Hello ladeeees.... sorry about going awol again, dh keeps hogging the computer at home so I have to wait until I'm at work. Don't worry, I've requested a netbook for Christmas!
Congratulations jumping on the birth of Ffion!!! Lovely name, I hope you're all doing well and are both happy and loved up baby-wise How exciting to have our first baby!
Bubble I hope you get your +opk so you can start bding soon, Christmas is always a good time to conceive (ds was conceived at Christmas ) All that booze....
Irish great to hear about your bd-fest... don't worry about sharing tmi... I've done tons of that, and you'll be getting the whole gory story when dd finally arrives too!
Blue glad to hear you've been allowed to go on a bit longer with your pregnancy... am I reading it right, they'll let you go to term, and if no baby by then they'll do a section?
wasabi I hope the decorating's going well and you're managing to rest up occasionally. We've pretty much done all we're going to do, still waiting for some furniture. For some Godforsaken reason, dh arranged for a wardrobe to be delivered at 6am this morning, hopefully everything else is coming at a civilised time. We've finally succumed on the painting front and are getting a painter and decorator in to do our spare room, I really can't face it, and dh is so frustrated at his apparent lack of diy skill!
suzi great to hear you had a good 8 week scan, although you're more like 9-10 weeks now!!! It feels soooo good passing each milestone!
sunny I hope you're feeling a little less foggy and the docs have sorted out your thyroxine. How lovely for you to already be feeling your baby... it took me aaages this time, nearly 22 weeks!
Issy I hope your bp is behaving itself and things are ok with you. I've had terrible heartburn too, you must tell me if you discover a fab remedy that doesn't involve nasty chalky minty crappy sweety things (can you tell I'm fed up of Rennies? )
Anyone heard from Rip? She must be due very soon!
Well my bruises are fading, but I'm still in quite a lot of pain. Getting up and sitting down is still hard, I look like an old crone gingerly lowering myself down! I think I've got a few more weeks of pain to go through, considering in over two weeks I don't think it's eased much at all.
I saw my consultant yesterday to discuss "modes of delivery" (supppose DHL is out of the question??) Anyway, she was trying to gently persuade me to go for the vbac, and I do see her point.... but I also still think I have lots of valid points, so we've agreed to a compromise... if I go in to labour spontaneously then I'll try the vbac option, however as I was dead set against an induction, I'm booked in for a cs on 31st December, so someway or other, dd will be born in 2009!
So it just finally occurred to me I really ought to get a hospital bag packed, or at least get a few things ready to put in one... I don't have anything sensible like maternity pads or stuff like that. I do however have a large box of chocolate biscuits I got on BOGOF in Waitrose which I'm planning to smuggle away from dh and slip in to my bag!!! Well, you've gotta get the essentials right haven't you??
Hope everyone's fine and dandy, I'm demob happy because I've only got 5 more shifts at work. TTFN xxx