Good morning ladies!
How are you doing? I hope Carolyn is having a great time at the spa!
Lee!
Great to have news baby! Looks like you'll have some quiet time in the house... you and DH can enjoy some privacy for a change, and I'm happy for you guys!

Can't wait to hear about your lining, this is the exciting part isn't it?

:D:D Soon, your embie(s) will be back home! How many will you thaw? Great news about your girly, even if it means you'll start missing her a month earlier... still several weeks to go though! I admire you for the difference you obviously made in her life. I hope it sticks and she can keep growing the way she's done these past few weeks!

Must be so rewarding to see that happen once in a while! Must make it all worthwhile! Thanks for what you said about DH and me... DH actually took the news very well. During the day, I explored every single possibility and he saw, like me, that there was just no solution other than take my maternity leave now and spend 1 less month with our son (not an option) or keep working. I was relieved that he understood.
As for me, I'm doing great. Saw my doc yesterday morning and I actually had a good apt with her; I now feel like I can trust her again (she'd lost my trust last November, but that's a long story). She told me that the conditions at my hospital are typically harsh; even pregnant nurses are transferred but not put on preventive eviction, while in other hospitals they leave at 22 weeks. The baby is in super shape, and I'm still gaining wait at a snail rate, which pleases me!

The doc prescribed me a courtesy ultrasound, which was a complete surprise, so we'll see our son again on Monday morning! Whoa, really don't know what to expect! There are a lot of people booked that morning, so I don't think our ultrasound will last an hour like last time. But we'll know what percentile our baby is, we'll have an estimate of his birth weight and of course we'll see his face more clearly. Not 3D quality, but still. I'll scan pics and put them on photobucket if I have good shots.
As for work, my colleague had an idea. I had planned to ask my boss the permission to work from home a day or two per week, but she suggested me to ask for far more. She said, "Well, he's furious that you can't leave right now with your full salary and he doesn't have the authority to change that. But he does have the authority to decide what your tasks are. Given that your replacement is ready to work right now, he could very well take away all your clinical duties and only leave you research duties. Let,s say you have a huuuuuuuuuge funding application to prepare, you can very well do that from home, no?"

So basically, I'll ask my boss, when he's back on Monday, to stop seeing patients and to "work from home on research duties". I would still have to come for a couple of important meetings and one presentation, but it would make a huge difference. If he's really that emotional about me deserving the rest after all I've been through, then he could be logical about it and tweak things so I can leave next week as we intended. We'll see what he says... it's giving me hope, but I try not to be too enthusiastic about it. I'll warn my patients and tell them I'll call them next week to book them with me or my colleague.
Okay, gotta run; I have stuff to do before my next patient arrives. Take care!
Sophie xxox