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Jet
Jet has 7 days to go and is now in week 39
	Age: 35 Country: NZ Province/region: Auckland City: Auckland Partner: Ben Children: Yes, 2 Pregnant: Yes Due date: 23 Oct ,2008 Occupation: Lecturer at University
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And it is a girl this time!

15 October

8 days to go. Apparently. Got my tummy body painted today. I've posted photos of that.

I've got one more lecture - tomorrow morning - and then just marking etc from home. It feels good to be through that, nearly.

I'm having day sleeps as I can't sleep at night. But my boys run around yelling etc waking me up. Very annoying. I keep telling them they can't do that and that they'd wake the baby but they just forget. Hubby doesn't remind them, either!

3 October

20 days to go - the countdown is on.

By the way: the hospital's response to my letter (see August update below) was basically that:

1. My notes don't record the incident (so what! I told them that the nurse didn't seem too concerned about it at the time and that that was a part of the problem!).

2. For my baby to be left in that position (on my tummy) I would either have been alert, or the bed side rails would have been put up. Yet, I specifically wrote that I was NOT alert and that the bed did NOT have side rails.

So the hospital has not properly read my letter and has basically responded in a "butt covering" manner.

Why am I surprised? How hard is it to say: Sorry, we mucked up, it won't happen again because....".

I've written again. Still no response.

Baby is active every night about 10 pm for about an hour (and has had this routine for about 2 months). She wakes me up she is so active. Otherwise she is fairly calm at all other times.

We pulled the infant car seat apart to clean it and now can't get it back together again. Opps.

The boys are very excited about her arrival. Today is Friday and Thomas' 7th birthday is on Sunday. We've told them that Aria will be born after Thomas' birthday. The 4 year old Toby is convinced she'll come on Monday. They take things so literally.

29 September

36 weeks and counting. Still another month to go. Starting to feel quite large and anxious. Also, what if the US is wrong and She is a He?

Baby is carrying low - apparently I'm D3 (she has started descending). I had been getting a lot of Braxton Hicks but over the last week they seem to have really eased off. (!)

Everything seems to be going well with the pregnancy....

A few more lectures to complete and opinions and exams to mark.....

then xmas with my new baby (and older boys).

Can't wait!

7 September

33 weeks now. The countdown is on but I'm still surprised at how much longer there is to go. Husband went sailing yesterday in the series of races he has been involved in (see earlier blogs for the strife about that!) and did very well. Today he is in bed with bronchitis. And it is fathers day.

The boys have been great - writing cards for him and watching fishing DVDs with him. I'm very proud of my (little) family - everyone loves each other so much and is very easy about showing it. Our eldest boy is much better lately (the medication for ADHD is making a miracle of a difference) and as a result our family seems to be getting along really, really well. Certainly the number of battles over routine things have decreased.

Our two boys are 2 years apart and are very close (nearly 5 and nearly 7). We wonder how this later addition of a girl will fit in with this mix. We'll soon find out!!! I'm looking forward to some female company as she grows older because it is a very male atmosphere in this family and has been for years.

Mind you, my boys are good at telling me nice things (pretty dress Mum etc). Thomas and I were watching tv the other night and he looked at me and said: "Mum, I like your face". Interesting, I thought. "Why?" I asked. "Because you have a nice nose. Nice and narrow" !@!#! Funny observations of a very young boy.

22 August

Am increasingly nervous about returning to the hospital where I delivered my second boy. I've posted the experience under week 31. Have decided to write a letter to the hospital.

(copy of my post follows: As delivery approaches I'm getting nervous about the after-care owing to a dangerous experience with boy #2. I will share it with you ladies so that you are aware of just how dangerous this 'common' practice is.

Following delivery I was totally exhausted and actually not 'with it'. It was nighttime. Toby was feeding and crying all night. I was dipping in and out of sleep , but not able to get a proper sleep, and not capable of caring for Toby. I asked for him to be removed. He was - briefly.

The nurse then brought him back and placed him ON MY TUMMY (I was lying on my back). I was basically 'in a coma'. However, my memory of the following is very clear. I remember moving my hand down off the bed and grabbing something. It turns out that the 'thing' I'd grabbed was Toby - around his ankle. He had fallen off me and somehow my hand had clasped his ankle as he was swinging downwards towards the sharp corner of the drawer unit and then the floor. I was shocked to find myself suddenly holding my baby over the side of my bed, by the ankle, upside down.

The bed had no side rails and even if it did I was too far gone to think about whether they were up or whether it was a good idea for my new baby to be sleeping on my tummy.

So ladies - if, following delivery, you are too tired to keep your baby safe - speak up. And if someone places your baby to sleep on your tummy please ensure that you are supervised, awake enough, and that side rails on the bed are up!!!!)

14 August

I'm 30 weeks at this stage. I'm feeling like I'm well advanced - can't believe there are a couple of months STILL to go. It is a girl and we have decided on the name Aria. For the americans reading this, that is not like "area" but with a long "A" sound (think ahhh rea).

I'll be working up to and beyond my due date but as I lecture at University there isn't much I can do about this. It shouldn't be too bad. I can miss a couple of lectures if necessary and the student pre-exam questions and exam marking can be done from home anytime of the day or night. (Last lecture is on my due date!!!!). It actually works out to only needing to leave the house a couple or three days a week.

