I think I've frightened most people off minipop. I haven't had one of those calls in a few days. Hehehe.
Despite the weather, we've decided we HAVE to get out of the house today. Going to go for a late lunch on the South Bank somewhere and hopefully fit in the Cabinet War Rooms too. Slightly ambitious imo, given the state of my feet, but hopefully it will help move the baby down. Things currently depend on whatever project DH is doing in the kitchen. There's a workbench and jigsaw in there. He appears to be making planters for his tomatoes out of scrap wood.
I did some reading about "post date" pregnancy last night. To begin with, the chap who decided that a pregnancy is 40 weeks, did so around 1850, so as you can imagine, things have changed since then; mothers' nutrition for starters. I've read that caucasian women with good nutrition can add 15 days to that due date if on their first baby and 10 days if not on first baby and still be within "normal" parameters. Apparently black and Asian women tend to have slightly shorter pregnancies.
So that made me feel better and also I found a graph showing roughly when babies are born in the US versus their "due date" of 40 weeks.
The approximate numbers look like
Before 37 weeks: 4%
37 weeks: 5%
38-39 weeks: 10%
39-40 weeks: 20%
40-41 weeks: 35%
41-42 weeks: 20%
Over 42 weeks: 10%
So there's a good 50% chance that your baby will be born after its due date and for me, a 20% chance she'll come this week. That's pretty good IMO. And given that my induction isn't booked til I'm 42+2, that's a little more chance again that I'll go spontaneously.