xmas tree oh xmas tree

well yes sorry i have been butt useless on my bloggy front lately,
since it is the season to be jolly, and busy and sidetracked and brain frozen pregnant i will let myself off.
The tummy has been growing at a cracking pace, im 26 weeks tomorro (6 1/2 months) and measuring around 115cm (which everyone says is huge!) but i think is just perfect :) he he
Little MISS likes to boot the bladder as much as she can and punch other body organs for fun and games in the womb as much as possible, but i think hey BABY go for it!!! a moving baby is a happy baby says my lovely midwife. :)
ANdrew has felt a good kick and a punch on his hands too!! i cant wait till he puts his head on the belly one day and gets a good kick or punch in the head he he that will be funny to see his face.
I think the baby has more xmas presents under the tree then anyone !!! ALREADY!!! and she is not even born yet!! i suppose it helps that everything we have been buying we wrap up and put under the tree, yes i know we are grippers but seriously we have waited long enough so anything that seems remotely insane to do with the baby is allowed:)
ok back to work :)
MERRY XMAS !!!
6 1/2 month photos to come tomorrow

6 MONTHS HOLY CRAP!!

Yep 24 weeks today !!!
So i guess i better post a photo of my tiny weeny bump that is so small you can hardly see it



BAH HA HA HA HA HA HA

i think i have a little hubba bubba in there somewhere

here goes...................

ENJOY

stages of pregnancy

i think being pregnant has a few stages
FIRSTLY, screw the crap they go on about 2nd trimester is wonderful and a breeze blah blah blah its just bollocks to get you thru the 1st 12 weeks of the worst hangover of your life (hee hee) well thats what it feels like ha ha
So
Weeks 1-12 Bad hangover period
where you have a free hangover without the alcohol and need to eat everything in site and still only feel a little better :)

Weeks 13-24 - irrational childlike behaviour period
You get up in the morning
(quite happy)
you get changed
(still happy)
head off to work
(still happy)
and half way to work you decide
(getting irritated)
i dont feel comfy in what im wearing
(really irritated)
and want to take my clothes off RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!
AND NEED SOMETHING COMFY RIGHT NOW !!!!!!!
(have a cry, because thats what kids do when they get frustrated ??)
off to the closest clothes store pee 5 times in public toilet get new clothes from scared looking shopkeeper in 4 minutes flat before needing loo again.
(calm again now)
get to work all calm and collected.
Get home from work
(happy)
think about dinner ????
start getting irritated again because you cant think of what you feel like and your husband is happy with whatever you want but you want him to make the decision for once and he only wants you to be happy so makes a couple of suggestions and you scream that those a yuk ideas for dinner!!!!

oh by now its to late for dinner so you go down the road to get take out (happy once again) and get home to discover you have been given the wrong food!!!

ha ha ha ha this is only what happens in one day can you imagine every day he he poor husbands


Constant throughout entire pregnancy...
Clumsiness .. get over it and detach yourself from anything you ever liked in your kitchen its going to get broken and if you dont manage to break it your baby will when he/she can open cupboards and climb in them :)
forgetfulness i broke a kitchen cupboard after swinging on it and andrew tells me not to swing on it when opening (ok im not talking swing like a monkey im talking lean on it) so 30 seconds later i need something from that same cupboard and lean on said broked cupboard door AGAIN in front of husband (which is worse) and the whole thing snaps off !! and then i click i wasnt meant to be doing that he he he he i had to laugh for a good ten minutes after that as it was so ridiculous that i could forget that quickly what he had told me what NOT to do!!! now i understand why kids get in so much trouble.
big boobs! whatever happened to people rubbing your tummy? all i get is people staring and pointing at my boobs explaining how big they are!! well i hadnt really noticed that i was carrying around a extra 2kgs on each boob!!gee wizz!
oh and then people saying...oh wait til your milk comes in they will be HUGE!! WOW!! REALLY !!i thought they might get smaller when im being milked like a cow ! do i look that dumb ? ha ha dont answer that.

more pregnancy stages to be contd.

as im only at 24 weeks so im sure i will encounter more exciting new stages of prengnancy woohoo!!

but seriously i do love every minute of it after waiting so long for our beautiful angel to come there is nothing i would rather be doing then enjoying all the stages of pregnancy.

FINALLY..............

After 3 scans we finally got a little glimpse between our treasured ones legs, man it was a split second but the sonographer has said she is 80% sure we are having a........wait for it....................

GIRL!!!!!!

Yippeee yay wooppeeee

now for names mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

How bout beatrice, gertrude, or moonbeam?
he he

So excited.

NUFF SAID.

20 week versus 22 week photo

20 weeks






















22 weeks

andrew would tend to agree

i have been moving the house around alot lately this sums it up

off the subject.

i just noticed, if you look at the picture of my grey cat boss, too her right hand side there is a wine rack with a AWFUL lot of wine in it, wow i dont think ive ever seen it that full.!!! ha ha well needless to say, the wine rack is gathering dust at this time.
Went to a 30th on the weekend it was great! I managed to last till 11pm which is really late for me but all in all pretty good.

Am 21weeks5days today wow time is flying im so excited !!! i can barely concentrate on anything !!! im just one big USELESS on legs really.
House work? whats that!
Making hearty healthy meals for tea? Whats that!
I just wait around waiting to get a kick in the bladder from our special little monkey, WHO might i add hid from us on our second scan so thats TWO scans after the 20 week mark that we have not been able to see what our cherub is.
So 1st december is the next chance we have then thats probably it untill week 30 where we will get another scan. YAY!!

ok brain has slowed again and i cannot be bothered typing anymore !! how useless am i ha ha!!

20 week scan

hi wel we went to our scan and while waiting in the wait room im sure i got my first real punch in the gut from my naughty little monkey. was such a wicked feeling so different to the bubbly feeling ive had so far. Anyway we went into our scan, got a grumpy lady who told us she was running very late, took about ten mins she just mumbled to herself said good good good mmmmm good good good mmmmm "oh your babys legs are crossed so we dont know what it is' but your baby is healthy. and that was that. thought i would get a bit more info and think my 12 week scan was ten times more informative you know like maybe some measurements of babys size etc ???? anyway healthy is all that matters and here is the clearest pic/vid

Lafternoon tea?

what goes between lunchtime and afternoon tea time? Because i have just invented it for myself so i can eat lets call it Lafternoon tea, actually who cares what its called im eating anyway. mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

One sleep till we know what you are my precious little monkey

19weeks

ok so our holiday rocked out!! was awesome ok so not so much rocking out but more me reading 3 books and laying buy the pool and andrew drinking his bourbon and coke and people watching from our top floor of our apartment (bliss)
Hung out with lees heaps (little sis)which was nice and she looked after us and drove us around i think i was the little sis and she was the older sis ha ha.
anyway heres the 19 week tum tum pic and beware of the 20 week one to come plus the result of WHAT WE ARE HAVING !!!

