csab - Things are rather interesting here at the moment... I've put it all down below the persies...

Butterfly - HUGE CONGRATS darl! Such a good weight too I hope he can come home to you very very soon!

afm - I started getting contractions last friday night, lasted for about 5 hours or so coming every 5-10 minutes, so not particularly regular, but very worrying.
We just monitored them and they never got closer together or more regular, so I just tried to relax and breath through them and eventually they went away.
Since then I have had an almost constant lower back ache, *TMI* very loose bowel motions combined with a lot of pain, pressure and tightness down in my pelvic area which the Maternity ward thought was Gastro as I was also rather queasy at the same time but I have since determined that it is MS coming back again as I have been queasy every morning and evening this week so I haven't been able to see a midwife for monitoring because they are concerned that I'll give all the new babies on the ward gastro , and I have also lost my appetite, so not eating much and everything that I do eat makes me queasy but I force myself to eat because Bub needs it.

Oh and bub has dropped and I am feeling that really uncomfortable feeling that I got when DS started to engage... not big enough to be a bowling ball between the legs, but it's definately larger than a cricket ball

So yeah, I have had a very interesting week here, currently getting prodded with fists down around my cervix followed by headbutts as Bub has the hiccups, and then there's the feelings like it's all about to burst open without warning too, and I'm getting a really bad feeling that something is wrong with me (not bub thankfully, deep down I KNOW that bub is ok, it's just me that I have a bad feeling about).

Have my DS's slightly early birthday party tomorrow, which my own father won't be coming to because we haven't been on speaking terms since he pretty much walked out on my stepmum a little over a month ago and he's already planning on starting another relationship and he thinks it's more important for him and my little brother and sister to go to my cousins birthday party tomorrow (which we weren't told anything about and apparently it had been planned and the invites sent out months ago and we didn't receive a single call, txt or letter about it, otherwhise we would have changed my DS's birthday party to NEXT weekend grrr! my family is driving me nuts and stressing me out to the max right now), so have to get that out of the way and then I can give in and cry and insist that I get seen my the midwives up on the Maternity ward.

Must go, have some things to do, hope everyone is going ok!