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Roaccutane: Poison or saving grace?email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
(This is a blog post for a friend of mine. She would really appreciate your advice / input) (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - February 6, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

The sleeping post.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Otherwise entitled ‘Help, I seem to be kind of letting an eight week old call the shots’. I don’t know what I really thought having a singleton after multiples would be like in the nitty gritty how-things-go department. Actually, I think I kind of just assumed it would go like a ‘now with a streamlined 50% less baby!’ version of the twins. That it would be easier. It is easier, indisputably. But it isn’t what I expected. Yes, it means that there may have been a few wee purchasing inefficiencies in preparing for the onslaught. The twins were Spewers. This baby is happy to keep her foo...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - February 4, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies baby version call the shots calling the shots intermittent bursts Source Type: blogs

Three.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Dear Bhanshee Bhaji Nightshift, As your maternal unit I love you, really I do. I also love that YOU love ME, albeit to the point that I am finding it hard to find time to urinate unless I want to do it one handed (and have you ever tried getting your knickers down and up one handed, Bhaji? They get all bunched, love) and that strangers can never get you to meet their gaze when they pick you up because you’re too busy fixating on my spiky-haired self. I guess the glasses make me an easy target. I get that you adore my b00bs. I’ve made my peace with that. But, here’s the thing. Sweet as it is to have ...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 29, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies easy target Source Type: blogs

School Report Backemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Touch wood, things are going swimmingly well so far! (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - January 27, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

Input requested.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Dear lovely mostly ladies of the Internet, This is the post where I ask what you think, and don’t worry we’ll all still be friends at the end of this, I promise. You see, I never talk politics round these parts and also I come from the wrong part of the world to be especially involved in the merry game of who-has-the-most-hidden-mistresses/lovechildren/porn addiction/stuffed toy collection/nose picking habit etc that seems to be going on in one part of the world right now. But seriously, you all get kind of up in your politicians lives over there. Anyway. I did have a question for you and it isn’t po...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 26, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: I am an ass too circle element domperidone milk bank morbid fear sippy cups utter failure Source Type: blogs

The Main Benefit Of Tubal Ligation Reversalemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Have you ever wondered if a tubal ligation was permanent or what the main benefits of tubal reversal are over to in-vitro fertilization? The story of Tonya and her tubal ligation reversal experience provide a clear illustration to the answers of these two very common questions. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - January 25, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: case study chapel hill surgical center cut and tied tubes Dr. Monteith ivf ligation and resection pregnancy after tubal reversal reversing tied tubes tubal ligation tubal ligation reversal tubal reversal angel tubal reversal success Source Type: blogs

Jumble.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Today really has been one of those days. You know, the kind where you could fry an egg on the bonnet of your car, if you were so inclined, there was a local stove shortage and your car was rather cleaner than mine is, but anyway, the principle remains. Where I live you could have, really. Needless to say when two polite but bloody early tradesman turn up at sparrow’s fart (also known as dressing gown and caffeine but hold the full bladder until the newborn lets you go pee  o’clock ) in the morning to fix one seriously prolapsed garage ceiling (all for free! whee! the builder rolled faster than a company wh...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 24, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies f*cking Source Type: blogs

The easy life.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
I’ve been mulling this one over, because typing smug is generally the way to guarantee but one of two outcomes: 1. An ark-full of deathstares at perfectly innocent monitors, followed by rapid clicking on the ‘Eff off/unsubscribe with extreme predjudice’ button. 2.  Being rather accurately informed by a commenter that I am in fact being a smug pain in the arse and am generally sucking in the Making Friends department and simultaneously excelling in the Alienating People masterclass. But, here it goes. Please don’t shoot. One baby is EASY. I think I’ve got this kind of licked. Bhaji slept s...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 21, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies damn baby friends department fussy babies old wounds pain in the arse premature twins Source Type: blogs

Tubal Reversal On Facebookemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
The tubal reversal doctors of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center maintain two active tubal reversal pages on Facebook. Facebook users can visit both the business and group tubal reversal Facebook pages and share their experiences with other group members and ask questions of each other and the tubal reversal doctors. Finding answers to questions about tubal reversal has never been so easy! (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - January 18, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: burned tubes chapel hill surgical center cut and tied tubes dr berger Dr. Monteith international patient care ivf ligation and resection media coverage News pregnancy after tubal reversal reversing tied tubes tubal clips tubal co Source Type: blogs

