tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13549951831083207132024-03-13T09:02:01.991+10:00Rhonie's RainbowThe ramblings and exclamations of a 26-year-old art teacher (wife and mummy as well!) on pregnancy, motherhood, craft, and life in general!Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-78793106392682169762014-10-18T21:58:00.000+10:002014-10-18T21:59:25.477+10:00So You're Pregnant, Mothering a Toddler, and Playing a Nun in December. <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Baby Bechaz #2</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Singing, Pregnant Nun</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Before I begin, I apologise for not continuing my blog since last year. My bad. Life got in the way. Please love me, internet land. In my absence, around 6000 people have viewed my blog -uh. Wow! Yay! Hope you all liked it and sorry if it was simply the ramblings of a narcissistic pregnant lady! Hope you have enjoyed the sarcasm and blatant brain-ramble.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Guess what! Hubster and I recently found out we were having baby #2.
Apart from the initial (good) shock (WTF were we even trying for more babies
right now? Yay us and our fertile loins!) and the blatant fear (oh my, how
shall I deal with TWO little screaming, sticky, Peppa-Pig loving, Playdoh-eating, whirlwinds? Will I ever sleep
again?) we were overjoyed! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">#1 (Isla) will be around 2years 4 months when little PeeWee
is born, and though we aren’t sure how she’ll take it (loves being centre of
attention like the majority of toddlers) she will hopefully love the little
munchkin and be able to understand a bit of what is going on! So far she has
decided the baby is a boy… no wait… a girl… no wait… it’s a frog. Called PeeWee.
Peppa Peewee. (Pretty sure she was saying ‘Poo-Wee’ but I choose to take it how
it sounded phonetically). And the Peppa part comes from a particular TV show
that her grandparents have got her hooked on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">So PeeWee (Gender Neutral) it is. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And enough about my fabulous first child and on to our second Wonder-kid. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Little Fetus PeeWee is around 12 weeks old, and we are just
finishing Trimester 1 this week.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Despite only just growing arms and feet, our second child
has already demonstrated their complete disregard for the way things are done
around here, and the standard set by the daughter-who-must-be-obeyed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Firstly; Morning Sickness. Why do they call it morning
sickness when it sticks around 24/7. The wondrous feeling of wanting to hurl your
guts up but not actually hurling… (Lucky me doesn’t spew easily). Sometimes I
wished I would just throw up to get it out of my system, but of course that’s
not how morning sickness works. According to my all-knowing friends (many of
whom have had several children) the act of throwing up does not disperse the
nausea. So instead, I nibble on a cracker or dry toast, and hope it subsides.
Some days are better, and this week (around 2 days ago!) it subsided almost
completely, so I did what any sane mother-to-be would do, and visited Sizzler.
Got a light bout of food poisoning, learned my lesson, and retreated to my salt
and vinegar rice crackers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Anyway, this morning sickness was far beyond what I had
experienced with Isla. Some days it was to the point of not being able to get
off the couch and allowing my toddler to watch an hour and a half of morning
cartoons (something I promised myself I would never do…). Due to this, many
people think we’re having a boy this time around.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Secondly: Aversions & Cravings. Oh my lawdy. Do not
bring meat (especially red!) near me (just like last time!!). Anyone who knows me, knows I usually take
my steak moo-ing, bloody, and sometimes cold in the middle (perhaps a
vampire/caveman in another life?), but whilst pregnant, heaven forbid anyone
should wave a charcoaled sausage within two metres of me! Goodbye meat!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Farewell Dairy, Sorbet, Coffee and all my favourite foods!
Yep, they make me bloat like a pufferfish. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In other news, Salt and Vinegar (which normally I despise
and find very… stinky!) suddenly makes me feel so much better. Also chickpeas.
And refried beans. And BABY CORN! OH holy crap how did I not know about the joys of tinned
baby-corn before this? Drain them and eat them by the tin! To a lesser extent,
water-chestnuts. Fortunately I have found a great recipe for a chickpea,
babycorn and water-chestnut stir fry which I plan on trying soon.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Thirdly: I got fat earlier. Granted, was a few KGs heavier
after Isla (yeah, probably not going to get into all the pre-maternity clothes
I saved from 2012 after all…) but my lower tummy has popped out in the last
week. Probably bloating (as I said, I did visit Sizzler and I now eat a lot of
babycorn/chickpeas), but I treated myself to a new pair of maternity jeans all
the same. The ones with the 30cm long beige elastic waist that reaches to my
bra. Yeah, Justin can’t keep his hands off me. Fortunately, I can tuck that
part in for a few more weeks and pretend to be a normal, hip and happening 28 year old.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A couple of things that are different to last time: </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span>I have a toddler so don’t have as much time to
feel pampered and excited and take tummy pictures. Though I did snap a pretty
fabulous one with a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lime (baby’s size
this week) while she was hoe-ing in to some avocado.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span>I am working part time at the high school whilst
juggling the toddler and a home singing studio 3 afternoons a week. The
tiredness just doesn’t cut it.</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span>I am playing Maria in The Sound of Music right
as I hit approx 19/20 weeks pregnant. Yeah, I didn’t plan on getting pregnant
when I auditioned. Fortunately I am making all my costumes and have given
myself extra girth in the stomach region. And boob region. We all know how that
goes. So, Biloela, be prepared to view the Pregnant, Singing Nun in early
December! (Theatre-people, you get this, right? The show must go on!)</span></span></div>
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</span></span></span>I pretty much know what I want, what I don’t
want, and what I don’t want to happen that has happened in my last
birth/pregnancy! So as fabulous as Doctors & Midwives are, unless there’s
something wrong, don’t bother me or tell me to do something different (ie:
Labour in bed or that I should get induced, or that I am breastfeeding wrong!) because it ain’t gonna happen and
you are just going to anger the beast. In saying that I really respect you and
think you’re all fabulous… but please just don’t rush me this time! <span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span>I already have a lot of baby clothes/toys/etc as
hand me downs so I don’t have to shop as much. (Huge down point.) On the up
side, Isla is moving to a new room so I can re-decorate the nursery and her new
room! Woo!! </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span></span>I am a lot more blasé about the little things,
and a lot less worried. Which makes for a happier Bechaz household. Or maybe I
just don’t have the alone time to worry as much ;) </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">All in all! First twelve weeks have gone quite well! Here’s
to hoping the next 28 go well and my toddler stops kicking me in the stomach
all the time (We think she is trying to remain an only child, as the other day
I said ‘Say hi to the baby!’ and pointed at my tummy, and she said ‘Kick it!
Kick it!’ and proceeded to do just that. Apologies to second child in advance.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Welcome to the family PeeWee! </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Love xxx</span></span></div>
Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-37022386122057169102013-05-11T15:55:00.000+10:002013-05-11T15:56:28.061+10:00African Flower Hexagon Crochet Pattern<span style="color: #c27ba0;">So today I thought I'd post (for the first time in several months!) about Mummy-hood and Crocheting - my two favourite things that take up my time.</span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><br /></span>
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Firstly - on mummy-hood - I now have a four-month-old daughter and things are starting to get back to 'normal' or perhaps we are just creating a new 'normal' and getting used to each other. We have just finished building our new home, and are in the throes of landscaping, gardening, measuring window furnishings, and packing boxes for the move next week. In amongst this bedlam I have attempted to continue my artsy-crafty nature (though as any new mummy will know - not a lot of time for that!!) and have started a new project (which we hope will not get vomit/spit/baby juices on it in the near future!) </span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">Meet my (or at least the beginnings of) <u><b>African Flower Hexagon Crochet Blanket.</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">It's a mouthful, but it's pretty, and has bright colours and a nature pattern, both of which I love.</span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRae_a61dphBuPI189Lu53BGbpdU7U33wl_gPqK02dD4Y9XuMssX3KDoAaHEKDn5NFZyiyTYdJ2CMzOu2ggXKsKSaqs3L2Y1yncYzI7w0HAdAnth9ucylvyqwbBKr4UHSzqVqfq5Do1Y/s1600/IMG_1938.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRae_a61dphBuPI189Lu53BGbpdU7U33wl_gPqK02dD4Y9XuMssX3KDoAaHEKDn5NFZyiyTYdJ2CMzOu2ggXKsKSaqs3L2Y1yncYzI7w0HAdAnth9ucylvyqwbBKr4UHSzqVqfq5Do1Y/s320/IMG_1938.JPG" width="240" /></a></span><br />
<span style="color: #c27ba0;">I finished my Chevron Crochet Blanket before Isla was born (though I still need to edge it and finish it off nicely!) but it is currently packed so I thought I'd start this! Basically all the hexagons interlock when I sew them together down the track. 205 hexagons in total, and several half hexagons for edging! I then have to decide how to do the edging. I estimate several months, but as they are small projects, I can do one in around 20 minutes - which is enough time when my little Muffin is having a nap without getting all the crochet regalia out of the box! All it involves is four colours of wool (I chose to do all my centres and outside edges white! I also added an extra row to join them together!) and a 5mm crochet hook.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #c27ba0;">If you are interested, here is the Pattern!</span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<u><span style="font-family: "Always In My Heart"; font-size: 23.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">African Flower Hexagon Crochet Pattern</span></u></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">You Will
Need:</span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">4
colours of wool that you like together (I like to choose ones that are either
harmonious or complementary colours!)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">1
crochet hook (5 mm)</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Always In My Heart"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">First Round (Colour 1)</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Make a magic
ring. Chain 1.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Do five DCs
in the Magic ring.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">DC once more
and slip stitch into the first DC to finish the round.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chain 1</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Always In My Heart"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Second Round (Still Colour
1)</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">DC x 2 into
the first DC from Round 1.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chain 1.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Repeat for
each of the six DCs from Round 1.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Slip stitch
to connect the final chain to the first DC in Round 2 to finish the round.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In the next
two rounds we will make the ‘petals’ of the flower.</span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Always In My Heart"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Third Round (Colour 2)</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">9.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Attach your
new colour using a slip stitch. Chain 1. </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">10.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">DC x 2 in
the first chain space from Round 2. Chain 1. DC x 2 in the same chain space.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Repeat for
the next chain spaces from round 2. </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">12.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Slip stitch
from final DC into first DC from round 3 to finish the round.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">13.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chain 1.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Always In My Heart"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Fourth Round (Still Colour
2)</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">14.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">DC x 7 in
each of the chain spaces from Round 3. (42 DCs in total!)</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">15.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Slip stitch
from the final DC into the first DC to finish the Round.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Always In My Heart"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fifth Round (Colour 3)</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">16.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Attach your
new colour using a Slip Stitch into the central DC of one of your Six ‘Petals’.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">17.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chain 1. </span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">18.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">SC in the
same DC.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">19.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">SC in the
next two DCs.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">20.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">SC
underneath the entire two rows into the ‘gap’ between the petals of your
flower.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">21.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">SC the next
4 DCs.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">22.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chain 1. SC
in the same DC.</span></div>
<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-align: center; text-indent: -18pt;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">23.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Repeat from
step 19 – 22 for the rest of your flower.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">24.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Slip stitch
into the first chain you made in this row to finish the round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Always In My Heart"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sixth Round (Colour 4)</span></div>
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new colour using a Slip Stitch into the ‘point’ you have made at the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">26.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">tip of one
of your petals. (In the chain space between two SCs)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">27.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chain 1. SC
in the same space.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">28.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">SC in the
next 10 SCs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">29.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">SC in the
‘point’ of the petal, Chain 1, and do a second SC in the same point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">30.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Repeat 27/28
for the entire round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">31.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Slip stitch
into the first chain to finish the round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">32.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chain 1 to
finish and pull tight. Cut final colour!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">You
are done!</span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"></span></span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Hopefully it looks something like
these!</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">You can also
make Pentagons/octagons/etc by simply adding more or less DCs in the first
round and adjusting your pattern from there!)</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Try to keep
your tension even throughout the project to avoid ‘holes’ or one side being
longer than the other.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Use yarn
with same (or similar) ply (ie: All 8 ply) to avoid buckling or stretching!</span></i></div>
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<![endif]--><br />Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-47145210026397710332013-02-24T17:30:00.000+10:002013-02-24T17:30:15.415+10:00The First Month as Isla’s Mummy!
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<span style="color: #ff33cc; font-family: CurlyShirley; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The First Month as
Isla’s Mummy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff33cc; font-family: CurlyShirley; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Weeks 2 </span><span style="color: #ff33cc; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">–</span><span style="color: #ff33cc; font-family: CurlyShirley; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">
4</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqsyhGB4lWp0S1hY9vzqs_ubbCHPJz_Uk46eC-ilG_Xcx1kxRhyphenhyphenWZcf6Venn_4nAw0Us322vRwgDCZKBLXQm0hMVniHXvlCHnwWjBwmFnDY0Oi5zg9Uh3Kt3LPQUBAxqfNwG381nK2GY/s1600/Isla+0+Months+Close+Up.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZqsyhGB4lWp0S1hY9vzqs_ubbCHPJz_Uk46eC-ilG_Xcx1kxRhyphenhyphenWZcf6Venn_4nAw0Us322vRwgDCZKBLXQm0hMVniHXvlCHnwWjBwmFnDY0Oi5zg9Uh3Kt3LPQUBAxqfNwG381nK2GY/s320/Isla+0+Months+Close+Up.JPG" width="320" /></a> </div>
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<span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Isla Sofia – Weighs approx. 4kgs.
54cms long. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So the first month with Isla was
hectic but amazing. I’ve already documented the first two weeks, which, in my
opinion, were fabulous but not weeks I would like to repeat any time soon! Lots
of crying, wind, getting to know each other, and not a lot of response. Of
course, Isla had only just exited a very warm, dark, quiet environment, so
adjusting to the brightness of the outside world would have been quite
daunting! After two weeks, however, we started to see more and more responses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Loveliest Parts: (We are so
lucky!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff33cc; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The intense looks of
concentration that started to emerge in week 2/3. She would often stare at your
face and listen to you talk for around 5 minutes. It was the first real
response we had. She started to recognise Justin and I, and my mum and dad, as
we were the ones that she saw all the time. We didn’t have too many visitors
for the first few weeks which was really good (despite feeling like a hermit!)
because it gave us time to bond with each other and get into a bit of a routine
(and by ‘routine’ I mean a vague pattern of behaviour that in no way resembled
a proper routine… mostly night time sleeping and daytime playing/feeding!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She started sleeping
through the night. Yes, It may be short lived, I don’t know, all I know is that
I am thoroughly enjoying it. Currently Isla is sleeping approximately 9pm – 5
or 6am – AMAZING! Though I’m not used to rising quite so early (normally a 6.30
start for school!) this is an incredible achievement for her! It was something
she started doing by herself, and we certainly didn’t push her. It went from 9 –
2, then 2 – 5, then 5 – 8 for a while. Then she simply cut out the 2am feeds
and regulated her own sleeping. Of course, we pay for this during the day when
I am feeding her every 2 hours, but it is completely worth it! She wakes up
rested (and still naps during the day a bit!) and is very happy with her bath,
feed, bed routine in the evening. Of course, this could all change in the next
few months!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Feeding got flipping
easy. Like, way easy. I just pop her on the breast and she has a painless feed
for approximately 10 - 20 minutes on each side. We are so lucky.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Little achievements.
