Crazychic Yes, I feel like a geriatric - completely arthritic feeling hands that hurt to bend, particularly after waking up in the morning, and a left knee that is very gammy in the same way, plus spd, so I am the rather bulbous little old lady knocking around very slowly.
Millie Thanks - I have the raspberry leaf tea should I go over, though the capsules sound excellent. I'd love a due date birth!
Jasmine He is being a bit of a primadonna really from what you're saying - but I guess it must be quite hard for him inhabiting such a different everyday world to you, yet wanting to engage completely about the baby when you are talking about it all.
In his mind, his coming home that bit earlier is probably this really huge thing he's had on his mind for days, and maybe he thought telling you would be like a big bunch of flowers, and he'd be the hero. Instead, he gets a dose of practicality from the one person at the centre of it all who knows how it's likely to go down, and what the right thing for you is.
It might be a distance thing and once he's here and sees and you can talk about it curled up on the sofa, he might understand a lot more where you're coming from. However it goes, it's you in that hospital pushing his son out, and you get to do it with the cast of Glee singing to you if that's what you fancy on the day.
For what it's worth, I think you are doing an amazing job doing all this with the baby being monitored and such, and when he gets home he'll see just how incredible his wife is to have handled so much, plus organised those builders!
On the day, it's about you and the baby; the second the baby is born and in your arms, then it's a three-of-you thing; if only there was a nice way to say that without sounding too exclusionary.