!! But i wouldn't put it past me to ramble on for a couple of pages about eating crunchy foods come to think of it
No - it is nearly time for us to meet our little Bean. The lease on her current place of residence is coming up and eviction date has been set!
Due date as far the hospital is currently concerned is 15th December. Last week there was a bit of a question marked raised about the due date by the obstetrician i saw. I have seen this obstetrician only once before and i remember him being rather strange to talk to and a little bit crazy! Last time we saw him (and M34tb4LL was there and can vouch for the weirdness of this guy) he insisted on going through the process of a certain optional blood test that can be done at the same time as the 12 week scan. He spent a good ten minutes going through the reason for having the blood test while looking at his hand and listing every set on his fingers. He did not look at us at all throughout this entire conversation! It was not till i managed interrupt him and tell him that i had already had the blood test done that he stopped going on about why we would or would not want to have the test done.
Anyway, back to last weeks visit. I was being seen by the same crazy obstetrician - same 18 weeks later than the first time i had seen him - i had been waiting for three hours for my appointment, i was told they were running a little bit behind... The obs came into the waiting area wearing a very fetching blue paper top and pants outfit with matching blue paper shoe covers. He called my name and apologised for wait, he explained that not only was he the only obs seeing clinic patients at the time - but he was also on call for the delivery suites. He then told me that if i was unhappy about waiting so long i should write a letter! and he was serious, he said that he could say something about the inconvenience his patients are put through but no-one would listen to him. Where i was sitting from i had already waited three hours, I could not be bothered then spending more time writing a letter about it. However i am happy to ramble on in a blog post that will not be rad by anyone but i WON'T write a letter - yer i don't see the logic in it come to think of it.
OK, once again i have to get back to the hospital visit. One of the first things the obs did was question the babies due date. You see based on what we worked out the due date should have been we got 18th December, but the hospital worked out the due date was 20th December, then the first ultrasound gave a due date (based on the babies size) as 15th December. The date in the hospital computer system was changed to the 15th based on the ultrasound results. Well the crazy obs questioned the fact that date was changed because the scan date was within a week of the estimated date and if it less than 7 days the estimated date shouldn't need to be revised. He then went on to say that because my blood sugars and blood pressure are well in control the hospital would not see any need to intervene in me going naturally into labour for 10 days to 2 weeks past the due date. He then asked me is i wanted to have a New Years Eve baby??? It was at this point that i started to cry at the thought of waiting that long (yes, i literally started to cry) and he went to take my blood pressure. My BP was up on what it had been every visit up till this point - little wonder why!!!
And this was the point that he told me that i had to get "fetal monitoring" done, to get a half hour trace on the baby's heart beat and a couple of BP reads over the same time frame. I asked why could that not have been done already in the three hours that i had been waiting - and he started talking about writing a letter again...
As i was leaving i asked if he was going to change the baby's due date considering he did not agree with the fact that it had been changed from 20th to the 15th, he said he would leave it as the 15th at this stage. At this stage??? At 38 weeks pregnant "at this stage" there is not really much time to go!!!
I had to then go back to the hospital on Friday to have monitoring done, and got the all clear - better than all clear. Baby's heart rate was strong and there was plenty of good movements from her. And my blood pressure reads were all nicely within the "normal" range. And i was in and out of the hospital in just over half an hour!
So now i come to the appointment this week. I only had to wait about 15 minutes to have my name called and see an obs - she was petite Asian woman who looked me direct in the eyes and gave me a big warm smile. We spoke about my concerns that i may end up going over my due date - and she did not question the due date as being anything other than 15th December - and she agreed that, in her opinion it would not be advisable for me to go too far over. She then did a bit of an examination (I will NOT go into details) and found that i have already very slightly progressed already. She decided that seeing my body was already starting to prepare for birth, and having gestational diabetes and the fact i have suffered a fair degree of stress through pregnancy she did not think i should have to wait past my due. She felt that i was ready to have this baby and that the baby is more than healthy enough and willing enough to be born!
This was the best news i had heard in weeks! especially after the last few weeks of hospital visits where i have felt that i have been left in limbo a bit. Things that have been said to me like "your blood sugar if fine for now, but we will have to check how you are going next week", "your baby's growth seems a bit erratic week to week, how about another ultrasound just to make sure she is ok" (I have had four ultrasounds in last six weeks), "things seem to be going alright at the moment, we don't know why you are stressing so much" - i am stressing because i feel like some medical people have been watching me waiting for something to go wrong, waiting for the blood sugar or the blood pressure to go out of control. Waiting for an ultrasound result to come back not in the normal range! I sometimes wonder if medical science of able to keep too much of a close eye on thing.
