Hello ladies,
Haven't been on for ages, but I've been keeping up :) we've been away for a week to Cornwall (my god, it is sooooooo far away from Yorkshire!) with my SIL and her DP and their bairn who's 2 and an utter Thomas the Tank Engine addict. If I ever hear that theme tune again, I may actually go truly barmy. But he was good value for the week!
Well done Hersetta on your payout :)
Firawla great news on the house; hope things start to settle down for you now.
News here: my measurements are fine (27cm on 29wk bump, midwife says because I'm so slim usually that she's v happy with that), not really getting kicked any more, it's all movement as she turns over and round and does push-ups against my spine!
We picked up a buggy (Britax Vigour 4+) on ebay for £100! Whoop! Will borrow SIL's lie-flat Britax car seat for a few months while we need it, and we're done. Only mattress for the cot left now - and all the stuff I need. And a birthing pool. So actually, I'm not organised at all, am I?!
Have spent the last three mornings in various parts of the hospitals in Leeds - my staff sent me to A&E on Tuesday morning as I'd complained to one of them that my vision was funny and blurred in my left eye; they'd consulted Dr Google and the large medical section in my bookshop and decided I had pre-eclampsia () although I told them it absolutely wasn't, my blood pressure was fine and I had no other symptoms they still made me go... long story short, the (very young and very fit) ophthalmologist I saw this morning has diagnosed me with "sudden-onset pregnancy-related chorioretinopathy" - basically all the extra fluid we carry when we're pregnant has deposited itself behind my left eye and is pushing my retina forward. Nothing they can do and should go away by the time the baby is a couple of months old. But at least it's not the brain tumour I was starting to convince myself I had!
However excitement reigned when I was sent up to the maternity unit from A&E just to be checked over to be on the safe side - midwife I was talking to picked up the phone, expecting it to be reception telling her my notes were there for her, and I heard her say, "Ok... right... send your DH upstairs with the little ones, let me talk to your mum... so she's crowning? Ok, here's what you need to do..." and talked this woman's mum through her having the baby at home!!! She was amazing and calm and it was funny yet really awe inspiring; I could hear this lady's mum shouting down the phone, "Oooh, I can see an eye... now two eyes, and a nose... and a chin..... Oooooh, it's a boy!!". First-timers, don't fret - once she put the phone down she told me that it almost never happens with your first one; but that she has to do two or three of those phone calls a week?! Amazing.
I've got extra leucocytes in my urine though, so they've sent it off to be tested (my bloods a couple of weeks ago said the same as well) so I'm fighting some sort of infection - they think it's probably just the raging thrush I've had for the last 6 weeks, but are testing just to be sure.
Ok, lucnh time over, need to get back to work... will catch up properly later as I'm sure I've missed saying well done or congratulations to many people on here for something. Any news from wishwales at all, Morgan's still hanging on in there?
Oh, and, we've got the name. She will be called Elise. :)