Oh no, Lise is right, I don't want to put anyone off!!! I always thought that when I got pregnant I'd work until the first contraction... now I realise just how a) unrealistic that is, and b) how unattractive. I've just done a mornings work at home (tidying up questions that my useless boss should have asked me before I left) and now have 3.5 days to write two essays. It's just all a bit too much really. So my advice to you - don't be put off by my (our) whinging but to be better organised for the last 8 weeks than me and be prepared to take things slowly!!

I too have been truly horrid to my DH, and I do wonder sometimes how any marriage survives pregnancy. Your sex life goes down the swannie, I'm about as attractive as a pot bellied pig, the house is disgusting, my cookings gone to pot, the full range of my conversation is either about babies or horrid (and completely and utterly unlikely) things that go wrong in childbirth, I'm ratty and irrational all the time. And you snore and fart, and get varicose veins on your belly and potentally piles out your bum. (thank God none of the latter) (yet). One of the bits of reading he did actually manage to do was a woman who said she brought on childbirth by having sex three times a day. He's misremembered it as "people in the last trimester all have sex three times a day". Bless him, the sense of disappointment was palpable. If I ever find this woman, I might strangle her.... or just sit on her ha ha ha

I now have things in my fridge with a use by date after the babies due date : )

I just can't wait to meet her ... so near, and yet so far away...