But once again i seem to have gone off the topic here - my hospital visit this week... The obs took my blood pressure - it was high - and then went to get a book that had the dates of woman who have been booked in to be induced. She confirmed my due date again as being the 15th of December and went to that page in the book. There were not currently any appointments on that day and she asked me if this was date was alright ot be booked in. I was both shocked and in a state of joy! I did not even have to worry about getting to my due date and then waiting a couple of days to be induced! If our little Bean does not come in the next few days I am going to be induced on the due date!!! No waiting, no wondering, no stressing!!!
So at the moment it is 10.30pm 12th December 2009 - and this baby is going to be given a nudge towards being born as of 7.00am 15th December 2009 if she does not make moves towards making her entrance into the greater world before that! Not long to go now! Only a matter of days at the most!!!
We could not be more ready for this baby to born, and the funny thing is - now that we have a more firm time frame - i feel quite panicked about the things i still have to do!!!
:) Reggie
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
The end is nigh...
Today is about the 3 1/2 weeks to go point in this pregnancy, and to be honest I am very keen for the next 3 1/2 weeks to go as fast of possible. Of course i am nervous because Peanut went two weeks over and i am dreading that Bean will follow in her big brothers footsteps. But i have also been thinking a fair bit lately about my own mothers experience with her second pregnancy (that would be her pregnancy with me), i was born a premmie, and if i was mother pregnant with me - i would have a 2 1/2 week old baby by now... does that make sense?
I was born six weeks prem and this pregnancy has only five weeks to go. I wouldn't mind going a little early - a week or maybe two at the most. I have been told that a once a gestation gets to 37 weeks the baby can be considered full term. So if Bean comes a week or two before the 40 week mark that would be alright, there would not be any big reason for concern. Well no more reason for concern than the normal.
I have been getting weekly update emails from a pregnancy site that gives little bits of info about the approximate size and weight of the baby, things that i might be experiencing and tips and hints about to what to expect in the weeks to come. It would have been close to 10 weeks ago that i got an email from this site telling me that a baby born at that point had a good chance at surviving. A baby that had even made it to the third trimester!
I am amazed at what modern medicine can do, what it can achieved. But it is also a rather scary thought. I must say that i do not say that because i don't think that a baby born that much prem should not be saved - very much the opposite! I am just amazed how much hope there is for such a prem baby. And i think about what my mother must have gone through having a baby 6 weeks prem, 6 weeks prem. I mean 37 years modern medicine was not as modern as it is now! And six weeks prem today is not at all as scary a thought as it was when i was born.
But with only 3 1/2 weeks to go - only half a week till the "term" mile stone, i don't have to worry at all the prospect of having a prem baby, not that i thought i would have to worry. If i was worries would i have stayed at up until yesterday? nope. But at of yesterday I'm no longer working and once i get a few things done I can completely focus on having this baby.
So am i ready to have this baby? Not really! But that does not mean that i don't want her to come - and that i am not completely over being pregnant!!! I just mean that will i ever be ready? was my mother ready to have me 6 weeks early? Was i ready for Peanut 2 weeks late? no!
But in saving that i am not ready, i hope she gets here sooner rather later. I don't think i could cope with the idea of going through a couple of weeks with another womb camper. Plus... she is due so close to Christmas as it is - who wants to be spending Christmas day in a hospital? However i suppose their are worse people that Bean could share a birthday with.
(: Reggie
I was born six weeks prem and this pregnancy has only five weeks to go. I wouldn't mind going a little early - a week or maybe two at the most. I have been told that a once a gestation gets to 37 weeks the baby can be considered full term. So if Bean comes a week or two before the 40 week mark that would be alright, there would not be any big reason for concern. Well no more reason for concern than the normal.
I have been getting weekly update emails from a pregnancy site that gives little bits of info about the approximate size and weight of the baby, things that i might be experiencing and tips and hints about to what to expect in the weeks to come. It would have been close to 10 weeks ago that i got an email from this site telling me that a baby born at that point had a good chance at surviving. A baby that had even made it to the third trimester!
I am amazed at what modern medicine can do, what it can achieved. But it is also a rather scary thought. I must say that i do not say that because i don't think that a baby born that much prem should not be saved - very much the opposite! I am just amazed how much hope there is for such a prem baby. And i think about what my mother must have gone through having a baby 6 weeks prem, 6 weeks prem. I mean 37 years modern medicine was not as modern as it is now! And six weeks prem today is not at all as scary a thought as it was when i was born.
