I am sick
Filed Under: Health, Pregnancy Posted On: 02-19-2012I haven’t been in with a cold or a bug for about a year and a bit! I have thought I was ill but that was down to lack of iron and having anaemia but I am sick and have been now for over 7 days!!! And for once I was starting to get over the whole morning sickness and was feeling like I didn’t want to throw up every 5 seconds of the day.. very disappointing just as baby was playing nice I get a cold, well I think I got it from the dirty people on the trains coughing and sneezing. But I carried on and didn’t take any time of work as I am still in training, poor customers must of thought I was stupid or I was a man by the way I was sounding. So slept in until midday today and I still don’t feel any better.
More interesting news, I have started buying baby stuff.. I thought I better start as otherwise my baby is going to be naked.
Mostly blue and neutral colours but that’s more because I really hate the colour pink and even if we are having a girl, she won’t be going in pink, ha ha! I am also about to buy some reusable nappies as I have always wanted to use them and they are better for the environment.
I am trying to buy bits and pieces slowly as I don’t have a nursery to decorate as there isn’t room in this house and we will be selling up and moving within the next year and half, but I am still a little disappointed that I don’t get to decorate a nursery all funky and cool! But I think I am going to make a patchwork blanket and start up my scrapbooking again.
Okay I am off to get some lemon and honey..
13 Weeks
Filed Under: BoyToy aka Husband, Family, Friends, Pregnancy, Work Posted On: 02-11-2012Wow can’t believe it is already 13 weeks along — that has gone super fast! Had my first week on the phones and it has been pretty good, I have to keep writing post it notes so I don’t forget things (I am always forgetting certain bits and it is trying me nuts, blame it on the baby me thinks!).
So we had our 12 week scan on Monday which was amazing, I was at the hospital forever because baby is a wriggly little bugger and wouldn’t stay still for the combine testing for certain things eg. downs, the baby had to lay still so that she could see the spine and the nose (no idea why) but we had to keep going for a walk or something like that to get it to move into the correct position, an hour and half later baby did. Just got the results today the test was negative so that is very good news. It was amazing to see her (I still think it’s a girl so I call baby a her a lot and by the name we have chosen but I am keeping that a secret of the internet ha ha!), she was moving so much and waving!
So here is baby Damita at 12 weeks 1 day (according to the testing piece of paper).
My 20 week scan is booked in for the 2nd of April, I am so looking forward to having a big bump. I have a small one and it is noticeable that I am pregnant but I would like a huge one, I am sure I will regret saying that later ha ha!
Other than that not much else is going on at this end, just working and growing a baby.
Nearly 12 weeks along
Filed Under: BoyToy aka Husband, Pregnancy, TTC, Work Posted On: 02-04-2012It’s February I have been waiting for this month since we found out we are having a baby! My 12 week scan in less than 2 days! And then it will no longer be a secret! Which is pretty crazy, never thought I would get to this stage, and I hope after all the freaking out and the worrying that everything is all okay.
Work has gone well this week and I took my very first live call! I can’t really go into any details due to signing my contract where I said I do not repeat anything that happens on the phones due to it being medical insurances but guess what I had a complaint call trust me out of my group of 10 and there is me with the customer who wants to complain! But I held my ground which I thought would be really hard to do but it isn’t and the customer went away feeling happier and knew what to do. Next week is when we are officially live on the phone on the main floor which is really exciting, I have been so bored of classroom work but nearly the floor time. I am enjoying my team a lot more always takes me a while to warm up to anyone.
So I haven’t written my finding out story which I was going to do last week but was so sleepy that I didn’t get a chance.
I found out the week before Christmas day on a Sunday 18th, I was having my breakfast and felt very dizzy before this I was so constipated and I thought I want to take the period bring on pills, my period was late and my temps had dropped and gone back up which was so odd. The instruction for the period bring on pills is to do a pregnancy test first so I thought well I’d better go and do that then and was expecting it to be negative. My shock as I was sitting on the toilet when it was positive, I ran and told my husband who started crying, then we ran to the store and got some more and they were all POSITIVE!!
I could not believe it! POSITIVE!! ALL POSITIVE! Even the evil FRER who has never been positive for me in my life!
I went to the hospital at 4 weeks 5 days due to sore lower back and cramping, didn’t realise that clomid ladies have a higher risk of ectopic (thanks for letting me know that), we got to see the sac in the right place and a cyst which is what was giving me the pain, had my bloods taken and had my bloods taken two days later.
