Still can't keep up, so - in brief:
Hello to new people.
Congratulations on births.
Commiserations on curtains.
Still smugly sleeping very well - but have taken to sleeping with my right wrist bent and then lying on top of it. Which means that it's gone dead when I wake up and takes a while to come round. And I'm right-handed.
Peanut now 2/5 engaged, 3/5 still palpable. Now back to LOA position after a brief moment last week when it irritatingly turned posterior, having been anterior for weeks. Perhaps my cleaning the kitchen floor on my hands and knees had something to do with it. Cleaning the kitchen floor in any position is not something I do often, so hands and knees really was a sight to behold...
My mother finally snapped this week and rang me up to berate me about my homebirth plan. I knew it was too good to be true that she could manage to get through a whole pregnancy, biting her tongue. They're going on holiday at the weekend, so she obviously felt this was her last chance. Apart from the intellectual poverty of her argument (the consultant doesn't agree, therefore I should do what I'm told), I still find it gobsmacking that people think that one hasn't considered the evidence / ramifications before making a decision. Apparently 'everybody' is worried about my decision. Not sure who this 'everybody' is - and since I doubt they have considered my health issues as much I have, I really don't care. Just find it extremely irritating that in the absence of any facts, my mother resorted to emotional blackmail.
Equally irritating: my midwife told me last night that the community midwife has withdrawn her offer to do the neonatal check, as her manager has told her that 'under no circumstances' is this permissible. I think this comes back to the accusation of cherry picking the NHS. So what?? You'd think they would consider their duty of care to the peanut - not to mention the fact that they're acting contrary to Department of Health guidelines regarding access to services. Am tempted to contact my MP just to put a rocket up them... (although am aware that at 38 weeks pregnant, I should be thinking calm, gentle thoughts and sniffing rose oil...)
Incidentally - why (Pooka) is your GP so concerned about someone witnessing the return of your pethidine? When my father in law died, my mother in law returned enough Oramorph to sink a boatload of Afghan farmers - but no one was keeping a check on how much they had and what was happening to it. Took the pharmacist by surprise though...