18 weeks

ok so its been awhile but seriously i blinked and nine days disapeared.
I feel our little cherub rolling around alot now not quite kicking or anything but it just feels like ma baby is cruising in a big bubble of water having a ball and blowing bubbles he he.
Had to buy ANOTHER bigger bra on the weekend as the melons are increasing every week now. and im thinking about getting a wheel barrow to kart them around in :)

We are off to oz tomorrow for our last holiday alone, with no sproglets running around. Looking forward to swimming in a pool and lying in the sun :) i just hope i dont feel like a whale in that heat and need andrew to hose me down every 5 minutes. I had dreams of buying lovely jandels (latest season) and nice dresses. But figure a tent maybe better after reading my baby book which advises me for summer my wardrobe should consist of 2 gigantic tent dresses, gigantic tent cotton bloomers, and a pair of comfy shoes or two canoes ??as my feet may only fit into them after swelling 30 times bigger then they are.
ha ha ha ha its all fun and games isnt it ?
Actually im loving it, we have waited so long for this and it may sound like im complaining sometimes but seriously im enjoying every single minute.

2 weeks till we find out what we are having i can hardly wait !!
have come up with a couple of names now for a boy and a girl so now i dont mind what i have because at least he/she will be named. (and cool names at that)

Well i wont post for the next week or so as i will be sunning the bundle of joy on the gold coast, and sipping a cold glass of wi.......water ha ha first sober holiday EVER!

TIPS

Its funny the little things no one warns you about when pregnant. I went food shopping at lunch today.
All going well i got to the meat department and started checking out steaks etc, then i noticed my nipples started to hurt. UH OH its because i had my head in the chiller and when its cold the nips hurt like nothing else EVER!! i started to feel sick (from the pain) and couldnt help but run to the hot rotisserie chicken section and rub the chest vigorously until pain would die down, well it wouldve looked a sight, but i didnt care one iota man the pain was a killer !!!! So i text bex and she tells me wait til the little heavenly child starts breastfeeding i wont know what hit me ha ha. the joys of motherhood huh?

thats enough gross talk for one day.

15 weeks 1 day photo time :)

yes its that time again photo time :)

oh and ted e bear had to get in on the fun as well andrew did it

15 weeks!

I had a major baby mash brain last night.

My friend texts me..................

"hey is your sky all fuzzy and cloudy?"

i read the message out loud as my little sis was there.

and then i thought i better check before texting her back so opened the ranchslider to have a look at what a fuzzy? cloudy sky would look like , my first thought is holy shit we are being invaded by aliens FREAKY!!
But it was about 7pm so was getting dark and couldnt really see a fuzzy sky>???

Little sis "what are you doing?"
little sis "dont tell me you are checking the sky?'
Me "yeah!!! of course i am ya twit!Why?"
Little sis "i think she means sky TV!"

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm 'OH'

that did save me texting back "what the heck do you think a fuzzy sky looks like ?" to my friend and thinking she had lost her mind ha ha ha . i already have :)

mudcake and backaches

is being pregnant a good enough excuse to go out and buy half a boston mudcake from cheesecake shop? i thought it was at the time he he and it tasted pretty fine too!! I didnt eat it all in one go and there is still some left so hold onto ya knickers everyone.

Went for a swim on my lunch break today did 30minutes of water walking swimming lengths was really lovely until 5 superskinny gorgeous teenage girls bombarded me.. the white whale in the pool ha ha i thought im not getting out of here until they leave.
BUt the lack of fat on there bones was enough to send them packing after 5 minutes in the cold pool mwah ha ha ha ha ha.

nothing much else to document. oh oh oh oh ..... baby got its first 'baby on board" sign for the car yesterday (oh and heaps of other cool stuff)from aunty tammy and its super cool! (pic to come)

14weeks 1 day

Dam dam dam dam I think my one and only last brain cell has disapeared :( oh well if it has gone to the little monster in me thats ok i guess i can share my incredible intelligence.
Hubby mentioned to me that my language has been really bad lately shocking he described it!! ha ha well since my little monster has taken all brain cells i can only remember swear words and lots of them he he:) my excuse is baby cant hear just yet :) so i will get them out of my system now.

Going to go thru the wardrobe this weekend and bag all the clothes i have grown out of (which will probably be close to all of them ) i did sell a couple on trade me but thought i might keep my favs cause the plan is to get into them sometime next year (hopefully)

The baby is about 9cm at the moment (size of half a banana) according to my baby books! that just luuuuve to describe my bundle of joy as food all the time?? mind you better than saying he/she is the size of half a stapler or beer bottle ha ha just pulling shit out of thin air here ha ha.
anyway i must go as my brain is starting to hurt, thinking to much :)

13 weeks

gosh it looks small in the mornings but by the afternoon the baby home has swelled about 4 times the size ha ha will post a avo pic on here as well so can compare.

Oh and YES that is a towel on my head, and YES that is a wasgij puzzle in background, i have officially hit nana status and proud of it.

Pregnancy card

ive added a poll just for my own pleasure and to make people do things that are completely pointless :)ENJOY

Went for a fish on a friends boat the other day and my first catch was two fish at once yay! one for me and one for the little cherub, was pretty cool i think. This little monster is already good at fishing :)

Now ive put on a good few kilos and am in my size 14's now but really did i HAVE to get given the BIGGEST life jacket on the boat ??? i dont even look pregnant yet just well rounded i like to think he he. And its not like a lifejacket has to go around your ass (which is where the weight is) ha ha but still i have to get used to the fact that everything i do now i can pull the pregnancy card YES!!
Best bed to sleep in when visiting people - Tick
Not lifting stuff -Tick
Going to bed early and leaving husband with visitors - Tick
Craving food and getting it - Tick .......mmm havent tried middle of the night ones .....yet he he (im not that mean) ........ (yet)

HERE I AM WORLD!

Well i am now 12 weeks old and able to show how gorgeous i already am. Had a photoshoot this morning and whilst i was sleeping, a few good pics and videos were taken. ENJOY!!!

pregnant blunders

Well Angus informed me yesterday after i dropped a glass or something that shatters pretty well on the kitchen floor, that i have broken or dropped something every day since i was about 7 weeks preg ha ha ha ha got to laugh really or what else can you do.

BEST WAY TO TELL IF YOU ARE PREGNANT?
Get to work and realise your knickers are on inside out !!

I had to laugh , man! , i am just cracking myself up these days its ridiculous, oh and andrew has a great laugh at my expense too!

3 sleeps till 12 week scan yeee haaaaa

things to entertain me

I found the bestest trick in the world (well sort of) the other day.
Mr pullen is really good at leaving all his clothes on the floor next to the bed and all over bedroom. Like any red blooded male would.

WELL!!!! I was out of the shower the other night and looked on his side of the bed at the biggest massivest (yes thats a word)gigantuous humongous white tail spider i had ever seen on the wall just off the floor. So i screamed for my heroe to come, and pointed out nasty ferocious man eating spider that can potentially kill,to him. And being the manly man he said 'we could just leave it??'
Oh NO buster those things can kill and do you know they love climbing into clothes on the floor etc etc?? Well that got the boy moving he squiched it to a gajillion peices and within 24 hours we had a clean bedroom floor and have ever since he he.
I saw another one the other day and pointed it out to him for good measure just so he doesnt slip with his clothes folding he he.

Weekend was pretty uneventful, planted a vegie garden in the cats make shift dirt box. (after cleaning out cat doodees) pruned the passionfruit mmmmmmmmm and did some gardening, rang pops for fathers day had a yarn thats about it.

