Hiya Charley! Well, I have been keeping tabs on you all, just no time to keep up. While I have been decorating, the house has gone to wrack and ruin As soon as all our cr*p is out of the black, plastic bags, the place will no longer look immacualte, I can assure you!
The decorator was bargain and he is excellent too! Most people in the trade where we live charge a fortune!!! We watched Relocation the other night and the guy had a fireplace removed between 2 rooms and a steel put in for 1200 pounds!!! Dp and I just looked at each other and pissed ourselves laughing.! It would have cost 5k here, easy.
I don't know if there is a minimum time you need to be in hospital before they discharge you. I would imagine it depends more on the checks they have to do, paediatrician or dr or someone has to check baby within 48 hours I think. They also need to be sure you are 'fit' to go home. We left after about 5 hours of giving birth, I think. We didn't have the check, my doctor came out to us at home to do it, which was lovely. Don't feel pressured to go home. I didn't want to stay in, because I'd had a night there earlier in my pregnancy and hated it. I just can't relax in places like that, I need my own dirt around me, not someone elses!! I think they let us go home because we live close to the hospital and coz dp is a GP, but I'm guessing really.
The other big reason we bothe wanted to leave was because I think we were scared that the longer we had with trained professionals around us 24 hours a day, the harder it would be once we were on our own with no-one to ask or help scary, scary!!! The first hour we were home, we were both too scared to leave the room she was sleeping in
Yup, Uwila is scheduled to deliver next Thursday!!