dances any news this morning?
squidge I haven't moved hospital, but I did change doctors surgery during my last pregnancy and it was fairly straight forward once I was registered with the surgery. Though as the hospital keeps paper notes (or at least mine does) it might be worth ensuring you have a copy of any pertinent medical history.
Got the bags packed this morning despite DH's best efforts at making it bloody impossible So I have the changing bag packed with all of baby's stuff to make it easy to find, a small suitcase packed for labour and a slightly bigger one packed for if they decide they need to keep us in on the ward for a few days. Just need to add handheld notes and Natal Hypnotherapy books into the labour bag (plus any snacks bits that I'm particularly worried about DH forgetting) and there's space in the extended stay bag for the right sized clothing to be put in for bump. Feel much calmer now I know it's done, even though I won't need any of it for ages.
Started going through the Natal Hypnotherapy book with post it notes and page tabs so that DH can read the 'cliff notes' and to ensure he skips the more dubious stuff about God using hypnosis to perform surgery on Adam So I can send him off to work with it when he's back at work on Wednesday and he can pretend he's read it before I get him started on the exercises!
grumpy face I have given up trying to prepare DH for the fact that he's going to have to cook actual meals when bump comes as I won't be able to do it. When we had DD we were living with his parents and they did all the cooking, not sure what the heck he's expecting to happen this time round as I'll be far too busy feeding the newborn to be stood in the kitchen cooking him meals whilst he plays minecraft and try to avoid parenting. Having had some success with the hello fresh / gusto boxes that were sent through to us I bought the ingredients for the 3 quickest recipes on Friday and put them all in one place in the fridge, I left the relevant recipe cards out in plain sight and suggested that perhaps he'd like to make a couple of them over the weekend whilst I was at work and he wasn't. I came home to pasta bake one night and pukka pies with oven chips the other, both most definitely not the recipe's from the cards, both requiring him to go out and buy the stuff that he cooked because I'd ensured that neither meal was in the house because he needs to learn to cook something other than bloody pasta bake from a jar. Ho-hum I thought, he obviously didn't fancy the meals I'd picked and didn't want to say anything. Except he suggested to me before going out for a walk a little while ago that perhaps I could make one of the recipes tonight, the chicken one perhaps... none of the three had chicken in, or anything resembling chicken, so he hadn't even looked at the recipes he'd shunned. Told him that if he wanted one of the chicken dishes he'd need to buy the ingredients, he suggested I use quorn and left. The chicken recipes require beating the chicken to 1/2 cm thickness, something I'm fairly certain you can't do with quorn... Guess we'll be living on a diet of pasta bake and pukka pies when bump comes. either that or take aways...
daholster we have a moby wrap here, It's really nice, but I struggled to get to grips with the yards and yards of fabric, I could get it working in the house but out of the house I'd end up giving up and carrying DD, someone suggested the Papoozle from he tots bots website and it's similar but with a strap that you fasten down first and then two lengths that come off it and then wrap round in a similar fashion to the moby wrap, then a separate piece of fabric that goes round the whole lot once baby is in, I've ordered one of those and am praying it doesn't turn up till later in the week like for instance Thursday or Friday so I can hide it and then pretend we had it all along as it was only £20
Also, the non sleeping tired girl sounds familiar, DD actually fell asleep earlier in the pram, to be woken up by someone who got in her face and exuberantly exclaimed that she was sleeping >.> strangers make me cross sometimes! But even though she's shattered now she won't just sleep, have even tried under duvet snuggles to try and get her to rest but she's currently attempting to pull the blinds down so I'm guessing the microns she had is all we're going to get!
My place doesn't do hospital tours, there's a 'virtual tour' on the website which is mostly just a picture of a generic labour room from what I remember...