*20 Weeks Pregnant Belly

November 23, 2007

20 weeks pregnant belly shot.



Halfway there...
Probably the easy half!
Next time I am doing this during winter, it's already soooo hot and Summer hasn't even started yet.

We are getting very excited about meeting our little itty bitty baby Jolley!
I have been feeling flutters for about a week now (the placenta is at the front so it has been acting like a big spongy cushion)

On Wednesday night Dean felt his first 3 kicks from Baby... that was awesome! I am so glad he gets to join in. (shame he can't go to the bathroom six times a night for me)

Next Tuesday we are travelling to Christchurch for our anatomy scan. The hospital there gives you pictures and a dvd to take home.
We might get to see whether its a little boy or girl!

So far most people are saying it's a girl... hmmm
comments so far to back this up...
'You're carrying high'
'It's all gone to your bum'
'I went off meat with my daughter too'
(love the fat bum one!! THANKS MUM!!)

ohhh... I can hardly wait!
Nana Jolley and Poppy Jolley are coming with us too.

So Baby, you better behave with everyone watching!!

*12 week scan

12 week scan of baby Jolley.

Can you see its cute button nose?
I think it looks like Dean.
(the head is to the left, looking upwards)

We are calling it 'BOB' for now.. as it is just 'bobbing' around in there.

*12 Weeks Pregnant Belly

September 29, 2007

12 weeks! Pheeeeuuuwwww......

finally made it to the 'safe zone' and Dean can relax a little bit.

Morning sickness hasn't been too bad. Mainly feeling like being sick everyday but not actually doing it so I guess I consider myself quite lucky.

I have been really tired though. I need to have a nap every afternoon for a couple of hours and am asleep in bed by about 7.30pm

This has been the only time I have managed to sleep through entire nights without Deans restless legs keeping me awake. That goes to show how completely exhausted I am!

I can't eat any meat or even stand the smell of it cooking! So everynight I have baked potatoes and Dean (poor lad) has to cook his own tea!

My sense of smell is superhuman right now. I can smell Deans socks from the end of the driveway, and his aftershave makes me gag... he can't win really.

My bump is still very little at this stage, although I can definately tell there is 'something' there. We had our 12 week scan and all it's measurements are good. It is about 64mm (from head to bottom)

My main cravings so far have been hot chips with vinegar, and toast with avocado and peanut butter on it (yes, in the same sandwich)

*The look of Pure JOY

... or is it TERROR??

(ha ha)

The happy Daddy and Mummy to be!

(with the 'actual' positive test and the green rubber ducky)

*Pregnant at Last !!

August 7, 2007

(click on photos if you want to see them bigger)

After unsuccessfully trying to have a baby for about a year we discovered I had Polycystic Ovaries. This was found after Dean rushed me in to hospital in agony and a scan showed a golfball sized cyst had burst on my left ovary... the right ovary also had a large cyst on it. SO, off to the specialist we went and I was put on a hormone drug called clomiphene.

(update approx 6 weeks later)

At 3am this morning I needed a wee...

and I am lying in bed thinking over my dilemma... Is this 1st morning wee? (instructions on the box asked for this) cos I don’t know if I can wee again in 4hrs and I'm pretty sure I can't hold it till then... so I took 2 pregnancy tests in to the bathroom.

The Quik stream was still thinking about it at the 5 min mark, (even then it was still the faintest pink line you would think you were imagining it) but the Clear blue... 30 seconds! BIG FAT POSITIVE Yaaaaaaay!!!!

** and here’s how I broke the news to Dean...I bought a box and put things in it (see photo) and then hid it in the fridge. He got home from work and sat at the kitchen table for our daily chat and I asked him if he would like a drink. (which I do everyday) and he says 'yes please! rum and coke'.. usually I laugh at him and hand him apple juice, as he gets a bit hyperactive from the coke and kicks me all night so I only let him drink it on weekends. But today I gave him a rum and coke and said that’s for being so lovely while I have been sick with my cold... (he has been doing everything at home)

(I hope you didn’t want the short version.... ooops sorry)
so then I say 'I made you something else too'.. and gave him the box. He opens it and in typical male style moves the card out the way to see the goodies... Haha.... it took a few seconds for him to figure out why I had given him a rubber ducky... then he looks at me with wide eyes and says 'whats all this?' and I say 'read the card durrrhhh'

card says...

'GUESS' (on front) Who is gonna be a DADDY?? (inside) and he starts getting all teary and says 'are you pregnant?? when? yay!.. woohoo!!' and couldn’t stop giving me big hugs.. and running around saying ..'who can I call?.. who can I call? I need to tell someone!'

(such a sweetheart my darling hubby)

you may not be able to see the 'SUPERDAD' frame, but in it is a little grain of rice and it also says ' Baby Jolley 07/08/07 ' (that is the size it is at 4 1/2 weeks)

(...he called his big brother Shane)