Black I'm glad it's not just me - I've never been so tired in my life. Nearly summer holidays at least, hopefully daily lie ins will perk me up!!
My Mum and OH's parents all live in our town, so thankfully we won't have any house guests. My Mum said last night she's going to book the two weeks off after my OH's paternity leave runs out, but made it clear she won't be round ours all the time - just wants to be available if I need a hand, which is nice.
I know someone who had a water birth, and was quite put off when I heard that hospital required them to bring their own sieve to fish out any poo!!! I think I decided at that moment that a water birth probably wasn't for me... I'm just trying to just read up on everything and generally go with the flow - childbirth is so unpredictable, I don't want to go in with a set idea. My best friend was adamant she wanted a home birth, unfortunately it didn't go that way and she ended up loosing loads of blood, being blue-lighted to hospital and needing some stitching up in the theater after they got the baby out. She is still really upset about it - and it did sound traumatic though apparently the staff were amazing - but more because she was so utterly set on a home birth at the time she was refusing to even consider the idea of hospital or read up on anything (I tried to gently encourage her at the time, and was just told in no uncertain terms she was having a home birth!). So I'm trying to mentally be prepared for anything!