Anesthetist

The early morning appointment with the anesthetist passed without much to comment on, although Chris and I definitely agreed that when I asked him whether a student would be administering the spinal block on Monday, a disgusted look passed his face that said, “Do you know how many years of study I’ve had to do [...]

4 days to go…!

We had our weekly visit with the obstetrician today. The baby is still breech, and everything is set for our Monday c-section. She filled in quite a few details for us: I’ll probably be in hosptial for 5 days (which is longer than I thought), and she explained that I’d get to see, kiss and [...]

Mission: impossible

The ECV was unsucessful. But the good news is that it wasn’t painful or traumatic, and I know that both the doctor and I gave it our best shot.
The frustrating thing was that the obstetrician got the baby out of the pelvic cavity and turned about 90% of the way within the first 30 seconds [...]

Titan

I’ve known for a while that the timestamp on my blog has been a little wonky, and I just found out the reason why: posts are being published by Greenwich Mean Time (and date). I’ve finally found the place to change the setting to my local time (Sydney), so hopefully that’ll make things a lot [...]

Breech clinic

This is just a quick update to say that everything went well this morning at the hospital. I eventually got through on the phone to the department that handles breech presentations, and they said I had to be there by 9.15am. We got ready really quickly, zoomed off and arrived with plenty of time to [...]

Some good news!

We have a car! Our car broker brought around an absolutely fantastic car on Friday, which we test drove and immediately fell in love with. It’s a 2000 Mitsubishi Verada, which is a much larger car than we thought we would end up with (it’s a 3.5 litre engine!) We fell in love with what [...]

Some disappointing news

We had our weekly obstetrician’s appointment yesterday. Unfortunately, the baby is definitely in breech position (head up, bottom down). We don’t know when it happened, but since the Emergency Room doctor picked it up, and the week before the baby’s head was engaged and down, it was around the time of the accident. This basically [...]

An update

First of all, thanks everyone for your support over the last few days. It’s certainly been a challenging time, but I’m happy to report that the last few days have been a lot better. On Friday we picked up a rental car for a week. The insurance company says that they’ll pay for part of [...]

Car accident

As if we don’t have enough drama in our lives, on Wednesday evening we got into a car accident. Fortunately I am writing this post from the safety and comfort of home, so you can be reassured that I am okay, so is the baby, and so is Chris. But I did have to spend [...]

Preparations…

Chris and I had a fairly busy weekend, with lots of catching up with friends. We had a fabulous brunch with Tom, Michelle and Beth at our favourite Sydney cafe (Cafe Sopra) on Saturday. On Sunday we went to a brunch at Fran and Mike’s house, then met up with Raewyn and Jen at the [...]