One day she would grasp something (probably unintentionally) the next she was
kicking her legs like a champ, the next she would lift her head for longer
periods, and so on and so forth. This month we have achieved;<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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longer amounts of time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Focussing and
following objects with eyes<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Burping (gross, but
she had real trouble with this in early days!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Bath time kicking
and enjoying change time </span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Babbling and cooing –
attempting communication!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Stroller walks with
a smaller amount of crying… AND<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">SMILING!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Yes people, we have received
about a million toothless grins from our little Isla. They started at the end
of three weeks (probably just mimicking us!) but then began to occur
spontaneously at 4 weeks. She is a very happy baby!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The difficult times:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the change of sleep patterns, and the lack of mobility during the day, there
are very few difficult times. Some of them involve:<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Going places. The
amount of stuff you have to pack in the car for this little person is
incredible. Also, car seats are freaking annoying to get babies in an out of. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like trying to pick the remote out from
deep in between couch cushions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The wailing hour.
The ‘arsenic hour’ as it is called by many, is sometime between 4 and 8pm when
babies are inconsolable and don’t know what they want. Isla certainly adheres
to this. Fortunately her bedtime routine seems to calm her down for a feed and
a sleep.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The nappies. Okay so
Number 1’s are fine – but Isla only does Number 2’s once a week (checked with
the doctor – this is fine and very normal for breast fed babies! Any time from
15 times a day to once a fortnight is okay!) And by golly does she do number 2’s!
Basically, we need to change her entire outfit and sometimes give her a bath.
Often, we have to change our own clothes. Sometimes we have to wash furniture.
There is a lot, and it is unrelenting. Of course, she feels much better after
this, but we are left with the aftermath.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sleeping during the
day. She likes to have naps of up to an hour and a half, but less than half of
these are in her bassinet. We can’t whinge too much, as she sleeps so well at
night right now, but during the day she hates – HATES – sleeping in the
bassinet. I’ve tried her on the couch, bassinet, our bed, etc, but the only
place she really has good naps is on me. And only on my right shoulder. So now
my shoulder is killing me, and I constantly have drool down my back. </span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She always sneezes
twice in a row.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sometimes she makes
a noise like a quack, but it’s actually a sneeze-cough.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She could be wailing
loud enough for all the neighbours to hear, but as soon as she lies for a feed
she is silent and looking for boob with a hilarious face.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Same when we wrap
her in her swaddle – Silence.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She rolled over
three times in a row (tummy to back), then never again!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">She loves watching
rain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff33cc;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So that is the first month of
living with Isla in a nut shell. She’s actually a month and a half old now so I’ve
been a bit slack. During this month we did get her 1 month photos taken from
Baby Club (at the photo shop in town) and I’ve dressed her up and photographed
her at home a few times. Mostly it was to get her smile on camera, but also to
send pictures to people of Isla wearing a gift they had given us. My favourites are strewn throughout this entry, but here's one that I love a lot :)</span></span></div>
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Love, Rhona (And Isla & Justin!)</div>
Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-34959055111530409882013-01-30T16:43:00.000+10:002013-01-30T16:45:37.553+10:00Beyond the Birth – Motherhood - Week 1 & 2 of Muffin’s life.<br />
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Baby Girl, 3.725kg, 54cms long, Born 7th Jan 2013</span></div>
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Mummy’s general emotions: </span></b><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">A million varying from a feeling of wonderment and
elation to complete and utter fear to inconsolable crying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is like having PMS constantly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Muffin’s
Daddy’s general emotions:</span></b><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Ranging from joy to annoyance and sleep
deprivation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Muffin’s
Favourite Thing: </span></b><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Boobs, baths and cuddles. I feel this will not
change for quite a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">If I thought labour was hard, it was nothing compared to the
first two weeks of Muffin’s life. It feels out of control – and I like to be in
control. I like routine. I like my own time. I have had none – NONE – of these
things since Isla has been born. It has been the most challenging and beautiful
experience I have ever had. Sometimes I just sit and stare at her sleeping (or
crying, or feeding!) and think;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“How did Justin and I produce such a perfect little being?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A rare moment of sleep in the first week!</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Isla has not been the easiest of babies, but by far not the
hardest! Of course as a new parent you expect the sleep deprivation and pooey
nappies (The first meconium poos are particularly interesting to deal with!)
but you don’t realise how much their crying affects you! The long crying sprees
(when either I couldn’t figure out what was wrong, she was unsettled, or
windy!) drive you crazy and many a time I have simply cried from frustration
and lack of knowing what to do! They tell me that by your second or third child
you can simply let them cry without a worry, but it is hard to believe that
now! Personally I believe that if a newborn cries it is for a reason; and for
that fact alone I have decided to demand feed for at least the first three -
six weeks if we can manage it, and then we’ll try for a routine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Anyway </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
what has happened over the past two weeks? Well, first of all, we spend five
days in hospital getting acquainted with each other </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Justin slept at home simply
because he did not fit in the hospital bed (too tall!) and one of us had to
have a good night’s sleep. In the hospital they kept a good eye on my stitches
(yeah </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> they</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: CurlyShirley; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">’</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">re going to take a while to heal), I attempted to
recover from the birth while tending to my new baby daughter, who cried a lot
and didn</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: CurlyShirley; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">’</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">t sleep much. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: CurlyShirley; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Breastfeeding. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is kind of the face to look for when looking<br />
for 'signs' that babies are hungry. Basically, she<br />
is a giant vacuum.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Something you don’t realise when you are about to have a baby,
is how hard those first few days of breastfeeding are. You don’t make milk for
the first few days, you produce colostrum, a thick substance, and you don’t
produce a lot of it, but it has amazing properties for a baby to consume.
However, it feels like razorblades each time that poor baby latches on to your
breast. Not to mention, you’re trying to learn how to hold this new little
person so they can latch on to your breast, and they are learning how to suck
properly (although Isla did not have this problem </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> she was off like a shot!) and
your poor nipples feel like they are about to fall off. You dread having to try
again in a couple of hours and (dare I say it) you feel a sort of resentment
toward this little person for needing you to go through this constantly, though
fortunately you are still on the ‘I just gave birth’ high and everything she
does is amazing. You brace yourself for the pain of the sucking child. It hurts
</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> a lot. Then suddenly, after a
few days of feeding (almost hourly sometimes when they decide to cluster feed!!!)
it gets a lot easier (for me </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
not for everyone unfortunately). Your milk comes in and you feel a tingling
below your armpits down to your nipples that feels like little ants are
wandering around under your skin. All of a sudden your breasts feel like
melons. Suddenly your baby cries and feeds a lot less </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> because they are getting
enough! FINALLY! Yes, you</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: CurlyShirley; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">’</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">re
still learning how to position them (but with 8 </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> 10 feeds a day for Isla, we got it pretty quickly </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Football hold for the win!) but
this time it is without the razorblade-like pain. Instead, you get a short stab
for about 10 seconds and then nothing but pressure and a tugging. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Isla is a good feeder and we are lucky enough to have a baby that
latches well (TOO WELL!!! I can’t get her off sometimes!). We are slowly
learning how to do things properly and so it works for us </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> we adjust the lips and have to
reattach sometimes, but it’s happening. We are some of the lucky ones (so far)
no mastitis, no latch problems, and a healthy, hungry baby.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: CurlyShirley; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Nappies<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So this is the thing I thought I would struggle with the most.
Changing someone elses pooey nappy. To be completely honest </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> have not had a problem, even
with the worst of them. We change nappies around 8 - 10 times a day before
feeds (she wees a lot, but at least she is getting enough!). Justin learned
pretty quickly how to change a nappy and is a total champion about it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: CurlyShirley; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Sleep
Deprivation/Irregular Sleeping Patterns<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Okay </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
this is the part that was the second hardest for me. Sometimes she <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Note the pallid complexion, dark rings under the eyes, <br />
and the fact that I am sleeping in a chair as this is the<br />
only place Isla would go to sleep on this particular night!</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">SLEEP!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And then she would cry for hours (I’ll get on to that later!)
because she was overtired!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So how do we get a baby off to sleep? We swaddle, then feed,
then pat, then feed, then pat, then rock, then sing, then lie down together,
then pat some more</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">…</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
and then cry because none of it is working! Frustration and sleep deprivation
make for a very weepy woman.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: CurlyShirley; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Crying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isla does not like the carrier. <br />
She does not like it at all...</td></tr>
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you would be able to handle this </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> I’ve done it before when handling kids at daycares
and babysitting</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">…</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
but when it’s your own child you constantly think ‘OMG THERE”S SOMETHING WRONG
SHE’S SICK OR DYING OR HUNGRY!!” when in actual fact, she was;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Windy.
Isla got a lot of wind in her first few weeks </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> especially the second week when my milk came in and
she was feeding well. She would constantly ‘parp’, but would burp very little
despite our efforts. As week 3 happened, she started burping well, relaxing,
and it happened a lot less.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Overtired.
She didn’t sleep when we put her down, so she would cry more because she was
overtired. I’ve felt the exact same way in airports on long flights to the UK.
Overtired sucks.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">c)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Over
stimulated. Too many people. Too many smells. Too many faces. Too bright, too
colourful or too hot/cold. Any number of things that deviated from her ‘routine’
(loath to call it a routine as nothing happened the same way for more than a
day at a time!) such as people holding her or going out for a walk. This caused
crying that could rarely be remedied except for a breastfeed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">d)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Hungry.
SUrprisigly this is not really the most common crying reason. I expected her to
cry for food all the time, but by catching the signs early (the midwives at the
hospital are very good!) of her opening her mouth wide, moving her head from
side to side, sucking on her fingers etc, we have avoided crying for food and
(HOPEFULLY!) this will continue. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">e)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Wet
nappy. This is obvious </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
who wants to sit in their own doo-doo? Not me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">f)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">For
no reason other than she enjoys crying and (possibly) an emotional release. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So far these are the reasons we have identified, though I’m sure
there are many more. We are slowly learning how to ‘fix’ them for her, and how
to catch the signs before the crying turns into a tantrum.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: CurlyShirley; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;">Isla’s Amazing New
Things!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Okay </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
now the positive AMAZING things that we have learned about our baby daughter.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIj39kEmU_V2Qr0xM1Fzy8HN-RWB4BeENaSDw0OqbCCrVo6M5rjH_y-2506pbDgMoNS1_xPWAxLhiXQx-BsQ4mdl0G9cde0K3mtzPtDlZYwvfg2FSXGz84cERhnAqaYsb3eIUYM3BGEQ/s1600/IMG_0975.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRIj39kEmU_V2Qr0xM1Fzy8HN-RWB4BeENaSDw0OqbCCrVo6M5rjH_y-2506pbDgMoNS1_xPWAxLhiXQx-BsQ4mdl0G9cde0K3mtzPtDlZYwvfg2FSXGz84cERhnAqaYsb3eIUYM3BGEQ/s320/IMG_0975.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our BEAUTIFUL baby being attacked by her<br />
Daddy. Hilarious.</td></tr>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She stares at you for long periods and seems to love being
around people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She loves having her feet rubbed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She loves being over the shoulder </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> not so much in the cradle position.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She nuzzles your neck when hungry/tired/wants a cuddle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She sucks on your arm/neck/skin that is nearest to her when she
is hungry </span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">–</span><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">
it feels like kisses. VERY WET SLOBBERY KISSES!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She LOVES bathtime! I knew she would be a water baby from the
beginning – despite not having a water birth!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">She loves people cuddling her – she rarely wants time on her own
(though sometimes she does)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We have more challenging days than not, but hopefully this will
resolve in the next week or so as we get to know each other better. All we want
to focus on at the moment is helping our gorgeous girl get to know us and the
world around her the best she can with as much love, attention and guidance as
we can give her!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-21829658118168653822013-01-14T16:27:00.001+10:002013-01-14T16:27:22.297+10:00"Game On!" : Induction, Hypnobirthing, and my slow transition into a pregnant Transformer Robot.
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">41 weeks, 5
days<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><em>Disclaimer:
the following is very detailed and contains entirely too much information about birthing. You
have been warned!<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Induction
night: Part 1: Constant monitoring and Prostiglandin Gel <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sunday:7.30pm.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Lying in hospital bed
with a midwife attacking my nether regions. She claims to be putting
Prostiglandin Gel on my cervix, but to me it feels like she is tearing a hole
in my bajingo. It wasn’t meant to be comfortable. I try my hypnosis and
disassociation (disassociating part of my body from the rest! In tis case –
pretending I don’t exist below the belly button while my top half reclines on a
beach), which takes my mind off the pain, but she keeps talking to me which
distracts me from my breathing. After a few minutes it is over, and I have the
promise of her returning to check on my throughout the night. She is lovely,
but it is hard to like someone who makes it their job to poke you in the nether
regions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I try to sleep
(Bed is tiny and Justin went home to prep for the big day tomorrow!). My lovely
doctor is coming in at 8am to break my waters. This was not on the birth plan,
neither was the prostaglandin gel. In fact, I wanted as little medical intervention
as possible, but this is what we have to accept instead. I have a little cry
worrying about how it will all go tomorrow. I hadn’t really worried about
labour before, but with all these medical personel around it makes it quite
‘real’ and medicalised, which automatically freaks me out. I’m a hippy at heart
and would probably feel better birthing at home with no needles or speculums or
hospital smelling sheets and curtains. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I suck it up
and give myself ‘the talk’. Get over it – this is what is happening – deal with
it and move on.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I tell myself
to shut up because obviously I’m a callous jerk for being so mean to myself at
a time like this. I’m allowed to have a cry if I want to.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Finally I
sleep, excited and anxious about the coming hours. The prostaglandin gel is
supposed to start contractions throughout the night. The best I get is a dull
ache like a period cramp when I wake up at 3am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I need to pee.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When I get to
the bathroom, there is blood. Not, like, litres of blood, but quite a lot (or
so I think), and definitely enough to merit a call to the midwife. Midwife
checks it and by 3.30am calls the doctor. She says not to worry, but now I have
to be monitored.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><em>Engage machine
number 1.<o:p></o:p></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Baby heartbeat
monitor. Strapped one around my lower tummy, one around the other side, and I
am attached to a small beeping machine that allows me to hear baby’s heartbeat.
It is quietly soothing… until it stops and the machine goes crazy, sending out
a series of beeps that scare me thinking the baby’s heart has stopped, or
something is horribly, HORRIBLY WRONG!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Midwife comes
in and presses a button. Heartbeat comes back on. My heartbeat goes back to
normal. She explains that the baby decided to move and the monitor couldn’t
pick up her heart beat – but she is fine.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Good. That’s
good to know. Thanks for telling me this after my heart attack!</span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I soon learn - the monitor
goes off around forty times before 6am. I am not exaggerating. FORTY TIMES! By
that time I am sleep deprived (already! No baby yet!) and worrying my ass off
every time that god-damn monitor beeps! Not a good start to my
calm-birth/hypnobirth/waterbirth scenario.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Random doctor
on call comes in. He is nice. Explains that because monitor went off so many
times (despite EVERYTHING BEING FINE!) and the fact that I had some bleeding, I
must now be hooked up to a canulla intra-venous drip.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><em>Engage machine
part number 2.<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I am not
actually attached to a drip, but the canulla (drip thingy that goes into the
vein) is very painful, and I have a phobia of needles so now I feel like
vomiting. This also does not help my hypno-birthing or my calmness.
