Saturday, February 11, 2012

Book Giveaway - Last Chance!

Hi everyone,

My book giveaway offer ends this week see this post, so this is a final reminder to please have anyone you think may be interested pop over to enter.  They do not have to follow me.

Thanks!

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Book Giveaway! Includes one seemingly magical baby dust book!

Hello All,

As I said yesterday I am holding a giveaway for the fertility books that I own, as we are so fortunate to be in our 23rd week of pregnancy with our wee one.

There are 2 books which I found very informative and helpful.

The first I got before I know that I had FSH issues and before my cycle went off the rails - I was just naively preparing for what I thought would be a fairly easy process...

1) Do You Want to Have a Baby?, Natural Fertility Solutions and Pregnancy Care, By Sarah Abernathy and Linda Page, Ph.D. -168 pages full of natural fertility enhancement information

The second I won here on blogger through a giveaway Emma at One Perfect Emby 
http://oneperfectemby.blogspot.com/2012/01/happy-baby-shower-to-me.html
held back in August.  At that point she was 14 weeks along in her pregnancy.  She had received the book through a giveaway held by Athena at A Field of Dreams http://afieldofdreams-athena.blogspot.com/ who also successfully achieved pregnancy and is enjoying being a mom to a beautiful boy.

The book travelled across the pond from Australia to me here in Canada and I love the special legacy it seems to have developed.  My sincere hope (as is the hope of Emma and Athena who I have run this by) is that it will continue to bring good luck to those struggling in the difficult world of infertility.

I have written in the front inside cover the 'family tree' of the legacy of the book and I truly hope that it continues and can be passed successfully from woman to woman leaving a trail of sticky BFPs in its wake!

2) The Infertility Handbook; By Angela I. Hutchins.  The complete resource for couples longing to have a baby.  Published in New Zealand, with many resources for all of us in the Infertility world.

I'm not a SUPER active blogger, as many of you know - especially recently with my schooling.  So I've not heavily promoted my blog and do not have a lot of followers.  Many of you, however, do.  If you know of anyone who might be interested in either of these books please have them pop over to my blog to enter the giveaway.  They do not need to follow me.  Just leave a comment that ensures I can find them again and they will be entered.

Since I don't have many followers I'm going to give it about 2 weeks for entries.  Hopefully I will get a few.

To enter just leave a comment on this post (make sure I can reach you back if you are 'anonymous'!).

All the best folks...

Hugs
~SCS

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Resurfacing....for a moment...

Hello all my lovely ladies....

I have been in recluse mode for several months, primarily due to my heavy workload with school, so I have not been reading, or (obviously) blogging at all.  This program is requiring my complete focus...so the only thing that gets my attention when I'm not studying, is my growing (and growing....and growing...) wee one.

But its a lazy Saturday morning after a week of stressful exams...and I thought of all of you.  I'll be doing a bit of reading this morning trying to catch up on your lives.

I just wanted to let you all know that I am well and even more importantly baby is well.

We found out at our midwife appointment last week that combined with the ultrasound results, my measurements, and I guess some other factors, I am actually further along than we thought.  I am 23 weeks and 3 days along.  Baby's new due date is May 23.

I think we have either a gymnast or a drummer in the making in here....lots of moving and grooving.  What a crazy (and amazingly beautiful) feeling.  We won't be finding out the sex of the baby.  We want it to be a surprise.  We are considering a home water birth as long as the pregnancy remains as healthy as it has been.

Hubby started getting really excited after we first heard the heartbeat and its been a steady incline of excitement for him since.  Its wonderful to see him so eagerly anticipating becoming the wonderful daddy that he will be.  He's painted the nursery (and our bedroom, just for good measure), he's doing lots of little jobs around the house....his way of "nesting" I suppose.  Its very cute to watch and makes me very proud to have chosen this wonderful man as my life mate.

I have a few infertility books that I would like to share with the community...with someone who needs them.  Tomorrow I will do another post specifically regarding this and hold a giveaway.  Please let those who might be interested but do not follow my blog know to pop over and 'enter'.  I would love to give the opportunity to as many as possible.  There is a particularly special book that I actually won through a giveaway here on blogger.  It has changed hands 3 times now and has brought success to each woman who has possessed it.  I would like to pass on its apparent magical qualities!  More on the story in tomorrow's post.

Hugs
~SCS