alien I can understand completely how you're feeling, I felt just the same after being put back so much with dd1. I was lucky as was still due in the same month, however, dd1 turned up 1 month after my initial due date. It's quite depressing even though you've seen your baby, you know your baby is fine but you have this little count down to the statistics being great and the end when you're going to meet your baby and all of sudden it gets moved away from you. It's tough, but just try to forget the original due date (as I hung on to that date, sure that dd1 would arrive on that date anyway, and it's very depressing), think about how you saw your baby with a good heart beat and is doing fine. Enjoy your dd, have fun and try toour mind, put the weeks out of your mind, at least for a little bit.
lalunya Yeah I'm hoping she'll be ok with me (although I imagine a bit stressed) as surely she'd rather hear 6 months in advance than get a call of 'sorry I've gone into labour, I can't do your cake this weekend'... I remember what I was like with dd1 esepcially, I was a wreck near my due date, in fact from about 25 weeks I was exhausted, with dd2 it wasn't quite as bad but I'm that bit older now (I'm 29, was 21 when I had dd1, 23 with dd2), I think in all honesty, I'm not going to be in the right state of mind (especially in the heat and having had the dds home and fighting for over a month at that point too).
I only know (and trust) one other cake maker in the area but her house is on the market so won't be taking any cakes on for the forseeable future :/ There are tonnes of cake makers around her but the quality with most is shocking (I know that sounds mean but there are lots who've just popped up as they think cakes are easy money, they're not btw) and I couldn't recommend any of them in confidence. I'm so sad as it's a cake I really wanted to do :( Argh! It's so hard!