Oh and im still pregnant !! yee haa

Oh and i went to the OSteo on sat as my 8day headache hadnt eased so the cracking of the neck and shoulders made me feel heaps better. my back and neck was definetly out.
The joys of pregnancy.

10 weeks

Wow what a week!
Since my last blog ive had the super mega sledgehammer brain ache and cant kill it with anything. Had a hard weekend with that AND morning sickness!! Yes yes i thought i would get away without it but I got it bad over the weekend, eating half a pizza 3 chicken wings and heaps of hot fries made me feel a little better saturday night :)

I woke up on wednesday morning craving vegetables salads and fruit (thank god) as im a bit over all the junk to be honest.
So im on the scrambled eggs for breaky and trialing cereal at lunchtime with fruitsalad seems to be helping me get thru the days.
They tell you to have ginger if your sick, but what if ginger makes you feel sick?? HA HA ! got you there how do you solve that?
I had a sicky off work yesterday and visited the midwife for a blood pressure check to see if thats what is setting the headache off but NO im perfectly healthy so went for a hour and a half walk to see if this helped (mmm no) but sure made me feel good about the expanding thighs he he. Its amazing how much a sick day makes you feel better im just feeling a bit revived today.
Fingers crossed the morning sickness will have done its dash soon.

9 weeks!!

Wow time is flying by! yipeeee nearly at the 12 week stage so exciting!!! just cant wait to see our little hubba bubba on the scan at 12 weeks.
Im sure there will be tears.
Sun is shining today FINALLY !! it makes you realise how much you actually miss summer, and how much the sun can actually make you feel happy.
Not much on my home front this week just hooked on strawberry milkshakes and vegemite on toast/crumpets/bread anything.
Havent been sick (yet) just feel sick on and off and tired on and off so im counting my lucky stars cause ive heard some pretthy horrific stories of morning sickness.

I tried having a conversation with a girlfriend the other day and kept forgetting what i was talking about half way through our conversation im sure it was very annoying after about the 3rd time .
Mega baby mash brain today i can hardly even type properly, im off to try and read a book.

husbands

Anyone who has a hubby should or would have to sympathise with me when it comes to that time of the night when he passes out in bed (on his back) and starts snoring quite loudly and you have to kick and shove (nicely he he) to make him roll over.

Well this happened last night and after shoving and kicking it wasnt doing much so i reached over to tap him on the head and found my finger lodged up something ?????

I pulled it out quick smartly to find it was his nostril :) GROSS!!
But i did have to laugh cause it bloody well woke him up and it was well stuck up there he he.
he stopped snoring too!!! BONUS

Tom Thumb

ok that pic is my early days picky when i was at 5weeks so thought i better put a pic up of it

Below is our first pic of our baby measuring 18mm so we decided its about size of our thumb nail (tom thumb)ha ha baby is 8weeks and 3 days yippeee !!

You can see the little cursor at the top of it and a cursor at the bottom thats our little bubba!!!

morning sickness

it seems i havent got away with out the good old morning sickness.
bang on hitting 7 weeks i got it but it seems to be on again off again sickness not just morning sickness or afternoon sickness its all day sickness ha ha.

im currently testing barley sugars to see if they help??
oh and
vegemite sandwiches it seems this little tike likes vegemite not marmite ?? funny that as i like marmite not vegemite.??
weird !
made spag bol on friday for the mother n law and i do not ever want to see that stuff again i have successfully put myself off it ewwwwwww oh and i nearly barfed after making the yummiest roast chicken meal last night.
so i figure small helpings will help me now, not man size meals that make me want to puke !!
stay tuned for more barf talk...........

oh 3 more sleeps till our first scan yipppeeeee

I remembered!

I knew it would come back to me :)

We went to see the new batman movie on sat !
Wicked movie great icecream (food is my life at the moment)
ANDREW: "lets sit right up the back"
ME " nah lets sit in the middle so we get full effect"
ANDREW: (shrugs) (obviously not going to fight with the crazy pregnant person)
Movie starts.
Oh i need to pee.
1/2 hour later
Dam i need to pee again
another 1/2 hour
Dam dam i need to pee
ok so you get the jist of it 4 visits later im over going to the toilet.
Movie ends

ME: "lets sit at the back of theatre next time?"
ANDREW: "really? whys that?" (smirking)
ME: (defeated) "because i dont want 30 people in the theater to be wondering why the tall chick has to keep running out through the whole movie"
ANDREW: (snigger snigger)

Alzheimers!

6weeks and 3 days pregnant

I had something really interesting to write and then i forget !!!!

It seems this is another side affect of pregnancy , baby brain?
Actually things change daily, yesterday i think i ate enough food to feed ethiopia and some!!! (chocalate selfsaucing pudding with cream)

Pregnancy actually just feels like a constant kinda hangover because if you think about it...............
You wake up with the sluggish morning feeling where i just lie there and think oh shit i cant get up i feel crap & and i may be sick !!
And then after 15minutes I slowly dragmyself out of bed to avoid headspins and passing out i spend a good ten minutes in shower!
Then after trying to cover the face full of zits with a thin layer of concrete like foundation i emerge from the bedroom to my husband making me breakfast and a massive cup of tea.
Cant be bothered making lunch as im too tired!
Head to work cant be bothered working as i cant concentrate!
The day drags and im hungry all day and feel sick.
See where im going with this its definetly like a hangover!
BUt i suppose it would be different with every pregnant woman.

Lets hope that this is only just for the 1st trimester and things perk up a bit in 6 or so weeks !!

Stay tuned for my first tummy shot think i might have to put a monthly one up to document mini p's growth

Geriatrics and midwives

I seriously think if you are going on holiday and are over the age of 70 you "SHOULD NOT" take a laptop with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes it works at home just fine but as soon as you step out your front door and it stops working it is not the resorts fault you do not know how to use your flippin computer!
I had one man throw his toys yesterday (oh and yes its true when they get older they start going back to there childhood ways) because he couldnt use wireless in his villa.
Me "do you have wireless set up at home?"
Old Geeza "No but my computer has a wireless button!"
Me "so you dont pay for wireless at home just dial up?"
Old Geeza " thats right!"
Me (talking very slowly now) "Well that means you wont be able to use wireless here"
Old Geeza (throws a wobbly in the reception and storms out complaining that this resort is just making it too hard for him )

Oh and i fail to mention we have a computer that works perfectly well, next to reception but that would be too easy to use aye??

MOVING ON..................

Met with our midwife to be today, she seems ok how do you know they are not ok?
SHe seemed pretty straight up and we know someone who had there first child and said she was good so might as well go off other peoples experiences i think?
Who knows !

CHICKEN FEED AND DIRT ANYONE?

Things are still ticking along, have ongoing cramping in my uterus but lets just hope its from those lovely suppositories i have to use three times a day.

