hazle that's exactly what I thought when I read about cavort (poor you) being sick. Maybe the first elderberry baby will be here sooner than we thought....
alex - welcome back, and moan away!
brave - at my last midwife appt I'd put on 2 kilos/4lbs in a week. One week later and I'm pretty much back to where I was - so 2 kilos less. Odd. But I guess it means don't panic too much about weight gain!
mother my bump went from looking like I was a bit of a greedy pig/podgy to a definite preggers bump at about 21 weeks, so much so that DP asked me if I was deliberately sticking my belly out one sunday. It will happen soon!
Saw the consultant this morning who was lovely. He has no objections to me having ecls, esp as blood pressure is up a bit more again today so still looking like I won't make term and may have to be induced beforehand. But he said most consultants aren't like him! He said that we need to jump through a few hoops to get me one, and that he'd do most of them for me in the background, but that I do have to go and see a consultant midwife responsible for "normality" who will try to talk me into early induction and natural birth. I said fine, I'll just go through all these logical, rational reasons I've listed with you, and all the stats I have to support this choice. He said that off the record, no, don't do that, and to just say that I'm really, really scared of a natural birth. He said it's just about box ticking and that will do the job! Hilarious. Anyway looks like on July 2nd (provisional date) might be the big day....
Interestingly, I did ask who was going to be doing it, and he explained that elcs are done by consultants (I suspect because a) they're usually for a complicated medical reason and b) they're at more sociable hours!) whereas emcs are done mainly by house officers and occasionally consultants... Weirdly feel reassured about that.