Saturday, February 27, 2016
Boat Harbour Exploring
This afternoon I took Myles and Jessie to Boat Harbour, a small suburb right on the water. They have an off leash dog area which is great so I can let the kids just run! We lasted about 20 minutes and then it starting pouring rain. We ran to the car and the rain stopped 5 minutes after we left. Oh well, the kids had fun!
Friday, February 26, 2016
Single Parent for a Week
I am currently a single parent for a week and so far so good!
Barney is away visiting a friend in Melbourne for a week to have some quality 'boy time' consisting of camping, playing video games and watching movies.
The first three days have gone well. Myles has been in day care for all three of them and I have worked two of them. On my day off, I went to our new house to do some more work before we hopefully have renters in. The house looks much better now and it's almost ready to go. The real estate called us today with news that a family wants to move in so hopefully that can happen sooner rather than later.
Tomorrow I might take Myles to the pool in the morning, stop by the grocery store and take Jessie out in the afternoon after our naps. Sunday we have a birthday party to go to. One of our friends who we met in birthing classes little boy is turning 2, so we shall go into Newcastle to celebrate.
I have no plans for Monday or Tuesday, just take it easy and catch up with some mom friends.
It is definitely tiring doing everything on my own but I am thankful that it is only for a short time and I have a wonderful husband!
Might be time to plan a girls weekend away before all our babies arrive! (There are so many friends due around the same time as me!)
Off to bed... have a lovely weekend.
Barney is away visiting a friend in Melbourne for a week to have some quality 'boy time' consisting of camping, playing video games and watching movies.
The first three days have gone well. Myles has been in day care for all three of them and I have worked two of them. On my day off, I went to our new house to do some more work before we hopefully have renters in. The house looks much better now and it's almost ready to go. The real estate called us today with news that a family wants to move in so hopefully that can happen sooner rather than later.
Tomorrow I might take Myles to the pool in the morning, stop by the grocery store and take Jessie out in the afternoon after our naps. Sunday we have a birthday party to go to. One of our friends who we met in birthing classes little boy is turning 2, so we shall go into Newcastle to celebrate.
I have no plans for Monday or Tuesday, just take it easy and catch up with some mom friends.
It is definitely tiring doing everything on my own but I am thankful that it is only for a short time and I have a wonderful husband!
Might be time to plan a girls weekend away before all our babies arrive! (There are so many friends due around the same time as me!)
Off to bed... have a lovely weekend.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Baby Update
About 3 weeks ago I went back to my doctors for the results of my 20 week morphology ultrasound. A few concerns were raised about the baby but I am praying that it all corrects itself (God fixes it!)by birth.
1. I have placenta previa which means my placenta is low, covering my cervix. I am praying it moves up as my uterus grows otherwise I will have an elective csection. Not ideal at all but I am at peace with it if it needs to happen. There are actually a lot of positives to this. It would be easier to plan childcare for Myles and schedule Barney's time off of work. I was also potentially going to have to have surgery after the baby was born to remove a 3.5cm cyst from my ovary so this could be done during my csection, preventing further surgery and trying to recover from that while taking care of a toddler and newborn.
With all that said, I would still much rather have a natural birth!
(34 weeks pregnant with Myles!)
2. Babies head is measuring a week behind it's body, which is measuring a week behind my dates. Not a huge issue but needs to be monitored. It should all level out by birth.
3. There is a hyperchoic focus (small opening) within the left ventricle of the heart. This should close before birth, if not, before he is 5 years old. Just needs to be monitored as well.
4. My blood pressure was 70/50.. very low! I was told to take it easy and get up slowly. I had it measured again this week with a pharmacist. I told him I had a coffee an hour before so he told me I would have a false high reading. My blood pressure was 113/62 which was perfect. The coffee must have helped raise it to a normal range.
At the moment I am just seeing my GP on a regular basis as well as seeing the a hospital midwife at 23 weeks and 36 weeks. I have been referred to a specialist at the hospital, but only if they think they need to see me. I haven't had a call from the hospital so they don't seem to be concerned, which is good!
I have my first midwife appointment on Tuesday so we will wait and see what she says about it all.
I feel lots of kicks all the time. I haven't had a kick in the ribs yet so I am guessing he favours being transverse like his big brother did my entire pregnancy. He is always lying on my right side and the other day, I could actually feel the whole outline of his body.
It is still incredible amazing to me that we can grow a human life inside of us!
1. I have placenta previa which means my placenta is low, covering my cervix. I am praying it moves up as my uterus grows otherwise I will have an elective csection. Not ideal at all but I am at peace with it if it needs to happen. There are actually a lot of positives to this. It would be easier to plan childcare for Myles and schedule Barney's time off of work. I was also potentially going to have to have surgery after the baby was born to remove a 3.5cm cyst from my ovary so this could be done during my csection, preventing further surgery and trying to recover from that while taking care of a toddler and newborn.
With all that said, I would still much rather have a natural birth!
2. Babies head is measuring a week behind it's body, which is measuring a week behind my dates. Not a huge issue but needs to be monitored. It should all level out by birth.
3. There is a hyperchoic focus (small opening) within the left ventricle of the heart. This should close before birth, if not, before he is 5 years old. Just needs to be monitored as well.
4. My blood pressure was 70/50.. very low! I was told to take it easy and get up slowly. I had it measured again this week with a pharmacist. I told him I had a coffee an hour before so he told me I would have a false high reading. My blood pressure was 113/62 which was perfect. The coffee must have helped raise it to a normal range.
At the moment I am just seeing my GP on a regular basis as well as seeing the a hospital midwife at 23 weeks and 36 weeks. I have been referred to a specialist at the hospital, but only if they think they need to see me. I haven't had a call from the hospital so they don't seem to be concerned, which is good!
I have my first midwife appointment on Tuesday so we will wait and see what she says about it all.
I feel lots of kicks all the time. I haven't had a kick in the ribs yet so I am guessing he favours being transverse like his big brother did my entire pregnancy. He is always lying on my right side and the other day, I could actually feel the whole outline of his body.
It is still incredible amazing to me that we can grow a human life inside of us!
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