Spoke to my nana on sat after work for a catch up (think she was making sure i was taking it EASY!!) Anyway after telling her the goings on in my body and that i have a new addiction to swissmaid vanilla custard, she told me about her food cravings during her pregnancy with my dad and aunty and uncle, ha ha i was in tears all afternoon and the way she described how yum the food (if you call it that) was i was worried she could still find it very tasty.
*Mental note to tell family to watch nana*
Aparently on the farm she had to feed the chooks in the mornings and mix up the chicken feed with water and after a few weeks of smelling this lovely stuff she said she just had to hook into it and it was soooooooooooooo delicious i nearly wet my pants. But then she continued to tell me another craving of dirt !
I had to asker her twice you mean "DIRT" "MUD" "brown stuff in the ground?"
"of course " she says! Still sounding really convinced that this dirt was just a slice of heaven.
So after jumping the fence in paddocks to find some(clean??) dirt to eat as she was craving it really badly she got down to business eating it , the dirt ?? Ha ha well that was were the conversation ended cause any chance of a normal conversation was out of the question with me, ha ha ha

5WEEKS-MOMENTS OF PRENGANT'NESS'

I can tell you now, the blog is going to get funny and funnier from now on.
After having a yummy chicken, bacon, mushroom fettucine dinner I decided one would retire to bed.
So as usual Angus is lying on couch snoring away *Poke* *Poke*
Me - "common undrew time for bed!"
Angus - "mmm yep"
*Snore* *snore*
Me - *poke* *poke*
Angus - "yep im coming" *snore* *snore*

9.00 pm- Ok i give up im off to bed.
9.01pm- better go to the toilet as i will be getting up about 4 times to go again tonight and i dont want to make it 5 times!
me- *snore* *snore*
11.30pm - shufle shuffle fluff fluff goes the duvet - (light goes on)

Dragon woman - "WHY ARE YOU WAKING ME UP ON PURPOSE!!!!! I WAS ASSSSLEEEEEEEPP!!!!"
poor husband - "um i dont have a pillow and am looking for one"
Dragon woman slowly transforming into witch - " WELL I DONT BLOODY HAVE IT
(i only had about 4, 2 under head, 1 under gut, 1 on side of bed to rest witchey hand)
"YOU ARE JUST SAYING THAT TOO WAKE ME UP ON PURPOSE!!!!! " GRRRRRRRRRRRRR"
poor husband with no pillow - rolls over and goes to sleep
Dragon woman/witch/hogger of pillows - (thinks about how selfish husband is then goes to sleep for a couple of hours before wee stops begin)

So anyway i wake up this morning and Angus finally gets me back for calling him grumbles all those times.
"Someone was a little grumbly last night Mrs Grumbles!!!"
oops i say sorry.About 1000 times!!!After finding his pillow on my side :)
Husband has now decided that 11pm at night is not a good time for his babymaking wife to be bothered.

thar she/he blows!!!

YES YES I HAD TO DO IT , ON SATURDAY I GOT UP NICE AND EARLY AND DID A PEE ON A STICK PREG TEST.

Because i can.!

Oh and i felt like a normal pregnant person he he.

Tried knitting the rest of my blanket on the weekend but someone wanted to help too, our first fluff child boss





oh and then came the other fluff child who wanted to help as well

The beginning of the rest of our lives !!

Well good monday morning !
Feeling still a bit bewildered at the moment, bought a book called "up the Duff" on the weekend its a hilarious look at conception and pregnancy and birth so quite good to know somethings im feeling a NORMAL (whats that?)
I had to have a blood test today to check if my progesterone levels are normal ( i think) and after speaking to the clinic have been told i have to keep taking my lovely pessaries (suppositories) to keep my uterus happy (small price to pay)3 times a day.
My first scan will be on Week 8 so that will make things seem a bit real.
Only pregnancy symptoms i have so far are a sore lower back, realy dizzy all the time (no smart comments :) and tired alot. Oh and titchy he he
But as far as that goes im all ok.
My knitting has picked up pace and im nearly finished knitting a throw (dont ask why) it just seemed like a good way to keep me glued to the couch and to relax.
Off to read my book now.... im only reading it week by week as i dont want to get too far ahead of myself.

im Back

ok im back and have composed myself!!
Andrew flew straight to the fridge with the phone in his hand (while i was still trying to breath) to get a beer out of fridge. The nurse had a chuckle to herself as she heard the clang clang of beer bottles because clever Daddy P took phone to broadcast his beer retrieval from garage haha.
We kept saying thankyou thankyou thankyou to here and she said we were such a nice couple and made there jobs that much rewarding cause we got a good result.

So I had to ring everyone and tell them, oh and i know i know im only 4 weeks pregnant (dont ask me how that works out but i just am) so we are waiting with baited breath till week 7or8 when we get our first scan at the IVF clinic i think (to hear a heartbeat) and then the home straight to week 12.

Back at work today with heaps of work to do. Bosses were really happy, i even bought in home made cookies (andrew wasnt impressed i was stealing them from him) for every one to eat.
But now i think the bosses have realised i may be leaving in around 7-8 months they are acting a bit weird. oh well you get that in the tough jobs, such a cool place to work but work is not life.
No morning sickness by the way just lots of pimples and lowtolerance to the old people that come into work ha ha

D Day

Sitting on the couch feeling like i want to puke waiting for andrew to get home so we can call the clinic for our results.

Everything has lead up to this, so much worry, stress, heartache (that sounds dramatic but im serious)

I had to get to the clinic this morning to do my blood test at the mount and results were available after 2pm.

At this point im thinking should i have bought myself that fat bottle of red wine to drink just in case its a negative or is that being too pessimistic?

I just want the results so i can get on with being either happy than the happiest i have felt or pretty sad and pick myself up and carry on carrying on.

Im so scared.

Andrew gets home and we ring the clnic together he doesnt want to listen on the other end but he does ha ha hes as nervous as me argggghhhh i cant take this anymore !

So we ring. Get the nurse on the phone. Hi tanya here!
Tanya Pullen!!


Yes hold please..................





Arr yes tanya from Taranaki??


No????

Hold please..............................




Uh oh!!!!!



Oh yes here you are Papamoa??

Yes.








Soooooooooooooo???




Well your levels are 99



Andrew gives me this confused look i am giving straight back to him???


SO that means?????



Oh yes you are pregnant!!!!!


HOLY SHIT!!!!

ok so got to go cry now but fill ya in tomorrow

Ahhhhhh Fooey

I thinnk im getting a cold feel that yukky breath taste in my mouth, sore throat and massive headache dam dam.

Well i wish i had news but i dont!! We are still waiting waiting,
Weekend was a nice relaxing one managed to fit in 5 dvd's !!!
I know I know thats like 9 hours of doing nothing (except knitting...badly)but hey that was the plan to TAKE IT EASY.
Off to mates house tonight to watch the netball and have dinner so that will be nice, will take my grapetise yum yum. (no seriously i love it)

dont you love when youre grasping for hope for something you start looking at anything as A SIGN!! as our embryo is a number 4. We thought that was quite a good sign as my bday is 22 Jan 2+2=4 ha ha ok wait how bout add my whole bday up
22-1-1979 so 2+2+1+1+9+7+9=31 3+1=4
oh and
Andrews mum miscarried 3 times before having her '4th pregnancy' and giving birth to her beautiful baby ANDREW
oh we live at 34 Summerland cres??? Been trying for a baby for 4 years. ok ok im just grasping now.

trying to find things to keep mind occupied

waiting game

Ok its Thursday and what can I say im feeling a bit better than I did yesterday after hearing the news of numbers 1,2 &3 embryos not surviving or not being good enough.

