pulpi I am a rabid Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. I watched the whole set of seven seasons in about three months a year ago, and if this pregnancy goes on for much longer I shall be watching them all again WITHIN A WEEK. I basically love anything sci-fi / post-apocalyptic. Have you seen Firefly? I'm assume so if you're a Buffy aficionado, but if not - get it get it get it! It's basically a space Western and it's so good! I'm borrowing a friend's login for Amazon Prime to get me through these last weeks of gestation, and have started watching 'The 100', which is space AND post-apocalypse - dream combo. A mite too cheesy to be genuinely good, but very watchable nevertheless. Not sure the adrenalin hits I'm getting when something on-screen makes me jump is necessarily very good for bringing on labour, though...
I'm really sorry to hear about your family member. I hope that he's found soon - such an awful situation.
photographer I am fine post-sweep, thank you... TOO fine, I could say! Nary a twinge have I experienced. Well, I did think I was getting bump pain last night and got terribly excited, but it turned out to be trapped wind. So disappointing. How did your sweep go today?
YouAndMe so sorry to hear about the infection. One of my NCT friends had that a few weeks ago - she is all good now though and looking fabulous, I must say.
Cookies oooo my skirting boards are really annoying me! I have done the upstairs but not the downstairs, and the ones downstairs are seriously bugging me - just not quiiiiite enough to induce me to get on my hands and knees and scrub them.
Hopes massive congratulations! What a gorgeous little bundle you have!
Cheery I also burn at the drop of a hat, so no tanning for me! I don't care though as I never get my midriff out.
julfin I laughed so much at the threadbare teddy comparison! That is ABSOLUTELY how mine looks after I went at it with scissors and razor pre-sweep. Sod it, though; it's going to look a lot worse in a few days' time...! Sooo glad that everything is looking up for you. Here is to a gorgeously relaxing maternity leave that gets you in just the right state of mind for the babe.
Thom I am so happy for you; after such a worrying time it is lovely that everything is now blissful and on the mend.
primary eeeeee that sounds exciting! Hope you have a baby in your arms soon :)
gnat I hope you get some time to relax in before the baby arrives, and that DH stops getting his knickers in a twist - it is a bit of a tense time though; I can empathise!
So aside from my trapped-wind pain last night, I've had nothing labour-like at all. We have dtd three times this week, I have been for a couple of long walks, I have bounced on the birthing ball until I ached, obviously I had the sweep, and none of it has come to anything. So tonight I am going to go out for a curry with DH and my dad, and I will be chowing down on a vindaloo. I usually eat madras and don't find it particularly spicy, so it's going to have to be a vindaloo if I want it to have any effect whatsoever...
Dad is slightly stressing me out, but the sunshine came out this afternoon and we sat in the garden, which was much better. This morning he told me I could 'do some clothes washing for him' and I had great difficulty keeping my tongue civil! I told him he knew where the washing machine was, and he was welcome to use it. He then said 'but I've got a bad back' (which to be fair, he does - looks like he's in awful pain, too - I am such a bad daughter), and I'm afraid I replied with 'well I'm nine months and one week pregnant, so I won't be doing your washing'. Is that awful of me? I know it's a bit awful, but the thing is I didn't actually invite him to come this weekend and I really do not feel like I ought to have to be a hostess at this point!
Aaaanyway his back is so bad he can't drive anywhere for a while, so he will be staying till Wednesday (!!!!!!!!!!!!!). To be completely fair, he is lovely and means well, he is extremely excited about the baby, and he has brought some very helpful gifts with him (e.g. a travel cot), and he is genuinely being quite considerate - but I am just so conscious that these are mine and DH's last few days as a two before we become three, and I am feeling awfully selfish about them!
Deep breaths, ladies. It is very sweet of him to be so interested and excited, and I am terribly ungrateful and unreasonable, I know. DH's parents (who live nearby) have offered to have him to stay for a couple of days from Monday to take the pressure of us with entertaining, which has helped me to relax a bit.
Anyway. One nice thing I did today was to handwash my childhood teddy so that he could be handed on to my little babe. GOOD GOD girls, the water in the first wash was VERY brown. I had to wash and rinse him six times! I felt awful when I was squeezing him out - like I was wringing a kitten's neck or something! He then took a little trip in the washing machine on a spin-cycle, stuffed in a sock to protect him because I was afraid his head might fall off. And he has spent the day sunbathing in the garden to dry off properly. Looking super-cute and quite perky, if rather lacking in the hair department.
Vindaloo in an hour and a half. Fingers crossed!