Monday, December 29, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Friday, December 26, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Friday, December 12, 2008
Two weeks on
Sometimes it feels as if the last two weeks has flown by at other times it feels like it has gone on forever.
At the moment, I can't believe how much has happened in the last two weeks. This time a fortnight ago, I was a wreck. But here I am 2 weeks on, physically feeling pretty well and emotionally on the mend. Although this huge waves of sadness wash over me at the most unexpected times.
We had to go back to the Obstetrician for a check up this afternoon. That all went pretty well, he was actually more concerned about our emotional state than my physical one. He was equally concerned for Sam as for me, that was nice. Often the poor hubbies get forgotten about during these times.
The obstetricans advice for the next pregnancy was to start taking super high doses of folate. Folate reduces the risk of neural tube defects in babies. It is a 5mg dose 10 times higher than what most women take, although I was already taking this dosage. So as the Dr pointed out, sometimes its just bad luck!. Once we are pregnant, the Obstetrician will do a very early ultrasound to determine the exact due date. From there, we will then need to go to Melbourne for a specialist ultrasound at 11 weeks. The earlier they can diagnose Anencephaly, the better for everyone. The chances of us having a baby with Anencehpahly was 1 in 400, now it is 1 in 300.
Keep your fingers crossed for us!
Thanks to everyone for your support, it has been greatly appreciated.
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A Mieke Update
Mieks is 19 months old already, can you believe it????
She is a real character; stubborn, independent and she knows exactly what she wants. The other morning I was making her breakfast, vegemite on toast and she was yelling at me from her high chair "No Vegemite, Jam". She was not very happy when she got vegemite!!! She has a bit of a temper, no idea where that comes from!
She still loves reading, most nights we read 6 or 7 books before bed, but she still yells and screams on her way to bed "No Mummy/Daddy, Book, Book". We are both so pleased that she loves reading. Her language is really developing and she is now finishing off lines in her favourite books.
In November Mieks had a hip check up with the Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon and he gave her the all clear. He was really pleased with how quickly and how well her hips had formed. We now don't have to go back until she is 5 years old. That was quite a relief.
We are all looking forward to Christmas and everytime Mieks sees a Santa she gets pretty excited. We must do something about a Christmas tree this weekend.
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At the moment, I can't believe how much has happened in the last two weeks. This time a fortnight ago, I was a wreck. But here I am 2 weeks on, physically feeling pretty well and emotionally on the mend. Although this huge waves of sadness wash over me at the most unexpected times.
We had to go back to the Obstetrician for a check up this afternoon. That all went pretty well, he was actually more concerned about our emotional state than my physical one. He was equally concerned for Sam as for me, that was nice. Often the poor hubbies get forgotten about during these times.
The obstetricans advice for the next pregnancy was to start taking super high doses of folate. Folate reduces the risk of neural tube defects in babies. It is a 5mg dose 10 times higher than what most women take, although I was already taking this dosage. So as the Dr pointed out, sometimes its just bad luck!. Once we are pregnant, the Obstetrician will do a very early ultrasound to determine the exact due date. From there, we will then need to go to Melbourne for a specialist ultrasound at 11 weeks. The earlier they can diagnose Anencephaly, the better for everyone. The chances of us having a baby with Anencehpahly was 1 in 400, now it is 1 in 300.
Keep your fingers crossed for us!
Thanks to everyone for your support, it has been greatly appreciated.
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A Mieke Update
Mieks is 19 months old already, can you believe it????
She is a real character; stubborn, independent and she knows exactly what she wants. The other morning I was making her breakfast, vegemite on toast and she was yelling at me from her high chair "No Vegemite, Jam". She was not very happy when she got vegemite!!! She has a bit of a temper, no idea where that comes from!
She still loves reading, most nights we read 6 or 7 books before bed, but she still yells and screams on her way to bed "No Mummy/Daddy, Book, Book". We are both so pleased that she loves reading. Her language is really developing and she is now finishing off lines in her favourite books.
In November Mieks had a hip check up with the Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon and he gave her the all clear. He was really pleased with how quickly and how well her hips had formed. We now don't have to go back until she is 5 years old. That was quite a relief.
We are all looking forward to Christmas and everytime Mieks sees a Santa she gets pretty excited. We must do something about a Christmas tree this weekend.
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Monday, December 08, 2008
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Unfortunate news for us
Well what started out as quite an exciting week didn’t end on such a high.
On Tuesday we finally reached the “magic” 12 week mark for our second baby and were getting quite excited about telling everybody our news. We had a routine ultrasound booked for Thursday afternoon and decided to play it safe and wait for the all clear from the scans. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the “all clear”.
