tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33094981679810694862012-02-16T14:52:30.941ZThis is our journey to a baby brother or sister for Charlie. We have a lot to consider: a 25 percent chance of Meckel-Gruber Syndrome - a genetic condition which is uniformly fatal AND a 10 percent chance of Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. But just because we know the odds of the worst happening, doesn't mean we aren't hoping for the best. Charlie would love a sibling - even if he only gets to keep them for a very short time.Pete, Ali, Charlie and Rosiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11106369302348116832noreply@blogger.comBlogger391100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3309498167981069486.post-18946707402248793692011-11-02T15:40:00.002Z2011-11-02T15:41:55.028Z

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Hi f0lks - well here I am at last! I had intended to update this blog much sooner after Rosie was born, but that was as far as I got... but better late than never, eh!Rosie is fast asleep on my lap, and Charlie is watching TV in his Darth Vader costume, so I thought I'd capitalise on a few minutes peace and get Rosie's birth story onto the blog at last!So. Let me take you back to the Friday

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Rosie Hannah Turner,Born 10/10/11 at 4.07pm,Weighing 9lbs11oz.She is beautiful, pink and healthy.We are overjoyed and Charlie is ecstatic!It has been a long day, so I will update properly later. Welcome to the world, little darling!

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The article about newborn pulse oximetry testing that we featured in hit the news-stands today!Hopefully it will help raise awareness of something so simple that can really save lives. I'm not sure if you'll be able to read the text, but you get the idea! I'm tickled pink with the picture of Charlie - wonky teeth and all!(Although I have to admit that the sub-editing of my quotes made my hair

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Well, LO is due today.And as of now, I don't think she's got any plans to arrive on time. We're just having a leisurely day today - making the most of what might (or might not!) end up being our last weekend before LO makes her big appearance. I'll keep you posted!Sent from my iPhone

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I had every intention of documenting this pregnancy with regular 'belly pictures'... but that's as far as I got! So here's one of me just now at 39w3d. And no, I don't normally look quite so smart, but we just had our photos taken for the newspaper, so I thought I'd capitalise on the fact that I've actually brushed my hair and put on a pair of heels by getting Pete to take a pic for me. It's a

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Hi folks. Well, our appointment today went really well!As well as checking growth, they also re-checked all the key points - heart, kidneys, bladder etc. Her anatomy is still looking totally normal and everything seems to be working perfectly. She is still growing like mad - all her measurements were about two weeks ahead and they estimate she is weighing about 7lbs4oz now. The best bit of all is

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Well. Here we are, fast approaching 37wks, when LO is considered to be 'at term'. If I'm honest, it still doesn't feel real. I've washed the bits and pieces of clothes for her, the crib is ready and the buggy arrived yesterday. This is a very weird feeling. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't just waiting for it all to go wrong. I still feel like I'm pretending at being pregnant. (Although my

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Wow. Six weeks to go until LO is due. This pregnancy is flying by. She'll be here before we know it. All is going well - she is still wriggling around like mad - I'm not sure if she's still breech though, so I might pop up to the community midwife this week so she can have a feel and tell me if I need to start standing on my head!I'm feeling pretty ok - quite a few people have said I'm blooming (

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Well, today's appointment went well. Everything was still looking very normal on the scan, although LO is growing like mad and is going to be quite a big girl by the looks of things. The man doing the scanning today was a bit rushed, so only did one measurement of her head circumference, diameter, femur length and abdominal circumference, whereas normally they do several measurements and pick the

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Well, we're off to the hospital on Thursday to see LO on the scan again. It certainly feels like she is growing like mad - she seems to be trying to fight her way out already, and I'm forever finding her knees and feet jabbing me under the ribs. Less than eight weeks to go until her due date now, and I'm starting to wish the weeks away. Partly because I want her out safely and partly because I'm

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Well - we did it!! We ordered LO's buggy and cot today!It made things feel very real all of a sudden, although I must admit, I am still left with the slight feeling that we're only pretending at being the parents of a 'boring and ordinary' baby, and that something is bound to go wrong soon. Just call me a pessimist - I'm relying on everybody else's positivity to outweigh my slightly warped sense