Nevertheless I am adamant that I will continue to try. Still only dull aches in
my tummy, nothing that could constitute a proper contraction. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">No sleep –
monitor is still going off every minute and a half. I ask the midwives how to
work it so I can turn it off myself when it beeps like crazy instead of me
having to call them every two minutes. They say no. Bum. Instead people keep
traipsing in and out of my room, attaching things, pressing buttons, and even tho
there is no sign of this baby yet, I already feel like a pincushion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Note to self:
<em><strong>Don’t get induced again.<o:p></o:p></strong></em></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Part 2: Breaking the Waters<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">My own doctor
comes in at 6.30 looking exhausted. I feel bad for making him come in to break
my waters, even though I’m the one with my legs in the air and a crochet-hook
looking thing up my bajingo. After a minute of painless prodding, an enormous
gush of fluid soaks the bed. It is pink – I thought it was supposed to be clear
– is everything okay?! IS SOMETHING BROKEN?!?!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">They assure me
everything is fine. No bleeding etc. Hopefully Prostiglanding Gel + Waters
breaking = Proper labour.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Justin comes
in around 8.30, which is good, because they are now moving me to the birthing
suite. CONTRACTIONS HAVE STARTED! WAHOO! I know it’s strange to be excited
about contractions starting, as they signal impending pain, but for me it was a
godsend. Who knows what would have happened if they didn’t start. Doc had
specified:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stage 1:
Prostiglandin Gel. If that doesn't work;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stage 2:
Waters Broken. If that doesn't work;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stage 3: IV
drip of Sentosin (like oxytocin – makes body go into active labour); and if that still doesn't work;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Stage 4:
Caeserean Section.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We were at
Stage 2 – so you can understand my joy at not have to go to stage 4!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It takes
several hours. And contractions start to get more uncomfortable – a very good
sign! My lovely midwife and husband take turns at keeping me occupied – we chat
in between contractions (not too painful yet!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">After several
hours of ‘So Calm’ breathing and hypnotherapy (despite being attached to all
the cyborg machines) our Doc came to check me out. I didn’t think I’d
progressed that much, as the surges were quite manageable, but apparently I was
at 5cms dialated. Still 5cm’s to go before baby makes her entrance.
Unfortunately for us, my surges started to lessen and instead of getting closer
together and longer, they started to drop off in time as well. We took it in
our stride, and Doctor B recommended the Sentosin drip. Lucky for me I already
had the Canulla right? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><em>Engage machine part number 3: IV of
Sentosin<o:p></o:p></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Am surprised they have not yet attached a robot arm to my neck, with all the machinery I am hooked up to. Damn, Damn,
Damn! Sentosin was not on my list of preferences. What had happened to my
natural labour? Still, I had some things to be proud of – I had so far managed
without pain relief (though really, it wasn’t that bad for the first 5cms!!)
and I had come to terms with the fact that medical intervention was probably going
to be necessary. I still had reservations about a potential C-Section, which
our Doc had advised me may need to occur if the Sentosin didn’t work, but is it
worth it to have a healthy baby and mum? Of course it is. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So they put me
on 1mg of Sentosin and a Saline drip.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nothing changing – perhaps some slightly harsher surges, but still miles
apart. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">An hour later
they up me to 2mg of Sentosin. Still no change. Surges have all but stopped.
Have resigned myself to a Cesarean section later that day.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">At <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">2.30</span></strong>, in a
last ditch effort to get the baby moving out of there, they put me up to 4mg of
Sentosin.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">Holy Mary
Mother-of-God did that get things moving.<o:p></o:p></span></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">In the space
of five minutes, I went from very mild, spread out surges, to one every two
minutes. They became not quite unbearable, but severe to say the least. I
managed to keep up my ‘So Calm’ breathing. After 15 minutes, I caved and asked
the midwives for the gas pain relief. They hooked it up and I gave it a go –
but it made me dizzy and feel out of control, like I couldn’t control what my
body was doing. One breath was enough – I gave it back and went back to so-calm
breathing. My visualisations were becoming difficult to do at this point. When
I could feel a surge coming I rocked from side to side breathing in and out ‘So-Calm’.
I am proud to say I didn’t scream, cry or swear an awful lot – it is not like
in the movies where the woman clutches the husband’s hand and tells him how
much she hates him. In fact, up until now, Justin had been massaging my back
and patting me, but I told him to go away because during these surges it became
unbearable to have anybody touch me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">At around <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">2.50</span></strong>
I said to Justin ‘if it’s going to be much longer I’m going to need an epidural’.
It had become so unbearable without drugs – and I didn’t’ want pethidine or
morphine – that I was planning on caving. The Hypnosis, visualisations and
breathing methods had not made the pain disappear, but had certainly made it
bearable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Suddenly, I
felt the urge to go to the loo. You know, for number 2’s. (I warned you – TMI!)
It had only been around 30 minutes since the doctor had checked me, so we didn’t
think much of it, except for I’d already been with my milder contractions
earlier on. I felt a little strange, as during my contraction, my body kept
involuntarily ‘pushing’. I tried to stop it – and told my midwives that it was
happening. Surely I didn’t need to push yet? I was only 5cm’s 30 minutes ago!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">At <strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">2.55</span></strong> our midwives
looked at each other and decided to check my cervix to see if I had dilated
anymore. As our lovely midwife, Sharon, peeped up my hoo-ha, she exclaimed<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">‘Oh... well that's unexpected... I can see
the head!’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Me: What? WHAT?! YOU CAN SEE THE HEAD?! <span style="font-size: large;">THE BABY IS COMING?! I”M NOT
READY! TAKE IT BACK TAKE IT BACK!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Justin’s
reaction was priceless – his face went into a look of shock and suddenly he was
dithering about with his phone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">(Didn’t
realise at the time – but Justin texted ‘Game On!” to my parents, as he didn’t
have time to text anything else)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The midwife told
Justin that he needed to call the Cord Blood people (We had decided to do cord
blood banking and they were supposed to be called at 7cm’s dilated – which I
had not reached at the last check!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So, apparently
the reason I felt like my body was being ripped in two, and that I needed an
epidural, was because I was in ‘transition’, and my body was ready to go and
birth our baby!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">My second
reaction was one of immense joy and relief – this labour was going to be over,
and I could ACTIVELY do something to work with the surges, rather than simply
endure them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Anyway – this all
happened in the space of about 5 minutes. 3.00pm:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">One of
our midwives Tracey ran out to get our Doctor, and a minute later ran back in
saying he would be unable to attend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Tracey
(who had been our primary midwife up until now) had to leave at 3pm – thinking we
would be in the ‘pushing’ stage (or the ‘breathing down the baby’ stage as I
like to call it in line with our Hypnobirthing!) for at least an hour. We said
goodbye to Tracey. Or, at least, Justin did. I was in a bit of a state by then.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">-</span><span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Suddenly,
without my knowledge, I was holding on to the end of the bed and doing little
squats on the floor to relieve the feeling of pressure in my bottom/hoo-ha
region. I had no idea why I was squatting, as this was one of the positions of
labour I said I would NEVER do. So stupid looking, and really, really,
unflattering! … At that point, I didn’t care who saw what.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">3.01pm:</span></strong> My
body continues to involuntarily push the baby down the birth canal. I finally
undersand what hypnobirthing means by ‘you don’t need to actively push’. There
was no point in this part of my labour where I felt the need to strain or use
any force to push – my body did it all naturally.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">3.02pm:</span></strong> Pushes
start happening one after the other with very small intervals in between.
Midwives try to get me onto the bed. I say ‘Hell no. I’m staying here’. Sharon
places a mirror underneath where I am standing/squatting, and asks if I would
like to watch as the baby’s head comes through the birth canal. I give her a
look that could freeze hell. ‘Oh my god, No. I don’t want to see that!’. Having
seen babies ‘crown’ in several birthing videos I had watched, I had no need to
see that happen to me. I feel it would have scarred me for life. Justin, bless
him, stayed as far away as possible from the ‘action’ end, and leaned on the
bed, giving me his fingers to squeeze. I really didn’t mean to hurt him, and
didn’t try, but like the ‘pushing’, it was kind of involuntary. I am quite glad
he didn’t complain, or he might have lost an eye. He was my rock, telling me
how well I was doing, even when it felt like each contraction was ripping my
body in two, and the pressure was becoming unbearable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Despite the
unbearable pressure, this was my favourite part of the birthing. I know, I’m
crazy, but it felt AMAZING to be giving birth to another person. I felt so
alive, so healthy, and this part felt the most ‘natural’ of any of the labour
so far (even though it was the sentosin that had hurried my contractions to the
point of no return. There was NO relief! They came every 30 seconds, for 30
seconds!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>3.03pm:</strong></span> A
giant HUMUNGOUS pressure in my bottom – not the va-jay-jay. In birthing classes
they had always made it very clear that it was an ‘anal’ sensation when it was
time to push, so I was pretty sure the baby was near. Midwives ask me to try to
hold it back and not push, as the baby was coming too quickly. Again, I try my
best, but nothing but an act of God is going to stop this baby getting out in
the next couple of minutes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">3.04pm:</span></strong> BURNING
ENSUES!! MY VAGINA IS ON FIRE!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Midwives
physically hold baby’s head back in an effort to save my poor perineum. They
realise this is not going to happen – that this baby needs to get out quickly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">3.05pm:</span></strong> Finally
Sharon gives up on holding her back and says ‘Okay, I want you to give a little
push. Just a little one, with the next surge.’<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I do so. Not to
sound gross, but I swear there was actually a ‘pop’ sensation when our baby’s
head pushed out of my body. At this point I was kind of in shock, and couldn’t
feel a lot of what was going on. I did not reach down and touch the baby’s
head, instead, another contraction came right on top of the last one, and
Sharon asked me to push again, even though she needn’t have bothered. My body
pushed our baby’s body out in a matter of seconds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">OUR BABY GIRL IS BORN!<o:p></o:p></span></span></strong></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Sharon catches
the baby and tries to hand her up to me. In my exhaustion, confusion and
general elation, I forget the baby is attached via the umbilical cord, and try
to turn around to pick her up. Justin reminds me she is attached. I announce to
the whole room:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“Holy Crap, I
just had a baby!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">And then, as I
turn to see the state of the room and hear my baby cry for the first time. I am
over the moon to hear that cry which I had unknowingly been waiting for. As I
look around, I notice that everything, including our poor midwives, are COVERED
in blood. Like, bathed in it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“That’s a lot
of blood…” and suddenly feel dizzy and start to shiver.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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place her on my chest and we move to lie on the bed, though it is quite hard to
manoeuvre around the umbilical cord, as it’s not as long as I had expected, and
certainly is not extendable. I don’t remember how I got on the bed, or what
happened next, but suddenly Justin was holding the baby, the Cord Blood lady
was there clamping and taking the cord blood (after it had finished pulsing!! I
wanted my baby to get the most benefit from it!), and Doctor B had arrived,
literally 2 minutes too late. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I semi-float
through the next part, elated on oxytocin (natural this time, I hope!) and
dizzy from the blood loss. As I find out later, the rushed birth (due to the Sentosin’s
effect on my body!) pushed baby out way too quickly, and gave me a third degree
tear (basically Vagina to Rectum - ewwie) in which I lost around 650ml of
blood. May I add – I felt NONE of this up until the stitches – The only thing I
felt throughout the whole birth was burning and pressure and exhausting
contractions in my abdomen – I had no idea I had a tear until they told me,
though I had a suspicion at the amount of blood that was on the floor (It
looked like a scene from ‘Carrie’ or ‘Hannibal’). Gotta love mother nature!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">So, I then get
eight local anaesthetic needles in the nether regions so that Doctor B can give
me several stitches. The Cord blood lady takes my blood (for the cord-blood
people), and Justin has some skin-on-skin time with our newest Bechaz. I wanted
to have time with her, but felt so shaky and dizzy after the birth, that I didn’t
trust myself to hold her for a few minutes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">3.50pm:</span></strong>
Stitches, blood letting and ‘clean up’ are complete. They finally place baby on
my chest for real, and she finds the breast straight away and has her first
feed. It was amazing – I can’t explain the feeling unless you have done it
yourself – utter disbelief and ecstasy at the same time. She was perfect in
every way – scoring 9’s in the APGAR tests and crying her lungs out up until
the feed. Sharon showed us the placenta and explained what everything was. It looked like a large stomach (the sac taht the baby was in) attached to some kind of livery shaped object (the placenta) which was smooth on one side and bumpy on the other. Weirdest. Thing. Ever. Also, Sharon asked if we wanted to keep it. Justin and I looked at each other and adamantly said 'no thank you'. She looked relieved, probably happy she didn't have to package it up for us. Would you wrap it in newspaper like fish and chips, or a tupperware container? How do you transport a placenta? AND what do you do with it when it has been collected? Grossly, I've heard some cultures make a lasagne or other meal from it and eat it collectively.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">No thanks. We're good.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">After a quick
shower (in a wheelchair and aided by Sharon our midwife… how embarrassing – all
my dignity is GONE!) we head back to our room (Well, I’m pushed in the chair)
and get tucked up in bed before we have our first visitors at around 4.30pm.
All I can do is cuddle my baby and smile.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">It took less than half an hour to go from 5cm's dilated to holding our baby. Wow. No wonder we were in shock! But there we were cuddling our beautiful, perfect, tiny baby girl.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Born 3.05pm, 7th January 2013, weighing 3.725kgs, and 54cms long.</span></h2>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">I loved her from the minute I set eyes on her, and who wouldn't with that gorgeous face!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was the most amazing, traumatic,
beautiful experience of my life, and she was worth <em>every second.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc00cc; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(I am writing this later than 40 weeks! Found I had no
time in the last couple of weeks to fill in my blog! I am so slack!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00cc; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">At 40 and 41 weeks I found myself going from
anticipation to emotional crying, as I felt I was so ready to be a mum, and
just wanted things to get moving. I had kept myself busy walking around shops
(air con!), watching Game of Thrones with Justin (who came down before
Christmas) drinking copious amounts of Raspberry Leaf Tea (see previous blog –
supposed to help with labour), swimming and generally expecting every tiny
twinge to become impending labour like see in the movies. Okay, I was a bit
more realistic than expecting to be in a shopping centre and my waters to break
and to start screaming ‘the baby’s coming! Get hot towels!’, but one could only
hope.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #cc00cc; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">But, things don’t go to plan. As it turned out I
didn’t get to go into labour naturally which was a little disappointing, as at
11 days overdue my lovely Doc decided to induce for baby’s safety and mine.