I had gone to the scan by myself, Sam was at work, and as far as we could tell, it was just a routine 12 week scan. Anyway, the sonographer had a difficult time getting a clear picture, as the baby kept moving. She went to get to doctor’s okay that the scans were clear enough, but instead of coming back with a simple “yes” had to tell me that the scan had picked up some “abnormalities” and they were currently trying to get in touch with my GP. A few minutes later she came back to let me know that they were unable to reach the GP and instead I needed to go straight to the Obstetrician, he would see me as soon as I got there and that she was “extremely sorry”. It’s never good when your sonographer cries when she tells you she is sorry…
I had Mieks in the pusher and was walking through the hospital, trying to find my way back out again, with tears rolling down my cheeks. I had managed to get in touch with Sam and he was already waiting at the Obstetricians for me. Unfortunately he couldn’t see us straight away, and we waited about 45 minutes, where all sorts of scenarios played through our heads.
When we finally got into see Dr Moloney, he scanned me again and confirmed that there were in fact major abnormalities in the form of a neural tube defect called Anencephaly. The simple explanation was that at around day 26 when the brain and top of the baby’s head are forming, our baby just stopped. So our poor baby was missing most of its brain and the top of its head. It was such a shock and such a sad sad day. There was no real choice as if we had carried the baby until birth, it would have been stillborn, or only lived, at most, for a few hours, never gaining consciousness. The baby would have been blind and deaf.
I spent the day in hospital on Friday. Physically I’m doing pretty well, emotionally, we are both pretty sad – that’s the only word for it. I’m yet to have a decent sleep, I am exhausted, but when I get to bed I don’t sleep very well.
Sam has been amazing and Mieks has been a dream. She keeps doing things that make us laugh. But she decided on Thursday night that her new favourite book was “There is a house inside my Mummy”. So we’ve buried that one deep on the bookshelf.
Sam’s been home this week, and we’ve been trying to move forward by keeping the architect moving on our house plans and that sort of thing. And now there’s Christmas to start planning as a family too…
We wanted to put something here so we would have something to remember the time by...
On Tuesday we finally reached the “magic” 12 week mark for our second baby and were getting quite excited about telling everybody our news. We had a routine ultrasound booked for Thursday afternoon and decided to play it safe and wait for the all clear from the scans. Unfortunately, we didn’t get the “all clear”.
I had gone to the scan by myself, Sam was at work, and as far as we could tell, it was just a routine 12 week scan. Anyway, the sonographer had a difficult time getting a clear picture, as the baby kept moving. She went to get to doctor’s okay that the scans were clear enough, but instead of coming back with a simple “yes” had to tell me that the scan had picked up some “abnormalities” and they were currently trying to get in touch with my GP. A few minutes later she came back to let me know that they were unable to reach the GP and instead I needed to go straight to the Obstetrician, he would see me as soon as I got there and that she was “extremely sorry”. It’s never good when your sonographer cries when she tells you she is sorry…
I had Mieks in the pusher and was walking through the hospital, trying to find my way back out again, with tears rolling down my cheeks. I had managed to get in touch with Sam and he was already waiting at the Obstetricians for me. Unfortunately he couldn’t see us straight away, and we waited about 45 minutes, where all sorts of scenarios played through our heads.
When we finally got into see Dr Moloney, he scanned me again and confirmed that there were in fact major abnormalities in the form of a neural tube defect called Anencephaly. The simple explanation was that at around day 26 when the brain and top of the baby’s head are forming, our baby just stopped. So our poor baby was missing most of its brain and the top of its head. It was such a shock and such a sad sad day. There was no real choice as if we had carried the baby until birth, it would have been stillborn, or only lived, at most, for a few hours, never gaining consciousness. The baby would have been blind and deaf.
I spent the day in hospital on Friday. Physically I’m doing pretty well, emotionally, we are both pretty sad – that’s the only word for it. I’m yet to have a decent sleep, I am exhausted, but when I get to bed I don’t sleep very well.
Sam has been amazing and Mieks has been a dream. She keeps doing things that make us laugh. But she decided on Thursday night that her new favourite book was “There is a house inside my Mummy”. So we’ve buried that one deep on the bookshelf.
Sam’s been home this week, and we’ve been trying to move forward by keeping the architect moving on our house plans and that sort of thing. And now there’s Christmas to start planning as a family too…
We wanted to put something here so we would have something to remember the time by...
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Glad to be home
We've had a great holiday in fiji but it will be nice to sleep in our own beds tonight!
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