Hey ladies! Well, I must say, I feel like I've just stepped out of a salon! Everyone so excited at the hairdressers and joking about what a beached whale I'm going to look like next time I'm in :-/ hmmmm?! Had about two inches off and it's lighter and I feel great! Unfortunately took best part of three hours so there were no nice coffees or lunches afterwards: I just hot-tailed it home and continued with my pesky book introduction (boo).
Cor what a horrible dream you had last night, Lexi. Mine are all really vivid at the moment (and some are horrible too!) I read somewhere that this is a symptom of pregnancy - weird, eh?
JoJo, impressed by the breakfasting! You can get the anaemia sorted out really quickly though. Am sure they will look after it with the op coming up. I'm only nearly borderline and was told to take vit. D3.
Zoey, has the pink bleeding stopped since this morning? Am sure it must just be from the sutures, no?
Dame thanks for sharing the Dotty P's story - I shall avoid them like the plague! Feeling pretty good about my wardrobe at the mo. Tried an old (and non mat.) dress on with a sort of waterfall front and it's perfect for the bump and looks great with my grey mat. tights, so that'll do for a big meeting next week! Have a great wedding! Hope you got a nice outfit sorted. I'm sure you should have a glass of fizz. My MW told me I could have occasional glass of whatever, so it must be okay 
Bah, sorry your NHS scan wasn't up to much, Tramp. I've been really lucky - people nice and waiting rooms not grim at all. Feeling very lucky.
Welcome back, Sheldon! Like you're philosophy of muddling through. That's what DH and I do. Our motto is 'see what happens' and usually good stuff does. (Tho left to my own devices I'm also a ferocious planner!) Not wearing heels at mo, but I never really do anyway - I spent teens and early 20s in DMs and Converse so missed the necessary years of training!
Funny - phew! Hope the marking goes well this weekend and you get some time off in between!
Hermione, whoop for feeling baby boo a lot!
On another note ? and please forgive the rant which is not at all directed at you but the programme from last night!!! ? I saw it too but I'm afraid I was immensely irritated by it! It could have been really good in its presentation of really important issues, and yes it's criminal that only about 15% of exec. board members are female, but it was the entire programme was all about (a) the professions, esp. commercial sector and (b) rising to 'the top'. What about the challenges that face people in other sectors and other kinds of career? What about childcare for them? Deeply uninterested in the very successful engineer woman who gets to drop her child off at the work creche: good for her, but what about people who don't work for companies with a creche? What about the women, unlike her, who can't actually afford childcare on their smaller salaries? My nose really got out of joint when they showed two work-from-home BT employees. The way the woman was represented was v. much, 'oh look, isn't she clever - she gets the breakfast, then drives boys to school, then does terribly important job, then fills the boot with home-baked goods, then drives to school to organise some event'. By contrast, the bloke said, 'yeah, it's great, I get to be around for breakfast a couple of times a week'. Wasn't sure what kind of helpful 'ideal' that sequence was trying to promote! (Womderwoman?!) In my experience of working in the public sector (and entirely within the universities, so v.v. limited) is that a great number of women 'at the top' are pretty good at shutting the door behind them (perhaps from some weird sense that they had to fight and scramble and compromise and don't want to give others an easier leg up - that's my pop psychologizing of it anyway!) and, interestingly, not one of the women 'at the top' in the programme wanted quotas as a way of evening things up; instead all said 'Oooh let's just encourage companies to hit a target' ? erm, if companies wanted to increase female representation on boards they, perchance, would have done it already?! I really wanted sociologists, economists etc telling me some hard facts, not some woman in a Bentley (was it?) having her make-up done, and trying to learn (and, forgive me, she may be uber successful businesswoman but she wasn't v. bright!) about the complexities of why societies are so gender-unequal in the sphere of work.
Rainbow, I think Tramp just meant that it's understandable that people who have experienced stillbirths don't talk about it or broadcast it much. I don't think she meant that it's understandable that society as a whole ignores it or however you read it. Obviously it's a really painful thing to happen and not everyone can talk about it openly or comfortably. My Mum can't even talk about her MCs and my DH who lost his father last year - they understandably find it difficult to talk about those losses. Tramp did also say that it's 'beyond awful' to go through a pregnancy and not leave hospital with your baby, so I think it was just a mis-reading of the first bit. Hope you are doing well.