an update on all things good.

I am doing fine. I went and had another blood test today for no other reason than I am totally paranoid. The clinic is humouring me and letting me do as many tests as I want (and charging me $63 each time too).

My HCG has gone up in just over a week from 13700 to 32200.

I thought that was a bit low, but my nurse assures me that this is perfect for this stage of pregnancy.

The morning sickness has been perfect. While not nauseous, I have totally lost my appetite and different smells have my stomach turning. I look at food and think "I couldn't possibly eat that or I would be sick". So all in all I think if you are going to get morning sickness then that is probably the best type to have.

My IVF doctor called me yesterday and said he was happy with all my results and my scan, and is ready to pass me off to an obstetrician. He recommended some good ones. I called them and every one of them is totally booked out and cannot see me.

They however, all recommended someone else that they have heard has some openings, so after researching her and discovering that she is one of the leading obs in Australia; specialises in high risk pregnancies; has been practicing for a long time; is a director of the OB society of Australia and runs the maternal\fetal unit at Monash hospital, I gave her a call, and Yes, she is happy to take me on. (she is also one of the most expensive at $3000 (medicare should give me about 80% back though).

I think that I am very lucky to have gotten in. Baby Bugs is going to be well looked after.

Last night was extremely hot! To make matters worse, bushfires cut the main power grid to Victoria yesterday so we were without power at home. No air con, no nothing. To make matters worse, I come home via a major road and every single traffic light was out. Nobody was directing traffic and I felt like I was taking my life in my own hands crossing major intersections. I then came home from work safely to discover our fish* were gasping for air. Not only that but water was running out under the door and down the driveway! Argghh - not a good thing to happen.

So I rushed in and discovered a hose connection had broken in our fishroom and water was cascading like a waterfall from the top of the fishroom wall down to the concrete garage floor. I turned off the mains water and Hubbs fixed the problem when he got home. I just hope it hadn't been happening for too long as we are on stage 3 water restrictions here due to the drought and they are going to start punishing high water users by crimping their water output to a trickle (and we call ourselves an advanced society!).

Power was restored a few hours later. Hubbs fixed the fishroom up, and all the fishies are happy as larry today.

Very different from the night I envisaged. All I wanted to do was come home and lay down for a nana nap and instead I was running around trying to stop waterfalls and stressing about no power.

Oh and the boy girl prediction? Felicity - I have been told by two others that this is a boy. I have a strong feeling though that this is a girl. I had a strong feeling last time we were having a boy and I was right then. So time will tell (because we are not finding out before he/she is born). I would love to hear all your guesses, but we will have to wait a while before we all find out for sure - hehe

* for those of you who didn't know, we breed tropical fish and have about 50 tanks worth in our fishroom, located in our garage.


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