Basically if some babies get ‘overcooked’ there can be issues with placenta not
doing its job and things can go wrong in some cases (Note: SOME cases! Many
women go overdue by weeks and are just fine, as is bub!) But we decided to take
doc’s advice, not being medically trained ourselves. So we booked in for Sunday
night in the hospital. I still had preconceived notions that my birth plan (or
‘guidelines’ as we like to call them) could continue unscathed. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00cc; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Natural labour<br />
No drugs<br />
Hypnobirthing<br />
Waterbirthing<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc00cc; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">(Here’s a hint – didn’t go exactly to plan)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #cc00cc; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">So on Sunday Night at 7.30, Justin and I loaded our
bags (and baby’s bags) into the car and set off for the hospital for the most
epic journey we would ever take. It was our last car ride as a married couple
with no kids – next time I was in the car the little seat in the back would be
filled with a gorgeous bouncing baby girl. We couldn’t wait – a wonderous and
overwhelming experience awaited us in the next twenty four hours.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-81570068160310694182012-12-27T09:54:00.001+10:002012-12-27T09:57:17.110+10:00A Very Pregnant Christmas! (the tale of Barbara Manatee, Lord of the Rings, a Nicer Dicer and Pavlova)<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">39 Weeks Pregnant (40 weeks tomorrow!) and it's CHRISTMAS!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red;">The
Christmas Spirit is in the air, with all the hustle and bustle of Christmas
shoppers, Christmas carols TV, Christmas shows, and baking/cooking for
Christmas day. It’s actually made me want to name the baby ‘Mistletoe’ or
‘Holly’ or ‘Ivy’ or ‘Noelle’. Maybe ‘Christina’ and ‘Angel’ might be going a
bit far.<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">I mother-flipping love Christmas</span> – My favourite time of year! <o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nothing
better than listening to the old greats wail away on our Christmas CD (which I
made when I was 14 and just learned about burning software!) while cooking a
ham/turkey/gingerbread/pavlova and looking at the tree all lit up with
Christmas lights and TINSEL! </span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></span><span style="color: #660066; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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consisted of – wake up groggily (bad night’s sleep unfortunately! The constant
toilet trips and uncomfortable sleeping position has finally crept up on me)
had some fruit and a cup of tea, had a shower and got dressed, chilled out for
a while as Justin woke up, and then it was PRESENTS TIME!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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traditional Crawford Christmas consists of the gift giver handing out their
presents to their recipients – As we sat drinking our tea/juice we opened
present after present, marvelling in what each other had given or received. It
was simply lovely! We are definitely an excellent gift-giving family with
proportionately less socks given (a total of six pairs) than in some families. In
particular, Justin (who had done secret Christmas shopping without my
knowledge) surprised me with presents I had no idea about and were just
GORGEOUS! Including a Slicer/Dicer thingy I had seen on the shopping channel
and had decided was the only thing that would make my life easier in the
kitchen. He had argued vehemently, lulling me into a false sense of loss, and
had surprised me with it! I hate and love that man (mostly love.)</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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some reason, lots of people gave me OWL related things </span></span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: white;">
(Mug from Justin)</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="background-color: white;">(Hint: I am a bit obsessed – they’re super adorable - especially the Frog-Mouthed Owlet below!) as w</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #660066; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #93c47d;"><span style="background-color: white;">ell as a laptop tray</span> for
your lap, a fat piggy bank, gorgeous bags and a purse, a calendar of my
favourite artists, photo frames, - and more adorable things! One very spoilt
lady right here!</span> </span></span><br />
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proceeded to have some bbq’d breakfast/brunch (By now 11.30am) and marvel over
our gifts some more and enjoy each other’s company. After a quick wash up, I
retired to do what many people do on Christmas after consuming a lot of food,
and lapsed into </span></span><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;">a
food coma</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;">
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slept for an hour and a half. Now, I like to blame the pregnancy for this, but
it doesn’t explain the other years in which this has occurred. Nap was amazing
and woke up feeling thoroughly revitalised and ready for a swim.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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and I wallowed in the pool for an hour or two (Despite my attempt at being
graceful in the water, I really did wallow – incurring Justin’s new nickname
for me, </span></span><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;">Barbara
Manatee</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">,
which also includes a song and which I am quite fond of – check it out<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpcf_qD3GW4" target="_blank"> </a></span></span><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpcf_qD3GW4" target="_blank">here</a></span></span><span style="color: #660066; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">)
and laughed at Miss Muffin’s kicks. She had been very quiet – probably squashed
by all my egg and ham breakfast – and started kicking like crazy when we were
in the pool. She is going to be a little dolphin I think!</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ewan joined us for a swim, we hopped out and I decorated the </span></span><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;">Pavlova
</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ready
for the evening (YUM), drank cordial (the others had their beer/wine/whisky/scotch), chatted,
prepared dinner with mum and tested out my new NICER DICER!! (Yet another great
gift of Justin’s!) Did not slice off finger, which was a bonus. We pulled crackers (of which I lost all battles), </span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">ate some
Turkey and stuffed ourselves silly on delicious food (Dad’s famous stuffing),
drank some more (or they did), chatted some more (reminiscing over weddings,
childhood memories and dirty jokes), before watching the rest of </span></span><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;">Lord
of the Rings - the Fellowship of the Ring.</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #660066; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;">
<span style="color: red;">(It's just a whole lot of walking - has anyone else noticed that?)</span></span></span></div>
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finished the night with </span></span><span style="font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 19pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;">Pavlova
and Batman.</span></span><span style="color: #660066; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctbottom: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctleft: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pctright: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shade-rectfill-pcttop: 50.0%; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-shadetype: path-circle; mso-style-textfill-fill-gradientfill-stoplist: "0 #01B717 -1 100000,100000 #FF0000 -1 100000"; mso-style-textfill-type: gradient;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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– awesome day. It feels like we did everything and nothing, and I’m going to
bed happy, unstressed and not too exhausted!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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is our official due date – <span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">40 weeks! –</span> so keep your fingers crossed she comes
soon! Our last Christmas as a single couple (as in – no kids!) has officially
finished, and I unfortunately didn’t get to dress Muffin in the cute santa-elf
outfit I bought in case she came early. Well, there’s always ebay!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Christmas to all, and to all a good night!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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Manatee</span> xxx<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-54291811280082269972012-12-27T09:32:00.002+10:002012-12-27T10:00:33.855+10:00Pineapples, Raspberry Tea and NESTING!<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Fruit to Fetus Comparison: </span></b><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Watermelon/Pumpkin
is still in play – as there’s not a lot bigger than one of those. This week is
somewhere between 3 – 4 kgs. Hopefully closer to the 3…<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Mother’s impatience:</span></b><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> Not a lot – I
get moments of impatience where I just want labour to begin, but I’m actually
quite happy just chilling out with Muffin in my tummy. The real work begins
when she’s born – a little bit freaked out about that as this one I won’t be
able to win over with my amazing personality…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Husband’s excitement metre:</span></b><span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;"> High.
He has FINALLY moved down to the Sunshine Coast and finished work for X-mas so
all is well! He’s enjoying chilling out, but also quite excited about bubby’s
entrance into the world!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">So this week (actually, 1.5 weeks – I am
slack) I’ve been on the Sunshine Coast getting everything ready, going to
appointents (some fun, some not) and generally nesting. Nesting horribly. It’s
hard to nest when you’re not in your own home, so I have taken up cooking and
sewing along with my crocheting. Had two doc appointments over the last week
and a half and all seems well! My lovely midwife has checked out the position
and little Miss Muffin is engaged and ready to go (YAY!), in the right position
(no longer posterior – is now anterior, which means facing down with face
toward my spine – that’s the way we like it!) and is a good size. Apparently
NOT ten pounds (OH THANK GOD!), but that’s about all they could tell from
having a feel. Heartbeat was fabulous and she’s kicking me all the time so I am
feeling very good about her health. Dr B has implied I may not go into labour
until January, however. I would prefer sooner rather than later for two reasons
– 1. Justin only has three weeks off (including his Christmas break) and I was
hoping he would spend a lot of time with his baby daughter before going back to
work full time) and 2. I think I will get quite impatient come Christmas/New
Year time. What can I say, it’s a bad trait of mine. So I’m trying to ‘nudge’
things along naturally…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0099; font-family: "Constantia","serif"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">Have taken up drinking a lot of Raspberry
Leaf tea (Which, for your information, tastes like grass and makes you all hot
and sweaty in this weather, but is supposed to tone the uterus and make labour
progress more quickly), eating pineapple, walking on the beach, sitting on the
birth ball etc. Have been told having a lot of sex will help – well I won’t
share with you the details, but basically I am the size of a medium-sized
rhino, and good luck manoeuvring this booty around.</span></div>
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Have so far made a lot of toys (some for Miss Muffin, some not!) and some Nappy
Covers! Love them!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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owls that I will turn into a mobile for a friend (Baby due 14<sup>th</sup>
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crocheted a baby hat and am finishing the baby blanket. And I did some painting
and cooking. Gotta keep busy!</span></div>
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Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-57291966180429555662012-12-13T21:12:00.001+10:002012-12-13T21:12:28.712+10:00Rhona: The Singing Whale, and other stories..<br />
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Comparison: Still a watermelon, just a larger one!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Cravings/Aversions: My
stomach hates everything and wants to expel it as quickly as possible, unless
it is an iceblock. Also, I hate the heat and stairs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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jammed in the ribs, head on bladder, and punching my insides repeatedly </span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"> YAY!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">So this week
has been semi-hectic, as all ‘last weeks’ are. Yesterday I finally headed down
to the Sunshine Coast (six hours from Biloela) to stay close to my Obstetrician
and chosen hospital in case the big day arrives early! Of course, now it’s not
actually <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">early</i>, as Muffin is </span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">FULL TERM! </span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">WOO! Despite this, I doubt she’ll
make an appearance until late December or early January! Being a first time
mum, I’m trying not to get worked up over all the little ‘signs’ that baby is
going to arrive soon! Signs include:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Muffin
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for birthing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Braxton Hicks
contractions </span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">(‘practise’
contractions that are not painful, but make your tummy feel like the
consistency of a basketball) are much more frequent – gone from a noticeable 2 times
a day, to at least six – eight. But, as I said, not painful, just uncomfortable!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Have
to pee all the time. Like – ALL the time. There is no time when it feels like I
don’t need to pee – even when I have just gone. Baby’s head/something is
resting on my bladder and muscles! The tiniest amount of liquid makes me need
to go. Awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Backache –</span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";"> Though I attribute this to the
baby dropping lower in my tummy, backache can signal labour, according to my
doc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Other
gross signals involving the bowels and cervix that I won’t write about on here. <a href="http://community.babycenter.com/post/a8436805/8_signs_labor_is_near" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">(Click here if you want to know</span><span style="color: magenta;">)</span></a></span></div>
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">So, as I
said, not really fussing about all these ‘signs’ (which ultimately could mean
nothing!!) and I’m going to wait until a) waters break, b) contractions begin
or c)the baby pops out before I actually believe labour is impending. Much less
stressed about the whole thing now that I’m down on the coast – but for the
last week I’ve just been thinking “JUST ONE MORE WEEK! Don’t come yet, Muffin!”
And she gallantly obeyed. Of course, now she will hold out until, like, mid
January, instead of coming on Boxing Day! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">It was my
last week in Bilo for a while, and had to wrap up all my marking, reporting and
general school business. It was strange because, although I was so excited to
be leaving on Maternity leave and obviously over the moon that Muffin was
getting closer to being born, I felt two things at leaving work;</span><br />
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<span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Guilt.
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-fareast-font-family: "MV Boli";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">A sense of worthlessness and like I
was easily replaced!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Both are
irrational and certainly not suggested by the majority of the lovely people I
work with, however present nonetheless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The guilt stems from my necessity to please people, and my hatred of
having other people do things for me. Leaving two weeks before the end of the term
made me feel like I was abandoning my 8’s and 9’s (and like I didn’t love them
enough!) and giving work to my colleagues who would have to take my classes. I
did my best to prepare lessons etc, and of course I marked all their work and
did all their reporting, even the week after I finished school, but still felt
like I could have been there. I mean, come on, the baby isn’t literally pushing
her way out of my uterus at this very moment – couldn’t I have held out another
couple of weeks? Am I just a pussy?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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No. Last week it hit 40 degrees Celsius and I struggled to complete my
reporting in the air conditioning at home, let alone standing in front of 30
kids keeping them entertained for 70mins at a time when all they want to do is
go on holidays. So, shut up, Rhona, and get over it. If you died, life would go
on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">This leads
to point b) Worthlessness and being replaced.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">So the
kids don’t need me. Big deal. Being the Libran that I am (and the drama queen)
I like to be needed, wanted, doted upon and sought after. Being a teacher is
quite great in this regard because it is a mutual respect and ‘need’ of one
another (teacher and students) that makes the symbiotic relationship work. They
need me, I, in turn, need them in order to do my job. I also enjoy it. So
despite the few cards and gifts some of my gorgeous students presented me with
in my last week, I felt useless and replaced. Of course, this was bound to
happen next year when they get a new teacher and I am no longer a part of their
learning life, but it happened because of my ‘inability’ to continue to work –
which goes back to the guilt thing. So, does leaving work two weeks before the
end of term make me a bad teacher, a worthless teacher or easily replaced?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Answer:
No. Shut up, Rhona, get over it. You are well liked, you will be missed, many
have said so – just take the compliment and let them get on with their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Basically,
I am trapped in a glass cage of emotion. Handing my laptop and keys in turned
out to be more emotional than I had previously thought. It all happened so
quickly. One minute I’m pushing my students to complete their assessment and
getting whined at, fought with, and asked a million questions, and the next
they have moved on. Such is the life of a teacher. I have a feeling that being
a mother will be just as fulfilling, guilt riddled and emotionally traumatising
as being a teacher. Probably more so. YAY!</span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Saturday then
had the hubby’s </span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Christmas party </span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">to attend (no alcohol for me,
obviously, despite the free bar and my favourite wine being part of it!) where
I instead ravelled in the free icecream van, face-painting and fireworks (10
Minutes of amazing fireworks!) whilst avoiding the alcohol, free </span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">ADULT SIZED bouncy castle</span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">, mechanical bull, and the dodgem
cars. Yes, his Christmas party has all those things. And he organised it. He is
amazing, to say the least. However I didn’t get to play on any of the cool toys
this year (NEXT YEAR I WILL MAKE UP FOR IT!!!! MWAHAHA!). Amazing night with
great people and food and lots of schmoozing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Justin and I at the QNP Christmas Party :)</div>
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Finally,
on Sunday, we got ready to perform at the </span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Biloela
Christmas Carols</span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">. My
co-coach and I needed to ensure our Cheerleaders performed beautifully (which,
of course, they did!) and that their costumes were complete (this took all of
my morning – cutting, adjusting and adding giant bows to sparkle skirts…).
