More of Victoria

Oriental kids in an English garden (the B&B we put up at)

That pear tree next to them produces the sweetest organic pears ever!
Self-timed family pic at Oak Bay.

Sunny days

At Oak Bay, Victoria.
As a chamber-maid in the London Heritage Farm.

Food for thought

There's my blackberry short-cake...

and my Dad in the background thinking I must be quite insane to photograph a pie thing.

And my mooncakes.

The jam just sits in the jars so....couldn't bear to sneak a snap at them in the fridge.

My family will really start to freak out if I did.

Summer pasttimes

Berry picking at the farm.

My Man fell asleep in the car by the time we got there but my Belle was raring to go and understood exactly to pick only the black ones as the red ones weren't ripe yet.

Our blackberry confiture is yumilous!

Maybe we'll start a confectionary soon :)

Babes in bath.

And mommy gets to relax whilst they shampoo each other now!

What a relief.

I got referred

To a gynaecologist - FINALLY!

He knew nothing, this man of a physician.

Each time I see him - which is not often, like once every 3 weeks, he tells me what week I'm in (duh, so medical), tells me I'm putting on weight (genius!), then tells me baby's kicking an awful lot (as opposed to my stomache growling? ha.).

Then I ask him about spina bifida and whether my initial scan showed enough for him to conclude that I am excluded from that risk. No, he said. Your initial scan didn't and couldn't show it - too early. Then, shouldn't I be sent for another scan before it's too late? If detected early, there's the option of foetal surgery available to alleviate the brain damage that it could cause (at 24 weeks to be exact is ideal).

No, he says. A normal scan is no good. A CT scan is, though, but the radiation of a CT scan is too harmful to a feotus. Oh. So suffering spina bifida throughout his life (IF he survives it at all) is a lesser harm, hm. In fact, he says confidently, your baby could be suffering from a whole hosts of things we could never tell...who'd know until he's born?

You get my drift.

Needless to say, I made sure his confidence faltered big time after making that bold, stupid statement.

So now I get to see a real doctor. I'm still optimistic that SOMEone in this British Columbia place may know what he's doing/saying.