Had dinner at Hubbys mums with uncle and aunty was a lovely dinner forgot to buy my grapetise (which im getting increasingly getting addicted too) but located something non-alcoholic to drink anyway. Was still a little down but the show must go on. I must say this is the most frustrating part of IVF up to date as it’s the waiting game. And every day is a step closer to finding out if we are or are not pregnant.

My uterus cramping has died down a bit oh wait now that I say that “hello” said uterus decides to cramp a little. So hopefully freckle’s is in there and burrowing in nicely and liking his/hers new home.

My boobs have been so tender since about Sunday and I figure its obviously another side affect from these lovely suppositories that I have to use constantly as they are another form of some hormone. My skin is a mess but im over it , that’s nothing really in the grand scheme of things.

So we continue to wait.

OH ive started knitting again, another thing to keep the overactive mind busy.
Cats are very happy

Bad Day

Me and freckles ( thats number 4's nickname as it is the size of one)are having a bad day today.
Apart from counting down the days too judgement day to see if im pregnant, and if freckle has hung around.
I rang the clinic and spoke to JP my embryologist. and he said all my other 3 embryos didnt make it to a good enough quality to freeze so have been sent to petrie dish heaven (as one of my IVF friends calls it)
No no second chances with this lot, so if freckles doesnt hang around we will have to go through the WHOLE 2 month long process again.
So i had a cry (at work very classy) and now i have a massive headache and am trying to be positive and not swear to much as freckle could still be hanging around and listening( hopefully!!)
Its my sis's bday when i find out the result so there is a good sign.
Im keeping the day pretty quiet only a few know just so i dont get bombarded with "are you pregnant?" texts or phone calls on the day cause if im not i can no doubt tell you now i will be a mess! after this mornings performance at work.

Tahi, Rua, Toru, WHA!!!!!

Embryo transfer was today, it was scheduled for 10.30 and I had to have a full bladder for the transfer, Got there at 10.15, oh wait a minute the Doc had been called out to Hamilton Hospital for a emergency in theatre so i had to wait a hour and a half with a full bladder !!!!WOOH!
Dont EVER!!! try and have a full bladder wth bruised swollen ovaries !!MY GOODNESS! iT hurts bad. So i squirmed and read a mag squirmed some more tried to read mag then that was it i couldnt hold on any longer we didnt know when my doc was coming back so nurse said i could let a little bit out, WHAT!! a 'little' bit? how on earth do you expect me to stop once i start powerpissing everywere? but i did! You dont get this far and ruin it not being able to hold onto you wee wees!!! Any way one hour and a half later and three mini pees my doc turned up.We cant remember her name as it was a indian name but we decided to rename her shanti!And she had a new protege learner doc with her another indian man we named him Scotty! (anyone who watches shorty st will understand and see our humour)
But in the end the transfer went well & number 4 embryo went in, pretty much like a smear test but they put a ultrasound scan on your tummy so they can watch the embryo get squirted in and VOILA!! andrew saw it go in (on the tv monitor)he reckons it looked like a shooting star he he, so we will leave it up to the universe now, just got to wait the 2 weeks until our blood test to see if it has worked.
Ahhhhhhhh we drive home get the usual decaf from cambridge oh & another pee stop. Oh and no speeding tickets this time yay!! So this is were the pain should stop, ISNT IT???
oohhhhhhhh noooooooo
Get home, find my position on the couch and BANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The cramps start!
No one warned me about this!
I think my body is just over being injected poked prodded lately and is telling me to LAY OFF WOULD YOU!!! ok ok i promise no more we are just going to kick back and take it easy on number 4. Andrew has his late dads gold ring on and we seem to have luck when he wears it so he will not be taking it off!

here is a break down of what happened to our embryos as of today. as we had 4.

Number 1-Only at 4 cells today
Number 2- Only a 6 cells today
Number 3- 8 cells but a bit of fragments in it
Number 4- 8 cells looking great !!! SO that was the one that went in.

We want to have at least one embryo frozen (just in case this cycle doesnt work out)so we are going to hear from the clinic next week as to if our babies have been put in the freezer or didnt make it :(
Hopefully over the next few days the other embryos show promise and they will get frozen.

The nurse told me to continue as normal and to not overheat my body so no netball and hot pools but retail shopping is a GIVEN!! so i shall splurge and buy myself a new jacket tomoro as i dont have a winter jacket.

SO thats it for now folks continue to read as i will no doubt be updating every day or two with my latest misadventure, off to watch the rugby now and toast to baby4 with some grapetise BOTTOMS UP!

EIEIO part 2

well afer crying all morning we have found out that all our 4 eggs and fertilised over night so we have 4 babies growing at the moment and one lucky embryo gets put back into me on Sat morning!! yippeeee.(the rest will be frozen. And then the waiting game begins to see if it all worked !

E I E I O

And on the pullens farm there was 4 eggs! EIEIO !

Had our egg collection yesterday,wow was a experience , took biccies for the scientists and doc, to hopefully butter them up he he, seemed to go down a treat they all were very surprised.
Had my first (chill out) pill which sent me into hysterical laughter. then more drugs while in the op room, had three lovely ladies who cracked jokes the whole way throuh my procedure so was very relaxing (well as i could be with a rather large needle threw my insides)One doc mentioned how long my legs were and that she couldnt see where they ended as they went past her shoulders (while she was getting my eggs) and i butted in and said "yeah my husband says that alot too " oops TMI Mrs Pullen ha ha that cracked them all up.

So 4 healthy eggs retreived so thats 4 more chances then any other month for s yay!!

Angus got award of the day for doing his business the fastest then anyone he he, he said the pornos that were in the 'special room' were from the 70's or 80's haha.

So find out Thursday morning if we have babies growing hopefully we hae 4 embryos today that fertilised last night.

Stay Tuned

IVF Update

GOOD MORNING GOOD MOOOOORRRRNING!! THE SUN WILL SHINE AT BREAKFAST TIME GOOD MORNING GOOD MORNING TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well im feeling quite the chirpy we sparrow this morning we had our first scan on saturday morning ! 15 follicles growing nicely! the doc was telling the nurse 4x12's 3x10's on the left side and 3x12's 2x10's 3x 8's this, i think is the size of each follicle and he informed me he wants them about 15mm to take out so we would be looking at Egg collection on thursday !! YAY!!!!clever clever little ovaries !

I asked for a lolly since i was such a good girl, he said he doesnt treat kids for IVF so no lollies he he but i told him i already scoped out the biscuit cupboard when i was waiting in the recovery room he he.

So off home we tot, stop in at Cambridge for my decaf coffee and caramel slice (treats!) and then back on road to see a cop about a speeding ticket! yes we got pulled up and given a nice $170 ticket for going 93km in a 70km zone. Dumb since the 70km zone in TePoi is about 500metres long and thats it!! so very cunning spot for cops to sit to get there daily quota i think! oh and then there was the $400 ticket whopped on top as angus's license expired in Feb and he hadnt realised ! Oh well thems the breaks. Nothing was dampening my day i tell ya!