But with only 3 1/2 weeks to go - only half a week till the "term" mile stone, i don't have to worry at all the prospect of having a prem baby, not that i thought i would have to worry. If i was worries would i have stayed at up until yesterday? nope. But at of yesterday I'm no longer working and once i get a few things done I can completely focus on having this baby.
So am i ready to have this baby? Not really! But that does not mean that i don't want her to come - and that i am not completely over being pregnant!!! I just mean that will i ever be ready? was my mother ready to have me 6 weeks early? Was i ready for Peanut 2 weeks late? no!
But in saving that i am not ready, i hope she gets here sooner rather later. I don't think i could cope with the idea of going through a couple of weeks with another womb camper. Plus... she is due so close to Christmas as it is - who wants to be spending Christmas day in a hospital? However i suppose their are worse people that Bean could share a birthday with.
(: Reggie
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Quit your whinging!!!
Am i remembering pregnancy through a pair of rose coloured glasses? Was the morning sickness i had with Bean worse than i had with Peanut? I don't remember all the finer details of what it was like when i carrying Peanut, and i seem to be under the impression that I am having a harder time of it this time around - but i could be wrong - time has a was of making you forget what it was really like, that is why people can go back and have more kids i suppose!
But rather than focus on the negatives there are many positives that can be focused on... and i don't just mean the the wonderful little prize that we will be getting at the end of the pregnancy! But that one is going to be very special.
I am talking about the little positives, the small things that i have notices that bring on a smile. The little things that people notice and comment on that give me a bit of warm fuzzy feeling.
A lot of people, both at work and socially have been saying how well i look. And they have not been using the cliche comment that i am "glowing" - kind of glad about that one, because if i was told i was glowing the sarcastic side of me would instantly kick in with some smart-arse comment about being sweaty from just having to throw up or something (whether it was true or not).
I have also noticed that my skin is a lot softer than normal - and M34tb4LL and Peanut have noticed it as well. A few days ago Peanut was lying between us in our bed watching a bit of Saturday morning tellie. At one point Peanut rolled over and while gently stroking my cheek told me how soft my skin felt. My skin has also been very clear, I have not the normal few little pimples that seem to have not realised that i am no longer a teenager (and have been for a quite a while now).
My hair is doing the same thing that it did while i was pregnant with Peanut - or should i say it is not doing the same thing that it did not last time (wait.. what?). My hair not falling much at all, normally ever time i run my finger through my hair i then have to untangle the wade of hair that had knotted itself around them. But now when i do it there is at the most a single strand of hair that follows my fingers rather than staying put. Although i am not confident that the same thing that happened after Peanut was born will not happen this time (again... what?). Like last time, i am sure that after Bean is born my hair will not only start to fall out again - but will try and make up for time lost! And the poor vacuum cleaner!!! Won't someone think of the poor vacuum clearer!!!
I think my hair is also growing a bit faster at the moment, i feel like i am having to cut my fringe more often at the moment, although i can't see anything at the moment as it is over my eyes AGAIN!
And now to just share a few other random observation - it intrigues me the difference in movements that i am feeling between Peanut and Bean. I remember the first time i felt Peanut move, i was in a meeting with my manager at the time and the expression on face made her jump a bit. After i told her why i had pulled such a strange face she called the meeting short, she didn't see much more being achieved at that time and left me to call M34b4LL and tell him. I was around the 28 - 29 weeks pregnant at the time, and was a little bit concerned about not feeling movements at that stage because I was being told left right and centre that i should have felt him by that stage.
I remember the movements i would feel with Peanut were quite fluttery and he I would feel them for a while, he would move around for some time and the movements could last for at least ten minutes at a time - if not an hour!
With Bean i felt movements a lot earlier. And i am told that you do feel movements with your second before you did with your first because you have more of idea what it feels like - but trust me, with the movements i have been getting with Bean, if i had have felt the same with Peanut i SOOOO would have to have had some pretty severe gastric problem to mistake then for anything else than baby movements!
And the movements with Bean have not the gentle, fluttery, fluid movements like with Peanut. Movements that will last for a while. They have been quite jerky, random and a even a little bit rough! The kind of thing that you would call a baby kick not just baby trying to find a comfy position. And i may be get a single kick - a few kicks, but nothing that lasts longer than a couple of seconds at the most. Of course this means that every time i say to M34tb4LL "She's moving, quick feel!" he will place his hand on my tummy and there will be nothing for ages, not till he gives up that is, then she will sink one of two more kicks into me...
