My baby Milan!

So that time has come. Blissfully married, for the most part, for 6 months and I am ready for our family to grow by one. I'm born in July, I'm a cancer, I'm a natural born mother and I've always been told so. I'm totally ready for this, I have a Cavalier, Milan. He is like a baby only more hairy and eats less. How hard could this be? Well, from what I understand, VERY!

Technically I can't even start trying to fall pregnant  for another 3 months, it's a long story that goes something like this.

I skipped into my Doctors a couple of weeks ago thinking I was pregnant, the pregnancy test came back negative, but what would it know? So I took the doctors wee test and we discovered the faintest of all faint second lines (my heart skipped several beats). Off to get a blood test and when it comes back it's not a baby that is making me tired, moody and feel generally lousy, it's a hemoglobin level of 96. I'm assured that this is terrible because apparently the lowest you are supposed to be is 115. Tripled with the fact that my iron and B12 levels are shot as well. So now I must spend three months eating leafy greens and taking several tablets that remind me of something they give to horses! The doctor advised me that it was of up most importance that I rid my body of this parasite before I let it be taken over by another.

So it starts. Three months of fun before the hard work begins. I've got the fun stuff, Cosmo pregnancy, Up the Duff by Kaz Cooke, $47 worth of Blackmores Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Gold (which will need to be replaced every 2 months) and a lot of fantastic ideas running around my head about how I'd like to give birth, what the nursery will look like and what type of mother I will be.

That was a really long introduction but the point of this blog, for me, is to use it as a diary. I want to make a record of all this information, the feelings, the thoughts and the journey so when I am dragging my 17 year old son home, drunk & vomiting all over me, I can remember the time when I wanted him more than life itself. 

I'm totally ready.