Monday morning I had my 2nd scan to check growth is going well etc and to confirm egg collection day. 10 good sized follys on my right side and about the same on my left !!! WOOH! and averaging around 17mm each so nice and juicy ha ha! So doc (a different one) says looks like these are coming out on Wednesday ! YAY!!!! i screamed (whilst the scan was still going) so that means only 2 sleeps now til EC(egg collection) day and you know what that means? Angus? Its your turn to do your thing on Wednesday too he he.
So i will do a "trigger injection" monday night this is a one off injection that will mature my eggs for collection(i think?) at 10pm tonight as instructed by nurses. Ready for EC on weds morning at 9.30am yippeeee

To be cont'd......................................

ON TRACK!

My darling LITTLE bro took his egg growing sis out for tea last night which was sooooo nice i owe him a thousand fettucines for it. And he bought his workmate with him Richie (who i must say talks just like Heath ledger with the same accent oh my god !!!) (sorry hormones talking again)and after about 1/2 hour of me talking leisurely about drugs, eggs, headaches & ovaries and how i CANT have caffeine chocolate and alcohol, he looked soo confused, i think he thought as i wasnt drinking alcohol, i was already pregnant !!! Poor boy so then Angus flew into a full blown story about IVF and me going threw the psycho menopause stage then the massive headaches stage then injecting i could see the poor chap squirming in his seat to go have a cigie. and thinking to himself (if i knew i was coming to dinner with my workmate to talk to his sister and hubby about her ovaries etc I WOULDNT HAVE COME!!"
Poor guy ha ha.

Well had my blood test done yesterday morning for my E2 levels (egg growing hormones)
and they are at 491??? Yes i had that confused look on my face too!! So too keep injecting the Buserilin (to stop my natural hormones) and Gonal F (to grow eggs) drugs til saturday morning which is when i have my first internal scan! too look at how many follicles i have growing and at what stage they are at.
This is where they will decide to either keep me on drugs or up or lower my levels and should be scheduled for my Egg collection next week sometime (providing everything is all good)
From what the girls (fellow IVF mates) i talk to online say prob be about a week,
so could have EC next thursday friday or saturday, .
IM SOOOOOOOOOOO FRICKEN EXCITED MAN !!!!!!!!!! CANT WAIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I know i shouldnt be excited about a penis shaped wand that is my ultrasound scan device (yuk!) and getting my eggs sucked out of me throw a large needle that goes through my uterus walls (whilst im awake) but HEY!! I am!

Pin Cushion

Yes im still injecting myself twice a night didnt think i would hear myself say it but it really isnt too bad! When you think of the grand scheme of things, i think the egg collection is the biggy but im not too scared about that either its just all very exciting to us stil (wait til im in pain after op i might change this he he)

Managed to leave the house twice in the whole weekend (im getting used to this relax and rest buzz)!
Once for a lotto ticket and 2nd time for dinner, very good i say!!!

Oh and being a Aquarian one thing you need to know about us wacky waterbearers is we change our minds ALL THE TIME!! and to add to that im a compulsive canceller. So i cancelled my facial on sat, times are tough money is tight and $60 was over my limit and im hormonal so dont mess with me :)
But got a massage scheduled for Tuesday night (free) so thats good for me HA!!

Looking forward to this week, wednesday am blood test to see if i am reacting to this second lot of drugs im on. and then they will tell me when i can head over to hamilton to have a ultrasound to see how many eggies i have growing yippee !! so if all is well, next week is the big one for egg collection op etc etc blah blah.
And thanks to everyone for there support and if i fall off the face of the earth (even more than i already have) its because we are busy playing with eggs and ovaries ok?
It feels like there is a jack hammer in my head today, its such a shame i cant drink cause these headaches are like the worst hangover headache ever!but for free!! without the alcohol!
Oh and did i mention i cant have chocolate or caffeine!!
Ive been off that for a few weeks now so im a decaf girl.
word for the wise, dont ever order a chai latte with sugar!!!!! my lord it tasted like warm milk with cinnamon and 1/2cup sugar ewwwwwww too sweet.

smallest blog ever!

i down regulated so we are all good today! start my stimulation (growing eggs) drugs tomorrow night. so will be jamming two needles in every night now !
just another step closer ...............................................to either becoming a infertile gypsy or a mumma

Facials massages and follicles.

Well had my Down regulation blood test this morning will find out later this avo if i have down regulated and if so hopefully this is how the next few weeks should go.

26th June - start stimulation drugs.

2nd July -Blood test to check how stimulation drugs are reacting.

3rd July- scan to see how follicle growth is progressing.

Week beginning-7th July - egg collection. (nice operation with rather large needle)

About 3-5 days after that is embryo replacement.

Nothing but good times ahead.!!!!

At present im feeling hopeful, tired, headachy,extremely forgetful and clumsy, angry (sometimes), happy (sometimes), just up and down really, slept for 11 hours last night, it seems this is what my body wants so i wont argue with it, or I pay big time with a masssive migraine like headache (it is not pretty)

I MUST SAY NOW I SOOOOOOOOOOOO CANT WAIT FOR THE WEEKEND IM GOING TO BE DOING NOTHING BUT LYING IN BED READING MY BOOK AND WATCHING MOVIES yay!!!
As this is all im capable of at the mo.
Oh and the clinic suggested that we pamper ourselves in this time of our treatment i couldnt understand why until now!!!As pampering involves not talking to anyone and pretty much sleeping its perfect for a hormonally, grumpy, clumsy, ticking timebomb like myself ha ha so i booked a facial at Club royale in papamoa (my first facial) and a massage next tuesday yay!

Another thing that sucks is Angus has been offered work in Noosa and Vanuatu for July, isnt that wicked!!!! NOT!!
He obviously cant go as we need his sperm to create our Mini Pullen so that really bites big time . He is really cool about it as he wants a bubba more than work anyway.

weekend!

what a weekend!
after being so cocky about not having "supposed" side effects from my hormone drugs.
they all crept up and bit me on the arse sat night! my god!
Went out to dinner with friends was feeling good put the layers of makeup over the hormonally challenged acne face and dressed up in my "new" boots, bought off trade me (see picture) bought for a cool $45!!!! So cool!


ok, ok, geting off subject now!! (its the menopause alright!?)
one red wine down ! then WHAMMO!!! my headaches hit full force couldnt even string a sentence together think one of the girls thought i was smashed but i was just really mash brained from pain and hot flushes,
Then i felt like bursting into tears (for no particular reason) and because it was for no reason that i felt like crying i figured that was quite funny so wanted to burst out laughing as well ! (talk about conflicting emotions)

So now i know why the little booklet i was given called "COPING WITH TREATMENT" says........
"one day you will have one way to deal with a side effect then the next day it wont work at ALL!!" and you will have to find another way to handle it ha ha!

ok so im feeling ok today i figure i have to take each day, hour by hour now, not day by day.

Angus took me to hot pools sunday morning, no one was there so it was so lovely had a little sleep in pools then home to watch a movie and a little avo siesta (as had a work dinner to go to and didnt want same thing to happen to me from sat night)

Took my drugs to dinner as I have to inject same time every night, and did a lovely show for the staff with my injection yes yes photos were taken. and jokes were shared lucky i was feeling emotionally stable i didnt have to get all freaky menopausal on them he he.