Today is two months to the day to Beans due date, and though i am not quite ready (and i doubt she is ready either) for her to come - I just hope the time from here goes really fast!!!
:) Reggie
But rather than focus on the negatives there are many positives that can be focused on... and i don't just mean the the wonderful little prize that we will be getting at the end of the pregnancy! But that one is going to be very special.
I am talking about the little positives, the small things that i have notices that bring on a smile. The little things that people notice and comment on that give me a bit of warm fuzzy feeling.
A lot of people, both at work and socially have been saying how well i look. And they have not been using the cliche comment that i am "glowing" - kind of glad about that one, because if i was told i was glowing the sarcastic side of me would instantly kick in with some smart-arse comment about being sweaty from just having to throw up or something (whether it was true or not).
I have also noticed that my skin is a lot softer than normal - and M34tb4LL and Peanut have noticed it as well. A few days ago Peanut was lying between us in our bed watching a bit of Saturday morning tellie. At one point Peanut rolled over and while gently stroking my cheek told me how soft my skin felt. My skin has also been very clear, I have not the normal few little pimples that seem to have not realised that i am no longer a teenager (and have been for a quite a while now).
My hair is doing the same thing that it did while i was pregnant with Peanut - or should i say it is not doing the same thing that it did not last time (wait.. what?). My hair not falling much at all, normally ever time i run my finger through my hair i then have to untangle the wade of hair that had knotted itself around them. But now when i do it there is at the most a single strand of hair that follows my fingers rather than staying put. Although i am not confident that the same thing that happened after Peanut was born will not happen this time (again... what?). Like last time, i am sure that after Bean is born my hair will not only start to fall out again - but will try and make up for time lost! And the poor vacuum cleaner!!! Won't someone think of the poor vacuum clearer!!!
I think my hair is also growing a bit faster at the moment, i feel like i am having to cut my fringe more often at the moment, although i can't see anything at the moment as it is over my eyes AGAIN!
And now to just share a few other random observation - it intrigues me the difference in movements that i am feeling between Peanut and Bean. I remember the first time i felt Peanut move, i was in a meeting with my manager at the time and the expression on face made her jump a bit. After i told her why i had pulled such a strange face she called the meeting short, she didn't see much more being achieved at that time and left me to call M34b4LL and tell him. I was around the 28 - 29 weeks pregnant at the time, and was a little bit concerned about not feeling movements at that stage because I was being told left right and centre that i should have felt him by that stage.
I remember the movements i would feel with Peanut were quite fluttery and he I would feel them for a while, he would move around for some time and the movements could last for at least ten minutes at a time - if not an hour!
With Bean i felt movements a lot earlier. And i am told that you do feel movements with your second before you did with your first because you have more of idea what it feels like - but trust me, with the movements i have been getting with Bean, if i had have felt the same with Peanut i SOOOO would have to have had some pretty severe gastric problem to mistake then for anything else than baby movements!
And the movements with Bean have not the gentle, fluttery, fluid movements like with Peanut. Movements that will last for a while. They have been quite jerky, random and a even a little bit rough! The kind of thing that you would call a baby kick not just baby trying to find a comfy position. And i may be get a single kick - a few kicks, but nothing that lasts longer than a couple of seconds at the most. Of course this means that every time i say to M34tb4LL "She's moving, quick feel!" he will place his hand on my tummy and there will be nothing for ages, not till he gives up that is, then she will sink one of two more kicks into me...
Today is two months to the day to Beans due date, and though i am not quite ready (and i doubt she is ready either) for her to come - I just hope the time from here goes really fast!!!
:) Reggie
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
"What's in name?...
... That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
I realised i have not blogged much during this pregnancy, and i feel that the reason for this is quite multi-layered. However the two many reason that i blame for not sharing my thoughts are this -
I realised i have not blogged much during this pregnancy, and i feel that the reason for this is quite multi-layered. However the two many reason that i blame for not sharing my thoughts are this -
- Time (never seem to have it, or it may be energy that i am lacking, not sure)
- Reality (though in my right thinking mind i know what being pregnant is all about and what one hopes the end result will be, I have found that this time around there have been so many preoccupying thought going on, and so many medical type people overloading me with their opinions and scrutinising everything that is going on that i am focusing so much on getting through the next few months i am finding it hard to remember the greater goal - finding it hard to see the little baby that will be the end result. Does that make sense?)