Not Cool.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
I have this friend. Okay, I have these friends. They’re a couple, recent migrants who used to practise their English on me because I was their neighbour home all day with the young twins and, well, pretty safe to flub your tenses on. When the common language became fluent enough (rather embarrassingly they learned my language far, far better than I have to date picked up any of their Mandarin, unless you count effusive THANK YOU’S as fluent speech) they asked. I can’t recall exactly how it went, but clearly twins aren’t common in China. They were curious but without all of the sideways glancing...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 18, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Uncategorized cultural exchange fluent speech grieving process local lingo normalcy strange country Source Type: blogs

First day at schoolemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
It is a big week for the Albertyn household - Max started nursery school and the twins started Grade 1.  I know every mother says this - but I can't believe how quickly the time has gone.  This is a big milestone, my babies aren't babies anymore.   (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - January 18, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

In the ‘things they don’t tell you’ pile.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
1. The instant your maternity leave clicks over to unpaid leave, thou shalt get a tax bill for five thousand terrifying dollars. 2. Followed closely by both car insurance bills, the home insurance bill, one car service bill, one car repair bill (other car), a year’s worth of electricity (they haven’t issued a bill in a full year because of a stupid meter upgrade drive that is meant to make us all more energy efficient goody two shoes but mostly has thus far cost a bazillion in new meter installations and caused half the population to have a coronary at just how much a full year’s electricity COSTS when...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 15, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: f*cking electricity bill electricity company electricity costs goody two shoes meter installations pear tree Source Type: blogs

I Think I Get It (The Breastfeeding Post).email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
I think I finally have enough confidence in how the whole breastfeeding saga shall end to actually write something about it. Probably. At least as of today I do, and I am beginning to think that is part of the big secret. You see, at some point if you get enough ‘today’s’ then it just happened and you’re doing it because, hey, you did it. Regardless of how much like a boobie fraud I feel just because I haven’t been simply able to whip out a tata from Bhaji’s birth and soothe her utterly and totally without difficulty or pain whatsoever, whenever, wherever, I’m still doing i...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 12, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies Source Type: blogs

The birthday celebrations that went on foreveremail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Because the twins birthday is on the 7th Jan, right in the middle of our long summer school holidays when everyone is away, I always have an early birthday party for them. About a month before school breaks up. So that they also get a turn to be the birthday girl / boy at school and have a party for all their school friends. (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - January 12, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

Is There An Ideal Weight Limit For Tubal Reversal Surgery?email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
This article explains in more detail. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - January 9, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: chapel hill surgical center dr berger Dr. Monteith pregnancy after tubal reversal reversing tied tubes tubal reversal success rate tubal reversal surgery tubal surgery bmi body mass index facebook tubal reversal ideal safe tubal Source Type: blogs

Zingeremail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Bhaji is fine. Gaining adequately and seems to have settled herself nicely on the 25th centile for thigh rolls as of extrauterine existance. She started on something rather fatter but I think that had more to do with my antenatal fast food habits than anything else. Nevermind. I’m learning that lesson right now, too. A second on your lips, about a day in your large bowel and a million little lumps under your bottom later and you have where I seem to be and I am not even going to start talking about my abdomen because it turns out that skin that managed a fundal height of fifty centimetres the first time round is ac...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 6, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies Source Type: blogs

Weigh in.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
In brief. 1. Bhaji slept for eight hours last night and no she was not given any pharmacological help and nor was she in a coma or anything else dire. Don’t tell anybody she sleeps, will you? It might break the spell. 2. My tits weren’t circulated a memo of warning. Neither was I. I could have fit one of those pointy Madonna-esque contraptions snugly when I woke up at five thirty am with twinging tatas. Pissed since I could have pumped a Precious Stash and Bhaji would have been none the wiser for the sneaky nighttime theft of Her Boobs. 3. I seem to have five kilograms (um, 12 pounds ish) to go and thusly my...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 4, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies sore hooters bhaji contraptions gentle reminder good girl pre eclampsia saag Source Type: blogs

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We’ve had a watershed moment Chez MII and it doesn’t feel at all good. I thought the twins had adjusted very well to the big sister role, I mean they dote on poor Bhaji to the point that Bhaji needs to be placed in twin cuddle safe zones for a much needed kiss and slobber break from time to time. I figured they were enjoying being home more, albeit with a tired Mama stuck with a newborn attached to her wincing chest half of the day. I might be right and it might be pure co-incidence but not half an hour ago Naan just bit Saag. Unprovoked. She left a perfect set of dented toothmarks all the way around po...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - January 3, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: or life thereafter bhaji big sister half of the day tantrum watershed moment Source Type: blogs