Actually it may sound strange but as i see my bosses and workmate more than anyone at the mo, i seem to be quite comfortable around them all and i suppose they are all the most clued up with everything step by step (apart from angus) so its quite good they are all supporting me heaps???

side tracking

hello all
well i played netball last night with the mother of all headaches and after injecting myself at work ha ha, we won 28-19 and my partner smelt like she had wet her pants, god where the hell do they drag these skanks up from man yuk! Or i think i just get the stinky ones!.

Ok so i have taken a liking to stalking trade me and other fashion store websites looking at jackets and boots, yes well it takes my mind of other things, tuesday night i entered a bidding war for a wicked pair of USA leather cowboy boots and then pulled out at $198 as after i asked angus "where the hell will i wear these?" his answer was "with a mini skirt in summer like jessica simpson!"
"YEAH RIGHT"
so i pulled out and my god $198 was pretty up there for a pair of boots i hadnt tried on but heres a pic

Day 6 Of injecting

Ok thats it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is it over yet ? am i pregnant?
far out im very very impatient today , i have figured i have at least!!!! 4-5 weeks to go arggghhhhh i mean its great i have to go off pill on thursday blood test next tuesday, so i do have things to look forward to but this is how sick i am, I look forward to injecting every day now ha ha,

just because in some insane way im a step closer to falling pregnant. funny huh? well not for me really, i suppose when you have tried for over 4 years and had nothing everything i do is leading to HOPEFULLY a positive pregnancy test.

oh and if its negative i might buy a bus and become a gypsy.

CAPTAINS LOG

Day 5 of injections, things are looking good so far (i think)
few moments of irrational behaviour , night sweats, hot flushes, and mean hangover headaches,extreme tiredness but im soldiering on this is probably the best i will feel once we get the 2nd lot of injections started late next week to grow my egg farm.
Have a blood test next Tuesday to check for Down regulation then nurses will tell me to start taking the 2nd injection hopefully next thursday (all going well if my body has responded to drugs the right way)so then i will be injecting twice a day ha ha.
Had Tamy and chris over last night to watch my drug show! Tamy had her hands over her ears??????? Yes we did ask why? but that was her coping mechanism we suspect he he.
Oh i have these insane cravings for Apple strudel lately ?? Thats what i had for dinner sat night? weird huh? I think its since i have cut out the red wine i need something to replace it ha ha. Well it helped me slep 12 hours so thats all good for me.

getting my hit

here it is the first injection, i apologise now for the swearing but it is quite funny looking back now he he,,,,,,,,enjoy


oh and even at the start you will see madam mucky pants in the film of course she had to be in it ah ha ha

FIRST VIDEO OF FIRST INJECTION

netball!

This could possibly be my last game of netball tonight so Im fully going to" BRING IT!!'

Last week we played the biggest bunch of pie eaters i have ever seen ha ha they were all moari chicks (im not being racsist as i am part hokianga horry myself thankyou) and i literally bounced off my partner a few times she was solid as and a bloody good player to boot! but im sorry galfriend not good enough to beat me, yes yes we whipped there butts so that was sweet!
Went home with two black blood blisters forming on my pads of my feet and a black toe nail from a few weeks earlier, so there goes my foot modelling work DAMMIT! he he
So tonight lets hope for a similar outcome. (not the feet part)

OH AND ONE MORE SLEEP TILL NEEDLE DAY YIPPEEEEEEEE

God im on the pill and im sure my boobs are growing by the second, after not being on it for so long you forget the side effects of it,
So i say to angus the other night "oh my god angus pullen!! i have breast cancer (as being a aquarian everything is cancer ok? ) " my boobas are so sore i think they will fall off!"
I kept saying this for about 3 days and in the end he said to me
"your on the bloody pill for f&*k sake your tits are getting huge thats why there sore THERE BLOODY GROWING!!!!
Isnt it great men are so simple sometimes?
this put me out of my cancer misery ha ha.

here we go

ok so thursday was GREAT!! learnt heaps, the consellor was just the coolest lady answered heaps of questions and pretty much gave andrew the job of Drug manager which he happily took, we then went to the nurses and learnt how to inject the 2 different types of injections i will be using.as you will see in the pictures.

So i will be starting the buresilin injections next thurs so thats going to be exciting!!! oh and i will tape it jus for my own sick reasons he he.
The buresilin will put my body into a menopausal state so i dont produce any eggs.I will take ths for 2 weeks then start another injection called Gonal F which will kick my body into producing a whole chcken farm of eggs he he.

the drugs and needles combined work out to about $900 a pop so dont really want to screw it up.

the counsellor did mention not to tell too many people about our journey (woops too late) as towards the end when we are waiting to see if it worked or not it could be difficult if we get a negative blood test for a pregnancy.
so I will tell you all what happens but it will be in our own time.
and i appreciate all the support eveyone has been offering thanks heaps.

ha ha

too remind me and angus of what and why we are doing this.......
ive put these little white knitted baby mittens on my fridge, which megan gave to me nearly four years ago when we first started trying to conceive.

amazing i still have them i know i know you would think i wouldve thrown them ages ago and given up hope ha ha. not me i tell ya.

Drug teach

yippeee
ok so friday i told Bev & Kev ( my bosses) about my IVF and they were so great about it i dont know what the heck i was so worried about.
Got a call from the Hamilton clinic with my "IVF PLAN" the nurses was sooooooooooooo cool she says "o this is your first ever IVF cycle isnt it??? " im like YEH! and she sounded more excited then me "alrighty lets get the ball rolling for you then HONEY!!!" (big change to the other witch i spoke to at the start of it all)
. so excited .
im off to hamilton on Thurs June 5th for a meeting with a counsellor, then Drug teach with the nurses (basically learning to inject myself) which i will start doing on June 12th (so watch this space for my video clip of my first injection)
then meeting with a IVF group for questions and to meet the other lab rats like myself who are going through this he he h.

Saturday went to Priscilla queen of the desert with some posse had a fun night out and that was the last hoorah of drinking any wine or anything with alcohol in it, actually quite happy about that to be honest yippee.

decision.

after talking to a tough counsel of my close girlfreinds and getting the best advice.
i have decided i will tell my employers im about to do IVF.
Soooo when i psyche out at someone or headbutt a 80year old they will know why a a ah ha ha ha ha ha.
over and out
im off to lonestar to eat like a american tonight
yumskis

Living on one income!

Haha this , I found funny,

Last night we received our consent forms to sign my eggs and andrew sperms away.
Plus more papers for urine tests and blood tests (for angus too! ha ha)

So thought mmmm rissoles and salad will do for din dins.

Hiff them in the oven, poor a red , start reading our 3000 page book on what we need to know and start signing away our bodies.

About a hour and a half into reading i remember there was something in the oven, and pull out what went in looking like fat meaty balls comes out like black charcoal golf balls.

So its black golf balls and sauce for dinner as by now we aint that hungry.

Angus grumbles says "SEE WE CAN LIVE ON ONE WAGE IF WE KEEP EATING LIKE THIS!'

