Hi again all, I typed a reply a few days ago but included a link so it said it needed to be moderated and has obviously yet to be okayed. So to repeat... Thanks for welcoming me back, I didn't realise I had actually gotten around to posting a while ago, thought I'd just intended to... Gotta love preggo brain!
Cricket you sound crafty! I wish I was. I'd love to hand make something for this babe but don't even know how to knit. Maybe I can teach myself via YouTube tutorials or something. I too recently had my hospital backup booking in visit, and although the m/w was polite & happy for me to be having a hb it did just remind me how pleased I am to be avoiding hospital. I was weighed, measured & asked if I'd like to do a GBS swab. Er, no thanks. I don't quite understand the point of weighing & measuring if I'm not going back, it's not like they can monitor it. Anyway, glad that's done and dusted, back to my much more pleasant antenatal care with my mw (which consists of laughing, talking & occasionally having a feel of/listening to baby lol).
Well, I can, sort of, but I hate it. SOOOOO SLOW! Give crocheting a shot - it's a lot faster and pretty easy to learn. Look for instructions that have a video or at least pictures. There are tons of lovely baby patterns out there for free. Crocheting makes pretty girly clothing, IMO, but you can always do a blanket if you want to keep it more neutral. And, late pregnancy is a great time to try it - you're probably getting tired and sore, if you're anything like me, and a bit of time off your feet, making something pretty for your baby, is a nice break! Another bonus - baby stuff is small, so you can finish a project relatively quickly. 
baby is looking healthy and is a total wriggle bum!! just like DD1 was lol. sooooo cute! even if they are just these skinny minny big alien-headed things lol. anterior placenta again and is a bit low but the OB wasnt worried at all. he was very cool and asked me about the state of HB in Australia so then we got into this big convo about the travesty of choosing the wrong path in terms of care for families etc etc (he is a total HB advocate and totally awesome person...if only he lived in Oz lol).
Spinning Babies suggests doing 20-40 "cat stretches" per day - where you go on your hands and knees, and arch your back up, tuck your tailbone and head down, and then release the stretch down back to a flat spine, and repeat. (don't let your back sag down low when you release - it's too hard on it.) It does seem to help, and it can encourage good fetal positioning too.
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