Incoming gigantic post apologies...
Really sorry to hear more sad cat news west 
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What are your hypnobirthing classes like glitter? Sorry to hear you are not totally enjoying them yet :( I have the hypnobirthing book and cd which I FINALLY listened to for the first time yesterday. It is really similar to normal hypnotherapy/progressive muscle relaxation if anyone already has this. First bit is positive birth affirmations which is the woman saying things like "my body is made to do this" "Every surge I see my baby progressing towards me" etc. And the other bit it just the progressive relaxation of each muscle group in the body then the "rainbow relaxation" bit where you have to imagine a mist of each colour of the rainbow in turn which relates to a part of your body and how that will work well in labour. I think the whole point is that when in labour you can relax other parts of your body like your face or chest or shoulders and that in turn will stop you being so tense and help contractions and you progress well.
Linked to this was something at NCT class last night (first one) where the woman cut it down to this: Labour progresses due to the release of hormone Oxytocin (sp) which helps you feel at ease and the contractions to happen and dilation to occur. However there is also adrenaline and if that is released it shuts down labour. She said like if you imagine in a primitive state you are having your baby and a predator was coming the adrenaline would come so you could run and hide and labour would be cut off completely until it was safe to have the baby again. So basically you do not want adrenaline in labour (except for the very very end) as it slows progress. So any panic or tenseness or feelings of not being safe are bad for that reason. Totally liked the logical/physiological way of explaining it anyway thought I would share :)
miggins I feel your pain of the DH who won't get stuff done. Maybe you could box it up like you said but if you still want him to sort it put the boxes somewhere they wont be unnoticed so he will eventually do them, but somewhere that they wont inhibit your plans. They may be in the way for a while but he will notice them too surely if they are like in the hall or something. We have the same problem as one of our rooms is a storage pit and it's easy to dump stuff there and forget. Dh would never tackle that but make one of the other rooms we use all the time messy he will be unable to stand the unusual chaos!!
For any wanting to make baby move more at NCT she said they are likely to be more active when you are breathing very deeply so they get more oxygen. So try some abdominal deep slow breathing and maybe they will start bouncing about to reassure you!
No link to your profile if you mouse over your name ishop... I'm also back aboard the insomnia wagon of utter frustration. I'm sure this is pregnancy related but it's like when I get into bed I doze SO SO lightly for hours and every little noise wakes me up and my brain will not stop thinking. And it doesn't feel like sleep at all. Maybe it's making up for being so foggy during the day and catching up on missed thoughts at night. Either way it just makes me want to hit my head off a wall, get knocked out and get some sleep!!
Your DS sounds too cute needles :) BELLY!
Ugh that sounds like a right crappy combination west feel better soon!
I was washing yesterday too vino, funny you saying about fairy reminding you of your first, the smell of fairy reminded me of newborns too even though I've not had one yet. Tiny little outfits are currently on my pulley so adorable.
I'm going to go out today. Getting a bit cabin feverish. Work has run out and unsurprisingly doing a PhD is really lonely feeling a bit of a recluse and starved for human interaction. Least it's warm and sunny! Have a nice day everyone.