Aww sending you labour and zen vibes Turtlejane!!

You're sounding great Aimz! We're nearly there now woohoo

I'm 35 weeks now, and will be looking to start prepping an area of my (very small) house in the next few weeks. Just need to pick out a pool hire package, then to knuckle down and make sure I have everything else I want/need to set the scene
I have my placenta encapsulation all teed up, and think I'm about to lock in a birth photographer too - as long as DH doesn't object. She's very well priced and studying to be a doula as well!

And sheesh, I am more grateful than ever that I have educated myself and chosen to have a homebirth with like-minded midwives! What difference in how I feel after meeting with an Ob at the back-up hospital, compared to my midwife!
All I needed from the Ob was for him to write down in my book that I have no risk factors to preclude me from having a homebirth. Well apparently I should be concerned that I may have another BIG 8 pound baby, and he *could* be posterior and so I would definitely need to transfer because posterior births are longer and more painful and I wouldn't be able to cope... After all that nonsense, he did manage to write down that I have no risk factors, and am cleared to birth at home. So for that I am happy, but geez I feel sorry for those women under his care, who trust in every word that comes out of his mouth :/ If I didn't know any better, I would have left that appointment worried about a very long and painful birth with a bigger than average baby, all prepped to accept a forceps/vacuum/epidural/early inducement/c-sect when the time came.

Luckily, my midwife and I had a laugh at his BIG 8-pounder comments, and her palpation of my belly indicates that for now, bubs is in a lovely head-down anterior position and I am measuring spot-on for dates we chatted about options for if/when I go 'post-dates' and I left feeling confident in myself and my baby!