Hi all!!
Lani and Grub - I have told everyone that knows me that the doctor has said I will probably deliver at 42 weeks. I sometimes have to make up some interesting reasons as to how he apparently knows,but usually fobbing them off with 'it is a different pregnancy due to it being IVF' seems to work!!! LOL!
Want baby#2 - Welcome! Remember every pregnancy is different so your lack of nausea etc may just be because it is a different pregnancy to your last one. Also turf the books and internet! I actually took a belly belly break in my early days as I found I was analysing everything I read too much. If I had a really big concern like I felt a sharp pain that wouldn't go away for example I would do a quick search on here and perhaps on yahoo answers, get my bit of reassurance, then I would walk away. If I looked at too many sites I would go crazy. Take each day as it comes. Every new day is another tick off the calendar and closer to a new milestone. Good luck!
Smithy - I am going to check our your pics soon! Hope the sickness is abating a bit.
Everyone else Belly Rubs!!!
AFM - Baby is starting to engage!!!! Had midwife's appointment today and he is 1/5 engaged! Yay!!! As he had been lying in the right position for at least twelve weeks I was hoping he would continue being a good boy and stay that way and he has!! I have started drinking Raspberry Leaf tea once a day and will crank it up when I get to 36 weeks. I am starting to dream about the birth now and feeling pretty positive. I am reading about hypnobirthing and psyching myself up about my body and baby knowing what to do. The pubic pain is starting to relieve a little. The midwife said it being really bad recently was obviously him starting to engage.
The family dramas continue. My father just left my house an hour ago after staying for three days. I am waiting for a phone call from him telling me if he has been kicked out of his house on his return. He has more or less decided to leave her. We looked at rental flats around here for him and found out from the council how much pension etc he would get if he left her. Before he came here she had told him that he had to choose between her and me!!! He said that was the final straw. The thing is I never ever in all this asked him to choose me or her. I just asked that he separate us in his life. I told him I don't want her in my life but never said he had to choose. Dad and I agreed that this would be possible and had worked it out that he would from now on visit me alone (which she should prefer as she hates me and hates where we live!!!) and he would continue living as normal with her but I would just be separate. Well her reaction to that was that he loves me more than her and he has more allegiance to me than her and he now has to choose between us!!! He said he spent hours trying to convince her that his love is different for us both and he can love us both at the same time etc etc It is crazy that a father should ever have to explain his feelings about his children!!! Anyway he talked for a long time to me and DH about other issues in his marriage and how he has always complied with everything she wants and she has never ever done anything that he wants and he said he is fed up. So anyway he may be back here in 3 weeks when he retires and will stay with us until he finds a flat. (which selfishly I hope will be before the baby comes!!! ...I still want a baby moon! This baby is going to have to come at 42 weeks!!!)
I had pethadine once when my appendix ruptured... i was in emergency in the cairns base... they have that ceiling that looks like white noodles have been put up there.... i thought the noodles were moving and told my sis and mum "i never knew ceilings could be sooo interesting'' LOL. i still remember the look they gave each other when i said that... classic.
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airline I'm so sorry 
yaya for engaged baby. 
me and cooper happy 31 weeks woohoo ,we are just so happy to be here finally its getting so close now and im bursting with excitment i have 7 weeks to go 
, monitoring, 'bad news bad news bad news' it is difficult to accept that they are just going to let things go naturally!!! I felt dropped by the medical profession. Dumped even!!! Still remember my disbelief at my first antenatal when all the midwife told me to do as my 'care plan' was to eat well and remember to take my thyroid meds!!! What!!???? Surely there was something she could stick up me or poke into me???? Surely she would be scheduling a long list of appointments??? But yes in the early days there are long waits between visits and scans etc. 
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