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Hi folks.Thought you might like to see the latest picture of our chubby little lady!LO is doing brilliantly and is growing like a trooper. At the scan a week ago, she was weighing in at just a smidgen under 3lbs, which seems like pretty good going for the 28+wks she was then.Mum came to the scan with us, which was lovely - she was amazed at how clearly she could see LO - especially because when

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Here's our beautiful girl. Our 4D scan was an amazing experience - we were all stunned by how clearly we could see LO. Charlie was absolutely thrilled to bits to see his little sister, and insisted the lady doing the scan checked again to make sure she really is a girl. (Which she is!)We could see her stretching, yawning, opening and closing her eyes, grimacing, frowning, rubbing her eyes and

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We're leaving in about half an hour to go for our 4D scan - Charlie is SO excited and so are we!I wonder if LO will perform for the camera? I'll be very fed up if she spends the whole time with her face in her hands!!Watch this space for some pics a bit later!Sent from my iPhone

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26 weeks today.Time is flying by - faster than I ever thought it would. June is nearly gone and October is getting ever closer.To be honest, it can't come quickly enough for me. Not that I'm wishing my pregnancy days away - in all likelihood, this will be the last time I walk (or should I say waddle...) this road, so I want to appreciate the marvel of growing a baby inside me. But I just want to

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We went to the hospital yesterday for a further in-depth cardiac scan at 23w4d. We were in a different part of the hospital, because there was a meeting being held in the Fetal Medicine Department, where LO is normally scanned, so, we were back in the old ultrasound department where I used to be scanned with Will and Charlie.I'm not superstitious at all, but I couldn't help but think of all the

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Click here to hear LO's heartbeat! (It might open a screen asking whether you want to open or save the file, so if it does, just click 'Open' and then press play when the media widget appears.)

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Hi folks. Well, it's been a while since I last updated LO's blog, but no news is good news!We went for our anomaly scan on May 10... and everything is looking perfect so far. I can't express how thrilled and relieved we were to hear this. All the major organs looked totally normal - brain, kidneys, stomach, bladder, heart - everything was exactly where it should be. Growth-wise, LO is spot on,

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So, tomorrow it's the anomaly scan. We should find out with more certainty what, if anything, is wrong with LO. I suppose I should really say 'if LO is alright' but I am afraid, and very aware of all the many things that could go wrong. Charlie will have to come with us in the morning because he is off school with an ear infection. He will wait in the waiting room while we have the main scan, but

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Well, here we are in sunny Crete! Charlie is tickled pink to be able to wear his 'Big Brother' T-shirt again, as he's been banned from wearing it back home until everybody knows I'm pregnant. (In fact, I almost posted this picture to my normal blog, and then realised the T-shirt slogan might be a bit of a give away!)In fact, he keeps telling anybody and everybody that he's getting a baby brother

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Well, we went to see LO again this morning, and I'm so pleased to report that all is still looking good. Measurements were spot on. Just for the record:Head Circumference: 117mm (15w4d)Biparietal Diameter: 30.6mm (15w3d)Femur Length: 17.7mm (15w1d)LO has grown so much in the past three weeks - we could see his/her profile, arms and hands waving around, long skinny legs stretching out and lots of

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So. We're off to the hospital again in the morning for another scan. I'll be 15wks2days. I'm hoping they might be able to tell us for sure about whether we have escaped Meckel-Gruber syndrome this time. If they can give us any more information about the baby's heart, then that will be a bonus. And who knows, maybe we'll be able to find out if LO is a boy or a girl. I want to find out what's going

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Ok, so I'm over 14wks now - well into my second trimester. SECOND TRIMESTER!!Do you hear me, morning sickness?You are supposed to be gone, leaving me revitalised, full of energy and blooming. Blooming awful, more like. Bleagh. Sent from my iPhone

