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A Birth Story

I’ve just extracted my 3AM feed.  I know I have to tell this story,  this story that brings to full circle a three year journey of blood, sweat and tears. I recall a poem I wrote November 2006:
11/28/2006 10:26:32 PM
Afwagting

Die holte brand waar jy moet woon
Jou tuiste wag in hoop
En jy’s reeds hier
Jou trane [...]

14Jun2010 | InVivo | 20 comments | Continued
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Welcome 2010!

It’s 3.46 am 1 Jan 2010, I’m 23 weeks and 2 days pregnant with twins. I’m sleepless and simply can’t get over how HUGE I’m feeling. I’m praying for sideways expansion ’cause seriously any more forward expansion and I’ll be tumbling over real soon.  Below, a pic of myself on Christmas day seated on my [...]

1Jan2010 | InVivo | 7 comments | Continued
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Dreams

Been a long time since I’ve posted.  Been a long time since I’ve felt well enough to have a free minute to think and write, every other productive minute has been filled with work and settling in in our new home.
Despite all the busyness I’ve been thinking a lot about my life and what I [...]

12Nov2009 | InVivo | 7 comments | Continued
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Fetal Nuchal Translucency, Down’s Syndrome, Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS), Amniocentesis

Been going through a terrible time of late after we got a “upper end of normal” result at our 11w2d scan.  The result for both fetuses was 2.5 mm.  After discussing the risk factors and stats we decided we didn’t want to pursue further testing as we felt that there was no need to pursue [...]

20Oct2009 | InVivo | 14 comments | Continued
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A Dedication

I read a post on Fertilicare the other day, a post that moved me and touched me, like so many others who express their deepest pain and fear so eloquently and so real. I think it speaks of the heart that we cherish on the forum, and I thought I’d post it here to remember, [...]

27Sep2009 | InVivo | 2 comments | Continued
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The Day when Triplets became Twins – 9w2d

Nature has taken its course and the embryo with the weaker heart has fallen away, measuring 8w6d. (If you look back to the scans you will clearly notice one weaker heartbeat)
Our embryo triplets are now twin fetusses.
Don’t want to say too much about this, ’cause I don’t want to take away any of the joy [...]

25Sep2009 | InVivo | 13 comments | Continued
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Almost Nine Weeks – 3 Weeks to Target #1

Tomorrow we’ll be pregnant 9 weeks, horay! So far so good. Scan#2 Friday morning.
Current topic of stress:
Will all three heartbeats still be there?
Funny how what began as, “May there please be A heartbeat” now suddenly morphed into, “Please don’t let one of them fall away?” It’s in our nature, we want to nurture and [...]

22Sep2009 | InVivo | 13 comments | Continued
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Early Pregnancy is hard work! Not that I’m complaining of course…

So I’m a little surprised that I’m not exactly the poster kid for a glowing pregnancy, or maybe the best is still to come?  Here are a few things I was rather unprepared for:

The paralysing nausea
The breathlessness
The exhaustion
The hot flushes & feeling of burning up
The heartburn, O dear! the heartburn
The inability to sneeze without feeling [...]

16Sep2009 | InVivo | 7 comments | Continued
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It’s Triplets! – 7 Week Scan

Thursday 10 September 2009 will remain in memory forever. It was the day we saw the heartbeats of three little creatures fighting their way into life, a momentous day on a three year journey of LOTS of hard work and persistence. It was the day I finally believed we could do it, we could conceive.
It’s [...]

11Sep2009 | InVivo | 11 comments | Continued
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Embarrassing moments for your entertainment

Last night I experienced one of those rather embarrassing moments that will remain in memory for a good few years to come and I thought I’d share a few of these with you.
Let’s begin with the most recent:
I’m in George at the moment at our family beach house. Last night dear little Lulu went digging [...]

2Sep2009 | InVivo | 5 comments | Continued
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