Had my last mw appointment yesterday at 40+8 and cervix still 2cm from sweep on Friday. Now have an hospital appt Thursday to monitor baby and do an internal. If I'm dilated enough they'll allow my mw to break my waters at home on Friday morning and if contractions start within 6 hours I should be on course for mw led care in birth centre. If not, I'll be taken to hospital and put on drip. If cervix is not 'ripe' enough on Thursday I will be booked in for induction, hopefully Friday but if not Saturday or Sunday at the latest. They will insert a balloon into my cervix and inflate ot (never heard of this in the UK) to open it and then put me on drip.
Have come to terms with induction/hospital birth now, though still time for baby to sort itself out.
What's irritating me is the continued messages from acquaintances on fb or people who should know better, like my best friend or my closest colleague who has 4 children, asking me if there are any signs, or how did your appt go. Driving me crazy and upsetting me.
Sounds really time consuming franks. I expressed a lot with DS in the beginning to build my supply and then when I went back to work. We used the medela calma teats as found he really had to suck and make the effort to get the milk out so switched fairly easily between breast and bottle, even when we had to give him formula and expressed bm during the first few weeks.
Well, there are only about 5 people left on the main Dec thread who haven't had their babies yet. I'll cry if I'm last! Even on the Jan bus, nearly half of the babies have arrived and it's only the 6th January!
No postnatal thread unless one of you has set it up (I'm not qualified yet 
). Unless you want to join the main thread - there is a December PN thread if you want to join that instead of a separate one (it's not getting a lot of traffic atm as think most people are on fb).