Impressive positivity Cake, those rats won't know what's hit them! I must say, on day 1 you're already blooming!
Awwww Meconium that's so sweet!
Thanks for the reassurance everyone, this really is a great thread! I'm staying positive, and many thanks to Golden for reminding me that I'm supposed to be enjoying the excitement of this stage!! There is a part of me that is soooooooooooo excited I'm grinning like a lunatic at strangers in the street (esp anyone with a bump or a child!). Mostly though I've been head down and viewing this whole week as some kind of endurance test!
I'm going to keep up the daily poas until my booking in appointment on Friday, and I'll keep up the super cautious minimal activity until then as well. After the booking in appointment though I am officially going to consider myself fully confirmed as preggers and start enjoying it!! I'll also tell my Dad at that point, he may be a worrier but I think he'll be really chuffed as well.
The SWI stories all made me chuckle! I read that doggy style is supposed to get the swimmers into exactly the right place as well, but we had significant "sloshing out" problems with that position! In the end we stuck to good old missionary, and very romantically after the post-swi cuddle we'd do an awkward little manoeuvre where I managed to close my legs before DH pulled out. It's all passion and seduction in the Scream household! 
I think it worked though, because almost none came out, and I'd then stick a cushion under my hips for half an hour or so (we took to watching tv in bed straight after swi). Of course this just meant that loads came out when I got up afterwards! I think it gave max time for the athletic swimmers to get on their way though!
One last point, I just used Conceive plus from Boots, not Pre-seed. However I didn't conceive the first month of using CP (unless I did have a chemical pg - which I still think is likely) so maybe I should have got some pre-seed!