Finally I prettied myself up (OMG How great it feels to put make-up on and a
nice dress – sans heels and added large bump) in Christmas dress with pretty
ribbons in hair etc, and headed to the Christmas Carols. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, of course, the night couldn’t go
drama-free.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">On the way
there (whilst driving two friends) I was pulled up by the police! For ‘failure
to give way’ and ‘speeding’. The reasoning was that I pulled out in front of
the cop car (which was, in my opinion, a fair distance away!) but the police
woman said she had to break for me. In between the police car and me was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a pedestrian crossing and around about
30metres. Anyway – this was my first offence. The second offence was ‘speeding’:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Police
Officer: Do you know what the speed zone is?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Me: Sixty.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Police
Officer: And what speed were you doing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Me:
(adamantly) Sixty.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Police
Officer: Well I had to do eighty to catch up with you.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Me: ?!?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">So if I
was consistently doing sixty, and they had to do a u-turn (after I’d turned out
before them and had a good minute head start) she certainly wouldn’t have been
able to catch me doing exactly the same speed as me. Right? Isn’t that just
logic?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Anyway – I
tried to look as pregnant as possible and smile a lot and hope that she reduced
my sentence to a minimum </span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">(OH
GOD MY BABY WILL BE BORN IN PRISON!)</span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">She took
my license for checking and came back about 5 minutes later:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Police
Officer: Well, you have no prior traffic violations, so I can tell you’re not a
rubbish driver, but I have to tell you that if you had failed to give way and
someone had hit you, it would be your fault. And your insurance wouldn’t cover
it… (pause)… well actually it would, but you would still be at fault. So, just
be more careful next time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Me
outwardly</span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">: I will.
Thanks. Have a great day.<br />
</span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Me inwardly</span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">: I am so confused. WTF just
happened?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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thankfully, no tickets, no fines, and no points lost, but otherwise a very
confused and unsure citizen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">We made it
to the </span><span style="color: #6699ff; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Christmas Carols </span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">in one piece, got our cheerleaders
ready, plonked ourselves on the ground and ran around for two hours cueing
kids and myself as to when we had to be onstage. </span><br />
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Lynesha and I arriving at Carols (Obviously she is the skinny, non-pregnant dancer while I am the whale in red - Yes, I wore the same dress two nights in a row - it is a luxury to have a fitting piece of clothing that looks good!)</div>
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Me singing onstage while the lovely cheerleaders (with their backs to the camera!) start their dance below (All I want for Christmas - is YOU!)<br />
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";"></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">I did not forget my words and
managed to hit all the notes (kudos to all the friends and cheerleaders in the
crowd who said lovely things and cheered me on!), the cheerleaders (and
Lynesha!!) did an amazing job, and the choir sounded beautiful (Well done
Maddi!). All in all, very successful night.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Strangely enough,
my thighs and butt are killing me today because of all the getting up off the
ground, sitting down again, getting up, sitting down again. I’m not used to
sitting on the ground on a picnic blanket at 37 weeks pregnant!! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Monday
finally arrived, where we packed all my things (and baby’s things!) into two
cars, said goodbye to Justin (who has to work for another 2 weeks!) and Mum,
Dad, the dogs, and I convoyed off in the direction of the Sunshine Coast. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Goodbye
Biloela – I’ll see you next with a bundle of joy in my arms </span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Love<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #3333cc; font-family: "MV Boli";">Rhonie<o:p></o:p></span>Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-19161947915879004152012-12-04T16:54:00.000+10:002012-12-04T16:57:36.314+10:00WHOA! Everything just got heavy...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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to Fetus:</span></b><span style="font-family: FangSong; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Watermelon. We’ve reached watermelon proportions. No
wonder stairs are difficult and I have to wee every hour.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></b><span style="color: #f8083b; font-family: FangSong; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Can’t eat anything greasy this week – I think because it just
sits on the top of my stomach and the relaxen hormone makes me want to spew it
back up again. Toast is fine, as is fruit and salad, but no bacon, eggs, meats,
etc. Still loving my muesli.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Counter:</span></b><span style="font-family: FangSong; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Still the insane kickboxing gymnast that she was last
week. Sometimes it looks like my tummy does a Mexican wave. Also, there is a
foot poking out from underneath my right ribs. It’s not always there, but 80%
of the time, which makes it hard to sit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #f8083b; font-family: FangSong; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now that Miss Muffin is the size of a watermelon, I felt
like reflecting on how far she has come – and how big she’s grown in such a (relatively)
small space of time – though it feels like forever since we did the test!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great GREAT art watermelon carving, but oh my gosh it is creepy. Kind of like
the doll I had to use for the breastfeeding class - more on that later.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f8083b; font-family: FangSong;">So this week I finished up at school
(Well, ‘officially’ I’m finished but I still have all my marking and reporting
to do from home!)and tripped down to the coast for my birthing class! Justin
unfortunately couldn’t make it </span><span style="color: #f8083b; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: FangSong; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: FangSong; mso-hansi-font-family: FangSong; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span><span style="color: #f8083b; font-family: FangSong;"> So I went solo amongst all the
couples that attend birthing classes. Kind of awkward that I took my mum? I don’t
think so. After all, she’s had two babies with no form of epidural/caesarean etc
– I think she’s pretty qualified </span><span style="color: #f8083b; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: FangSong; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: FangSong; mso-hansi-font-family: FangSong; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #f8083b; font-family: FangSong;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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epidural consent form. Apparently, if you have not signed a consent form BEFORE
LABOR BEGINS they will not give you an epidural, even if you beg and cry. So I
thought better to be safe than sorry! Though I’m still going for hypnobirthing
and waterbirthing without drugs (hopefully) you never know what might happen. Also, I've heard posterior births may be more painful...</span></span></div>
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up, spine next to my spine):<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anterior position (Head down,
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around, we can still have a natural birth but, as the lady showed us with a set
of fake hips and a doll, the head doesn't fit as well when baby is facing
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<span style="color: #f8083b; font-family: FangSong;">So, getting back on track, handed in
epidural form, and learned about different stages of labour, ways of managing
pain (ie: Gas, morphine/pethidine, epidural, etc) as well as some natural techniques
such as hot water. No mention of hypnosis though… hmm. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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me tell you, it is still just as scary to watch a baby crown when you are 26,
as to when you were 13 and shown a random video of 70s ‘afro-lady’ crowning in
sex ed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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want to you-tube it, but don’t. You can’t unwatch it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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end and won’t have to watch. Although apparently you can request a mirror. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for another few hours (very good session, really!) and what to do with a
newborn – what will you need when you go home from the hospital? How can you
prevent SIDS? What are the questions most new mothers ask?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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knowledgeable midwives with lots of experience. Also, they had tasty sandwiches
for lunch. Quite sad Justin missed it, actually!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(Well, can’t go to the coast – CIVILISATION! – without doing some shopping…)
and I finished my year 11 reports.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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did some hypnosis practise for relaxation and labour – Have some fabulous
visualisations to practise, and was reminded that doing proper hypnosis (for 20
minutes) is as good as a few hours sleep! Am feeling much more competent and
comfortable with the hypnobirthing idea, though I am deviating slightly from
their suggested methods and adding some that Dad uses with his patients.</span></div>
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myself on a beach, with waves gently surging over my torso, but that ‘fake’ me
on the beach was visualising a flower opening (cervical dilation visualisation)…</span></span></div>
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a few days time (HOLY CRAP – Tomorrow actually!) so here’s to hoping Baby
Bechaz doesn’t make an appearance until at least week 38/39, as I am six hours
away from my preferred hospital and Obstetrician!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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finish marking and reporting and make a ‘clean break’ from Bilo in a few days
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Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-85770664394767656422012-12-02T08:40:00.000+10:002012-12-02T08:41:34.117+10:00Less than a month until our due date... *freakout*<br />
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36<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Comparison: As long as a stalk of Swiss Chard/A leek. Or, as I like to tell
Justin, as long as the size of a 17inch laptop screen.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Cravings/Aversions:
I certainly wouldn’t say ‘cravings’ or ‘aversions’ but Ice-blocks are great
right now, as is corn, muesli (which I usually hate) and anything satay. Hated
foods mostly extend to anything super smelly (still).</span></div>
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Counter: Less than previously, but more vigorous kicking in the ribs. Baby
Muffin responds to loud noises like clapping, loud music and yelling. There has
been some extensive dance movement lately where my tummy seems to do a Mexican
wave in several places. Also, there’s still a foot jammed in my right bottom
rib.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Husband’s
Excitement Metre: Learned how to put on a nappy yesterday. Not rocket science,
but at least he’s interested. </span><span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-bidi-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "MV Boli"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></div>
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can no longer shave my legs standing up in the shower. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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are the devil. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "MV Boli";">People
will part like Moses and the Red Sea for a Pregnant lady on her way to the loo.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Holy crap.
We’ve reached Week 35. Despite me being super positive about the baby and the
pregnancy, it is always a revelation every time we reach a new week or
milestone… and now there’s only, like, 4 - 5 weeks to go.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">FOUR –
FIVE WEEKS, PEOPLE!!!! AND NOTHING IS READY!!!!!! ESPECIALLY ME!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Note that
the tone of panic in my words is not from lack of wanting a baby – little
Muffin is the best thing ever and I am so excited to meet her.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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also wetting myself in fear.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">A first
time parent (to a human – we do have two dogs, but you can’t exactly just put a
baby outside and scatter food on the ground when they get annoying and hungry)
I am freaking out at the prospect of being in charge of someone other than
myself. It’s not going to be easy. There will be very rare ‘me’ time or ‘alone’
time – and, I’m not going to lie, I like being alone quite often.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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just hand the baby to someone else and wipe our hands and say ‘done for the
day’. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Obviously
the amount of joy and love we feel for the baby outweighs any of these menial
things, however, it just struck me that this will occur. Like, I’ve known it
was going to happen – I’m not an idiot – but it’s just hit home. Four weeks of
baby-free time left!</span></div>
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exactly feel like skydiving or going to a rave, but it’s nice to know I could
if I wanted to. Or, could have (past tense) in pre-pregnancy terms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">So this
week only a few things have to happen – <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Complete
all marking of assessment when it comes in.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Complete
all reporting on students when they come in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Photograph
all student work for SAS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Pack
bags for coast.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Clean
house, vacuum, provide meals for self and Justin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">keep
food in fridge, keep dogs fed and healthy, keep remaining plants alive (Two
left out of six).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Spend
time cooing and patting unborn child so she knows who I am when she comes out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Practise
songs for Carols by Candlelight next week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Ensure
cheerleaders are ready with their dances.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Find
something to wear for Carols by Candlelight as all clothes now look like sacks
(maternity gear) or cling-film (normal clothes).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">At
some point, FIX EYEBROWS so you don’t look like a wookie, and shave legs if you
can reach them. (Justin has refused to help in this regard – I now need a chair
to reach toes in the shower as I am afraid of falling down and not being able
to get up again and drowning miserably in lukewarm water as the hot water
heater gives out…)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Continue
to check up on house (Slab and frame are up this week! Hopefully roof soon!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">FREAKING
RELAX AND PRACTISE YOUR HYPNOBIRTHING!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Am
starting to worry that lack of practise will ensure hypnobirthing method won’t
work, and I’ll have to get an epidural or something. I just really, really,
really want to deliver drug-free and naturally, but I suppose sometimes it just
doesn’t happen. I’ve been practising, but finding the time is difficult at the
moment. Not to mention I’m a bit tense with all this stuff that has to get
done. I’ve been watching some amazing hypnobirthing videos on youtube which
either give me a false sense of security of how amazing it is going to be, or
make me freak out at how I’ll never obtain the amazing state of calm that these
women have during their birthing!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">One woman
was talking about her surges (contractions) being like the ocean, and she
imagined dolphins swimming merrily beneath the waves. All my mind went to when
attempting to conjure this vision, was how pods of dolphins sometimes brutally
attack orca whales and sharks when they invade their territory. Mmmm. Calming.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Anyway –
am conjuring visions of waves on a beach, dogs playing in the water, swimming
in rockpools, etc, and am making a playlist of music that calms me. After
trying Enya and Classical music, I am still partial to old-school Silverchair
and The Living End, which may not provide adequate stimulation for the whole
‘calm birth’ thing. Especially for the midwives.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Well –
let’s attempt week 36 in style! It will my teaching career take a brief (or
long) recess as of Thursday afternoon – then maternity leave kicks in! One week
left in Bilo before heading to the Sunshine Coast for some R&R and a few
doctor’s visits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Lots of
love – wish me luck with the marking!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "MV Boli";">Rhonie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-82276885458423973462012-11-25T15:14:00.003+10:002012-11-25T15:17:25.071+10:00Formal, Baby Shower, and One Tiny Dose of Reality<br />
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rockmelon or a honeydew </span><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Cravings:</span></b><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None. Really, I am just eating normally at the
moment (it’s so hot, I don’t feel like eating at all!)</span><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Aversions:</span></b><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Heat and bras. If there was a way to go bra-less without being a hippy and/or knocking people out, I would welcome it with open arms.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span> </div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Husbands’ excitement metre:</span></b><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Excitement surrounded the baby shower (well,
for him it was a ‘beer shower’)</span><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Mini-Muffin Kick-Counter:</span></b><span style="color: #4de5a0; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many! They keep getting stronger, but there
are less large movements like rolling over now that she’s taking up more space!
She’s upside down on a diagonal at the moment, so all the kicking (and there’s
a lot of it!) is onto my bottom right ribs! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So, ready for the weekly dose of TMI? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">My tummy is now so big that when I
slouch, my boobs and tummy touch each other. And, to be honest, the boobs
have only gone up about a cup size. I can just see myself doing the preggy
waddle. The rest of me is generally the same size, just the tummy has expanded
(IMMENSELY!) which is hopefully a good thing! And, sadly, stretch marks have made their way onto the scene. Well, small price to pay.</span></div>
<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">As I’m far away from my obstetrician,
Dad and Mum bought me a blood-pressure monitor. I still don’t really know what
the numbers mean, but if they go above 130ish I should call my doctor
apparently. Dad said it should be around 110/70ish.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Thought I was <span style="font-size: large;">dying</span> yesterday when it
said 99/50, but turns out I had the damn thing on wrong. Epic fail. </span></div>
<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It was 40 degrees Celsius here on the
weekend. <span style="font-size: large;">FORTY!!</span> With an average of around 34 this week, it’s going to be a
scorcher. Our aircon is struggling to keep up, and I have to admit, I’m
certainly feeling it. Not to mention I sweat like twelve litres a day and
hardly have to go to the loo anymore (despite drinking around four litres </span><span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">–</span><span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> no joke </span><span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">–</span><span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> during the day)
Gross or what. I simply cannot drink more water!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br />So this week was FORMAL WEEK for my
twelves! They all looked gorgeous, of course, dressed up in their finery and
finishing the night by Gangnam Styling. Very grown up and making me feel old! I
will miss them, but it’s great to see them go their own path and grow up a bit!
Some of them might find that the workplace is very different to school on how
lazy you can be and get away with it. </span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So I got dressed up in my expandable
formal dress and (god forbid) some heels. Not massive ones. Just about three
inches. No sweat, right?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "MV Boli"; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">REGRET!!!!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Why</span></i><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> did I wear the heels? TELL ME WHY!! Because I’m an idiot who constantly
has to pretend that she can do everything she used to be able to do before baby
started to get huge. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Stupid statements I have made over the past few weeks:</span></i></div>
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can still fit around the storeroom cup board in the art room. No problems.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #72eb47; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I
can still sit on the carpet with the kids. Getting back up will be easy!<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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can wear high heels and a formal dress and curl my hair and I will feel
like a princess!<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #72eb47; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Sure,
I love watching everyone drink while I’m sober. It’s awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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disgustingly oily and capsicum topped pizza won’t come back to haunt me.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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stairs? What stairs? I’m awesome at stairs! Give me more stairs!<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So how did these turn out, you ask?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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got stuck in one of the compactors and had to lever myself out with my
back against one wall and knees against the other, resulting in paint and
various other art room supplies getting all over my clothes.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #72eb47; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Sat
down with a slightly larger ‘thump’ than usual (I forgot how far away the
ground was) and three (THREE!!) year tens had to help me back up again.
