@Em39ma oh wow that sounds fun. My dog likes to roll randomly but I presume it's in cat wee as there's just a smell and no visible stains.
@SRK16 def keep an eye on the swelling. Swelling is really common and often nothing to worry about, but sudden swelling can be a sign of pre eclampsia.
I took my rings off months ago when it was warm. I was worried I'd swell in the heat and they'd get so tight I'd have to get them cut off so I decided to "get out in front of it" haha.
@cattaxi ah a nap, that's sounds glorious. I'm hoping to enjoy some of those this week as I am now officially finished at work until Sept 2020!
@HJWT2 hope your dd had a lovely birthday. I'm lucky that dds is at Xmas so we'll be settled by the time I have to deal with it. ahh braxton hicks. I'm getting them a lot at the moment. And baby is constantly moving. I'm not convinced that it's settled in head down as the movement seems so much that its got to be flipping and twisting in there. Wish I could tell myself what position it was in.
Ive looked into booking a cleaner and am waiting for them to get back to me, just to do a one off clean of the house (like a 6 hr job to do bathrooms, kitchens, hoover, mop and get rid of the cobwebs that dh hasn't hoovered away yet after weeks and weeks)
I feel a bit lazy tbh getting someone in, but if I do it, my hips are going to be in agony and then I'll sleep even less. Plus loads of people have cleaners every week and we don't. I've just not been able to keep up with it all and dh either won't do it well or doesn't want to and he's got a lot of other things I need him to help with like food shopping etc so don't want to tire him out when he still works in the week. He deserves a break too before the onslaught.
Once I hit 37 weeks I might risk some bits as the day before I started labour last time I was on my hands and knees washing the kitchen floor with my mum.
I think she wants to come up and clean this time too, but shes been really unwell and the hospital have been doing scans to try and find out what is wrong, but can't find anything yet. I'm a bit worried that it's something really bad and they are going to find it too late if I'm honest, but I'm trying to be positive about it.
Ive told them not to come anyway as its a 3 hour journey for them to visit and I don't want them coming to help clean, to then go home and then come back a few weeks later to visit when baby arrives.
I've also done my shopping list for this week which contains a lot of mince and chicken. I'm going to do cottage pie, chicken pie, lasagne and sausage stew for teas this week and plan to make extras for the freezer ready so we at least have a few days of food.
So that'll be what I'll be spending my first week of maternity leave doing, batch cooking and washing up afterwards!