Flora many congrats on your wee bundle of joy! Sorry you had a crappy time in the hospital though! I was induced with DD1 and am bound and determined to avoid it this time so you have given me hope.
Saltnvinegarcrisps - on the deli meat, apparently there is a listeria risk from eating deli meat. I think it is all nonsense, as I have never gotten sick from a turkey sandwich. My OB told me some delis use the same slicers for the meat and runny cheese, but the chances seem so remote I ignore :)
Cupcakes I was sorely tempted to throw the food at the cashier, but contented myself with telling her that I'd been up all night with a sick toddler and needed the bloody caffeine in the coke to get me through the afternoon.
Crystylline, I feel your pain. I get no paid mat leave and will be working until I go into labour. From then, I get 6 weeks unpaid and then will be taking 8 weeks more working 16 hours a week from home. Most of the women at my work come back FT at 4 weeks postpartum, which I just can't fathom. We are forecast to get a bad snow storm here tonight, so I'm hoping I can get 2 work from home days out of it! At least that way I can work in my pjs and have a cuddle with DD1 every hour or so.
We are finally getting organised here today, DH just put together the arms reach co-sleeper (so excited to have one this time, would have been such a god send with DD1 who fed all night until she was 1)...and a set of drawers for the baby's things. Now I can start washing all the things I have looked out from DD1, organise them and then see if I need to buy anything else. I think baby has dropped too, as the bump is now much lower and leans forward. His big sister was still transverse at this point, so I think he must have inherited my sense of direction (DH gets lost in our small town and we have lived here for 6 years).
Enjoy your Sunday dinners, all this talk of roast chicken is making me hungry!