Congratulations Flip - I'm glad everything went smoothly. I've done some bits of this pregnancy privately, and frankly it was ace. Can't afford it for real, and it makes no difference to personnel, but the facilities and resources are always so lovely.
Lots of girls being born this month huh? Nearly all our NCT class are girls too.
To top off my evening of feeling all meh, next door have gone away, leaving their dog in the care of her brother - who is meant to be 'looking after it'. He's out this evening, so the dog - who normally would never be alone because they are an older couple and don't really go out - is barking and howling the place down. This is the first evening we've heard him in months.. and it's THIS evening, when I'm cringing around the living room, have screaming heartburn, feel sick, can't breath properly, am fending off calls from friends/family/maternity assessment and the delivery suite, and just want to cry. Great. We've had to come to bed in the room furthest from their house, which is not where I want to be at all.