marmite that's so exciting re your mucus plug! Must feel like it's the start of a chain of events. I can completely understand being teary and in limbo. You can't plan anything around your due date really and then so often nothing happens, especially on the day itself! Glad you have been encouraging baby with cakes and walking. We have had a relatively sedentary weekend so you have put me to shame!
Audrey 14 hours in the birth pool sounds brutal! I can't deal with being in water for that long - I hate the feeling of being all pruney! Haha. Do you know how long people generally stay in hospital after they give birth? I am totally clueless. I'm guessing your DH can't stay with you the whole time so do they just go home or what?! Can't get my head around it.
Seahawk I know what you mean about bank holidays. I can imagine myself going overdue and ending up going in on the August bank holiday for an induction! Hoping not though.., Yay to your flight upgrade! It sounds like you had a lovely break. I am really looking forward to our break to the Lake District in May.
MrsG how exciting that you're at 24 weeks. I'm just under 1 week behind you and am really looking forward to reaching yay milestone. Then even more excited to agree my mat leave formally at 25 weeks!
Dixie lovely scan pic and well done for staying team vanilla!
Thank you everyone for sharing your cat stories and thoughts! They made me feel a lot better.
Audrey I love the idea that my cat thinks I am incompetent and is trying to help me fatten up. I am sticking with that! She is such a sweetheart and I know it is completely natural behaviour for a cat so I couldn't stay annoyed for long.
Glittery I had kind of wondered what the likelihood was of getting cat poo on your hands from stroking your cat. They spend so much time cleaning themselves that it seems quite unlikely to me! Loved your comment about stroking the cat and then eating a sandwich 
will you get the test to see if you have had it before? I think I read that 1/3 of the population have had it before and given you work with animals I guess is more likely than not?! Would be good to get reassurance though I guess.
Fishy your cat sounds like a crazy gifted hunter!! It made me feel quite grateful for the once a fortnight gifts from mine! Hope your DH is around to help clear up! Also, does your sister in law really think you will be able to go on that night out or does she just not want you to feel left out?!
Seahawk thanks for your summary of the car seat situ. I agree that I would be totally fine with the pebble if the pebble plus didn't exist! My DH is quite a worrier (in very different ways from me) so I think it's quite likely we'll end up with the pebble plus. That is when we get around to buying anything baby related at all... We are still frantically decorating the house and don't really have the space to start acquiring things while its in the state it is atm.
Sorry to anyone I've missed. Has been a busy weekend seeing family and doing DIY and I am now exhausted! Really need to psych myself up for a productive few days at work (finding that hard) and then I'm off for a hen party (the first one I've been organising but it doesn't involve clubbing) on Friday afternoon. Thinking that at some point I will need to find some time to myself to relax. Gutted that yoga was cancelled this week due to the bank holiday.