"THESE ARE ACTUALLY QUITE YUMMY!'
nice try , trying to make me feel better ha ha.

mindreaders!

Sunday-
Start taking the contraceptive pill ( to stop my body producing a egg this month)
& was meant to go and get a blood test for HIV HEP A,C,B FSH levels blah blah blah
on day 2 of my cycle which falls on a SUNDAY! so we go to the hospital A & E on sunday, get told all the labotamists (not sure if that is what they are called? ) are finished at 11am (it is now 11.15am)
And i will have to wait around a few hours to see if someone will do it for me.
After seeing a broken arm patient , scabies patient , Big lady on dialysis and many more i text angus and ask him to ring the nurses at Fert associates in hamilton and ask if i can just get it done on Monday morning!
They tell him i shouldve been at hospital at 9am Sunday morning!
What the hell!
Am i a mindreader was i meant to know this?
Oh and they were a bit grumpy he said.

So that was it i got up walked out of the hospital and got the test done this morning with the lovely ladies at Mount Medlab. Who couldnt understand why i needed to be at hospital at 9am either. Prob something to do with couriering results to hamilton at certain times.

Well anyway its another lovely week in paradise.

Ate so much on the weekend i have a michelin tyre sitting over my jeans (wouldnt have anything to do with the red wine i consumed HA!)

Better cut down the red wine consumption so i dont get withdrawls when i am meant to stop he he

DAY 1

Yes we are ready to start!!!
Day 1 has arrived wake up at 3am with the usual cramping ready to die pain, but im so excited!!!!!
i even ring the clinic somewhere between 4-6am ha ha to leave the message im meant to leave saying its my day 1,
they apparently will ring me back and explain what is going to happen and when etc ....oh after laughing at me for ringing so early ha ha bet there used to it.
andrew has just left for work after puking up his breakfast, one day he will realise he cant handle beer like he used to hee hee poor guy.

the journey begins

So i ring Fert.Associates hamilton today and mention to them it is near the end of May (close enough to June)

And im due for my AF (period) so could i please start my IVF cycle now instead of waiting another 4 weeks in my 4 year journey to get pregnant.
And they said YES!!
so as soon as i get my AF i wil ring the clinic and they will instruct me where i go from there.

From what others have told me and the info i have, i will be put on the pill for the next couple of weeks and given a rough schedule on what will be planned to happen over the next 6-7 weeks of my journey.
re: stabbing myself with injections using suppositories and everything else that is lovely jubbly, Im so excited ...........
Better hav a red wine tonight to celebrate.
Uh oh am i meant to stop drinking now ....
better find out.......
tomorrow

MADAM MUCKY PANTS

And that brings us to today :)

Welcome welcome!!!

Uh oh i made a mistake on the home page , i thought i would show Angus Grumbles our little bloggy page

BIG MISTAKE...............................

he has laughed constantly for the past 15 minutes at the picture of Boss at the top of the page that he so lovely named KARATE KAT!!

OR madam mucky pants (as i like to call her)

I have never seen the old boy cry so much he reckons his eyes are stinging and i cant get him to eat his dinner typical men ! ha ha need pictures to get any male reaction haha.

ok ok so sorry Angus has decided that when ever anyone is down you just need to look at little miss madam mucky pants photo and it will cheer you up in no time!!!!

She is my fist baby 13yrs old so very retired and very moody and with a big ASS attitude!!!!

She is the one and only child as far as she can see and acts like it.... as you will see in pics too come :)



Maybe i should just stick to cats?





o this was madam knitting a blanket for her arch enemy tooty (my black cat 3yrs old) who she loves to hate :)

IVF Date

ok so after obsessing for so many years and finally been told we need to do IVF i started freaking out and thinking maybe this month we will fall pregnant ?? and then we wont have to do IVF?

Poor Angus had to put up with me telling him when we needed to be getting ACTIVE and not ,if you know what i mean :)

well if you want to put strain on a marriage try doing this ha ha i have to laugh looking back though,

oh i will apologise now if some of my blogs sound ........................... um..................well a little bit mental really, as this journey just really brings the total extremes of your personality out, even walking past a pregnant woman at the wrong time of the month would break me down and poor angus would have to console me for a whole day !! (which is pretty easy when you think about it , blue cheese and red wine please ) hee hee.

Ok say we were given August07 as our IVF 1st cycle date, (for all you non infertiles) which basically means (1st day of period ring the clinic we are in for a ride!)

Well july comes around and im still freaking out major time as by now i have been online and found some great websites etc... oh baby........babycentre australia. etc etc. well i start to think oh im sure i will fall pregnant naturally maybe we shold put IVF off for 6 months? and just have a break from all the TTC(trying to conceive) book a holiday in oz and just not think about it ?

Well Mr Pullen was all for this as he has lived and breathed with Mrs Nightmare infertile Pullen for the past 3 years and pretty much jumped at the chance of a holiday and break from all the TTC crap we had dealt with.

So we booked a holiday for March08 and thats what we did :)

This is Digby at Dreamworld very cuddly wee man.

Practising

May 05
we were starting to wonder if there may be a reason we werent falling preggers went to doctor, they taught me what dates you are most fertile etc etc and told us to keep practising
so we carried on practising :)

June 05

We moved to Papamoa Tauranga awesome little beachy town, and got jobs and carried on PRACTISING!! Gosh this is a EXCITING story ~!

Dec 05

After 15 months of PRACTISING and the most painful AF's (period) of my life to the point i was being sick and needed a dark hole for 8 hours and 5boxs of Nurofen plus!!
We saw my doc again, she thought i may have PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) or Endometriosis! (two massive words i really had no idea about )
So referred to the specialist at tauranga hospital (3months wait)
We were in got scheduled for a Laporoscopy & Dye ( more big words? )

June 06
Had my little op and was off work for 2 weeks, 1st week for my tummy to reduce to normal size as they pump you with so much gas you look 8 months pregnant.
And the second week was because i nearly died from haemorroids YES YES YES i hear everyone groaning asking why i need to put this stuff on here, but as you will no doubt learn i am a VERY GRAFFIC person so there be no bushes i be beating around okeekokee?

July 06
Ok so off we go on our merry way back to work and put on hormone pills (clomid) for 6 months blood tests etc blah blah.
NOTHING HAPPENS MMMMMMMMMMMMM

Dec 06
See doc, she sends me to Hamilton Fertility Associates where we are tested etc and told we need to do IVF (pubicly funded) so put on the waiting list.

TICKETY BOO!!

Wow!!! Where do i start??

ok the reason im writing a blog is for my own sanity i think oh and my husbands, so i dont drive him crazy with my constant ramblings of IVF and breeders and everything else that sometimes jumps out of my mouth for no apparent reason.

Well there is a reason

Andrew and I were married on Treasure Island, Fiji , October 2004.
Me 25yrs and Andrew 31yrs (or Pulley as you will get used to all my nicknames for him)
It was a gorgeous day, we had 13 guests and the best party afterwards
ok ok ok ok
husband fell asleep at table
my dress broke
and then we all jumped in the pool

Our kinda party really :)

well anyway we had decided to go off the pill in September 04 as it takes a few months for the pill to get out of your system

so all in all everything was ticketyboo