WW, your experience with the GTT sounds nasty. To reassure others yet to have theirs, mine was no problems. I didn't mind the taste of the drink or get a sugar rush or anything, and didn't have gestational diabetes. Glad to hear bub is growing well and head is down.

Juniper, hope your BP is in the normal range and 24 days of work flies by for you.

CK, you poor thing. Those pains sound horrible. Try to take it easy, hey? Your sister sounds like she's being a real cow. Whooping cough is an epidemic ATM so why can't people just do the right thing? We've got a similar problem here. Most family members have now had a booster shot but my brothers haven't and I haven't asked them, and neither has one brother's wife and mother who's from China. I doubt they would have ever had a vaccine against it in their lives. My brother's wife, so my SIL, is undergoing chemo for cancer and I don't want to ask them to get vaccinated or put them through anything else. But I'm really worried about them holding the babies. It's so hard, isn't it? I too was at your comment that you were trying to beat me to give birth. And now I'm laughing because Juniper got a funny look from one of her work colleagues while laughing at your post!

Has anyone written out a birth plan or birth preferences? I just knocked something out today but it's pretty compact as I really only have to cover a spinal or a general caesarean option.