Mortified.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #72eb47; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">End
of night = me feeling like a ball of sweaty, blistered molasses-covered gummi bear.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color: #72eb47; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2;"><span style="font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Despite the grossness of drunk people, it can actually be kind of awesome. Hilarious things happen when drunk, and often,
when you are drunk yourself, it is forgotten the next day. As the pregnant
Designated Driver, I remember ALLLLLLL! *evil laugh and bribery to
commence*<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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haunted me. Oh, for the love of god, it haunted me.<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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is the break down of Rhonie climbing stairs:<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Part 1:
<strong>Overconfidence</strong>: Takes five stairs quite quickly.<br />
Part 2: <strong>Still overestimating ability despite climbing heartrate and sore legs</strong>:
Takes next three stairs at a slower pace.<br />
Part 3: <strong>Drastic reality check:</strong> Burning legs, breathing like a walrus, makes it to
the top of flight of 20 stairs in just under four minutes.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So, yes, I am constantly telling
myself to slow down, as is everyone else, but stubborn little me has to keep
pushing up the hill like the little train that could. Well, eight days left of
school and I will be forced into relaxing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Second part of the week (well, day after formal) BABY SHOWER DAY!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Made special by three lovely ladies </span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">–</span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Maddi Simons, Stacy Condell and Lynesha Stainer </span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">–</span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> who organised, cooked and crafted their way into a beautiful baby shower (despite the 40 degree heat and the copious amount of flies that decided to join us for the day!).<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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One of Stacy's Delicious Dishes!<br />
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The Gorgeous Kath doing some Scrapbooking at the station Lynesha set up.<br />
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The enormous and delicious chocolate cake ordered by Maddi!<br />
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Cake Cutting Time!</div>
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A small portion of the AMAZING, generous gifts from the lovely ladies!<br />
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Some of the Onesies made by my talented friends! (Lynesha, Yanah, Emily, Ebony & Ella's feet!, Ruth's beautiful rainbow!)</div>
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Stunning Quilt made by Kath :)<br />
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<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It was simply gorgeous! Lots of
rushing around to get ready (we ran a little late with our decorating and games
and photos but generally got back on track!). The day was made up by around
sixteen lovely ladies, several party games, lots of onesie decorating, due-date
guessing and name-suggesting,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and NAPPY
RACES.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It was wonderful </span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Muffin and I were
so spoiled by the lovely people who came, and the beautiful gifts we were
given! She will by far be the best dressed baby with the most gorgeous room
everrrrr! Thank you to all the lovely ladies (and families) who gave us generous
gifts </span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Basically, the afternoon was simply
lovely! We feel so blessed to have you in our lives!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Afterwards we retired for a rest
(after packing away) and chilled downstairs with a glass of wine (not me </span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">–</span><span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Carolyn and
Maddi!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">After such a huge weekend, it’s taken
me a few days to recover! I’m still putting away presents and nappies (in
total, I think we received over four hundred nappies from the nappy tower!) and
finishing washing up, vacuuming and all the other jobs that didn’t get done on
the weekend!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So now it’s time to focus on our
house (the slab got poured on Friday!) and work for the final two weeks! Then
it’s to the coast for chilling out, maybe some sewing, active birthing classes
and, eventually, if we can fit it in, actually having a baby!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Whew! Exhaustion! But it was well
worth it! Fabulous Week 34!</span><br />
<span style="color: #72eb47; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #4be7d8; font-family: "Airplanes in the Night Sky"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="font-size: large;">Love to everyone involved! YOU ARE ALL AMAZING!!</span></span><br />
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<u>just for you</u> when you are born - It's almost half way done!</span><br />
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jicama?) OR a rockmelon! Approx 1.8-2kgs and 40-43cms from head to heel!! </span></div>
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as kicking increases and the magical day draws nearer.</span></div>
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ribs when she feels like she’s not getting enough attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also my bladder. Thanks Miss Muffin.</span></div>
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Muffin’s pre-birth growing! The last three weeks have held several fun and
interesting developments! Our nursery is looking less sparse (and actually has
furniture), I have been happily snapped by several amazing photographers at the
Biloela Camera Club, and visited the Doc for a check up. We’ve also written our
birth ‘plan’ (or as I like to say – guidelines) and already had to consider compromising
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and been assembled. </span><span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Also, I
found an adorable pink princess mosquito net on ebay (with daisies all over it)
to hang above the cot. So girly. Justin groaned, but also agrees it is
adorable. All looks safe and</span><span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> gorgeous, no scratches or bumps, and nothing has completely fallen apart... except...</span></div>
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because I assembled it, either! I put the whole thing together, only to slip
the drawer in at the end... and have one of the tracks fall off. Yeah.
Annoying. On the upside they will probably replace the pieces for us. </span></div>
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just to have a check up etc – my lovely doctor wants me down a week earlier
than we had originally planned... I certainly don’t want to go into labour up
here, but at the same time, I’m planning on going down two weeks before the due
date at 38 weeks. Will have a think about it and see how future appointments
go! The blood pressure was a little high, but just have to keep an eye on it.
Exciting to hear Miss Muffin’s heartbeat again, but didn’t get to have an
ultrasound this time (aww, no baby photos!). Good news is Dr B is happy for us
to try water birthing, hypnobirthing and other forms of natural pain relief. As
previously stated, I reserve the right to call for an epidural! We’ll see how
it goes!</span></div>
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asked by the lovely people at the Biloela Camera Club to be a pregnancy model
for them! (Why they asked me, I have no idea! I certainly don’t feel ‘model
like’ right now!) But my goodness they can do amazing things with a camera! Here
are some of my favourites!</span></div>
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(where we’re staying on the coast for a couple of weeks after baby is born) is
slowly filling up with baby things. Mum has purchased 100 nappies, several
dummies, baby wipes, and formula for emergencies! The bassinet is set up, the
change table is ready and the bouncer has been put together! I think we’re
ready well ahead of time in case of any ‘emergencies’!</span></div>
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Muffin has started playing with us (or so it feels)! She is currently upside
down on a diagonal with her feet kicking into my right rib. We have taken to
tickling her foot as she stretches, and she likes to kick at the spot where we
poke! Also I have been playing a tapping game with her when she is awake! I
tap, she kicks back. She’s pretty adorable, not that I’m biased. </span></div>
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fetal positioning’ exercises after sitting in the car for several hours! Next
time will post a picture of the baby blanket I am crocheting for Missy Muffin.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Mini-Muffin Kick-Counter:</span></b><span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rib kicking has become more frequent. Also I
can feel her head poke out occasionally. There is a pattern to her kicks now
(as far as I can tell) and it starts as soon as I lie down for a rest... haha.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So this week I went ahead and ordered
a cot and change table (even though the baby will be in a bassinet for the
first few months), some children’s books (Magic Beach, Bibs and Boots, and
Happy and Sad by Alison Lester and the Very Hungry Caterpillar puppet book!!
Okay, more for me than the child... it’s never too early to read to your
child!), a breast pump, a microwave bottle sterilizer, and several bottles. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Overboard? I like to think
‘prepared’. Also ‘broke’. The Bechaz’s don’t do things by halves. It’s as if
Justin and I were like ‘Hey! You know what would be super awesome and easy to
do? Let’s buy a house and have a baby at the SAME TIME! Oh, and let’s go on a
holiday to Tasmania while we’re at it!’</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Yeah. We’re geniuses. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">No regrets about any of it, but it’s
certainly left us with a lot less ‘throw around’ cash. I’ve had to buy Migoreng
noodles for the first time in a while... but I refuse to purchase one-ply
toilet paper. That is inhumane considering how many times a day I have to pee.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So we’re working hard for the money,
and seeing it all go on baby items. Also, my lovely friends have decided to
plan a baby shower – so my life has been very ‘baby oriented’ this week. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Also, it’s been super hot. Scorching,
even. In the 30’s every day (38 two days ago... WTF?!) and it’s only October!
Swimming has become an exciting exercise, although all I do is get a kickboard
and waddle (can you waddle while swimming?) from one end of the pool to the
other a few times while I’m out-stripped by passing four year olds. At least it
is very unlikely I will drown, as I have a built in floatation device. Between
the bump and my boobs I could have stopped the Titanic from sinking.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Oh, the main hull is all ripped up
from that iceberg, huh? Well, just bung a few pregnant ladies on it. She’ll be
right!”</span></i></div>
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yesterday. Forward somersault, Backward somersault, Handstand with kicky legs,
present!</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">NAILED IT! Some people possibly
thought I was a breaching whale, but otherwise it went fabulously!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Something about being in the water is
very relaxing – the weightlessness is fabulous and makes it feel as though
you’re not actually exercising! I may in fact continue it after the baby is
born! Haha.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Thank you to all those mums (and
dads) who replied to my questions from last week! I received so many helpful
(and varied!) answers to all! Have learned random things like what to do with
the baby so you can have a shower (wait until asleep and take baby monitor with
you!), bouncers = either saviours or cradles of doom depending on the baby, and
the majority of mums said they couldn’t live without electric breast pumps,
baby monitors, and baby slings! (And one Chiropractor – thanks Bronwyn!) So
much information – will have to test them all out and see which ones work for
us!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Also – this week have been asked to
do a pregnancy photo shoot with the Camera Club. Quite excited (and nervous!)
but looking forward to it! Justin has opted out, but I plan on coercing him to
get some photos done with me before the baby is born, and then the three of us
after Muffin is here!</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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Muffin arrives! Starting to freak out and am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO excited! Can’t
wait to meet her but also LOVE being pregnant! </span><span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Anyway – off to practise my hypno
birthing! Currently listening to relaxation music including Enya and
Thunderstorm re-enactments. </span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #66ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">LOVE</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Fruit to Fetus Comparison</span></b><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">: </span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">the weight of four oranges! (approx
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Mini-Muffin Kick-Counter:</span></b><span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">lots of kicks and occasional stamps –
occasionally she will shove a foot/elbow/head into one side of my tummy and
make it look like she is going to burst out of it like an alien... Also, as
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soon as someone puts a hand on my tummy! </span></div>
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the girls – very enjoyable experience! I miss swimming at the coast, although
my fitness and breathing is totally shot, I felt so much lighter and mobile
than I do walking around at the moment! The lack of gravity was very welcome as
I didn’t have to waddle and the lower back pain that has begun to twinge was
virtually non existent!</span></div>
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icecream and lollies I have lately consumed!). My veins have gone into hiding
again for some reason – four jabs later<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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I have once had!) the worst feeling is when they stick the needle in and wiggle
it around a bit trying to poke the vein under the skin! Makes me want to
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lying in bed that my tummy now carries me onto my side if I tilt slightly in
once direction! According to our ObGyn she is now inverted with her head facing
downwards (a good thing!) which I found is less comfortable on the bladder, as
the head is quite heavy! On a particularly bumpy car ride (for four hours!) it
was super uncomfortable to feel something heavy (baby) smashing into my
organs/bladder/whatever else is down there every time we hit a pothole! Ended
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Muffin! (Clothes don’t count – have been doing that for weeks!) We have finally
purchased (on order) a stroller and car seat combo (for the first few months),
and have bid (on ebay) on the cot we want! It is super cute and white and has a
matching change table thingy. I am excited for the decorating of it! Obviously
we won’t need the cot too much until Muffin reaches around 3 – 5 months and
gets too big for the bassinet. Which coincidentally lines up with when we move
into the new house! PERFECT! Oh yes, also we’re purchasing a bassinet, so we
are quite broke (even with our fabulous family who continually offers to
purchase us things!), but much of our baby purchasing is done </span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> EXCITING!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Feeling fat but kind of loving the
shape actually! For once it’s not my boobs that prevent me from seeing my toes </span><span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">:)</span></span><span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></div>
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parents out there!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #fbde09; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #fbde09; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Where does the baby go/what does it
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #fbde09; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I am a little nervous about this
because there’s not a lot of room to put a stroller/bassinet in our current
shower room! I assume you don’t take the baby in with you – the whole
drowning/slipping/general dangerousness is bad</span></i><span style="color: #fbde09; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Baby Bouncers – for or against? Why?
Please state good reason! (By bouncer I mean the thing that they sit in when
they’re really little, not the swing-like-contraption that looks like a bungee
swing. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like this one (Pretty colours!)</span></div>
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<div class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18.0pt;">
<span style="color: #cc0066; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #cc0066; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">What is the one thing you could not
do without as a new mum (apart from furniture and nappies and bottles/etc that
are ‘essentials’)</span></div>
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It was an amazing holiday for our Two Year anniversary and also our last one
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baby related, though we have decided on a pram (I think) and know what kind of
cot set we want. I was sorely tempted to go all girly and buy some adorable
purple soft baby-fairy-wings when we were at Salamanca Markets in Hobart, but
the problem was getting them back to Bilo, as we already had to carry some art
and a second hand complete illustrated works of Lewis Carroll (Awesome find!).
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being a married couple for a bit longer – might get a bit tough to appreciate each other
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smells like milky-baby-vomit and/or poop. Though I’m sure we’ll love that too!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I guess I just really felt the love
for Justin – I don’t often make time to appreciate him and his awesomeness and everything
he does for me, so it was lovely just to get time together.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
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size of a basketball. Literally – I’ve been told this is the case, and
apparently that’s normal. My tummy has really ‘popped’ and I feel super fat
right now. It’s officially, trying to do up any form of denim is completely out
of the question, even with sucking in and squeezing (probably not great!). The
rest of me is normal sized (mostly... boobs are kind of huge still but that’s
normal for me) and fits my clothes – it’s just my tummy that kind of wrecks it!
