Flip, I catch up on this thread, go and have a toastie and half an hour later there is an engagement and two births! WOOOHOOO to Claire, helips and FP!!!! You guys must be floating on cloud 9
And well done becky
Can't wait for the birth stories.
More doom and gloom lashing rain up here. But we did make kyte's cookies today (mmmmm) and had a roast at the ILs so not all bad.
BHs seem to be tailing off again. The past 2 mornings I've woken at my usual need to pee time of 7:30 but these past 2 times I've been really sore low down across the top of my pelvis and unable to move very well - is that what engagement feels like? - until I lower myself carefully backwards onto the loo like a proper pg woman using the sink and radiator to help and then once finished I'm back to normal again - has baby just popped out again? No idea what it's all about, but it doesn't feel nice. Despite being a 2nd timer, I still have no real experiential notion of what exactly people mean when they say 'engaged' or 'discomfort' or 'gave birth' since I bypassed a lot of it last time. Is engagement massively uncomfortable and sore like your hip joints can't work because something's in the way? Do you have to feel this uncomfortable before labour starts? That's why I'm kind of liking the painful contractions thread because people are doing their best to describe things vividly. Anyway, whatever is going on I'm still hedging my bets that I'll be pregnant on the 21st for a kids' birthday party in the morning and our neighbours' leaving bash in the evening
PS. (TMI alert, but it amused me) I had the ultimate conflict of interest earlier on - a massive BH during a bowel movement. Well weird - a real Durgh moment!