Good afternoon all

Thankyou Maybub

Crumpet ~ I hope that out of all of this that my journey can give others hope, we have been hit by nearly every complication in the book, but have still mananged to keep on going and get this far, a lot of medical intervention and monitoring but it has been worth every second!!!

Awww it must have been lovely to have snuggles with a newborn.... awwwwwww...

csab ~ hope you are going along well hun

Sally2 ~ it was the journey your family travelled that was a huge inspiration for me, if you could all do it we could!

AFm ~ I am back and had some lunch, after being in my OB's office for a couple of hours I needed to eat!

We have reached the end of the road...

My body can't keep going like this, we have no where to go with the meds, on the CTG this morning I was getting 2-3 minutes rest between contractions with all the Nifedipine and Crinome on board

The pockets of fluid we had last week are gone

Growth dropped off further

My BT's from Thursday came back good!

So this is where it all ends....

I have had a top up of steroids this morning, so giving those little lungs an extra boost, especially as bubs won't experience the "squeeze" that DD did.

A C-Sec has been booked, the team of Paeds has been prepped (as there are only two Paeds at NECH who will take on bubs as early and size of Flicker), so both will be tag teaming the care of Flicker and another LO. My Prem Mum buddy who is a week further along will be delivering before me, so it will be lovely in some ways that we are going in together, sad that neither of us have made it to term, but both of us have made it further than our previous prems which is pretty darn special . I am thrilled to have made it to deliver at our private hospital and my OB will be doing the delivery and both babies have been told that they must behave, no transfers

I won't be sharing the day or time, but it is before the week is out ~ so will be keeping you all in suspense

I am feeling a sense of relief now, I have an end date/time and I know how much longer I need to keep going. It has been a long road, but I can't be more proud of what we have achieved, and we should be meeting our take home baby very soon

We have everything in place, I am organised and prepared, I have to keep resting between now and delivery so no running out and about and just take it easy - so nothing new.

I guess that is it, the end of this pregnancy journey is near, making sure I get the last belly shots and spend some special time with DD and DH, and enjoy the squirming little bubba in my belly

I won't be leaving the thread completely I will be here keeping an eye on all of your lovely ladies gorwing some beautiful chubby full term bubbas! Thankyou for being sucha great support for me and I intend to continue to return the same support and positivity!