Trying to feel the ‘beauty’ of being huge but after spending the majority of
your life dieting and trying to look stunningly great with your curves (even
though you want rid of them) it’s hard to love being large.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #cc0066; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Also. I now groan involuntarily when
getting up from tight spaces.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So week 28 is dedicated to getting a
test for gestational diabetes (apparently also a normal test... I hate
needles!), working on getting fabulously good at hypnobirthing and self-hypnosis
for a potentially ‘drug free’ birth (I reserve the right to revoke this and cry
‘epidural’ at any given point in the birthing process) and convincing my
fabulous doctor that I can work until the end of the year.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #0066ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Doctor B is not keen. Neither are my
parents. Of course, any sign of problems and I’ll take time off, but I would like
to finish the year off if possible! </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #00cc00; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Have booked in for ante-natal classes
(full day courses at the Buderim Hospital) and an Active Birthing class (Justin
is going to love all the fun labour positions we get to try out).</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #fbde09; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Updates on hospital induction, blood
tests, ultrasounds and belly photos etc in next post.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Change is as good as a holiday... but
also a holiday is as good as a holiday! Time to return to Biloela less stressed
and more in tune with my husband and myself.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #cc0066; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Lots of love,</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="color: #660066; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Rhonie xxxx</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: purple;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Week of Pregnancy: </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">25</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: purple;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Fruit to Fetus Comparison</span></b><span style="font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">: Still an eggplant, only one of the larger
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<span style="background-color: purple;"><span style="color: yellow;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Mini-Muffin Kick-Counter:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Still less than a couple of weeks ago
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and less sweet – work has been hectic, literally every waking moment has been
dedicated to marking all assignments (over 165 kids that I teach – some classes
have two assignments due) and doing Year 12 Verification folios (fingers
crossed they don’t get slammed as it’s my first year sending away Visual Art
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had a lot of attention this week. Instead, I have been introduced to the
not-so-joyous twins, Reflux and Heartburn. They follow me wherever I go –
whether it be eating an immense amount of lollies and chocolates with my (also
stressed out) staffroom, or cramming pizza in my hole for dinner; the twins are
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much, but by the time I get home after a 12 – 14 hr day (some days are blinking
awful) I don’t feel like cooking or preparing anything of substance. So we have
packet food loaded with carbohydrates and very little protein. I’ve tried to
add vegetables where possible (on top of a packet pizza, adding peas to a meal
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unfinished, but verification is done. Art room is a mess, profiles unfinished,
students picking up on my stress levels. Also, I don’t fit in some corners of
the storeroom anymore, which makes it difficult to get items that kids need.
Fab times, people.</span></div>
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December is the final week of school, my due date is the 26<sup>th</sup> of December...
needless to say he is not pleased with my hope to work up until the last week
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FABULOUS </span></span>Tasmanian get-away! I can’t wait for husband time and to see part of
the great Australian Landscape I haven’t seen before! </span><span style="color: #ff33cc; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #ff33cc; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Also hopefully some seals/penguins/Tasmanian
devils!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff33cc; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Love xxx</span></div>
Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-76456546984903831972012-09-11T21:43:00.003+10:002012-09-11T21:44:35.309+10:00So, hold on a sec... how does this baby get out of my uterus? THIS JUST GOT REAL!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 26.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So,
hold on a sec... how does this baby get out of my uterus? </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Week of Pregnancy: </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">23/24</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Fruit to Fetus Comparison</span></b><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">: </span><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Eggplant (Approx 760grams and 30 cms
long)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Cravings:</span></b><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
</span><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oranges, Icecream and Cold Water – Getting
warmer!<br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Aversions:</span></b><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Bread & Sugars don’t sit well
with me, but I eat them anyway...</span><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Husbands’ excitement metre:</b> </span><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stressed. Babies cost a lot.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Mini-Muffin Kick-Counter:</span></b><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Slowed a bit this week – still some
kicks, but I think I’ve been too busy to notice the small ones!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So this week marks around 15 weeks
until Miss Muffin is born. Which means around 105 days remaining. So I’ve got
to thinking... how is this baby going to get out of me? Though I'm clued up enough to know that she won't be bursting through my stomach like in <i>Alien</i>, but the options are overwhelming! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Like, we’ve totally talked about
having a ‘Natural Birth’ if possible, but I’ve never really thought about what
it’s going to feel like having to go through what has been described as 'the
most intense pain most women have ever felt'. Yeah, not giving me a lot of
confidence. On the other hand, a lot of women go back for a second pregnancy or
more, so it really can’t be intolerable. I’m thinking on a scale of ‘standing
on a lego’ to ‘being torn apart by sharks’ it’s somewhere in the middle.
Possibly closer to the shark side. Again, this doesn’t give me a lot of
confidence, and makes me strongly consider the drugs option as I can be a bit
of a wuss, but I’d like to think I could do it. Women have been doing it since
the dawn of time, right?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But, you may ask, why not just get
drugged up? Well, though this is a great option that may end up happening, I
figure this is the only time I’m going to give birth for the<i> first time</i>, so why
not feel the whole thing. If it’s too much, don’t do it next time! Perhaps it’s
the hippy in my heart, but nature usually only throws things at you that you
can physically handle (obviously this is a general scenario, not a complicated
pregnancy!) so it’s not like my body will rip in two, though perhaps it may
feel like it. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Anyway, call me an idiot, but I don’t
want to take the easy way out – I want to experience the birth of my daughter
as much as possible. If that means an epidural five minutes after our arrival
at the hospital, well that’s what will happen. I guess all you can have is
preferences, and those preferences will change as the situation changes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On a more exciting note... I WENT
SHOPPING TODAY! Okay – Actually, I had an hour to kill before my ultrasound
appointment, so I went to the shopping centre and Mother Care.. and Spotlight.
I’m a speed shopper.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And I bought a few more pink things
to give our little cherub so she doesn’t have to run around naked for the first
few days (although in December it will be so hot she might as well be!)
INCLUDING a tiny, pink, frilly swimsuit in 000 size!! I don’t know how much it
will get used – most babies swim naked – but it’s so adorable and was on sale I
had to get it!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I also found some pink maternity
jeans, and material with ponies on it that I plan to turn into ruffle
nappy-covers! Oh-golly-gosh our poor daughter is going to be so cute it will
hurt to look at her for too long. I am a little ashamed of myself as nearly
everything I bought was distinctly girly, after saying I was hoping to go a
little bit more ‘femmie’ and not force our daughter into being a girly girl.
But let’s face it, with me as a mum, she’s going to be exposed to a lot of
ponies, rainbows, fairies and dancing. If she decides to join the local Rugby
Team, cut her hair short and wear men’s football jerseys, so be it. To me, that’s
fine when she’s old enough to make choices about her life, we will discuss it
and encourage her to follow her dream. Just like baptism/christening – her choice
when she’s old enough to make it! But... I guess parents can’t help but push
their own loves of things they enjoy onto their kids when they’re young. On the
upside – Justin will balance out my overtly bubbly girly Musical-loving
extrovert personality with his inadvertent ‘greige’ and love of AFL and
computers. I figure our girl will fit somewhere in between. Or not at all. Or
love sport. Anyway – that’s for the future to decide. For now, she will wear
pink (and other colours!) and frills, and tiny pink frilly swimsuits, because
she has no choice and can’t defend herself. BAHAHAHA! So here’s what she’s
going to wear...</span></div>
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very tiny – looks big in the picture but is much smaller)</span></div>
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decals! Love the white & pink trees for Muffin’s room!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="http://www.mymunchkinhome.com.au/store/pc/home.asp" target="_blank">My Munchkin</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In the mean time – I will think of
several ways to get this child safely out of my uterus. Here are the current
options. Justin thinks a) and b) are nuts.</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="color: #cc3399; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Water Birth & Hypnotherapy (personal favourite)</span></div>
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the day.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 17.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The joys of being
kicked in your sleep and no longer fitting in small spaces...</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Fruit to Fetus Comparison</span></b><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">: </span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Spaghetti Squash/Ear of corn (Approx
400-450gms and 28cms)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Cravings:</span></b><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
</span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sugar and naughty food. </span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Have been resisting
the urge as much as possible, and trying to eat healthy! <i>I don't know if you can get olfactory cravings, but t</i></span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><i>he smell of jasmine (in flower!!) is heavenly and I just want to smell it all the time! </i></span></div>
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</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Aversions:</span></b><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Bread gives me <b><span style="font-size: large;">core-of-the-earth</span></b> heartburn (Says the
girl who used to eat hot curries)</span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Husbands’ excitement metre:</b> </span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Excited!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Mini-Muffin Kick-Counter:</span></b><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Kick-a-rific! Up to around 20 – 30 a
day (mini ones mostly!) very active muffin at the moment!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So this week Miss Muffin has
contented herself with using my body as a personal gym. I’m sure this is only
to get worse as the weeks go on, but some very big, surprising, kicks have been
happening this week! So big, in fact, that <span style="font-size: large;"><b>JUSTIN CAN FEEL THEM</b></span>! Yes! Finally
Justin can be physically involved in this pregnancy, other than donating some
DNA. Obviously he’s been present for ultrasounds and has dealt with all the
emotional eating/crying/sleeping, but the fact that he can feel our daughter move
is very <u><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">very</span> </u>cool!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">We are in the midst of
buying/designing a house at the moment, and he is getting very ‘nesty’. I’m
sure this will be me in a few weeks (and I’m excited about the decorating) but
for once Justin is the one excited about room size and floor space, while I get
to daydream about painting the walls and planting a garden.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Apart from the kicking (which has
been upgraded from ‘goldfish/popcorn’ status to ‘someone is flicking the inside
of </span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">my</span><span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> tummy with a plastic ruler’ status) nothing much has been happening this week! I have much
more energy, which is good, because there’s a lot more to do at the moment
(work, house, extra-curricular etc).</span></div>
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usual, but this is possibly to do with work more than anything else. I feel
less like myself and more like a ‘grey’ version of me, which is not so great.
Whinging emo that I am. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">On a more hilarious note, I’m finding
it hard to navigate the art room storeroom, and often find myself having to go
around things that normally I could just slip in between. We have large
compacting shelves, and when they are slightly overstocked,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to send students in to get things
rather than go myself. They laugh at me. Also it might have been because I
turned one of my eyebrows green today with Lino-printing ink.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Not to mention (another pregnant-art-teacher-related-problem)
I find the bottom part of my tummy now protrudes so much that it is starting to
get in the way of my art teaching. Ie: My clothes have a line of
paint/graphite/lino ink/glue on them permanently (have taken to wearing aprons)
and I get prodded by waist-level objects a lot. Also my students find it
hilarious that I have to ask them to move their chairs in to the tables so I
can get past. Only half way, and not THAT huge, I can’t imagine how this is
going to work in 15 weeks time!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ffc000; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Yes, people, I’m planning on working until
the end of the year. I am mentally preparing myself for the possibility of failure, as this is dependent on health, heat and how grumpy I am. My
midwife (bless her) looked at me like I was crazy when I said I wanted to work
up until the end of the year, but what else am I going to do? It’s not like I
have a choice to sit at home and do nothing (I’ll go crazy, and we need money
to buy a house!). It would be much smarter, considering our daughter’s due
date, to take maternity leave starting next year, and get normal pay over the
holidays. Of course, when have babies ever understood the concept of smartly timed maternity leave? She'll come when she darn well wants to, and do with my body what she will in the meantime!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">In saying that, I have to get a certificate saying I can work (with
doctor’s permission) up until the end of the year. Otherwise I have to stop
around week 6 next term, due to government law. Fingers crossed our lovely
doctor (and Miss Muffin) allow this to happen!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Anyway, maternity leave or not, it’s
a tough gig at the moment! Off to finish the work-load and get kicked as I
attempt to sleep! Here’s what I want to do to Miss Muffin’s bedroom in our
potential new home (fingers crossed! Not definite yet!) I love this colour with the white cot and furniture :) Simple but gorgeous!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="color: orange;">And just for interest - blue for girls a big no-no? I don't think so, but tell me what you think! There will also be many forms of rainbow and colourful things in there :)</span></span></div>
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We’re running out of fruuuuit!</span></div>
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you the fruit your baby is closest to!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.babycenter.com/slideshow-baby-size" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #cc00ff;">Fruit to Fetus</span></span></a></span></div>
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might eat a few oranges and some vegetables and meat, but I’ve also eaten
nearly a litre of cookies and cream icecream in a couple of days... Have put on
5kgs so far and am only half way through!! (OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD!)<br />
</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Aversions:</span></b><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Freaking nothing. Why can’t I have
aversions to dairy products and sugar?</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Husbands’ excitement metre:</b> </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Chillin. Justin more or less. See
emotional scale below.</span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Giddyup Std"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mini-Muffin Kick-Counter:</b> </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Many kicks, especially after icecream
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weeks have been hectic, so I didn’t really post a lot last week. I did write a
letter, with some small contributions by Justin. I’ve been noticing a lot of
fluctuations in my mood since becoming pregnant – especially random snappiness
(yes, I admit, I’ve been less charming lately), whining and complaining,
nagging, but also some super-highs and bouts of laughing when Miss Muffin kicks
me in the guts. I have drawn a comparison scale of Justin’s emotions, compared
to mine. Please see the legend below to figure out who is who... in case you
couldn’t tell. Also, the numbers on the scale depict the reason for the
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douches. Most were nice but were cancelled out by the kid trying to cut his
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and discomfort. This causes grumpiness. Wonder if I have depression. Call self
stupid for thinking I have depression over an orange. Mentally slap self in
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project for Mini Muffin, even before we knew she was a girl! I started painting
some canvases for her room. They are rainbow (of course) and a little psychedelic,
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how that happened. Also, his horns are on fire. He needs eyes and to be
finished as does his background. Also, he is on a background of teal, not gross
dark green. My lighting is horrible in here.</span></div>
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make her feel she is above the other Zebras. She doesn’t realise they all call
her a cow behind her back. Maybe if Zelda focused on her career rather than her
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bananas. They are stereotypical, but call you racist if you say so. Obviously
there is a lot of mystery behind these two – what colour will they be? Well. We’ll
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hugs strangers. People regard Kayla with suspicion because of her height. She
resents them for this. Kayla needs eyes and proper background flora.</span></div>
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isn’t easy for her in the wild, as camouflage is nearly impossible. Satine
still needs facial features, as do the rest of the animals, but is by far the
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they’re done </span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="color: #cc00ff; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> Have a couple of projects to complete before Miss Muffin makes her
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Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-50186777437884497822012-08-15T21:21:00.000+10:002012-08-15T21:22:57.395+10:00Dear Mini-Muffin - Week 20<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #9999ff; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">You are now </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #9999ff; font-family: Calvin; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">21 weeks old</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #9999ff; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">, and around about </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #9999ff; font-family: AcmeFont; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">350grams</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #9999ff; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">. You are around
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lovely radiologist!) which has allowed Mummy and Daddy to halve their naming
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">We are all quite impressed with your glamour shots,
though you got a bit shy when the ultrasound tried to take your picture and
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #9999ff; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">You have started to move a lot in Mummy’s tummy,
and like to let her know you’re there when you’re not getting enough attention!
