Wow, I leave my desk for five hours and there's a shiny new thread - impressed! Thanks, tiddley, and hurray for progress on the house front! yay! even if it is a bit of a cock-up things are moving and so will you be too soon! 
Thanks for the kind thoughts for this morning's midwife appointment, knickyknocks! It was was great. She is just lovely and she had a student midwife in with her and we spent most of the hour laughing. Not sure about what exactly, come to think of it, but it was a very feel-good session! They are part of a midwife-led unit at the local hospital where they do everything but epidurals (but you can go downstairs for that) and they said they focus on massage, pools, mindfulness meditation and have a lot of good births - even first-timers! - without any intervention. Their belief is that the more drugs etc then the more difficulties can arise. I'm sceptical about my ability to get very far in labour without serious pain relief but it does sound like heaven and I plan to give it a go. Next appt in 4 weeks for my bloods (the only thing they didn't do today) and in the meantime they are referring me to a consultant who needs to check out my medical history re past thyroid problems and the termination-that-didn't-go-well.
glad the midwife isn't too concerned about the bleeding posypoo and you can relax a bit now?
As tiddley and gummi predicted, I did, of course, tell my mate at lunchtime! She's a very good friend and I would have ended up telling her if everything went wrong anyway, so I'm so glad I did. Especially as now I can ask her advice about stuff.
I didn't feel pregnant for most of this week either, jojo, but last night cramping started again and this morning I dry retched over the smell of ripe banana in our breakfast smoothies. mind you, I don't like bananas at the best of times (only ever eat them in smoothies!) so that may not necessarily be preg-related!!)
Aw, hitchin / lexi, wot a pain not knowing when you will see the midwife. Are you waiting for them to get in touch?
Eric, sorry to hear of the row with your DH and also the PND (post-natal depression, I'm guessing?) Sometimes I seem to be speaking a different language than my DH. And over the past year or so he's become even more sensitive to stuff and his reactions are more severe (nothing bad, but he'll flounce off and start computer programming as a way of shutting me out, after the slightest hiccup) which is weird because I think I'm getting much better at managing stuff. I guess it's hard to appreciate that this family-building business has a big emotional impact on the men in our lives, because we're the ones doing the pregnancy bit, but it's bound to take it's toll. I know how you feel about the scan - I want an early one too, but DH is very science-head about it: you don't need one till 12 weeks etc. But I explained that if the baby had stopped developing now then I would rather know and get the process over with now and move on than carry it for another seven weeks when I'll be even more emotionally involved etc. He seemed to get that, I think, though essentially he still doesn't think it's necessary. Sounds like you've got a lot going on - ideally you could just focus on your final year and the pregnancy, without the huge stress of the driving test and looking for a job - yikes! It would be great if maybe he could handle the driving side of things and also get lucky with a new job, but these things are easier said than done, I know, especially in the midst of depression. Hope you can see a way through, and that things look brighter this afternoon.
Well, I'd better get some work done - eek!