Pink or Blue

Today is the day ... pink or blue day. For those who have no idea what I'm talking about, we are having our 20 week scan at three o'clock and hopefully we'll get to find out the sex of baby bourke. That is if he or she cooperates. I honestly have no inkling of what we are having. My twinnie said she thought she was having a boy but did say she thought that only really because she wanted to have a girl. I'll be happy either way cos it means I can start shopping and decorating!!!

 dotti dress | karen walker sunnies | urban soul flats 

Isn't this guy just the cutest. Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth right?! WRONG

We found out on Monday that he has been escaping out of our yard and familiarising himself with the neighbourhood. We never knew because he was always home when we got home from work. It was only when a lady spotted us walking him that she pulled over and said he has gotten out a few times. Scary thing is we live near a pretty busy road and he isn't totally street smart. On Tuesday, we shut him in the fenced pool area thinking that would be a good temporary measure until we could fix the gate so he couldn't contortion himself under it to get out. I went home at lunch and he'd dug his way out and was asleep under the house. So I tied him up. He was no longer tied up when the husband got home from work. We had another go at fixing the gate for Wednesday. When the husband got home, Rocky was waiting on the street side of the gate. Our gate mods meant that Rocky could still get out but could not make his way back in. We've tried another method today so hopefully that works until we can think of a more permanent solution.

Sorry too much text! Thanks as always for reading.

So, three hours till the scan. What's your prediction? BOY or GIRL?

Status: BUN in the OVEN

If you missed my instagram post last night you also would have missed that the husband and I have a 

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We succeeded after about six months of trying and couldn't quite believe the (initial) three pregnancy tests that came back positive ... followed by the extra two digital tests that followed over the following week. I guess I had to accept the truth after five tests right? Has anyone else every gone to that extreme?

The last couple of weeks have been a bit nerve-racking to say the least. My twin sister's little girl was diagnosed as a cystic fibrosis carrier not long after she was born so naturally I wanted to have the blood test done to see if I was a carrier. Ridiculously, the blood test costs over $300 and not one cent is claimable. My results came back positive and so we booked the husband in for the same blood test. If both parents are cystic fibrosis carriers, the baby has a one in four chance of actually having CF ... a pretty scary and confronting percentage. There is such little awareness of how common the carrier gene is as well as the rate of children born with CF. I believe it is something like 1 in caucasians are carriers and 1 in every 3000 children are born with the disorder. Some quick googling revealed Cystic Fibrosis is the most common, lethal disease among Caucasian people. Did you know that? I certainly didn't.

Anyway, yesterday afternoon I rang our Toowoomba doctor to find out if the results were back yet. The lovely lady on the phone announced that the husband's test was negative - what a bloody relief! My new GP on the coast rang about 15 minutes later to reveal the results of our 12 week scan - all very low risk ... again, another relief! It was time to announce, finally!!!!!!!!! I had found out at 2 weeks so keeping the news to ourselves was very difficult - in fact, too difficult to keep it from everyone given the boozer I am. People really start to become suspicious at Christmas parties when the previous life of the party claims she is hungover from the night before and is 'not drinking tonight'. 

I don't think our sonographer was a very good photographer. I think this is the best one.

I've been completely healthy and the only real symptom I have experienced is tiredness. I'm one of the lucky ones that's for sure.

Look forward to sharing the next six months ... and beyond with you all!