First Obstetrician Appointment

Had our first appointment with Dr Titiz today. Gee it's hard to say his name to other people... He seems nice and said that we could choose to have the baby anyway we wanted. I didn't know you could elect to have a caesarian without a medical reason. Scary. He checked Em out and everything seemed fine. We listened to the baby's heart rate via the ultrasound machine. Quite surreal and what a fast heart beat! We were given a stack of information about how to book into have the baby and what kind of help would be provided to us. We're to book into antenatal classes as soon as we can.

Move to Mitchelton

Started moving all our stuff in from Dayboro today.


I hope it's a boy because the baby's room is painted blue with blue curtains!

Ems last Ultimate tournament

Played halibut this weekend and decided that exercise at that intensity is no longer an option. Was completely exhausted by the end of it and had a few twinges in the pelvic area.

Found a house & doc

Decided to take the house in Mitchelton. Signed the lease today, to move in on Monday.

Went to the doctor to get a referral for an obstetrician. Was given a list of 5 that work at North West Private Hospital. Called them all but none were available for our due date, being just after new year it seems to be peak holiday / baby season. The secretary of the last one referred me to an obstetrician who was new to the hospital so probably wouldn't have too many clients. She was right! Booked in to see him next week.

Social Scene

We're already getting into the social scene up here. We went to both an engagement party (Mike & Trin) and and engagement picnic lunch (Dan McNaughton). A most enjoyable weekend.

Our stuff arrives

All our stuff arrived today. Some lovely guys with a small truck delivered it all to Dayboro. Nothing appears to be missing and everything seems to be intact. Awesome. Even the plant that we put in a box has survived very well!

House Hunting

Spent the day house hunting. Found a 3 BR house in Mitchelton that we quite like.

Move to Brisbane

Our bags were packed and everything else in boxes on it's way to Brisbane. All that was left for us to do was to jump on a plane. Caught a cab from Brisbane airport to the office to pick up the car and drove out to Dayboro where we were to stay until we found a place to rent.

Andrew dropped Em off in Toowong to play the first night of Women's league. No point in wasting time to get involved with the Brisbane Ultimate Scene. Met some lovely Brisbane ladies. :)

Packed and Last night of NSL

Spent most of the last week packing things into boxes. The removalists came this morning and took all our stuff away. Will be going into storage in Sydney until they pack the truck to Brisbane. Hope it all arrives as we sent it!

Played our last night of NSL ultimate tonight. It was quite sad to say good bye to everyone.

Farewell Picnic in Westleigh

Had a farewell picnic in Westleigh. Told everyone there. For many we were just confirming suspicions, to others it came as quite a shock! Ellie very generously lent me her copy of "Up the Duff". It's proved to be quite a read and I recommend it to anyone who is pregnant. Thanks Ellie!

Robyn is a star

Told Robyn two days ago that I was pregnant and tonight, at our first AFL game, she produced a stack of presents! Gee she's good to us. As well as some toys and a book which looks really useful she also thought about satisfying the chocolate cravings with tim tams and controlling the nausea with gingernuts! Thanks Robyn.

Jo, Steve & Tara - you rock!

Went around to Jo and Steve's for dinner. Tara is looking really well and has so many cute mannerisms. Andrew and I have started saying "yesh" all the time now. :) They were both extremely generous in lending us some of the stuff that Tara has grown out of. A fantastic looking rocker, a baby carrier, a feeding pillow and some muslin wraps. Thanks so much guys!

First Ultrasound

Had our first ultrasound today at Hornsby. Was quite a shock to see something inside jumping around. It's been pretty cryptic so far and now it seems more real. Everything looks normal at this stage. Based on it's size, they estimate that it's 12 weeks, 6 days old.

Em went around to Sarah's place for lunch with Sar and Loz. They were excited that finally I'm having one too! Sarah also showed me pictures of the little girl that her and Greg are due to have in October.

Started telling everyone we spoke to.