Kyra - Hope you get some rest in all this! Try and take it easy if you can.

Londonmiss - welcome to a 'normal pregnancy'!!!! I remember too feeling bereft of intervention once I was pregnant. After years of operations, injections, drugs, blood tests, dildo cam , 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.
Lovely about your reaction from home! We have already warned the in-laws that this baby is going nowhere near a Wigan Athletic kit!!! I actually crocheted a jumper recently for the baby and only when I was halfway through it I realised that it was in the Wigan colours!!! LOL! Although my FIL did point out that the stripes were the wrong way around. Thank God!!! We have promised them though that my father is not going to get Everton stuff for the baby so they are happy enough with that now!

Smithy - I am still trying to look at your pics but my computer is sooo slow and playing up. Will try again today! Congrats on 31 weeks!

Greenslw - jealous of you getting to dress up and go out!!! A shawl sounds lovely. You will look like Angelina Jolie on the red carpet. Very elegant!!!

Wantbaby - glad you feel a little less stressed. Sounds like things are on track though if your symptoms are the same.

Grub - I love the RLT too!! I think I might step it up to two cups a day now! 6 cups is good in the last weeks though so go for it!!!! Hopefully grubbybub spontaneously begins labour before you need induction!

AFM - my blood pressure is going up. It is not too high for your normal person but it is rising for me with my usually very low pressure. DH is angry with my family for stressing me out. I spent today sleeping and pottering about town trying not to think about all the stuff going on. I even went into a cafe and had baked beans on toast as a treat! I would normally not do that as we cannot afford to eat things out that we can make at home, but I like sitting in the cafe and even better not having to do the dishes! Simple pleasures!!! I also had fun listening to people talking in there. I love the accent around here and could listen to it forever. Funny to think my little boy may have that accent too!!! There will be a bit of an Aussie accent though from me!!!
The wicked witch.....sorry stepmother, has called my sister-in-law saying she doesn't want anything to do with any of us at all! Funny how she has twisted it around to it being HER decision!! LOL! Have to laugh!!