lottie thinking of you today. Hope all goes well 
tak sorry you are feeling so rough. 
about your mum's comments why are they so insensitive? Mine is a nightmare as well. Do go to your gp and ask for medication. Don't suffer, there is help available :)
My mum is here at the moment. I'm exhausted. Yesterday I managed a boat ride (funnily enough they make me feel better not worse) and walking around a bit. Just complete lack of understanding that right now there is only so much I can eat. Even dh very forcefully said 'she can't eat very much right now' at dinner on Sunday. It was like talking to a brick wall. I got a lecture yesterday and I said I can't cook I can't stand the smells for too long.
Do they think we choose to be like this?!
I got my revenge last night though when she discovered my tattoos that I had done years ago which she didn't seem to know about and nearly had a meltdown 
Speeches about what I can and can't do with my body, be it hg or inking I am impervious to.
Only today and tomorrow morning to get through before she leaves and I can finally put my feet up and start maternity leave properly. I go at midday today as I am at hospital getting some tests done in the morning. Th end I have some other touristy things planned which involve sitting and doing not much and fortunately dh has swung it so he also has the day off and can drive us around.
As an aside, how have others found driving? I can do it in short bursts and prefer to be driver rather than passenger but anything longer than 20 mins or so becomes a real struggle to feel not sick.
We went last night to an information evening at the hospital for the birth and it was good, particularly for dh, but the room was so hot and stifling I thought I was going to be sick and pass out. Had to keep going to sit outside.
Apparently no gas and air available because of the way they administer it can't be turned off so it would affect everyone in the room and not good to have giggling staff!
For those asking long suffering meerka about th c-section they aren't elective here, only done in emergencies. I would have hoped she could class as that but nope. What I was surprised about was you could choose to go general or local. I thought they'd only do local unless there was something dire that needed a general?
meerka they talked about pethidine last night, it's my preferred pain relief but by God they are reluctant to give anything at all. Epidural is the preferred one over pethidine and the clicky iv one but I have already refused an epidural unless it's a medical emergency ie cesarean. I've gone for the other two first if I need it.
Netherlands has 30% usage of epidurals in pregnancy, the lowest in Europe. To give you an idea. Next door Germany apparently is 90% which I thought sounded astonishingly high so need to check what I heard with dh!
There was also some crap presentation from a lady about breastfeeding who started by saying 'well we won't be judgemental but your baby will be so much more intelligent / happy / healthy / balanced if you breastfeed' which dh didn't translate for me till afterwards but I got the gist from her useless slides which had twenty on the marvels of breastfeeding and one on bottle feeding. So insensitive to those of us that don't have an option! Mood I'm in right now I might make a complaint!
Aside from that, insomnia and nausea here even though I'm knackered. I enjoyed some calamari yesterday which surprised me!
meerka sigh. No words, just sympathy and commiserations over the rubbish attitudes to c section here.
oklahoma noooo to jet lag how awful. It's the tired that does it. Terrible for hg.
Jealous that punk will know when it is all over soon! Although I'm definitely getting Braxton Hicks now so hopefully that's a good sign. 36 weeks on Friday so any day after that this baby wants to appear is fine by me!
Sorry if I missed anyone.