I have two boys already (Thomas will be 7 on 5 Oct and Toby is 4 and a half). Ben (husband) is quite hands on with the home and the boys which helps a lot. He works part time so that facilitates my own work. Toby is in daycare 4 days a week - which is a great opportunity for him to play with his mates. Thomas is in school but we're needing to do a lot of extra work - there are various "issues" with him and we've been undergoing a lot of assessments...... needing to fund private occupational therapy ..... etc The thinking is ADHD and some kind of visual processing disorder impeding his learning.

I'm starting to really freak out about the birth...

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becky714 - 10.2 hours ago

What a beautiful tummy!

NorthWave - 15.4 hours ago

That's pretty!! :)

MrsKiwi - 31.3 hours ago
Our little guy arrived on Friday, October 10th! I was having contractions for two days solid before I dilated enough to be admitted at the hospital. He was worth it of course, and now we're back home and trying to figure out this whole nursing/sleep thing. Oh my goodness is it difficult... Hope all's well with you and your little girl comes soon!

kelly-roo - 43.2 hours ago
full moon dude!
I estimated when we conceived according my last period and called the date! So I'm actually on schedule exactly. Thanks for the good luck and prayers!

marktrish - Sunday, 12 October
i already gave birth on my baby... it was early as we expected... my due date was on oct. 23 but i give birth on oct. 7... it was a painful but my very happy delivery cause i finally saw my baby... i post his picture... enjoy seeing them... wish you all the luck in your pregnancy,..

Danahlovesdoug - Friday, 10 October
Thats exactly what I told him.... I said weather you like it or not its not about you or your mom and that it was strictly about me and baby

he came around after thinking about that, my MIL has a daughter and another son and both of them resently had a baby which she was at there births so she automaticly thinks she has a ticket to mine.... Hubby told me he told her that she couldn't be in the room. So we'll see I swear I will tell her off if she sets one foot in the damn room!

Laura Ward - Monday, 6 October
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kamo - Monday, 6 October
Oh gosh, it's horrible. I am so disabled in almost everything now and this baby just keeps getting bigger! Good luck to all of us!!

kiwichick - Sunday, 5 October
hiya
having read your info on what happened to your son i would stay away from that hospital as well !! that is totally shocking!
im having my baby at middlemore tomorrow morning by c-section, i had my first there as well and had no problems, everyone was professional and midwifes/nurses were excellent.
yeah the usa maternity system is a hard to get my head around, all this insurance they have to get just to have a baby! glad i live in NZ where its free!

marktrish - Saturday, 4 October

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mommy to boys - Friday, 3 October
Well ladies, Mya is here... she is beautiful, 6 pounds 7 ounces 18 1/2 inches long...I delivered on Wed Oct 1st...just got home form the hospital so I will post more later...

MrsKiwi - Friday, 3 October
Nope, we live in the US, much to my MIL's disappointment! And I agree with you about the way they rush the end of pregnancy here... I think it's ridiculous. Let the baby stay in there till they're ready... I don't think it's right to induce or do a c-section just because you're impatient or want to have the birth fit into a more convenient time frame. Sorry to hear about the response you got back from the hospital--that's so wrong! The least they could do is say, hey, we'll make sure that doesn't happen again...

bunches - Friday, 3 October
I feel the same way about all this intevention in their pregnancies.. I posted an almost similar comment about 5 hours before you yesterday. I'm so fed up with reading about it, I'm kindof gettting turned off the website now, it's just full of peple obsessing about bringing their baby early.. which seems dangerous to me. I have to have a section on weds as my baby is footling breech and they won't deliver him naturally as footling is full of dangers.

Mommy.D - Friday, 3 October
I'm not having a c section or being induced. I'm going to let nature take it's course. ^^

MrsKiwi - Thursday, 2 October
I stopped by your page for the same reason as kiwichick, because I saw your post that mentioned you're from NZ and thought I'd say hi. I'm actually just a wanna-be Kiwi--my hubby is the one who's from Blenheim. :) Best wishes to you!
(Oh, and your story about almost losing your son off the bed while in the hospital is quite scary! I had never thought of such a thing, but I can see how it could easily happen--yikes!)

kiwichick - Thursday, 2 October
Hi, just saw your comment in wk 37, and saw you put NZ at the end of it, im in Auckland as well and just wanted to say hi......we are close in age, and our due dates are close as well.....what hospital are you having your baby at? not middlemore??

kashli - Monday, 29 September
ok thanks.! I have heard that but it looks like thick discharge like the stuff i have always had except more of it in chunks..thats why i figured it was the mucous plug. Thanks for your help :)

dianam - Monday, 29 September
:) don't feel bad about your hubby saying no to you. i've only been married ten months and my hubby said no to me too many times for me to count. well... my midwife told us not to have sex for a little while because my hubby is out of town this weekend so she didn't want to risk me going into labor while he's gone. so she said no sex till he comes back. and gosh darn it, he's been a stickler! i even tried to seduce him with candles, and soft music playing... and lingerie that i could still sort of fit in, when he came home from work one night. and he still didn't do it! its weird tho... after my MW said no sex, that's when i wanted sex more! hahahahhahaa.

brookesbaby - Sunday, 28 September
lol i like me and my hubby have done all three thats if you count macdonalds as a meal out lol

Stone - Saturday, 20 September
I swear the Jelly Bean story is true. I was so pissed off because my husband had to leave my side to go and tell his mother to leave the room. At any other time in the delivery I wouldn't have cared, but I was suppose to be pushing and that isn't exactly easy.

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Thomas 6 helping his dad. (2008, 06, 07)

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