A belated 2nd birthday post
By hissychick | June 29, 2009
What kind of slack tart mother leaves it until almost two weeks after your birthday to write a far too brief milestone post?
The one who is currently enjoying your 6am starts to the day, nap fighting and insistence that I lie next to your de-sided cot big girl bed while you fall asleep, never mind that that can take an hour and a wierd form of cuddling that will become rather difficult as my belly expands. And that’s before you join us in bed before the night is out.
Happy belated birthday my darling one, my five word sentence speaking, colour recognising, counting to ten-ing, velcroed to Mummy cuddle adoring, fully fledged “I don’t want it don’t like it” tantrum throwing, ownership obsessed, almost weaned, sister adoring, pretty dress and garbage truck/digger loving and newly minted owner of lower jaw two year old molars little big girl.
Our lives are so much the richer for you being here. Love you to the moon and back.
And of course the obligatory photos..in colour for a change..
Blowing out the candles on Mummy’s slack preggo chick cake effort number one:
And a week later, A’s carefully decorated lolly cake for our mother’s group party:
And a silly shot. Just because:
(Should have thought to get you some Spiderman accoutrement just like your big sister. Instead you’ve settled for a Wiggles wiggly guitar amd the world’s most freakishly realistic baby doll. You’re a funny one.)
Topics: E is good, I'm a Mum, Partypartyparty!, hi ho E is on the go | 4 Comments »
The results are in….
By hissychick | June 24, 2009
I’ll keep it short but oh so sweet.
Risk of Down Syndrome using combined ultrasound and blood test results is 1:7602.
Trisonomy 13 and 18 is 1:13365.
Quite simply it doesn’t get any better than this:
So lovely to share the sneaky peak of our little one with A, E and my Mum- even if the boisterous behaviour of my two biggest ‘uns was enough to visibly pale the complexion of the first time mother to be in the waiting room. All that aside…it’s time to start sharing our news with the world outside of the computer (yes there is such a place).
And how exactly did I answer A’s tricky question of the century- “Mummy how did the baby get in your tummy when I wasn’t looking?” That can definitely wait!
Topics: Uncategorized, Unexpecting, bonus baby, what to expect when you're expecting #3 | 7 Comments »
Tomorrow is a big day
By hissychick | June 23, 2009
Tomorrow marks a fairly momentous occasion for this (not so) little hissychick.
Twelve weeks.
To mark this auspicious date I will be having my NT scan done by a specialist and will be informed of the risk of down syndrome and other such chromosomal quirks, having already done the necessary blood tests.
Both A and E will accompany me to the scan along with my Mum. A is currently fascinated with all things baby, having already tagged along to my first midwife and OB appointment, marvelling at the ten week scan that was done then and totally delighted by the chance to listen to the heartbeat.
She has ensured that I get to the toilet promptly when I’ve been ill, have had chewing gum on hand and even purchased my some chuckies for the train journey to work.
Best of all, she has already gravely informed my mother in law that “Mummy’s baby is going to come out of her vagina, and that Mummy will probably yell when that happens”.
Ahem.
I too share my daughter’s excitement, but also a degree of trepidation. You may recall that a couple of months ago I referred obliquely in a post about a friend going through a tough time?
I’m here to tell you that that tough time was diagnosis of mosaic down syndrome via an amniocentesis, and her subsequent decision to terminate the pregnancy at around 17 weeks.
I am not here to judge. I am pro choice. But I also saw the photo of her beautiful little girl, delivered after an induction. I’ve held the tiny hat that was placed on her head, the miniscule booties that sheathed her feet. I know how much she weighed, and how long she was from the details on her birth and mortuary cards.
And my dog, I am terrified of having to face the same situation, of having to make the decision of whether to proceed or not with a pregnancy outside of the so called norm.
Tomorrow I want to know the risks. But I don’t want to consider the possibiiity that everything might not be perfect. I’m not sure that even makes sense given that I have requested the test.
For now I hold onto hope, that this (to me) miraculous pregnancy will continue to be textbook normal, and that the most I will have to worry about tomorrow afternoon is choosing which picture of bub I will use to share our news with the world.
Doesn’t mean I am going to be able to sleep well tonight.
OK this sounds far too depressing. Fingers crossed that the next lot posts will be far more shiny happy, with good news tomorrow, a belated E birthday post and the usual sassy comments from the clever clogs A. Not to mention celebration at the gradual demise of my nemesis nausea.
Positive thoughts…calm blue ocean…and stuff.
Topics: Unexpecting, shitscared | 1 Comment »
Just so you know
By hissychick | June 23, 2009
This is the best pregnancy and baby site ever, one that will test your pelvic floor (and the poor misguided souls next to you on the train) to the limit.
You’ve been warned.
Topics: Unexpecting, a bit of fluff | 1 Comment »
I will blog again
By hissychick | June 21, 2009
…so much to tell you but a little hard to type when you are spending most of your ‘free’ time trying to get your as of last Thursday two year old to go to bed (hers) and stay in bed (ends up mine), never mind actually sleep. Naps are passe, and the nights are not exactly what you’d call uninterrupted.
The very same two year old who has collapsed in an exhausted heap on my lap and is sleeping. Now. At dinnertime. One handed typing is the least of my concerns.
