The Renovation of Jules

Thursday, April 20

The Most Fertile Woman In The Land

You guessed it (how could you not) - I'm pregnant again!! I know that we all thought that Phoebe was my last, including me, but nature has defied my plans and let a sperm pass my IUD and lodge itself in an egg and happily create a wee embryo. I found out last week. The IUD was still in and had to be removed the other day with a 50% chance of miscarriage but things are still going strong now. I am 7.5 weeks and am still in a state of shock. I think the little sucker deserves to be here after all the barriers that it has dodged to be here.

What does this mean for me? It means that I am at risk of some serious health problems, we all know how the last one went for me. So, as of Monday, our house is having a clear out of shit food and we are all on a health binge. I have stated to Blair that we are in this together, especially since he is so excited. My blood pressure at the hospital was 165/105 so it has started already.

Blair got shortlisted for the fire service. He has his cognitive and physical testing on Saturday morning and will know immediately if he moves on to the next stage or not. He is very excited but, I must admit, I'm a wee bit concerned about it now, with the way things have developed. If he does get in he will be away on the 11 week training course in Rotorua during my last trimester and on my due date. They are allowed home for weekends but not allowed to leave during the week for anything. This is a huge thing as I will very likely not make it to full term with my health issues. I suppose I shouldn't worry about it now but it is hard not to.

As for my job, this now means that I am stuck with what I have or I'll get no maternity leave. A bit of a worry as it is so stressful but I will cross each bridge as I come to it. And this also means that we will more than likely take Mum and Dad up on their offer of the house deal in Rangiora. How can we turn an offer like that down with four kids. No bank is going to look twice at us with that many offspring. And my lovely silver subaru will have to be traded in for a fucken mothership!!!

I don't mean to sound ungrateful, there are plenty of you out there that struggle to conceive at all and I don't want to offend anyone. It seems completely unfair to me that so many people are trying so hard yet I have an IUD, am still breastfeeding twice a day and still manage to get pregnant.

Hope everyone is really well. Miss you all lots and will desperately try to catch up on some blogs later today.

Posted by Jules :: 1:31 pm :: 15 Comments: