Long time no see! And whew, lots of pages to read through!!!
Preethi, I'm so sorry for sorta blowing you off this morning on gmail-chat, I'd literally *just* put down the phone from my good friend, so was in tears and not a very good place...
I've read how you might be having your girl soon! Wow! I too have a friend who her lil guy is 5 months old now and doing well; having been born at 31 weeks. It's scary as hell, but the chances are that she will do fine, especially with such close monitoring! And having the steroids to mature her lungs etc so she has the best chance possible if she does have to come out so early.
for all the stress and worry though....
Sarah, I can't really offer any advice, I'm not sure what should be done or not! I hope the appointment can give some answers regardless, if you've already ovulated and they say no to IUI then at least you did BD too! haha, I dunno, but I can't help but think that perhaps you're not supposed to have IUI this month, but that despite your assurances of it being the least favoured month due to the due date, that fate says something else and perhaps this was the month it IS supposed to work; naturally! (ok, well, with clomid yes, but with only one, or perhaps 2 follicles and only BD? I'd hardly call that assisted.... lol) In any case, good luck!!!!!!!
Dew;
omg I HATE when AF is late, unless it's for a BFP! I'm so sorry it's all stuffing around....
Huggles; YAY for 26 weeks!!! And the 100 day mark that I missed too... YAY!
I loved the scan pics NY! Soooo cute!
AFM, well! I did the 2-hour glucose test on friday morning, it was fine really, the drink they gave me this time was lime flavored, and not as nice as the lemonade one last time, but still drinkable. It sure made baby kick a lot on an empty stomach though!!! lol. 2 hours in the waiting room with a good book and got my blood drawn (they took a sample before I had the drink as a baseline test too) and then I was off for the 5 hour drive north to the national grooming competition! Had a ton of fun, I wasn't competing at all, just watching, but it was a lot of fun. Bought back a lot of memories too, as at the last competition I actually won the entire thing! It did suck not competing, but then when I remembered the months of prep work on the dogs, and the 4am start on the days of the competition I'm sooooooooooo glad I didn't even try! lol!!!
My midwife sent me a txt on friday night to say that my bloods came back clear; absolutely no sign of gestational diabetes at all; yay!
The competition ended on sunday evening, and I was staying that night and planning to take my time and drive home on monday, stopping to see some friends along the way etc. Well, sunday night it started to snow in the surrounding areas. I had a terrible sleep that night, so every time I was up to go to the toilet I checked out the window, it wasn't until about 5am that the snow started settling where I was staying, and by the time I was out of bed again at 7am, we had a couple of inches and it was still falling... Remember this is in NZ that shuts down with an inch of snow cos we only GET an inch or two maybe once a year!
So I stayed where I was until lunch time; it wasn't showing signs of stopping, and the forecast was for it to get worse over the next few days. So I made a break for it, and headed home. I got as far as my mums place; 1.5 hours from home before I decided to stop and stay there the night. The roads weren't bad at all, but the road between my mums and our city are all mountainous and they had been closed earlier in the day so I didn't want to risk trying to get over them in the dusk/dark.
So I ended up having to cancel all my tuesday clients and stay the night with mum, then headed home after lunch the next day.
Since then I've been hectic at work trying to get all my tuesday clients fitted in around the rest of my clients, as well as other clients deciding to cancel at the last minute cos they're scared to drive on the (now clear) roads. *sigh* Add to that I started getting a ticklish throat on saturday, and by monday it'd become a cough, and today (thursday) I'm now feeling like utter crap with a ponding head, burning throat, cough, slight fever at times and general crappy-ness. Ugh.
And *then* to top it all off, this morning I get a phone call from a very very close friend who was getting a biopsy done on a lump she found in her breast.... turns out the sore shoulder she has is a grape-fruit sized tumor, there's another in her armpit, and another in her lung as well as the breast one. And not a single one of them is the primary one. She's getting more scans and everything this week and next to find just how far it's all spread, but it's really not looking good at all.... She's been sick for about a month now, but doctors thought it was just a bad virus that hit her hard. Ugh. I've been in tears all day long. This is the friend that gave me the tiny bracelet for bub.
Sorry for the novel! I'm just feeling all up and down. I had an amazing weekend away soaking up my passion in life (dog grooming) and now I'm as sick as a dog and feeling sorry for myself when I get the news of my friend. And tomorrow I am down to 8 weeks to go. It's all so surreal. Like, can life just pause for a week or so and let my mind catch up please!? I'm not coping so great, I need a wee break to try and figure out where I am and what is happening!!!
hope you followed that! 