Oh well. Guess it gives me something else to do other than deal with nausea and insomnia (WTF?) and the clever sassy comebacks from miss four ( eg “And I hope your shower is cold Mummy!” as shouted through the door when I was ignoring her fit of pique).
They know that I want to blog about them don’t they?!
It might not sound like it but I am fiercely in love with my determined little buggers. Just hope #3 is a bit more easygoing.
Topics: Going bogue, hi ho A is on the go, hi ho E is on the go | 2 Comments »
Ten
By hissychick | June 10, 2009
- The number of weeks pregnant that I am, give or take a day or two
- Also happens to be the number of times I have vomited today. And counting.
Hoping my first* OB’s appointment on Friday will bring some relief (ideally in a pharmaceutical form), because right now I’m not feeling all that fresh and happy lala and able to write posts of any interest whatsoever. Please excuse me if I don’t comment on your blogs until then. I am reading and thinking of you all, honest and for…gahhh..
Bleurgh.
* The appointment I managed to miss last Friday, what with the fully sick miss E and an inability to write the correct date on the calendar and all. I am so the clichéd mum to be of number three.
Topics: Ewwwww, Unexpecting, what to expect when you're expecting #3 | 4 Comments »
What to expect when you’re expecting #3, part one
By hissychick | June 4, 2009
Exactly what is the appropriate protocol for vomiting directly into the toilet for the third time that day, the four year old providing running commentary (“Eww Mummy, you’re too noisy…why is the baby in your tummy making you so sick? It’s disgusting“) while the almost two year old tantrums at your feet, her fragile mood exacerbated by the lack of sleep forty eight hours into the latest episode of 39 plus degree temps double ear infection no sleep for all?
I’d like see a fat chick book that deals with that.
Off I go to worship the porcelain god again….
Topics: Ewwwww, Unexpecting, what to expect when you're expecting #3 | 6 Comments »
And yet I still hit the post button
By hissychick | May 30, 2009
A long overdue course of antibiotics has done wonders in starting to banish the snot lurgy turned ear and throat infection for E and I.
Pity they don’t do anything for the crushing fatigue, sickly hunger, emotional overload and desperate lack of patience I have when not dealing with A and her unspeakable behaviour of late.
What can I say? Am up the duff and still breastfeeding, it’s the first trimester, am still in shock interspersed with both delight and denial while wallowing in self doubt as to how I am going to cope.
If I can’t have the happy pills can someone please gaze into a crystal ball and tell me that it will all be OK?
Topics: Unexpecting, moody blues | 4 Comments »
Oh joy
By hissychick | May 25, 2009
Forgive me, dear internets, for my slackening pace when it comes to the posts. I’d almost love to be able to say that this is because I have been succumbing to early pregnancy nausea and fatigue…but it’s because you smell.
Well it’s only partly that.
I have been dealing with ‘just a virus’ for over a week right now, a dreadful snotty lurgy that has tortured my throat and nose and general will to live, before deciding to settle in my right ear this morning, from which I have not yet regained my hearing.
Oh the pressure as the train ascends the mountain, the freaking pressure. And no suitable decongestant drugs to be had thanks to the first trimester/breastfeeding combo that leaves you with something as useless as your immune system to deal with it all.
But there’s no more time for sooking and fondly remembering the golden days of pregnancy, when you could actually lie around and do stuff all. Although thanks to the darling man that is mr hissychick I have been doing as much of that as I can.
I digress.
You see my two darlings have pulled a two for one get out of jail daycare pass on me. This morning I received a phone call at work to inform me that E has severe conjunctivitis in both eyes, and while we’re at it, A has hurt her mouth and you might want to get the still bleeding area and wobbly tooth checked out.
Mr hissychick valiantly escaped the office to collect the kids.
Of course the earliest doctors appointment we could get is tomorrow (and not one for myself, around our way you have to give the medical establishment two weeks notice that you might be sick ). Somehow through the magic that is my husband this does not clash with the afternoon with the pediatric dentist gig. So our day off will be a fun one of juggling engagements a mere 50 km away from each other, thankfully with a visit to Nana to offload the gunky eyed one and new batch of germs collected at the doctor’s office in between.
Despite all of the shenaningans one thought keeps running through my mind: Could it really be true that this time next year I’ll be juggling a third kidlet and their issewes as well?
God I hope so.
Topics: Ewwwww, I'm pregnant, Mummy's little monsters, Ouch | 5 Comments »
Unexpecting
By hissychick | May 15, 2009
For the few of you hardy souls that have suffered through my blog ramblings for at least the last little while two things would have become evident:
- I would like a third child to complete our family
- Mr hissychick and I aren’t exactly the most fertile myrtles.
Let’s start with point one.
I’ve made no secret of the desire to stupidly ensure that the kids outnumber us parents, a point on which mr hissychick and I have not yet seen eye to eye. In my ideal world I see a successful embryo transfer from our remaining five frosties and a bub born at least six months after miss A is well established at school, E is settled into preschool and I’ve enjoyed a decent spell back at work. Mr hissychick of course sees this fantasy being played out with my next husband, as he will have gone out to ‘buy some milk’ and never returned.
Which leads us to point two.
We need to at some stage come to a consensus about whether our family is complete or not, because to conceive said child involves planning and money and no spontaneity and non fun drugs and many and varied people poking around my girly bits, thanks to my husband’s 100 % antibody affected sperm and my post ectopic one tube and naughty thyroid status. Read the rest of this entry »
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