Congrats to your DH GS, and to GC for commando crawling. DS did that too, didn't take long to get up on his knees and start hurtling round the place though!
Can't - pleased for you, was really worried that it might not turn out the way you wanted...such a relief all round.
Boden - DD sounds like she had a lovely day! You OK?
SST - sleep boards are quite good on here, providing a huge variety of different techniques, just goes to show how different they all are doesn't it. I'm hoping this one will be an easy sleeper like DS was, but something tells me that's not going to be the case
Well, had my scan and consultant appt. yesterday - scan was lovely, got a great picture of LO's face, and she showed us the hands and feet slowly enough for me to actually focus on them which makes a nice change. Growth is all steady, just a smidging above the 50th, which is the same as DS was apparently. Head is down - at least it was yesterday, its been wiggling and wiggling all night, hope its not up to mischief!
Anyhoo, then I went to see my consultant, who is really lovely, she did a quick feel of my tum, and said she thought the head was still quite high but would do an internal to see what my cervix is doing. She said it was 'slightly shortened, but thick and closed' - so no sweep for me.
DH clearly hasn't been listening to anything because when we walked out he said "crikey, for a minute there I thought she was talking about sweeping you today, ha ha ha" - i replied "errr, she was, that's always been the plan, if I was ready for it" - cue silence from DH. He's in charge of a really big project with a deadline of 30th September and its going to be ruddy tight as it is, its got huge financial implications if its not met and there's no one else in the business with the technical expertise to complete it if anything happens to DH.
Now, from a business perspective, I think that's bloody poor - what if he gets ill (or worse)? From a personal perspective, he'd rather baby waited till 1st Oct at earliest!
Anyway - consultant described baby's head as being 'up in the gods' which wasn't what I wanted to hear! So the plan now is this:
MW appt next week, I can have an internal and get her to sweep if we're both happy
Cons appt week after, internal and sweep if possible
But then we skip to 41+9 and if I haven't gone into labour by then, it will be a chat about an elective c-section.
I can't actually imagine going that far overdue without losing the plot entirely having been pretty much on time with DS, so think I should at least get a trial of labour and then its more likely to end as an emergency c-sec rather than an elective, IYSWIM.
Had a much better nights sleep last night, around DS' 3 wakings with his terrible cough, and my trips to the loo anyway.
Have bought a bed! As we finished at the hospital at about 4, we whizzed round to a couple of discount furniture warehouse style places and managed to pick up a basic metal framed, 3' bed, including mattress and delivery (today!) for £95! Job done. Just in time too really, my aunt is coming over to visit, arriving on Monday, to help me get everything in order - kind of the stuff my mum would be helping me do if she lived closer. My aunt doesn't work though, so its easier for her, and we've not seen much of each other of late - its a real shame as we'd always been very close. Guess this is as good a time as any to get some of that back. She's also pretty darn good at cooking, cleaning and interior design / decorating / upholstering etc!
I've rambled again, sorry! Need to try and get a bit more sleep today - I'll be on DS duty over the weekend so want to be as 'prepared' physically as possible.
Oh - forgot to mention, when I had my BP taken yesterday at the hospital, it was back to 'normal', so the couple of days bed rest I've had so far have really helped. Clearly I was doing too much, funny how the body knows how to slow us down isn't it.