Hey Daftmoo, beautiful story and thrilled that little Ted is doing well...it's amazing to me that even at 36 weeks a baby still needs that last week or two to get fully ready for the world. And to arrive into the world to "Songbird", well I thought that was really beautiful...congrats.
SuzeM, I was booked into the Malden Suite at Kingston up until a couple of weeks ago, then changed my mind and decided to go for a home birth. (My dd was a waterbirth born in a midwife led unit in Caerphilly - I lived in Cardiff four years ago). But last Tuesday I had bright red bleeding and a small clot so spent the night in the hospital for observation. All was ok tho, baby moving brilliantly and no bleeding since...but it has put a little chink in the whole home birth armour, iykwim...If late pregnancy bleeding only happens in 3-4% of cases, then what's to prevent me from ending up in a similarly rare percentage who need hopital back up during labour? I have a midwife appointment on Wednesday so I'll talk things over with her then too...
I am desperate for a cleaner! In fact I'm desperate for someone to just come over everyday, do the laundry, ironing, dishwasher, vacuuming, you name it...if this nesting thing kicks in one more time I may have to be forcibly removed from the house.
Ladies, all I can say is flapjacks, cake, chocolate, whatever - you all deserve as much loveliness right now as you can possibly eat...it's the home straight now and we deserve some compensation for the leg cramps and loo breaks at 3am, surely...