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| MOOD INDICATOR: TIRED BUT HAPPY |
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| Saturday 8th May, 2004. Quite frankly I'm cranky. But that's not unusual lately. I'm fat, swollen, sore, moody and feel the need to either be alone, or with Daz, and its just not working out that way. Sleeping is difficult as I'm still sharing a room with a dog and cat, and getting up 3 times a night to pee. It's hard enough getting out of bed these days (due to size) let alone making it all the way to the bathroom! I have taken to sleeping in the nursery just to make things easier but am sad without Daz. Although we've finished the nursery, there is still heaps to do before Jordan comes and I really would just like a period of rest. Its going to be very tiring having a newborn and I don't want to feel exhausted before she's even born. But other than that I shouldn't complain. I really have had a smooth pregnancy - she's developing normally and I don't have any crazy diseases or complications, so that's really great. Daz and I are happy and he still makes me laugh even when he's so tired from working so many hours. His antics with eggs, although funny, were perhaps not so appropriately timed as I was trying to hold down a phone conversation with a friend who is currently in London. Still it gave me a good laugh. We've both been busy busy....although I was suppose to have 5 weeks off, I kept getting offered work and couldn't turn it down, so have only had the odd day off here and there over the last few weeks. Next week is again filled with work and medical appointments, then the week after I start back at fulltime work until Jordan is born. |
| MOOD INDICATOR: MAD |
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| Tuesday 18th May, 2004. Started back at work and am coping well so far. Have developed the flu though and if I don't get enough sleep I am sure it will be my downfall. Dog proof fence has been installed and I am more than pleased. It looks great and is fulfilling its promise. Daz's birthday tomorrow....we went shopping on the weekend and bought him a nice present and he has Mum's present to unwrap tomorrow so that will be nice. Jadda found a great book site, and mentioned it to Krust, who has passed it on to me. I am ready to release my first book into the wild and I'm SO excited. I have updated my links page - got rid of some and highlighted this great site to help spread the word. Not much other news to speak of....spent a lovely day at the zoo with Kylie and the girls last week. Looking forward to doing alot more of that sort of stuff, but am sure it will take me a few weeks before I can happily venture out for any length of time with Jordan. |
| MOOD INDICATOR: COPING |
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| Friday 10th September, 2004. Woah MUMMA! So much to say sooooooo little time. Updating a website with a squirming 3 month old boy in your arms is not the easiest thing in the world....best I do this some other time when I can get 2 seconds to myself! But in the meantime I wanted to let you know I'm back and I am still alive! Have managed some updates to the links page but am strapped for time in updating the photo albums. Sorry! Have done some work on Jackson's page but all the links to it are still wrong, and its still called Jordan!!! Will fix next week, dawgs. Catch u on the flipside |
| MOOD INDICATOR: CURIOUSER & CURIOUSER |
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| Monday 13th September, 2004. Even more to say now! Just had a brilliant weekend, certainly will remember it for some time to come. More about that later. For now though, just going to catch up on last few months while I've been away. I had my baby over 3 months ago now, and the girl we were told we were having turned out to be a boy. I was over the moon, as originally I had wanted a boy more so than a girl, so even though we had decorated and prepared for a girl (all those pink dresses bought by Nanny!) we were thrilled to be having a boy. We found out 2 days before I had him through my participation in a study at the hospital. I had been admitted with Pre-Eclampsia and told I wasn't leaving without a baby. I had gone to my GP for a routine check up on the Tuesday, about 5 weeks before my due date, and he sent me to the hospital for assessment as he was worried about my rapid weight gain, fluid retention and increasing blood pressure. The hospital doctor sent me for Day Assessment for the following day, where the widwife would monitor my blood pressure and it was then that it was decided I would be admitted and induced on the Saturday. As it turned out they decided to induce me on the Friday night, so by 3.45pm on Saturday 29th May 2004, I had my baby boy, Jackson Marcus. The labour was an interesting experience, so emotional and overwhelming, very intense in so many ways. The midwives and doctors were amazing and I, and my son were well cared for during our stay. Because Jackson was almost 5 weeks early he was quite small and was kept in the Special Care Nursery for 4 days after his birth. He also had Jaundice, which was monitored and treated. He had to lie on a phototherapy bed for 2 days - loved his little sunnies! It was difficult for me at this stage as I was only allowed to hold him to feed and bath him. Going back to my room in the labour ward was hard sometimes, as I knew most other mothers had their babies with them in their room. However, it did allow me to get some rest and recover from the experience of labour. For the first couple of days he was fed through a tube in his nose but he disliked the tube and when he eventually pulled it out it was quite a relief for both of us. He had increased the amount of breastfeeds he was having so I then took on all the feeds myself and started to realise what I was in for, having to feed him every 3 hours! When he was released to my room I was ecstatic, it was so good to have him all to myself. Due to his jaundice and my continued high blood pressure we remained in hospital another 2 days. I couldn't wait to get out of there, only because I was tired of having my blood pressure taken every three hours and found it difficult to get any sleep, with visitors, cleaners, religious knitting ladies, kitchen staff, and baby photographers visiting my room constantly. Add to that the midwives to take my blood pressure, the doctor and physiotherapist to check my son, |
| MOOD INDICATOR: HOPELESSLY DEVOTED |
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| the blood collector to take Jackson's blood for testing (jaundice), the Lactation Consultant, and the 3 hourly feeds and looking after Jackson, you can see why I was itching to get home to the relative peace of me, Daz, Jackson, Boris and Skitz! So when we left I forgot to sign discharge papers and had to return the following day. It was fabulous to be home! Jackson is growing everyday. He is the best thing I have ever known and fills me with joy constantly. Some days are hard, and he is not always an angel, but he is a baby and he is my angel. Today he learnt how to play with toys. It was the first time he has picked up a rattle himself. Now he can hold his own head up. Soon he will be sitting, and before I know it I will be teaching him how to drive, or giving a speech at his 21st. Time is going so fast. Sometimes I wish I could stop it. Anyway, best I update those albums now. More exciting news later. |
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