Light and darkemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Its amazing how genetics work.  My children are so similar in some ways and yet so different in others. On every level.  All of them are tall and slim, but they each have different features. Adam has straight hair, Kate has wavy hair and Max has curly hair. Adam and Kate have deep blue eyes, Max has green/blue eyes that change colour.  One of the areas where they are most different is in their skin complexion.  Adam is so unbelievably tanned.  He is extra brown at the moment as it is summer here.  Whenever the three of them are in the bath, I always marvel at how dark he is and how fair Max is. I know Max has virgin ...
Source: So Close - January 2, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

2011/2012email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
What do you know! I have a few minutes of quiet time - Marko and the twins are out, naughty Max is asleep and I have answered most of my emails. I think I have time for a blog post! A look back on 2011 and a look forward to 2012. (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - January 1, 2012 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

Borderline.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
1. Bhaji got her spelling wrong last night and decided she was ‘bhanshee’ nightshift. Ergo am tired and rather deeply pissed. I prefer my newborns to keep their six to seven hour overnight spells, please. That was rather more pleasant. 2. Bhaji’s weight gain is officially a bit iffy, as in nobody is admitting to being worried but yet I seem to have an appointment to re-weigh in a week. I dislike health visitors with polite fibs. I prefer honest mild concern to my face, me. Also, do hungry babies generally sleep six hours a night or am I missing something that doesn’t quite fit here? 3. I have a...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 30, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies f*cking hungry babies oh my goodness time folks tongue tie Source Type: blogs

Gene Louw Primary Schoolemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Hello local yokels, I am looking for some help.  A while ago I met a really brave young woman who is a single mom to a very special boy.  We met online because she bought something from me on Gumtree. Through our conversation, I discovered that she is supporting her son alone on a salary that isn't huge. She recently let me know that her son had been awarded a bursary to attend grade 1 at Gene Louw school in Durbanville but that she can't afford to buy him a new school uniform.  She is looking for anyone who is willing to sell their second hand boys school uniform to her at a reasonable price.  Her son is 7 years old a...
Source: So Close - December 30, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

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Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 26, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies Source Type: blogs

..and then I vomited.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
You’ve been warned. I WAS planning to continue to attempt to recall the heady week of en.done, sleep deprivation and the hazards of one regrowing bikini line under a sticky-backed dressing on a nice fresh scar that was, um, more than a week ago now but to be honest all I can mentally do at this point is write big angsty mental letters to you all about breastfeeding. Which is exactly why I think I shan’t talk about that at all, because emotional whines about how something is gradually going to shit as the wheels fall progressively off is kind of the car-crash sightseeing end of blogging. Suffice it to say t...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 22, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: or life thereafter bikini line tongue tie twenty four hours Source Type: blogs

Herbal Treatment For Blocked Fallopian Tubesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Is there an herbal treatment for blocked tubes? This question is often asked by women who are seeking alternatives to surgical treatments for blocked tubes. Unfortunately these women with blocked tubes are being motivated by desperation and a burning desire to have another child. Herbal treatments will not work to unblock tubes and this article will explain why herbs will not flush out your blocked fallopian tubes. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - December 21, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: burned tubes cut and tied tubes Dr. Monteith Essure ivf ligation and resection pregnancy after tubal reversal reversing tied tubes tubal clips tubal coagulation tubal ligation tubal ligation reversal tubal reversal surgery tubal Source Type: blogs

Farmer boyemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Imagine that most of this post is backed by intermittent screaming, the kind that jerks a parent awake at night and sends her running down the hall. That was Charlie, several times a night, from the start of this post almost to its end. Here, just shove these in as you're reading, whenever you get to a comma: --------- ✁ --------- Clip 'n' Save! --------- ✁ --------- AAAAAAAAAAGH EEEEEEEEEEEEEE NNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGHwhyohwhyohwhyyyyyyy ---------------------------------------------------------------- His ear hurt, you see. Since he's had several ear infections, we pretty much knew the ...
Source: a little pregnant - December 19, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Julie Tags: Charles in charge Source Type: blogs

Figures.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
M’Aidez. Send. Help. At. Once. Have. Mastitis. You’ve. GOT. To. Be. F.ing. Kidding. Me. How on earth does one get mastitis when I could swear ze breast milk has an intramammary half life of about thirty seconds before a bunch of primitive reflexes in a baby suit sucks it all out? I’m rather peeved. Also, my areolae are at that delightful mashed from the inside stage I like to call ‘scream at first latch’. The outside looks okay, but that first suck feels kind of like Bhaji is pulling the wobbly bits on the inside clean out through the nipple. With a cheesegrater. G (Source: Mission: Imposs...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 18, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: f*cking it figures Source Type: blogs