19DPO — HCG 1375 — Progesterone 96
21DPO — HCG 2812
Then had a scan as my bloods were great! Doubling like they should, we had a scan after boxing day and saw the heartbeat, the scan, the baby and everything at 5 week and 5 days.
Scan at 8 week and 5 days — getting bigger. We paid for this privately.
Scan at 10 week and 5 days at my friend’s vets as my friend was on call so thought free scan, hurrah!
2 days until my 12 week scan, I am quite nervous about but I am sure it will be.
I am a pregnant working woman
Filed Under: BoyToy aka Husband, Pregnancy, TTC, Work Posted On: 01-21-2012Wow, I have updated in like forever, who knew working full time would take everything out of you. So I started my new job role this week and I am currently in training, I am working in a call centre so lots to learn, I have worked in a call centre before if any of my earlier readers remember that (it was about 7 years ago now — car insurance). I am working with my husband which is nice because I see him every day as we get the train and have lunch together.
It is going okay, I am just so tired, up at 6am and back at 7pm, long old day but I cannot wait for my first pay check, haha! It has been over two years since I have worked and over 6 years since I have worked full time due to being in education for the last 5 years, eeek!
But I am learning so that is fab! And I got to listen to calls yesterday and it wasn’t that scary, half my training group were freaked out but I am quite relaxed about it, I think because I know what is going to happen and I have done this before.
I have huge news and I have been keeping it a secret for the past nearly 10 weeks, and that is I AM PREGNANT!!! I am feeling confident in telling my blog readers about it, I have had three scans so far and we had our last the other week and all is good — healthy and growing little baby, we got to hear and see the heart beat!! It was amazing, the last cycle of clomid worked for us by the looks of it, I haven’t felt so sick or tired in my life but it is all good. I have my 12 week scan in two weeks but I am too excited to keep it quiet now. (Please don’t mention on facebook as I haven’t told some family members or friends).
Here is baby Damita.
I will write more about how we found out hopefully tomorrow, I am so excited!
2011 Recap
Filed Under: BoyToy aka Husband, College/Uni, Debt, Driving, Education, Family, Friends, Job Hunting Posted On: 12-29-2011Stealing this from thebabywife.com.
1. What did you do in 2011 that you’d never done before?
Graduation! Never thought I would see the day!
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
Goals for 2011
- Get pregnant!! if not start post grad in teaching
- Pass my driving test
- Complete saving goal
- Get 2:1 or 2:2 at degree level
Well I did one out of four, I got a 2:1 at degree level, I didn’t reach my saving goal as I was unemployed for 6 months eeek!!! and I failed my driving test twice. Pregnancy well still working on it.
This year — pregnancy, pass my driving test and do my saving goal.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yes one of my best friends gave birth in Spring to a little girl.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What countries did you visit?
None
6. What would you like to have in 2012 that you lacked in 2011?
Money would be nice and enjoy my new job.
7. What date from 2011 will remain etched upon your memory?
Graduation, it was an amazing day, I got tearful. Oh and finding out I have PCOS that will be in my memory forever.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Completing Uni and finding a job.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Being out of work for 6 months, it was a horrible time.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
No I have been alright this year which is new for me!
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My iPhone 4, I love it to pieces!
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My amazing husband.
My family
My friends
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
A few ex friends
14. Where did most of your money go?
Surviving
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Finishing uni.
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2011?
‘Gotta get thru this’ Daniel Bedingfield
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
1. Happier or sadder? Happier.
2. Thinner or fatter? Thinner
3. Richer or poorer? Poorer but not for long
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Enjoying that time off
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Worrying and stressing
20. How will you be spending/did you spend Christmas?
With my family <3
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
My husband, mum, dad and best friend
22. Did you fall in love in 2011?
Already in love
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
None
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Ice Road Truckers!!!!
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I don’t hate, I dislike certain behaviour from people
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
Re-read Harry Potter again
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
New dance songs
28. What did you want and get?
Mostly — I wanted a 2:1 secretly and got it, and another surprise.
29. What did you want and not get?
Passing my driving test — booo!!!
30. What were your favourite films of this year?
Friends with Benefits
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
26 and I my husband made steak and chips, yum
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Not having to deal with unemployment for would be great
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2011?
Relaxing in leggings and long tops
34. What kept you sane?
My husband and my dad
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
None
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Raising of uni fees!
37. Who did you miss?
My best friend — wish she lived closer to me!
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Met some amazing people on-line
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2011.
Everything happens for a reason and to stop stressing