But anyway, back to today's topic - NAMES
When we were pregnant with Peanut i remember getting a little freaked out at the idea of choosing a name for him. I had thoughts of "What if he doesn't like the name we pick! He will be answering to this name - every single day - for the rest of his life!". Of course i got over myself and within two days of Peanut being born we had given him a name, which he now answers to...
One was for sure though, M34tb4LL and i did not want to commit to a single name for Peanut, or tell people what his name was going to be before he was born. We both felt that we wanted to meet him first, see what he looked like and if any of the names we had picked out suited him. Lucky for us we felt that the name that was right up with top favourite names was perfect for him!
But now i am back here again. Back with the pile of baby name books trying to get a short list of names to pick one from when the time comes (that is, when Bean comes).
I was listening to a podcast the other day that was talking about baby names and how names can go in and out of fashion. It was very interesting, talking about how people might want to give there child an unusual or uncommon name and without knowing it may end up choosing a name that everyone else thinks the same way of - and end up making the name more popular that ever.
One thing that the woman who was running conversation said was that there is a bit of rule of thumb when it comes to putting together a list of name. She said that is the expectant mothers task to put the list together and the expectant fathers job to knock names off the list.
This might be a bit of harsh way of saying it, but it is kind of right... Sorry M34tb4LL. I have put together a list of names that i personally liked and when i shared them with M34tb4LL all but a hand full of names where removed from the list for one reason or another - most of the time for very valid reasons, things that i had not even thought of. Like a name that was very similar to Peanut's name, or the name that sounded too much a fictional cartoon caricature, of the name that was very similar to a villain on a recent TV show (to be honest, that is kind of why i likes that name so much...).
When playing the naming game, it is a good thing that Bean is a girl though. Having used our favourite boy's name with Peanut, if Bean was a boy - he would have been stuck a name that we thought was second best!!!
(: Reggie
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Gender Defined
We had our 19 week scan yesterday and we know the gender of our little Bean!!!
But before I give the most important piece of information am going to tell the story of getting to the scan...
I have already mentioned that we have had our 19 week, but I am 21 weeks pregnant! The reason for the initial delay for the scan is that we had planned to get it done at the hospital that we are booked into for Bean's birth. Being a public hospital, I assume that there is a degree of demand on their services and the first appointment they gave us was at 7.30 in the morning and the likely hood of getting to that time AND being able to organise kid wrangling for Peanut were little to none. When I called to change the appointment time (from 7.30) the next time they had available was nearly 2 weeks later!
Anyway, our scan was scheduled for yesterday at 9.00 in the morning and I had organised the day around this time. I had cancelled Peanuts swimming lesson for the morning and had gone to a make-up lesson the day before. And I had organised for my parents to meet us at the hospital to take Peanut for walk while we were getting the scan done.
So yesterday morning came and i started to get ready, watching the clock to make sure that I was completely ready to leave the house at 8.00. At 7.55 I was with Peanut, putting his shoes on when the phone rang. I assumed it was my parents calling to reassure me that they were on their way but the caller ID said it was a private number - my parents do not have a private number... It was the hospital.
The hospital called me - minutes before i was about to leave the house - to say that the person due to do my scan had called in sick and was not coming in, and that they would have to cancel my appointment. They then said that they would call back later to look at rescheduling the appointment but that it would not be happening today. WHEN? When were they going to call back? In half an hour? later in the day? next week? WHEN??? They did not know when they would be able to get back to me.
I called my parents and told them that the scan was not happening, and being the lovely people they are they said that they would come to our house anyway so we could still have spend some time together and they can still have some quality time with their grandson. I then spent some time having a quality cry and looked up the phone number for the place that we had gotten both of Peanut's scans and the first scan for Bean done.
The place we went to for previous scans were able to give us an appointment on Friday or in a couple of Saturdays but I didn't take the time they were offering. I then wen through the list of other locations that the scanning place had and picked one that was close by. They were not able to give me an appointment for a couple of weeks either but they were able to get me an appointment at a third place - still not far from home AND for the afternoon! All I had to do was get a referral from my GP and I was set to go!!!
M34tb4LL had told his work colleagues that he was going to be in late yesterday, seeing as he was going to the scan as well, but he left to go to work at normal time so that he could leave early to come to our new appointment time.
When my parents got to the house I told them about the new appointment time and luckily it fitted into their plans for the day to help out and hang around till the afternoon appointment - fulfilling their role as kid wranglers.