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be close to you! Mummy and Daddy want to build a house and have lots of
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Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-33048745869375463652012-08-06T19:09:00.001+10:002012-08-06T19:09:51.501+10:00The Life-Changing Question: Ballet or Football?<br />
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Question: Ballet or Football?</span></u></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Fruit to Fetus Comparison:</b> Mango or
larger! We’re running out of fruuuuit!<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Cravings:</b> Kinda over them and trying
not to eat crappy food. Failing on some days as I am too tired to cook something
decent. Or lazy.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Aversions:</b> Pork and pork products
(weird, I haven’t really had much pork since becoming pregnant – and the taste has
COMPLETELY changed!! It used to be my favourite roast meat!)<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Husbands’ excitement metre:</b> Trying
to keep it in, but smug in his ability to predict our child’s sex.<br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mini-Muffin Kick-Counter:</b> Up to
around about 10/20 felt flutters a day! Have decided it feels like your hands
cupping a flailing goldfish, and popcorn – rolled into one.</span></div>
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Let’s not live up to those sexist stereotypes!</span></i></div>
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only would we find out if our baby was healthy, but also what ‘favour’ of baby
we were having! (These were exact words of one of my students in grade 12 – I jokingly responded
‘hopefully not chocolate, or I’m in trouble...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>my husband is vanilla.”)</span></div>
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not really! We were super excited to find out either way so I could so some
serious shopping and start making gender-specific clothing for the first few
months of our child’s life. You know, for before the stage where they get to a
discernible sex and everyone says “what a cute little... boy? Girl? Monkey?” That could be
awkward, I wish to avoid that if possible. If our child wants to dress like the
opposite sex when they’re older, that’s up to them, but for now, I’m going to
dress them in as much pink/blue as necessary.</span></div>
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referral, doctors notes, etc from our last visit. Cried a little when students
were quite mean to me. Had a mini-break down. Freaked out that we would be
late. Worried we wouldn’t find the hospital. Stressed about a multitude of
things that could be wrong with mini-muffin. Excited and scared that we
would/wouldn’t find out the gender. Excited for shopping.</span></div>
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Chilled out a bit. Tells me not to freak out. Baby will be fine, and he
believes there is no doubt it will be a girl. Promises me Sizzler for dinner
after the scan to cheer me up.</span></div>
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drive in which every bump seemed like a roller coaster, as I am attempting to
drink a litre and a half of water in the space of an hour and a half. Hard to
do, surprisingly, especially while in the car and going up the ‘range’ of Mount
Morgan.</span></div>
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end, and are currently running 5 minutes late. We race through the hospital and
find CQMI (imaging/ultrasound/x-ray) and, slightly exhausted, are told by a
nice lady to wait for our turn and to fill out some forms. We wait in the waiting room for what seems like
forever (really only 20 minutes) before another nice young lady invites us through.</span></div>
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model-legs, which makes me feel like a heifer with a fat tummy and a butt the
size of Tasmania. I forgive her because she has warm ultrasound gel, rather
than the freezing stuff that most ultrasound facilities have.</span></div>
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squished this time around, as I’m holding a litre of water right next to its
house, and it’s grown a lot! I mean, A LOT! Legs are proportionate, body has caught
up (mostly) to the size of the ginormous head, little arms are waving madly!</span></div>
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– measuring the head, brain, spine, liver, kidneys, stomach, and anything else
she can find! She tells us that Mini-Muffin is indeed healthy, and perfectly
average in every way, shape and form! Here's a 3D image of Mini-Muffin with hands in front of face:</span></div>
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Approx height – 20cms (including legs)<br />
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gender?”<br />
Me: </span><span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">“OMIGODYES!!!” </span><span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">(Almost wee with excitement and the fact that I’m still holding on to
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<span style="color: #ff3399; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">“</span><span style="color: #ff3399; font-family: Cheri; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It</span><span style="color: #ff3399; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">’</span><span style="color: #ff3399; font-family: Cheri; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">s a girl!</span><span style="color: #ff3399; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: #ff3399; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Me: *SQUEEEEALLLLLL!*</span></i></span></div>
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Mini-Muffin is a girl – but I am too ecstatic and over the moon and don’t hear
a lot of it because of the current visions of tutus and pink. And soccer and
boxing, if she so wishes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Justin smirks smugly. Yes, he was right all along.
He has not once deviated from his belief that Mini-Muffin was a girl – and I
have to admit it! I utter the dreaded words... “You were right.” And I get the
notion that I will never live that down and it may be brought out as ammo in arguments for the rest of our lives.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It’s so strange how gender gives you a better idea
of what your baby could be like. Immediately, I feel so much more bonded to my
daughter growing inside my tummy simply because I know a bit more about her –
the simple fact that she has ovaries instead of testes. Boy or Girl, I think I
would have felt this way. Suddenly I feel like I know my child, not their
favourite colour, whether they like broccoli, what their hopes and dreams are
for the future, but that she is healthy, and she is a girl. Two things, really!
I am then allowed to empty my bladder, which is about the best feeling in the
world. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The small fact that our baby is a girl almost
allows me to ignore the next piece of news;</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The placenta is awfully low, and very close to the
cervix. Not great news, in the long run, if it chooses not to ‘move’.
Basically, if the placenta covers/is too close to the cervix, that makes it
hard to give birth naturally. All my thoughts and dreams of a natural, no-drugs
water birth go flying out the window as I’m told I may have to get a C-Section,
but not to panic, as there are still many weeks for it to move, and we will
check it out at the next ultrasound.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">I take the news surprisingly well for someone who’s
never had to be cut open before. I still have my appendix and tonsils, and all
I’m missing are my adenoids (which, really, isn’t much of a surgery). So I grin
and bear it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If</i> (I say that very strongly!! </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">IF</span></b><span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">) a C-Section is the best thing for Mini-Muffin and me, well, that’s
what we will do. I’ve heard it’s the ‘easiest’ birth, but hardest recovery. But,
of course, who wants to be cut open. Really? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">If, on the other hand, the placenta decides to
move, Justin and I may have some more arguments about me wanting to be a
screaming ball of mess when our child enters the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(He’s all for drugs, I’m sort of ‘meh’ about
the whole anaesthesia idea and would rather experience the whole thing... but
still reserve my right to have an epidural!). Whichever is the safest and best
choice (which we will weigh up when the time comes) we will do. No point in
arguing with the doctors who know what they’re doing!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">So, finally, we go to celebrate at Big W, and I buy
</span><span style="color: #ff3399; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">five pink/purple</span><span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;"> </span><span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">sets of clothes for newborns to baby size
0. (Including the most adorable frilly dress and a pair of </span><span style="color: #cc66ff; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">purple stretchy jean shorts</span><span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">) while Justin
rolls his eyes. THEN off to the real celebrations at SIZZLER! We eat, we chat,
we laugh, and then we drive (with very full bellies) home! I grin the majority
of the way home, thinking of the wonderful, special, active, and amazing little
girl I am growing my tummy, and how we will be parents in a matter of 19 – 21 weeks.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #00cc99; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">It truly is life-changing... and scares the pants off me...</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #cc66ff; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Love</span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc66ff; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Rhonie</span></div>Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1354995183108320713.post-9329636653667531772012-08-04T20:53:00.006+10:002012-08-06T19:54:23.229+10:00No Touchy! Inappropriate belly touching and discussions of bodily secretions with people I don’t know.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">No Touchy! <u>Inappropriate belly
touching and discussions of bodily secretions with people I don’t know.</u></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Week of Pregnancy: 18</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Fruit to Fetus Comparison: Mango!
Around 230 grams and growing fast!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Cravings: Still none.</span><span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> Happy to eat half a litre of mango
sorbet though (woops)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Aversions: Not a lot. Does housework
count?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #9966ff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Husband’s excitement metre: Growing,
as potential movements make their debut. Also, he is sick, so this probably
kills most of the excitement.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So, this week the cramps have cleared
up, still some stretchy feelings happening, but nothing abnormal! Yay! Have
worked the whole week, and despite some exhaustion and twingy feelings in the
tummy after cheerleading, nothing to call home about!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This week EVERYONE returned home from
abandoning me! My brother came to look after me over the weekend (he is super),
Justin came back from the snow (dislocated thumb, sore butt and a cold), and my
parents came home from Scotland. Exciting or what? Now I can revert to my
normal, needy self. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Another thing that’s happened this
week – I’ve popped. Suddenly, I am feeling enormous, none of my pants fit, and
I look pregnant. Like, super pregnant. I know I’m only half way through, but I
feel enormous! Everything else is the same size, except for the tummy and the
boobs. So, of course, it’s a very good excuse to go shopping and show off my
amazing new body in slightly larger clothing (More to love). </span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">So, a dress and a top later, Stacy,
Lynesha and I have checked out all the baby clothes in Target Country, and they
have promised to help organise my baby shower in November. OHMYGOSH baby
clothes are so cute and adorable and seriously tiny! The 0000 clothes are about
the smallest things I’ve ever seen in my life!!!! Also so many adorable girl
clothes!! Also boy clothes – tiny jackets and shoes! Of course, I am desperate
to dress up a daughter in frilly pink jackets and adorable skirts, but would
love to dress a little dude up in jeans and mini sneakers! Okay, I know they’re
not dolls, but I think I’m allowed a moment of severe girliness.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Back to the topic – larger stomach. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This week have had comments from kids
such as:</span></div>
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cute!” – Thanks Year Ten Girl, though I am proud of my baby belly, a girl never
wants to hear she’s bigger!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Miss! Can I touch your belly?!” –
No, Year Twelve Girl, you may not. It’s seriously creepy, and, let’s be honest,
how much creepier would it be if I wasn’t pregnant?!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">“Is it a girl or a boy?” – Much tougher question.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">This is
where we enter the debate of how I’m ‘carrying’ the baby (hardly obvious – as
I’m only 18 weeks not 30 weeks!) and am told that if I’m carrying high, it’s a
boy, if it’s low, it’s a girl. What have I been craving? Sugary foods? Must be
a girl, they’re sweet! What about savoury? It’s a boy – they like savoury. What
month did I get pregnant in? That has a large say on what the sex of the baby
will be, you know. If it’s an odd number month, it’s a boy, where as if it’s an
even number month, it’s a girl. Though sometimes prime numbers can be difficult
to tell! Finally – the ring trick. Tie a piece of hair onto your wedding ring,
hold it over your belly, and if it swings side to side, it’s a girl, if it
swings in circles, it’s a boy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I try hard not to laugh at these
wives tales, as some of the people suggesting them really believe they are
true. But really, can you tell what sex a baby is from what you are craving?
Can you find out by looking at the bump? I have my doubts, but perhaps those
more educated than me can tell!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Another thing now that I’m showing –
people are totally fine and open with discussing:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">A)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">How pregnancy </span><span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">happens. Ie; The fact that my husband
and I had sex. (But I thought babies were brought by the stork?!)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">B)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The things that happen to bodies when
you have a baby inside them (Digestion, bodily secretions, birthing etc)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">C)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span style="color: #00ccff; font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">War stories/what is going to happen
to you and what happened to them. (Episiotomies, C-sections, twenty-million
hour labours)</span></div>
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things are usually taboo! I'm good with most conversations about weird fetishes,
itches and problems of others, but when people are talking about my cervix like
it’s on the front page of the newspaper, it kind of freaks me out a bit. The
bodily secretions that are expected of pregnant women, bladder control, stretch
marks, ‘how’s the sex’ questions, are you planning on having a natural birth or
drug up (differing opinions from EVERYONE), will you breast feed or go bottle
(again, everyone has an opinion) and, of course, everyone’s opinion is vital.</span></div>
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discussions most of the time, but it’s just such a huge difference to not being
pregnant. Nobody wants to hear about a non-pregnant girl’s cervix. Now that’s
just wrong. But now there’s a baby in there, let’s talk. Well, time to suck it
up and enjoy the differing opinions, advice and merry times ahead!</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: small;">Worries, Stretching, being ALONE!</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Week of
Pregnancy:</b>
16 & 17</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Food to Fetus Comparison:</b> Sweet Potato/ Around 6 inches and 100 grams.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cravings:</b> Not a lot. Eating because of boredom and stress, as per
pre-pregnancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Aversions:</b> Nothing. Like, not even the stuff I’m allergic to... this can’t
be good?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Husband’s excitement metre:</b> Don’t know – he’s abandoned me for the
snow...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So I’m tired. Yeah, the energy burst didn’t last forever. Perhaps
overdid it during the week of energy. I’m pretty sure I used it all up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This week (16) we’re back at school, so haven’t had a lot of time to
think about what was going on. I’ve been desperately trying to feel movement,
but pretty sure I mistake digestion for baby kicking, which I am humble enough
to admit. Would really appreciate some movement because, although I’m getting
bigger, there are very few actual signs that I am pregnant. Except for scary
ones, which is typical, now that I am on my own for 8 days and live in a tiny
town an hour and a half from a decent hospital or ultrasound. Awesome. So
here’s what’s been going on:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">1.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">
</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Cramps. Yeah. Not exactly a ‘good’ sign but I’ve
been told they are probably round-ligament pains as my uterus is currently the
size of a rockmelon (a lot larger than usual, for those who don’t subscribe to
‘Your Uterus and U!’) Was not too worried about these, as google is generally a
good judge of medical issues and told me not to worry... UNLESS...</span></span></div>
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</span></span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Spotting (light or intermittent bleeding) occurs.
Yep. Thanks Google, as soon as I read this, guess what happened. The good news
is (probably TMI for most of you) it was definitely old blood, not new, so perhaps
a cervix tear as everything expands... and probably from a few days/week ago.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Needless to say, as soon as this happened, I freaked out. Justin is
300000000 km away at Perisher, my Mum and Dad are in Scotland, and my Brother
(bless him) never answers his freaking phone, and is still 6 hours away with
uni to do. Also, I seem to be having another hormonal surge and cry a lot...
for several hours. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Also I dream about Zombies and have to sleep with the light on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So I call the midwife the next day, during my spare at school.
Receptionist promises she will get back to me. Unfortunately we play a bit of
phone-tag as I teach three classes and she has patients to see, but finally I
call back again, from my car, in my five minutes of spare time before final
class on Wednesday.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Me: “Hi Irene, It’s Rhona Bechaz here, I just wanted to ask you a couple
of questions about my pregnancy.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Irene: Fire away, that’s why I’m here!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Me: (Tells tale of cramping and spotting expecting a brush off of ‘don’t
worry, that’s perfectly normal’)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Irene: Ah. Okay, you need to go home and lie down.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Me: Uh, what?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Irene: Yes, that’s not a great sign – hopefully it will clear up on it’s
own but you should really lie down for a couple of days and not do anything.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Me: But... I have athletics carnival tomorrow... I’m <i>integral </i>to the novelty egg-and-spoon
event!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Irene: No.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Me: really?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Irene: Go home and stay there for at least two days. In bed. No
cleaning, no shopping, no standing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Me: Holy mother of god what is wrong with me?!?!?!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I then proceed to cry a lot after hanging up. Not great, as I still have
to teach a class of grade 8’s in 5 minutes time. I walk into staffroom and cry
to Athletics Carnival organisers, who are very understanding. I find out I am
not as integral as I thought, and they are able to cover for me. I still feel
bad, and kind of in shock, as I rarely take a day off except for when I’m
feeling really sick. A couple of cramps and a single spot of blood don’t really
rate on my sick metre, but I’m not taking any chances. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Deputy Principal is also very understanding, but that could be because I
look like a panda and am still crying a waterfall. (Hormones and because I’m a
bit scared at this point) I attempt to clean my face and teach 70 minutes of
grade 8 art, before picking up my stuff and driving home. I sit in bed, cry
more, and cuddle my dogs (on the bed... naughty!).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So, all in all, not a fabulous way to end week 16 into 17... but I am
guessing my body is telling me to slow down and stop being so busy and
stressed. Understandable. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">No cramps today and no spotting since that first time, so I think it was
just a warning to slow down and take time doing nothing, which I will attempt
to do. It’s really hard, though.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">So, wish us luck – Mini-Muffin and Me – until Justin returns to wait on
me hand and foot ;).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Love xxx</span></span></div>Rhoniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04507955938079543349noreply@blogger.com0