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Here's LO at my last scan. According to the dates they gave me last time, he/she is 12w2d, but according to his/her size on this scan, it might be 12w5d. Either way, LO is growing very well and is a bit bigger than average. We were able to find out far more than we expected at the scan. First and foremost, the nuchal fold measured 1.3mm - teeny tiny! They want it to be less than 3mm so that was a

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Well. We'll be at the hospital in just over an hour. Although today's scan is unlikely to be totally conclusive, it should give us a pretty clear indication of which way the wind is blowing. It's scary knowing that in an hour or so, we'll know whether we can keep on hoping for 'boring and ordinary' or if we have another rollercoaster ride ahead of us. Sent from my iPhone

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...about my morning sickness tailing off? I lied. Sent from my iPhone

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Hi folks. Well. Here we are at 11 weeks. I may be proved wrong but my morning sickness seems to be improving a bit. I suppose I am rapidly heading for the second trimester though, so nothing unusual there.Mind you, I have had fairly lazy mornings the last few days, and it's always worse when I have to rush around.I just realised I never wrote a proper update about our scan.Well - we went up to

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Here is LO. His/her heart is beating strongly and he/she is 2.9cm long. They pushed my dates forward, so I'm now 9w5d. New due date is October 2. I'm tired now, but I'll write a proper update soon about our appointment - which went well. Let's just say, so far, so good.

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Well, as the title says, it's a big day tomorrow - all being well, we get to see LO for the first time and to confirm my dates. I'm vacillating between nervous excitement and nausea-inducing terror. If LO's little heart is beating (not TOO little, mind you - all four chambers would be nice...) then I can relax a bit about the miscarriage risk. Not totally, mind you, but a bit. But then I have to

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It's late, and I can't sleep. Pete is away and I miss him so much. I seem to need his physical presence all the more when I'm pregnant - even if he's just asleep next to me, just having him here is comforting and reassuring. I have so much flying around my head - we have the first scan on Friday and I'm starting to get a bit anxious that there won't be a heartbeat. I've even been dreaming about

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I went to the GP on Friday to set things in motion. To be honest, I tend not to have too much to do with the midwife at my GP's surgery when I'm pregnant - I tend to be seen more often at the fetal medicine department at the hospital. Anyway, I know the staff at the hospital pretty well... my obstetric history tends to make me pretty memorable... and I saw a lot of the team at the fetal

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I'm seven weeks today and I must admit, for the past week I've felt pretty diabolical. Chas has been off school with tonsillitis, which hasn't helped, but I have been SO nauseous. Like constant, unremitting motion sickness. I'm not being sick every day, but I think this nausea is actually worse.It's very hard to function around it. I'm just hoping that sick mother = healthy baby. I'm going to

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Ok, so trying to vomit surreptitiously is no fun. In fact, vomiting at all is no fun. But when you are being sick/trying to avoid wetting your pants because you are heaving so hard AND making sure your 7-year-old doesn't hear you puking... well, that's really no fun. And I REALLY don't want Chas going into school, sitting in the 'news circle' and telling all his classmates: "For some reason my

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Ah yes. I remember now.Well, here we are - only 4wks 6days in and I'm feeling so queasy already.I haven't actually been sick yet, but have more than made up for it with the amount of heaving and retching going on.This is all kicking in so much earlier than before - it wasn't until about seven weeks with Will and Charlie that morning sickness really took effect.Maybe it's because I'm older this

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Well, it's been a week since these two lines appeared, and I'm finally starting to believe that I really am pregnant.I got my positive result quite early, so I'm not five weeks yet - not until Wednesday.I am feeling pretty tired and queasy already (and I've gone right off coffee which is most unusual for me), but part of me is just trying to forget about it until we're a bit further down the line

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I'm pregnant.:-)

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Welcome to Charlie Barley's Baby.At the moment, this blog is private - nobody can read it except me. We have a lot coming up over the next few months, and I need to get my head around it all on my own before I let everyone else in.But I'm used to blogging on a public blog (Charlie's News) so I guess I'll just write like I'm talking to my usual gang of readers. And I figure you'll all be reading

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