We're having a............?

Exactly, that's it. A whole hour with the ultrasound technologist and nothing. He couldn't determine for sure if we're having a boy or a girl. He could see the 4 chambers of the heart, the liver, the diaphram etc, etc...but he couldn't be sure if there was something between the legs or not! I was so incredibly dissapointed. The decision to find out the sex of the baby was a huge one for us. It wasn't until Saturday, that I finally thought for sure i wanted to know. Sunday comes around (yes Sunday, they do ultrasounds every day of the week at this hospital) and nothing. I have to wait and see what the radiologist says about the pictures and video, and reports all his findings to my doctor (who still hasn't gone over the results of my first ultrasound). Grrr.

In the technologist's defense, he was having a hard time keeping track of the baby to do his required measurements. Like, Emma-Rose this baby is an active one. yippee.

What can you do? I know I have 3 and a half months left, but I think I'm getting super nervous. My doctor hasn't given me good prenatal care and being in Canada, I just have to live with it and be thankful that I have a doctor. On monday, I go to my first appointment with the obgyn, since emma-rose was born via c-section, my doctor won't even talk about doing a vbac. So now it's my job to convince this obgyn in one visit that a c-section without good reason is not something I'm willing to do. The obgyn who performed my c-section with emma-rose is willing to discuss it and is in favour of a vbac, so if all else fails, I will get a referral to her and drive the 45 minutes to see her. That also means that I will have a 45 minute drive to the hospital when I have the baby.

Anyhow, that's what's going on in my neck of the woods!

New Blog

I'm going to keep this blog going....so keep checking. However, in addition to this blog, where i just seem to babble, I've started a blog for recipes. Mainly for my benefit (since I write a recipe down and usually loose it), however, please drop in and see what you can use! http://lisasrecipebox.blogspot.com/

Here's a cheesecake I made last summer with the second recipe....

CHEESECAKE RECIPES

For either recipe use a 9 or 10 inch spring foam pan

1. Philadelphia Cream Cheese recipe

3 bricks of cream cheese (250g)
3 eggs
3/4 cup white sugar
1 tsp vanilla

crust: follow the recipe on the box of graham or oreo cookie crumbs

cream together cream cheese and sugar, beat in eggs one at a time, add vanilla. bake at 350 until the top is set (about 45 mins- an hour)....to avoid cracks on the top of the cheesecake bring cream cheese and eggs to room temperature before mixing together.

2. My favourite recipe (which i combined a few different recipes to create--although I'm sure it already existed somewhere out there)

3 packages cream cheese (250g)
1 can sweetened condensed milk (i think they're somewhere between 11-14 oz)
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla

crust: follow recipe on box of graham or oreo cookie crumbs

cream together cream cheese and sweetened condensed milk, beat in eggs one at a time, add in vanilla. bake at 350 for 45 minutes (approx). for best results cream cheese and eggs should be at room temperature


VARIATIONS:

vanilla--leave recipe as is (duh)

chocolate--melt 4 squares of semi-sweet chocolate in microwave and add to cream cheese mixture (i usually top a chocolate cheesecake with cherry pie filling and chocolate shavings OR fresh/frozen raspberries)

chocolate chip-- add 1-2 cups of milk chocolate chips (depending how many chocolate chips you want in)

marble--divide cream cheese mixture in two, melt 2 squares of semi-sweet chocolate and add to one of the bowls. Pour the vanilla cream cheese mixture into pan, add the chocolate mix in dollops on top of vanilla mix, use a knife to swirl it around...

There are other variations and other recipes....let me know if there's something specific you want to try (flavour wise) and I'll let you know if I have a recipe. Enjoy!