Saturday, July 19, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Yep - the simpler things...
How awesome is that the simple things can BE so awesome and truly make, as they say, your heart sing! It's occurred to me a few times of late - 'oh my goodness... I'm going to get to feel this baby full term and moving!'... I know I felt Brenna move a few times, and that's ever-precious. For a while tho, until recently at least I've not realised that I'm actually going to get to feel/experience all those full term things, not like I'd forgotten they happen, but kind of I had... if that makes sense. And 'oh my... there's a new Baby coming home early in the New Year!'... 'WOW!' *big grin* and this sense that you know what, everything can be ok this time...
Oh... and I had a dream the other night and woke up thinking 'there's something important I have to remember, something important I have to remember'... and it's ______. A name! A girl's name at that, and not any of the ones I'd been pondering over previously. And I've never dreamt names before... and I asked Michael and he liked it straight away. Same with Mum. (unusual!) So the boy's name had been long chosen, and now we have the girl's name chosen. Which is something very good - and something I like to do early on - not because we use the name for the Baby or share the name with the world but just part of the 'being ready' and I like to be ready!
Jake is ever-curious about the Baby, and my belly and for a week or so would come and cuddle up more often than normal until I asked him something and he said 'I want to feel the new Baby move Mum'... I said just a little longer yet before he can feel the Baby move. And questions, and loves seeing photos of other people's bellies. He and Brooke have come up with a names suggestion list, and they each talk about 'when the new Baby comes' and so on. It's really lovely.
So we'll be 12 weeks this Saturday, 3 months. We have to wait until 19/20 weeks for the next ultrasound, and then first Birth Centre appointment at about 20/21 weeks. In the meantime I'll see Dr T, who I am liking and I will definately be wanting the doppler each time I see her. So we are really only about 7 weeks away from the next u/s which in one way seems so long away but in another not that far away when I think that will be September and we'll be preparing for Brenna's Birthday... there really is a lot to do before then and I so want to get it all done.
Well... late it is and bed I am looking forward to - clean sheets and pillowcases and a freshly flipped mattress. So I'm off to see whether that makes a difference to sleep tonight.
xo
Oh... and I had a dream the other night and woke up thinking 'there's something important I have to remember, something important I have to remember'... and it's ______. A name! A girl's name at that, and not any of the ones I'd been pondering over previously. And I've never dreamt names before... and I asked Michael and he liked it straight away. Same with Mum. (unusual!) So the boy's name had been long chosen, and now we have the girl's name chosen. Which is something very good - and something I like to do early on - not because we use the name for the Baby or share the name with the world but just part of the 'being ready' and I like to be ready!
Jake is ever-curious about the Baby, and my belly and for a week or so would come and cuddle up more often than normal until I asked him something and he said 'I want to feel the new Baby move Mum'... I said just a little longer yet before he can feel the Baby move. And questions, and loves seeing photos of other people's bellies. He and Brooke have come up with a names suggestion list, and they each talk about 'when the new Baby comes' and so on. It's really lovely.
So we'll be 12 weeks this Saturday, 3 months. We have to wait until 19/20 weeks for the next ultrasound, and then first Birth Centre appointment at about 20/21 weeks. In the meantime I'll see Dr T, who I am liking and I will definately be wanting the doppler each time I see her. So we are really only about 7 weeks away from the next u/s which in one way seems so long away but in another not that far away when I think that will be September and we'll be preparing for Brenna's Birthday... there really is a lot to do before then and I so want to get it all done.
Well... late it is and bed I am looking forward to - clean sheets and pillowcases and a freshly flipped mattress. So I'm off to see whether that makes a difference to sleep tonight.
xo
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Yippee!
10th July 2008
Well some good news at least - letter with appointment card for the Family Birth Centre! YIPEEEE!!! (and a little Congratulations note from M who has been there since before Brooke was born). I am
pleased, can you tell? lol Appointment is next Wed at noon... looking forward to/wanting the doppler to hear this Baby's heart beat... 'til next time! Oh and an update - belly pic taken on 13th July 2008, 11 weeks & 1 day, that's the photo on the right and on the left is 7 weeks & 2 days...
oh and another update... guess which wally in her eagerness didn't read the appointment card properly! ha! Well the appt is for the '09' of this year... September NOT July lol Nevermind, it will come soon enough!