Not the best week for Maxemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Poor Max has had a tough week. Yesterday he fell off the kitchen chair and put his teeth through his lip. This pic was taken 5 minutes later and he was already laughing, crazy child. (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - December 18, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

Gee, Ta.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
I guess it was my own silly fault for wandering out like a woman without a working brain to a teeming shopping centre of all hell-on-earth places pre Christmas avec three children, two exceedingly whiny and the third precariously balanced as she is (until things Work or I Cave or the Earth Explodes) between permanent breast attachment and a general policy of keeping but one scream away from demanding I lob a proverbial girl out in the checkout queue. I guess it was. But that doesn’t mean that at not yet two weeks post partum with aforementioned direct areolar hit lying in the pram it is okay to wish me well w...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 17, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: f*cking Source Type: blogs

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You’ll have to forgive the dribs and drabs of what is now a full one week old regurgitation of experience despite the fact that 2011 model newborns don’t seem to do very much different to the 2008 models back in the day, i.e. eat, sh!t and sleep sometimes all at once and without any reference to table manners whatsoever. I guess I technically and on paper have reams of free time but in reality I am mostly stuck on the couch in my dressing gown smelling sweetly of post partum night sweat until about three pm with what is politely referred to as a ‘cluster feeder’. I prefer to think of BN as more o...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 14, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies I am an ass too it figures or life thereafter cluster bomb dribs and drabs spectacular failure Source Type: blogs

Tube Tied Reversal: What Does It Mean?email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Have you been looking for more information about tubes tied reversal? Does it really work and what is the tube tied reversal success rate? The experts in reversal of tied tubes have answers for these questions as well as several others in their recent blog article about the meaning of 'tube tied reversal'. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - December 13, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: burned tubes chapel hill surgical center cut and tied tubes dr berger Dr. Monteith Essure ivf ligation and resection pregnancy after tubal reversal tubal clips tubal coagulation tubal ligation tubal ligation reversal tubal revers Source Type: blogs

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Excuse the delay. The hospital staff wi-fi network I was planning to non-professionally use ate my homework, etc (actually, the hospital wi-fi turns out to have a great big fecking black hole right about where my room was but that is a complaint for another day). Bhaji Nightshift is here, we’re home. Lots to say about how much it sucks to have one’s spinal fail completely again, how vomiting with sutures is Not Fun and how BN wants to marry my left breast while conducting a sneaky affair with the right but unfortunately both tanks are always pretty much empty* and thus I live in seriously interesting times**...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 12, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies Source Type: blogs

Rats balls and other things we do for our kidsemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
I believe that all animals should be treated with care and respect, I believe that cruelty towards animals is abhorrent and I truly believe in the quote that says: "The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - December 11, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

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Check out Kate in her school concert (she is in the middle of the shot). Cute huh. She got both Adam and her allocation of rhythm. (Poor Adam, when he dances he looks like those accountant types who get drunk at the end-of-year office parties, tie their ties around their heads and hit the dance floor with moves that closely resemble someone having some sort of mild convulsion). (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - December 7, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

Not Today.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Officially on stupid ‘overflow’ list tomorrow with consultant who likes to slit from hip bone to hip bone for ease of ’access’. I’ve also seen him cut inconvenient rectus muscles clean out of the way. Afraid. Very afraid. May mark edges of old incision myself with ‘Do Not Extend’ warning. May also decide not to turn up. Wondering if I could cross my cervix and make it another week to same list next Wednesday with Nice Surgeon I Was Meant To Have (waah). The only certainty is that I shall be deeply pissed off at several points in the next twenty four hours, not including the fir...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 6, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: f*cking Source Type: blogs

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In itemised order, because am going to go to bed Fasted and a Good Girl just in case and Get Up Farking Early for similar probably wasted reasons and it does very little for my mood. 1. Because NICU couldn’t take the baby with gastroschisis today on accounts of already drowning in a sea of ventilated preemies, and the baby with gastroschisis happens to be awaiting c-section and because even though I trump in gestation and am now for reasons of crappy slot availability likely to just turn up in labour, technically scoring an emerg c-section and it’s slightly higher risk than elective at some ungodly hour, we...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 6, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: f*cking Source Type: blogs

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Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 4, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: Babies dealing with infertility Source Type: blogs

Oddly specificemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
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Source: a little pregnant - December 4, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Julie Source Type: blogs

Is Tubal Reversal Right For Me: Ask The Doctor!email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
If you have been considering tubal ligation reversal surgery and have had a tough time getting your questions answered then the tubal reversal experts of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center have just the answer for you. They have just created an new interface which allows women to ask questions about tubal reversal and receive a prompt response from a reversal specialists. This is a fantastic way to get your tubal reversal questions answered easily and promptly. (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - December 3, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: chapel hill surgical center dr berger Dr. Monteith ligation and resection media coverage News reversing tied tubes tubal reversal surgery tubal surgery why tubal reversal about after alternatives ask the doctor best place for t Source Type: blogs

