lisbeth that is a hell of a dream! Urghh!! Pregnancy has a lot to answer for!
Elpis sorry you had such a crap night. Sending lots of energetic vibes your way for today....not that I have many (story to follow)
CWest holy CRAP 8 days? Oh. My. God.
simonthedog hello and huge congratulations!!!
kyyria glad you got a slightly better sleep last night. How annoying that your baby has found a comfortable place that doesn't really work for you...have you tried any of the spinning babies-type manoeuvres?
londonlivvy 
at your knockers 
Mine got a lot bigger when the milk actually came in, but don't think that's everyone's experience. Hope you're feeling better today, and if not, that you're resting up. Blimey, you need it!!!
smiley good luck with your long day today.
wantanorange do you think you're in a bad mood because things are on the move? It's so hard with little ones when you're tired and grumpy 
for you
Well I had a bit of a scare last night. I was feeling pretty shocking yesterday, really wiped out and crap. Got to 9.30 and decided to go to bed, lay down and realised there was a distinct absence of any movement in my tummy. And couldn't remember when I last felt any. Which is really unusual for me - this baby is like a permanent rodeo, usually.
Went downstairs, moved about, drank iced drinks, lay on my left side etc etc, nothing. Sat in my car driving seat (sounds weird but the baby seems to love/hate it and always kicks the crap out of me there) - nothing. Rang delivery suite, they said to come in. DH had to stay at home with DS so I had to drive myself. Was terrified, and threw up all the water I'd drunk on the way
Not a great experience at the hospital. It was really quiet but I had to wait for half an hour or so. Then a really abrupt, non-communicative midwife strapped me to a monitor, took MRSA swabs from nose, throat and groin (WTF? She didn't even take a fecking urine sample but she took MRSA swabs?) and said she'd be back in half an hour.
By this point I'd heard the heartbeat and I guess all the stress had woken the baby up because he/she began to kick the crap out of the machine strapped to me. So I pressed my buzzer (I was in a room with a closed door, alone) and asked to go home. It was 11.30 by this point and I was practically weeping with exhaustion and the shock of the whole thing. Midwife came back in after 20mins, took the machine off, told me I was self-discharging against advice and would need to sign a form. I said fine - she had explained precisely nothing to me and I just wanted to go home. She went to get my notes, and took another 20mins doing it - if she'd just left me strapped to the goddamn machine she'd've got the half hour monitoring she wanted. She eventually wandered back in, eating something, handed me my notes and told me I was "free".
I then wandered round the hospital for a good 20mins lost because all the usual exits had been shut and there were no signs for the out-of-hours exit.
Got home at 12.30, and had to be up at 6.30 with DS this morning as usual, running after him and doing a usual day. I'm tired and I'm really really fucking relieved that I'm having a homebirth. If I have to transfer to hospital for any reason they'll have to drag me by my hair When I told the hospital mw that I was having a homebirth she said "oh dear" and looked very disapproving.
I have only had bad experiences of that godawful hospital.
Sorry, very long rant. Not a good night and I'm tired and not in the best of moods obviously!