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It’s honestly so surprising. Twice, is it a coincidence or some magic thing that I stumbled on? Hopefully it helps you xx

I guess it depends on what the scan is for. I would get scans mid cycle when I was TTC my second to see how big my follicles had grown. If you want to see other stuff like thickness of endometrium it’s probably different. I’ve had scans on my period before, which is embarrassing and awkward, but sometimes just necessary. Sometimes you just can’t predict where in your cycle you can get booked in for a scan. There’s probably an optimal time, but actually catching that window would be tricky.

I don’t remember it, but went on a historical little read of how the different biscuit companies came together to merge into an eventual Arnotts, and saw some of the older packaging for the Beef biscuits. They were circular similar to Chicken Crimpy but an actual circle rather than ovular. I feel like they must have been good! Wonder why they were discontinued. Might have been because the head of the company either retired or passed away in the 80s.

I will eventually! I have some videos filmed from my pregnancy, it’s just a matter of not being able to edit them without my laptop working.

I believe so. It shortened my follicular phase and the two times I’ve tried it, I got pregnant first cycle using it both those times. Thought the first time was a coincidence, second time seems remarkable. Don’t think I’ll ever be able to try a third time to see if it is actually a pattern. But it certainly did something hormonal.

This was the first cycle where I took royal jelly (a supplement derived from bee products) during my follicular phase (basically daily from when my period ended up until I think I ovulated).

You couldn’t be any creepier if you tried, piss off

It's very normal to birth at home, it's just been forgotten in the move to hospitals. But my hospital birth was traumatic and terrifying and horrible. My home birth was peaceful and amazing even despite the complications that occurred. I'm going for another home birth if I can this time around too. I think it's a taboo subject for some people, just because society has changed over time to make it that way. There's actually a lot of scientifically proven benefits to a home birth in many cases.

Oh I can’t remember now, I’ll try to find out 😅

It went EVERYWHERE! And I thought it was just powder, didn't realise it was confetti and it went all over the park and I had a full panic trying to pick up each individual piece of confetti paper (I was so stressed). Went home to get a rake and luckily someone told me that they instantly dissolve in water and it rained that arvo, apparently they are made safe for the environment... I've avoided the confetti ones thinking I never wanted to clean them up ahah And thanks :)

A diagnosis of the covid, or the omphalocele? Covid we have tests that can be done at home here, or you can get a PCR test but they've limited those and you can only get them under specific circumstances and only in two places in the whole state now. The rapid antigen tests (Rats) are known for false negatives but with the blazing positives we have it's pretty obvious we've got covid. All I could take was panadol for the pain, and drink lots of water. They have antivirals here but only certain super high risk groups can get them, pregnancy doesn't count. As for the omphalocele, it was fairly obvious there was an abnormality at my routine ultrasound. There was a huge bulge in bub's abdomen. It wasn't a gastrochises because there was a film seen around the protruding organs. It's almost certainly an omphalocele, because the only other thing it could be is a developmental herniation, which apparently is rare to be seen but does happen, however isn't seen after the 10 week mark, so they have ruled that out as an option. There's a few other potential things, like cysts or tumours, but they are far less likely than omphalocele. So it was just the normal ultrasound, then the results are put into a report by radiologists, who then send the report to my general practice (family medicine doctor). They then sent a refferal to a specialist hospital where I'll get another scan and a proper appointment at 16 weeks to see what's actually going on hopefully and go from there. But in Australia, you don't see gynecologists or obstetricians or anything like that unless you're incredibly rich, or you've got a serious problem and you get a refferal for a specialist to deal with that problem. Normally, you just see a normal doctor. In a normal pregnancy (like previous), I would see an OBGYN maybe once during the pregnancy, otherwise I just see my normal doctor and then midwives in the third trimester.

Thank you!! 😊

Thank you! We’ve gone over options. There’s something definitely there, but hoping it’s a cyst or a hernia. Unlikely to be a hernia, as apparently they can happen but close at an earlier gestation. But it could be a cyst. They’re thinking it’s omphalocele which is a genetic deformity of the abdominal wall that causes bubs insides to be a bit on the outside, but still encased within a membrane or sac. It’s not gastroschisis like I thought, as that is loose intestines, no membrane, and there was definitely a membrane seen on the scan. But it’s too early to tell the contents of the lump, so we are hoping it’s just a cyst or something less ominous. I was talking to my midwife aunt, and even if it’s omphalocele she has nurses lots of babies that had surgery after birth and they did amazingly, and that was back in the 70s before a lot of advancements in medicine. She said she even cared for a mum as a midwife and then her baby, and the mum has in-utero surgery to fix it. Decades ago! Which is somewhat fascinating to my medical/science mind, though terrifying to consider actually being the one in that situation frankly. But her positivity helped ease my fears of even the more serious scenarios that could happen.