The funniest thing - well I can laugh about it now at least - about half an hour after the parents got our house the hospital rang to say that they were calling to rebook our appointment and that they can see us in three weeks from Saturday. Remembering here that the scan is already two weeks overdue...
The rest of the day went nice and smoothly, we went for a nice relaxing drive in the hills - had some lunch - admired the view - and got back in time to go to the doctors to get my referral. We then went home where M34tb4LL was waiting for us, we left Peanut with the parentals, drove to Mitcham and where there with a few minutes to spare to find where we had to go.
So after a stressful morning and then a de-stressing day it was so fantastic to see our little Bean. The ultra-sound person checked all the necessary measurements that had to be checked. She looked at Beans face, heart, kidneys and I'm glad that she knew what she was looking at.
And the results of the ultra sound were all good! Everything the scanning person check seemed to look good - which was a great relief to us. We told the scanning person that we were very keen to discover the gender of our baby and she was happy to oblige.
Now after the story of how we got there, here is the long awaited answer to the gender question -
Bean is a girl! We are going to be having a little girl!!! Tickle me pink, we will have a daughter!!!!!!
(: Reggie
But before I give the most important piece of information am going to tell the story of getting to the scan...
I have already mentioned that we have had our 19 week, but I am 21 weeks pregnant! The reason for the initial delay for the scan is that we had planned to get it done at the hospital that we are booked into for Bean's birth. Being a public hospital, I assume that there is a degree of demand on their services and the first appointment they gave us was at 7.30 in the morning and the likely hood of getting to that time AND being able to organise kid wrangling for Peanut were little to none. When I called to change the appointment time (from 7.30) the next time they had available was nearly 2 weeks later!
Anyway, our scan was scheduled for yesterday at 9.00 in the morning and I had organised the day around this time. I had cancelled Peanuts swimming lesson for the morning and had gone to a make-up lesson the day before. And I had organised for my parents to meet us at the hospital to take Peanut for walk while we were getting the scan done.
So yesterday morning came and i started to get ready, watching the clock to make sure that I was completely ready to leave the house at 8.00. At 7.55 I was with Peanut, putting his shoes on when the phone rang. I assumed it was my parents calling to reassure me that they were on their way but the caller ID said it was a private number - my parents do not have a private number... It was the hospital.
The hospital called me - minutes before i was about to leave the house - to say that the person due to do my scan had called in sick and was not coming in, and that they would have to cancel my appointment. They then said that they would call back later to look at rescheduling the appointment but that it would not be happening today. WHEN? When were they going to call back? In half an hour? later in the day? next week? WHEN??? They did not know when they would be able to get back to me.
I called my parents and told them that the scan was not happening, and being the lovely people they are they said that they would come to our house anyway so we could still have spend some time together and they can still have some quality time with their grandson. I then spent some time having a quality cry and looked up the phone number for the place that we had gotten both of Peanut's scans and the first scan for Bean done.
The place we went to for previous scans were able to give us an appointment on Friday or in a couple of Saturdays but I didn't take the time they were offering. I then wen through the list of other locations that the scanning place had and picked one that was close by. They were not able to give me an appointment for a couple of weeks either but they were able to get me an appointment at a third place - still not far from home AND for the afternoon! All I had to do was get a referral from my GP and I was set to go!!!
M34tb4LL had told his work colleagues that he was going to be in late yesterday, seeing as he was going to the scan as well, but he left to go to work at normal time so that he could leave early to come to our new appointment time.
When my parents got to the house I told them about the new appointment time and luckily it fitted into their plans for the day to help out and hang around till the afternoon appointment - fulfilling their role as kid wranglers.
The funniest thing - well I can laugh about it now at least - about half an hour after the parents got our house the hospital rang to say that they were calling to rebook our appointment and that they can see us in three weeks from Saturday. Remembering here that the scan is already two weeks overdue...
The rest of the day went nice and smoothly, we went for a nice relaxing drive in the hills - had some lunch - admired the view - and got back in time to go to the doctors to get my referral. We then went home where M34tb4LL was waiting for us, we left Peanut with the parentals, drove to Mitcham and where there with a few minutes to spare to find where we had to go.
So after a stressful morning and then a de-stressing day it was so fantastic to see our little Bean. The ultra-sound person checked all the necessary measurements that had to be checked. She looked at Beans face, heart, kidneys and I'm glad that she knew what she was looking at.
