Thank you SOOO much Cassius. You have helped reassure me It was nice to hear from someone who has met Helen- she is fab and I do think I made a great choice. I loved her at the meet the midwives night and our first meeting so I'm sure all is fine. Our appointment was not only ages after the last one but it was 7.30am- none of us were probably really awake I've been thinking of suggesting some extra appointments too. As we get the the business end, labour feels more real and I have stuff I want to talk about and work through with her now. Probably fine that we saved on appointments earlier and I can cram more in now when it's more worthwhile. I'm looking forward to having an appointment with Nicola too- I really liked her at the meet the midwives night and it will be great to chat to her better. I think Helen and Nicola seem like a good team.
OMG! you made scones!! Helen was raving about how good they were!!! that's surely gotta be you who made the scones??!! LOL! DH saw it as a challenge to make something yummy for lunch bahahaha...but seriously i dont think he could of beaten scones....YUMMO. that is so funny! what a small world lol!

Rory: we are going through 'midwives naturally'...seem to have a lovely team (i havent met one person that i didnt gel with ITMS). i was recommended by a friend who went with them and yeah, it was love at first sight lol (i had met other midwives through other places but didnt get the connection in the same way).
your old OBs comments remind of that bit in the BOBB doco where they show the 1950s anti-midwife propaganda leaflets of the 'dirty italian midwife' lol.

AFM: all going well here. am losing bits of my plug...which is also a new experience for me as i didnt notice it with DD. but the crappy (literally!) news is that DD1 has gastro . sooooo dont wanna get that right now...imagine if it set everything off??!!!! bahahahaha that could be gross! (sorry for the TMI 'image' ).