Kyra - I hope you are ok. I feel for you - it must be very hard once you are waiting for the 'end'. I'm not there and can't really offer any help at all (so you'll wonder why on earth I don't stop at this point , but....) it seems to me that this is JUST the point where you should ask your friends for help. I know you don't want to put them out anymore, and I feel the same way, but I've recently done it and felt a lot better. As you know we don't have a car, and I've been stopped using my bike, so I basically have to do food shopping by tram, which is fine except lugging it all to the tram stop. I recently emailed friends, and said, if you could just take me when you are going, it would be great. And they all said, don't know why you didn't ask sooner and I felt a bit of a pill... I'm sure they won't think you are needy - and if they, if you can't be needy at 37 weeks, well they are rubbish friends!!!!!

Until the day I die I shall be glad I found Belly Belly, and the chance to ask things and share and so on. I think telling strangers can be the most useful thing sometime.. and I hope we're more use than a counsellor

I too have challenges, although more in terms of a daily to do list, and even if I'm only studying that day, I always one appointment. So even if it's (to use Lise's list) that I will work until 10am and then I will pluck my eyebrows... (mine are so pale, I could pluck mine off entirely and I bet no one would notice but that's a deviation....)

Cravings - capers, coconut ice, raspberries, hardboiled eggs with sweet chilli sauce all over them. Hot toast with more butter than a dietician would like.... oh I'm hungry now!

And now for a TMI. I'm getting a little, well, moist... down under.... this is mildly disconcerting. Am I normal or just a gloopy/ sweaty/ leaky bucket of wierdness? (this isn't meant to sound like a bad porn movie!)