Well some good news at least - letter with appointment card for the Family Birth Centre! YIPEEEE!!! (and a little Congratulations note from M who has been there since before Brooke was born). I am
pleased, can you tell? lol Appointment is next Wed at noon... looking forward to/wanting the doppler to hear this Baby's heart beat... 'til next time! Oh and an update - belly pic taken on 13th July 2008, 11 weeks & 1 day, that's the photo on the right and on the left is 7 weeks & 2 days...oh and another update... guess which wally in her eagerness didn't read the appointment card properly! ha! Well the appt is for the '09' of this year... September NOT July lol Nevermind, it will come soon enough!
Friday, July 04, 2008
Feeling good from today!
4th July 2008
Well I think that's what they call a 'feel good' moment. Checkup at the doc today (well, I went there for something else but we did the checkup just the same) and all is well, blood pressure, pee testing lol I asked the several questions I had and all the answers were better than I had hoped, so that's good. Having had this nasty bug for a while, plus a sore tooth that will be fixed on Tuesday (yay!) there were a few things I was concerned about but all that was answered. *grin*
My haemoglobin is slightly low (but it's always been a little under) so orders for red meat at least three times a week as it's the most easily absorbed. Second choice is iron tablets, last choice is injections.
Also referral to the Birth Centre. I have no idea what their policy is regarding accepting me back after Brenna's Birth last year... I guess time will tell.
In one sense it wouldn't make sense to not be accepted - three previously healthy (disgustingly normal, remember) pregnancies, natural labours and births (which reminds me must do the Birth Stories soon and log them in here!), and then Brenna's - which they all keep telling us the chances of happening were on in a million, that it was so unlikely to ever happen in the first place, that the chances of it happening again are double what they were of it happening in the first place - but then to use that to say no you can't come to the Birth Centre? Doesn't make that much sense. It's in a wierd way being penalised? So I don't know, I guess they'll make their own decision on that one.
At the same time though, I understand that the reason places like the Birth Centre are allowed to be, is because they have to adhere to strict guidelines, so I understand that too. I also get that it would have been hard for the midwives involved that day I went in and Brenna's heart had stopped.
So I figured well, for this Baby... I've learnt from Brooke and Jake and Zeke's, but also Brenna's birth, that I think that while the place you birth IS important in it's own way, the experience of birthing that Baby, and of that Baby being healthy, and of the people who are around you when you birth, is what counts. I've also learnt that even a non-healthy birth, can still hold so much - regardless of the location - I'd never birthed in a hospital before Brenna... and that people Birth in all sorts of places. If I can't birth at the Birth Centre, so be it. Our birth will still be 'ours'.
So yes, rather a positive up-beat day today, I think! xo
Well I think that's what they call a 'feel good' moment. Checkup at the doc today (well, I went there for something else but we did the checkup just the same) and all is well, blood pressure, pee testing lol I asked the several questions I had and all the answers were better than I had hoped, so that's good. Having had this nasty bug for a while, plus a sore tooth that will be fixed on Tuesday (yay!) there were a few things I was concerned about but all that was answered. *grin*
My haemoglobin is slightly low (but it's always been a little under) so orders for red meat at least three times a week as it's the most easily absorbed. Second choice is iron tablets, last choice is injections.
Also referral to the Birth Centre. I have no idea what their policy is regarding accepting me back after Brenna's Birth last year... I guess time will tell.
In one sense it wouldn't make sense to not be accepted - three previously healthy (disgustingly normal, remember) pregnancies, natural labours and births (which reminds me must do the Birth Stories soon and log them in here!), and then Brenna's - which they all keep telling us the chances of happening were on in a million, that it was so unlikely to ever happen in the first place, that the chances of it happening again are double what they were of it happening in the first place - but then to use that to say no you can't come to the Birth Centre? Doesn't make that much sense. It's in a wierd way being penalised? So I don't know, I guess they'll make their own decision on that one.
At the same time though, I understand that the reason places like the Birth Centre are allowed to be, is because they have to adhere to strict guidelines, so I understand that too. I also get that it would have been hard for the midwives involved that day I went in and Brenna's heart had stopped.
So I figured well, for this Baby... I've learnt from Brooke and Jake and Zeke's, but also Brenna's birth, that I think that while the place you birth IS important in it's own way, the experience of birthing that Baby, and of that Baby being healthy, and of the people who are around you when you birth, is what counts. I've also learnt that even a non-healthy birth, can still hold so much - regardless of the location - I'd never birthed in a hospital before Brenna... and that people Birth in all sorts of places. If I can't birth at the Birth Centre, so be it. Our birth will still be 'ours'.
So yes, rather a positive up-beat day today, I think! xo
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