And the results of the ultra sound were all good! Everything the scanning person check seemed to look good - which was a great relief to us. We told the scanning person that we were very keen to discover the gender of our baby and she was happy to oblige.
Now after the story of how we got there, here is the long awaited answer to the gender question -
Bean is a girl! We are going to be having a little girl!!! Tickle me pink, we will have a daughter!!!!!!
(: Reggie
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Three hospitals in two days
So with this pregnancy I seem to be getting a lot more attention that with the last one! I find this a strange thing as i would have thought that being the second time around medical type people would think that I have more of idea of what I'm doing this time around and leave me be a bit more. But no, it seems that they want to keep more of eye on me this time round!
And the reason I am being watched more closely is because of medical kind things that happened last time. I would say that i had a tough pregnancy with Peanut, but there were a few things that occurred that increased the "risk" of that pregnancy. The funny thing is that when I look back at it now, I'm not sure who they thought was more at risk - me or Peanut...
Anyway - with Peanut I did get the gestational diabetes and the blood pressure got more pressured and these are some things that medical people seemed to get concerned about.
Well this time, my doctor has been requesting to see me fortnightly instead of monthly (like he did last time) and I been having appointments with hospital peoples every two to three weeks instead of four to six weeks (like this time last time) and I have had to my GD test at the 18 weeks mark (instead of 26 weeks like last time).
So last week i had leave young Peanut in the care of his Nana, my mother-in-law, M34tb4LL's mother, and go to a hospital a couple of suburbs over to have a blood test - then drink some horrible sweet stuff - wait for an hour - have another blood test - wait another hour - have another blood test -than go home. I would have then had a nap, the sugaring drink had kind of left me with a bit of melt down, but the phone kept ringing! I would have put the phone silent, but I would have had to get out of bed to do that...
One of the phone calls was from the hospital that we are booking into to have Bean, which was not the hospital that i had been to that morning. The phone call was to tell me that my blood test results were in and that I had the dreaded GD, and that i would have to come in for an information session the following day.
After my failed attempt at having a nap, and once Peanut was awake from his highly successful nap, we went to the doctors for my fortnightly check-up. I told him about the GD results and he checked my blood pressure, at least that was good (this time...), and then it was back home to wait for M34tb4LL to get home from work.
The next day Peanut and I went to the second hospital in two days to attend the GD information class. I have to day that even though I have gone through having GD before and this the second lot of information collection, I still have no idea what the hell it all means! how it all works! or how the hell I am supposed to "control" it!!!
Peanut was in fine form, he entertained the information imparters as well of my fellow GD sufferer. He then fell asleep in the car on the way home, but woke up as I tried to get him out of the car and that was it for him and sleep for the day. But that didn't matter - I had plans for him for the rest of the day.
We went over to a friends place who lives not far away and who has a little girl about Peanut's age. After a cup of tea I left Peanut with the afor mentioned friend to travel to yet another hospital - a different one again than I had been to the day before or that morning. This time it was to attend to my "anti-natal" physio appointment. Again this is due to keeping on eye on me due to what had happened with my previous pregnancy and my hip / pelvic bone went out of alignment.
So yer, three hospitals in two days! And this week I only have two hospital appointment over two days - and it is at the same hospital. Just not trying this week!
(: Reggie
And the reason I am being watched more closely is because of medical kind things that happened last time. I would say that i had a tough pregnancy with Peanut, but there were a few things that occurred that increased the "risk" of that pregnancy. The funny thing is that when I look back at it now, I'm not sure who they thought was more at risk - me or Peanut...
Anyway - with Peanut I did get the gestational diabetes and the blood pressure got more pressured and these are some things that medical people seemed to get concerned about.
Well this time, my doctor has been requesting to see me fortnightly instead of monthly (like he did last time) and I been having appointments with hospital peoples every two to three weeks instead of four to six weeks (like this time last time) and I have had to my GD test at the 18 weeks mark (instead of 26 weeks like last time).
So last week i had leave young Peanut in the care of his Nana, my mother-in-law, M34tb4LL's mother, and go to a hospital a couple of suburbs over to have a blood test - then drink some horrible sweet stuff - wait for an hour - have another blood test - wait another hour - have another blood test -than go home. I would have then had a nap, the sugaring drink had kind of left me with a bit of melt down, but the phone kept ringing! I would have put the phone silent, but I would have had to get out of bed to do that...
One of the phone calls was from the hospital that we are booking into to have Bean, which was not the hospital that i had been to that morning. The phone call was to tell me that my blood test results were in and that I had the dreaded GD, and that i would have to come in for an information session the following day.
