Happy Friday everyone
@Sah2241 glad you got that sorted. (Looking for some positive side) at least this means that if something does actually go wrong, a crowd of medics is likely to descend, which is better than them not doing so and fobbing you off with a 'don't worry it will be fine.'
@CL1982 hoping you are starting to feel the benefit of coming off them. I know people who have taken them throughout and some who have stopped after the first trimester. It's quick to do a blood test for progesterone of you are worried your levels are getting too low.
Yes, incompetent cervix doesn't sound like an entirely neutral value judgment but it's just a name for a cervix which might give out early (unusually for medicine not directly using Latin or Greek: although competence has a Latin root). It's claim to fame is that Anna Bates the maid had it in the final season of Downton). The glamour!
@CL1982 I hear you re big babies. My younger brother is 6'4 and his wife is 6' . Both children so far have been big even though early (getting bigger each time) and number 3 is due soon. Scans suggest baby 3 is pretty big....
Re planning I'd suggest: Do what feels right for you when it comes (and have back up plans just in case). The amazing thing about labour is that your body does inherently know how to do it and gives very specific instructions to you as to which way up to be, what to do when etc. Obviously things can go awry, which is why it helps to have help at close hand to deal with those, the placenta, and if you want to have options to reduce pain, but you seem like you have your head screwed on and will have contingencies available and red lines clear.
Like @SS81C one of my recurring nightmares is of an unintended home birth. The pph I had at home was not fun. Even though we live literally opposite London ambulance hq the ambulance took 35 mins.
On that happy note I hope you all have lovely weekends. Enjoy the wedding @SS81C