I’m due May 2024. I was holding on to all the videos as I hadn’t announced to family, so as soon as the family found out the videos started rolling rapidly trying to catch up to the current day so I’m not uploading months behind 😂

Honestly I like the cheap, simple stick tests you can buy in bulk. They've served me well, though I've gotten a line when I wasn't pregnant maybe once every 30 or more tests. But they're so cheap you can easily take another one to see, which is nice for reassurance. Otherwise for proper tests, I'd probably buy Pregnosis. I only bought First Response as I could get them on special in big 7 packs, and they'd worked well for me in the past. But Pregnosis seems to be the top contender now days.

I know! Though I never want to paint again, and there's so many places to touch up that I'm just procrastinating doing now haha

Honestly, they stayed terrible even when the line got darker. Other tests and bloods showed darker lines and increasing hcg and good progression, but first response was all over the place, lighter than most other brands and so inconsistent with their lines. I was terrified of a chemical/blighted ovum/ectopic but all the other tests are fine, it's just first response (from multiple different packs and batches).

Thank you! And I know, first response showed sooooo early with my youngest, 7dpo I was getting lines about 12 hours after implantation bleeding. Everyone said they were indents, but I'd not had indents yet, and by 9dpo they were strong positives. I also used first response to see progression and test out my trigger shot previously, and they showed the lines so well! But now they are all over the place, some darker some lighter and no progression obvious (despite it being nice on all other tests) and I had positives on cheapies days before positives on first response. It's so sad, I was so reliant on first response.

I wasn't this cycle in the video :( But if you watch my latest videos, I was successful the next cycle!

It would have been about 5 minutes. I took the test and then got in the car and parked just up the corner. I always try to read in the 3-5 minute mark, though sometimes that plan fails haha

It really was...but beautiful 😊

Did it end up reaching you? I can't remember if I uploaded this straight away tbh, it might not have been hailing still when the video came out.

You know what I didn’t even notice that! I was too busy staring at the other window 😂 I usually avoid clear blue, IMO they suck, but they were on special and cheap so that’s what I got.

8dp is also still pretty early to test.

@@jennyfreeman7350 I know. It’s just that I’ve always gotten early positives previously except my miscarriage cycle, so I prefer to test early and see a line early for peace of mind, even if I have to waste extra tests. Plus my curiosity is so strong I want to know when what tests show lines and all that haha.

@@StormMackenzie oh yes I’m that case, testing early would be ideal I agree. Any updates? I tested 12dpo and it was negative

This cycle was unsuccessful. No pregnancy unfortunately. I had a friend that didn't get a positive until after her period was due, despite confirmed ovulation, so you can't count yourself out yet! Though it is soooo disheartening getting a negative after that 11/12dpo mark I find.@@jennyfreeman7350

Thank you!!

I might one day. Wait for it to grow back though so I can donate more of it at once again.

Oooo the Ritz is fancy too, I was there not too long ago. So many nice options everywhere. Did you enjoy your elopement? I thought our wedding was big but apparently it was considered small. But I liked it being smaller. More intimate.

@@StormMackenzie I absolutely loved my tiny wedding I’m not one who likes parties where I’m the centre of attention… maybe why I haven’t planned my 30th birthday party like I was meaning to next week 😂 I’m from NZ and hubby is from the UK so we couldn’t have a lot of family on the day but we live streamed it and it was wicked!

@@KiwiChick22 I haven’t had a birthday party for a long time. But 26 is my lucky number and I’m turning 26 so I feel I should do something special. I’ve found some options for treasure hunts around Perth, where you get text message hints sent to your mobile and have to work out where to go to get the next clue. I’m thinking of getting a couple teams together of family and friends and doing that. Seems like more fun than a party focused on me 😂 I’m the same and hate the attention being on me.

I need to redo this, i can’t even remember half the flavours 😂

I struggled to conceive the second time around… this time we weren’t even fully trying and won’t be for a couple of months. I could still be pregnant but if I’m not it’s a good thing… but it’s still soo sad seeing that negative even though it’s for the best. Good luck! Hope you get your positive soon ❤️

@@StormMackenzie thanks darling you too ❤️

@@heraluna9086hey any updates?

He refused to dye it dark while growing it out so we had to wait until it had grown long enough for me to cut all the bleached out haha. Lucky his hair grows quick.

There’s a video of me dying it somewhere actually 😂 He went pink for breast cancer and then blue for mental health I believe, was a fundraiser.

Obviously we are Eagles fans 😂 But we can appreciate some Sydney players (unless Buddy is kicking goal after goal against us 🙄 We were at that game a few years ago haha).

@@StormMackenzie But i had to admit the Eagles do have one of the best club songs in AFL.