After my failed attempt at having a nap, and once Peanut was awake from his highly successful nap, we went to the doctors for my fortnightly check-up. I told him about the GD results and he checked my blood pressure, at least that was good (this time...), and then it was back home to wait for M34tb4LL to get home from work.
The next day Peanut and I went to the second hospital in two days to attend the GD information class. I have to day that even though I have gone through having GD before and this the second lot of information collection, I still have no idea what the hell it all means! how it all works! or how the hell I am supposed to "control" it!!!
Peanut was in fine form, he entertained the information imparters as well of my fellow GD sufferer. He then fell asleep in the car on the way home, but woke up as I tried to get him out of the car and that was it for him and sleep for the day. But that didn't matter - I had plans for him for the rest of the day.
We went over to a friends place who lives not far away and who has a little girl about Peanut's age. After a cup of tea I left Peanut with the afor mentioned friend to travel to yet another hospital - a different one again than I had been to the day before or that morning. This time it was to attend to my "anti-natal" physio appointment. Again this is due to keeping on eye on me due to what had happened with my previous pregnancy and my hip / pelvic bone went out of alignment.
So yer, three hospitals in two days! And this week I only have two hospital appointment over two days - and it is at the same hospital. Just not trying this week!
(: Reggie
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Secret first post
Well it is Easter morning and i have just had confirmation on something that i may have suspected since late Thursday...
I'M PREGNANT!!! again (already have a beautiful little 2 year old boy called Logan - aka "Peanut").
I went to the chemist last night and got two parcels, a 12 pack of one thing and a 2 pack of the other. The woman behind the counter gave me the funniest look and said "kind of a contradictory purchase?". I told her that when i get up tomorrow morning i will need to use of one them, just not quite sure which one yet. She just laughed at that and commended me for being prepared for either outcome.
Well this morning came and when i went to the bathroom for my early morning... you know what... i discovered that i did not need to crack open the 12 pack yet so i opened the 2 pack. Well if any of you have used one of those things you will know that one line is nothing and two lines is WhooooHooooo!!!
I got the WhooooHooooo - if the fact that i have already announced that i am pregnant was not overly obvious. And finding this out on Easter morning, kind of apt don't you think?
So the next thing to work out roughly when we will get to meet our new little bean. Every Christmas eve, M34tb4LL's family get together and celebrate. A few times it has been it our house, but it tends to be be at M34tb4LL's brother and sister-in-law's place because SIL can then invite her siblings. Well this year guess what??? We will not be offering our place because we will have a little, one week old baby at that point! If the baby comes on it's due date - which then never do! Peanut was actually two weeks late and had to be induced in the end!!! Little womb camper, i had made it far too comfy for him in there!
So this bub is due 18th December 2009 - or in 251 days. A Christmas baby!
Now this blog post will not be published till we have made an effort to tell people. So it is secret blog for now - shhhhh, don't tell anyone!!!
(: Reggie
I'M PREGNANT!!! again (already have a beautiful little 2 year old boy called Logan - aka "Peanut").
I went to the chemist last night and got two parcels, a 12 pack of one thing and a 2 pack of the other. The woman behind the counter gave me the funniest look and said "kind of a contradictory purchase?". I told her that when i get up tomorrow morning i will need to use of one them, just not quite sure which one yet. She just laughed at that and commended me for being prepared for either outcome.
Well this morning came and when i went to the bathroom for my early morning... you know what... i discovered that i did not need to crack open the 12 pack yet so i opened the 2 pack. Well if any of you have used one of those things you will know that one line is nothing and two lines is WhooooHooooo!!!
I got the WhooooHooooo - if the fact that i have already announced that i am pregnant was not overly obvious. And finding this out on Easter morning, kind of apt don't you think?
So the next thing to work out roughly when we will get to meet our new little bean. Every Christmas eve, M34tb4LL's family get together and celebrate. A few times it has been it our house, but it tends to be be at M34tb4LL's brother and sister-in-law's place because SIL can then invite her siblings. Well this year guess what??? We will not be offering our place because we will have a little, one week old baby at that point! If the baby comes on it's due date - which then never do! Peanut was actually two weeks late and had to be induced in the end!!! Little womb camper, i had made it far too comfy for him in there!
So this bub is due 18th December 2009 - or in 251 days. A Christmas baby!
Now this blog post will not be published till we have made an effort to tell people. So it is secret blog for now - shhhhh, don't tell anyone!!!
(: Reggie
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