tomcat, emki, lucky and baking excellent news on your good scans! Congratulations!
sorry I disappeared...I've given birth!! Baby arrived yesterday, 23/10 at 6:10am after a 4-hour labour! I woke up at 2am feeling constipated and having some mild period pains - I thought I'd feel OK after going to the loo but no - they started getting stronger and I had to go to the loo 2 more times. I've read before that this is a sign of labour so I woke up DH and we started timing contractions which came every 2-3 min and lasted about 45 seconds. I phoned the labour ward and told them I have GBS - they said I could still use the MLU so I gave them a call and that's where I ended up at 4am. I was examined, given antibiotics and during the 20 min it took for the drip to go through they filled up the tub. To my surprise, they said there was no problem having a waterbirth (the midwife I've been seeing had said no MLU and no waterbirth), which is what I ended up having - and it was great! As it all happened so quickly, it was quite intense and painful; I had gas and air which helped a lot but as soon as I got into water the relief was immediate; and giving birth in water was amazing. This was so different to my last labour - I had a UTI, couldn't pass urine, I dilated up to 5cm on co-codamol and very gradually so didn't find it very painful but then it all stopped so I had to be induced and was given an epidural. I was in labour for 3 days. Anyway, sorry to bore you with all the details, I'm still in shock that she arrived early (I was convinced I'd give birth early November, I hadn't even written a birth plan) and that it all happened so quickly. I don't know if it's down to the raspberry leaf tablets but if that's the case, they are super effective! We were discharged this afternoon, baby's healthy (we haven't decided on a name yet), I'm feeling well and very happy and relieved (still in shock though!) xx