Ooh, yes - 4 days to go! This is going to be one of the most anticipated babies. Not only for me, and you lot
, and work and family, but also the staff here are all waiting to see what we have. I must get some pictures of them before we go and I've promised to send pics and updates from the UK. I know it's a bit naff and X Factor-ish to talk about the "journey", but seriously...
We were laughing yesterday because I was telling somebody that I have daily routine, even though I'm doing nothing. It goes like this:
7.40 breakfast arrives. Play "guess what I've got today?" as there are often unexpected additions/omissions. Have the only cup of coffee I'm getting now DP is off his feet (love that expression) so have that straight away
8.15 have a chat with the doctor, which usually consists of shoulder shrugging and smiles, although a bit more to talk about lately
8.30 go on the monitor for an hour
10/10.30 have a shower
11.00 have blood taken (every other day)
Catch up on emails and MN
11.45 lunch. Sometimes I get tea, milk and no hot water to put it in, sometimes I get hot water and milk but no tea bag. It's a daily surprise!
Then read the times online, play games, chat with DP for a few hours, stare vacantly out the window until I start dribbling depending on mood and previous nights sleep.
3pm skype family and friends
4pm watch a DVD with DP snuggled up on the bed
4.30 pm Dinner
5pm go on monitor for an hour
6pm DP gets picked up
Read AIBU
8pm watch a DVD and eat chocolate or SIL's gorgeous cakes - yum!
9.30pm read book or AIBU (it's addictive)
10.30 - 11pm go on monitor for an hour
12am sleep
Punctuated throughout is numerous checks on blood pressure, temperature, questions about contractions (none), pain (none), leaking (some), clear? (yes), last bowel movement etc etc, and visits from various bods. Yesterday some student nurses were in so I got extra observations and they practiced putting on the monitor and stuff, which was quite nice.
So that is my day pretty much. I do wonder what it must be like to be in prison where you have no choice about getting out 
Names. Now, this is difficult. If we have a girl she's going to be Jemima. We both like it but it's had a mixed reaction from others. In fact we had loads of girls names we liked so that hasn't been a problem.
Boys on the other hand has got off to a bad start, which is my fault. We went to the Sidmouth Donkey Sanctuary last year and I saw a donkey there called Phineas, which I loved and DP grew to love. And it stuck. So we called the baby Phineas the foetus and both really like the name, but we can't seriously use it in real life. We haven't been able to come up with anything else though that we both like and is passable. DP has a very unusual name, in fact I've never heard it before, so we both like the idea of something a bit different but these days what is different? The latest is Cosmo! And that was going through a list of ancient Greek names I think. But I really like Sam and especially Thomas, which DP's dad was called. So who knows! We certainly don't at this stage. We play this ABC game where you have to go through the alphabet and come up with a name for each letter, but invariably we end up with names like "Findus" or "Dusty" 
What a ramble today! Sparklies, I'm praying for the air ambulance and I've envisaged it much like you. We wondered if it will have to pick up other people on the way or do you get it all to yourself? And do they do drinkies?
Right, I've got to read this breastfeeding manual now and get a little bit prepared. With all this time on my hands you'd think I would spend it reading about baby care but I simply haven't, so am still clueless. I saw a frightening looking contraption on Amazon the other day which is a hands free expressing machine - one on each boob and a big wide strap to hold them on with - hooked up to a pump. It looked like something out of a fetish magazine
. I've got a lot to learn.
Hope you are all well and thank you again for your lovely posts, they are brilliant X