The final countdown.email this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Firstly, apologies, I know that song sucked even back when it was current.   Have a random photo of anonymous bits of Naan as consolation.   ..and if that hasn’t stopped the ringing in your ears, here’s some carefully bloody useless for recognition bits of Saag, instead. I figured it’s not twins this time, so why not be daft and double up the pictures of my guts about two weeks ago (because I am ever speedy on the turn-around)? The stomach-boob ratio is clearly not in my cleavage’s favour and am in D cups right now. Am not used to having actual breasts, either, so finding the whole proper bra th...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - December 2, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: family holy fuck i'm pregnant I am an ass too Source Type: blogs

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It was my birthday on Saturday and Kate made this card for me. Its absolutely perfect. (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - November 30, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

Still harbouring secret lesbian fantasies about meemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Remember the mail order bride Zsuzsanna, the one who harboured secret lesbian fantasies about me even though she is married to Steve (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - November 29, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

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You know what? I’ve been on official maternity leave for, um, one point five days thus far and I think I’m going to go completely barking mental. It’s hot. I’m very fat. Strange people keep on coming up to me in the supermarket avec hyperactive twins and smiling about how I don’t have long to go and don’t I have my hands full. I want to get about a billion things done but am hampered by one creaking, lumbering, complaining frame. I made it to the supermarket this morning for a grand total of five things. I am used to getting a little more done in my day. I don’t like huffing and p...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - November 28, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: I am an ass too Source Type: blogs

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It's the monthly birthday breakfast in Charlie's class, and I've volunteered to take food.  I get up early, bake a double batch of muffins, and swear only a little when they sink in the middle and refuse to come out of their pan.  This is not ideal, but okay; on the way to school I swing by Dunkin' Donuts and get a box of Munchkins, which delights Charlie far more than home-baked goods ever could. He asks to carry the box as we walk the two blocks to school.  This kid is proud of his donuts, the unexpected windfall.  He swaggers with those Munchkins.  I am feeling good. When we...
Source: a little pregnant - November 28, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Julie Source Type: blogs

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Georgia, who lives in my 'hood, sent me a link to her blog and I was so impressed that I had to share it with you.  As someone who does not have a creative bone in her body, I am super impressed with Georgia's work. One day when I am big, I want to be just like Georgia. (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - November 27, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

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Hi, I’m Geohde. I think last wrote something around these parts some time in the Jurassic era but then I swear a Brontosaurus ate my keyboard and a Tyrannosaurus decided I looked exactly like the right kind of sympathetic ear to unload a lengthy diatribe about all that Nasty Predator bad press and how difficult it is to find a good knitting circle when everybody thinks you’ll probably use their ribs for needles and so on. Yes, I’m making things up and, no, I have no earthly idea when I last posted, either of content full stop let alone content of quality, I’m honestly too plain old tired to che...
Source: Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy....parenting?) - November 24, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: g Tags: f*cking in other news it figures pregnant Serum Rhubarb Source Type: blogs

The really terrible twosemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Wow, I had forgotten how terrible the terrible twos were.  They really are TERRIBLE. (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - November 24, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

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Pregnancy is possible after Essure reversal. An Essure reversal procedure can be done on an out-patient basis and offer women an alternative to in-vitro fertilization. The seventh Essure reversal pregnancy has recently been reported and many more are expected to soon follow! (Source: Tubal Reversal Blog)
Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - November 23, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: dr berger Dr. Monteith ivf pregnancy after tubal reversal tubal reversal surgery tubal surgery why tubal reversal alternative can essure be reversed essure removal essure reversal in vitro fertilization invitro pregnant after ess Source Type: blogs

Getting kids to sleep doesn't get any easier the more you haveemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
There are some things I am really good at when it comes to the mothering thing.  And there are some things that I really suck at. Getting kids to sleep through the night is one of those things.  My kids sleep through the night when they decide to, not because of anything I do.  Kate slept through at about 10 months, Adam at 3 years old (!!) and Max at about 2.  Except that for the last two nights he seems to have lost the plot. (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - November 20, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs

My big babiesemail this articleEmail this article to a colleague. save this article to My ClippingsSave this article to My Clippings. discuss this articleDiscuss or comment on this article.
Class photos and graduation pics.  When did they get so big!   (Source: So Close)
Source: So Close - November 17, 2011 Category: Infertility Authors: Tertia Source Type: blogs