Oh lord, so much to catch up on, and it's not been that long since I was last on!
Huge congratulations to jasmeen, somewhat, showmethemummy and chickbean. Lovely news all round.
Mama2moo, I agree that overall baby's movements seem much slower and lazier. Although I'll get odd sessions, like last night, of loads of movement, so it really looks and feels like baby is trying to get out through my tummy... then a day of laziness (but definitely still frequent movements).
WMDO, I really do sympathise; dd didn't have reflux, but she was similar in her need to be held upright to sleep, and slept better the odd nap I allowed her to sleep on her tummy because I was watching her. I asked my HV at the time who enigmatically said 'eight years ago I'd have been telling you that you must put her to sleep on her tummy...'.
mama2b5, sorry DH is refusing to 'be used' to help... DP would be only too happy to oblige, but the bump has become so low and big out front that we are now struggling a lot to make it work - certainly can't get close enough for it to have any impact on cervix, IYSWIM . Both of us a bit fed up about it actually and looking forward to a couple of months time when we can hopefully start to resume a slightly more normal sex life!
fifi, I've been getting calls and texts saying things like, 'just ringing to see whether there's a new addition' - my response 'no, and there isn't a new addition due yet' (and under my breath 'stop winding me up, I'm impatient enough for myself as it is!'). I remember it from last time; I'd come home to messages along the lines of 'ooh, you're not answering, you must be off having the baby'... had none of them heard that we don't do confinement anymore!
Anyway, I'm still there with mama2b5, mama2moo and devotion - all sorts of cramping and pains and even the odd contraction that I need to stop for... then nothing for at least a few hours.
DP has succeeded in getting me very het up and stressed today (he's very behind on his admin, which means his cashflow has gone totally up the creek, to the point of me having to put money in his account to cover his standing order to me for the housekeeping - and I'm just not really flush enough myself). He has the most amazing ability to procrastinate, even in the face of what is actually a pretty sticky situation with him being chased by creditors , and tax due in 10 days etc, and it drives me insane! He told me today that he's 'too busy' for me to have the baby just yet, but has gone out tonight for a drink with what is left of his band, to see if they can decide whether to try and replace people who have left or not. Having spent the last 2 whole days 'doing paperwork' and not producing one single invoice (there's a backlog going back to June now) or quote I had to go and have a cry and the idea that he's too busy for the baby to come, but not too busy not to put off a band crisis meeting is too mcuh. So his priorities are clearly Band, Cashflow crisis, baby, actually probably should be Band, Dickarsing around doing nothing all day, Cashflow crisis, baby. So, I'm probably too stressed to go into labour now.
Saw 4 magpies land together in a tree today though, so now I'm convinced it's a boy (stands to reason, what with all this messing about making me think things are about to start on a daily basis, but actually nothing happens at all!)
Sorry for the rant, it's just all this worry about money is really the last thing I need at the moment. We've been here before, many many times, and no doubt we'll be here again, and again, and again; I just wish it wasn't happening when I'm less than a week off my due date, in need of some TLC rather than feeling like I have to do absolutely everything with dd and around the house so he has the space to get on with his work, and really impatient to cuddle my babe.