Hey all, really hard to keep up (and still cannot type without discomfort due to carpal tunnel).

Congratulations Lairdoz on Thomas! What a great birth story.

Possums, great news about your scan!

Mindhugs, that nausea sounds severe and of course humidity would make it worse. I hope it eases soon. I found eating constantly helped (refined carbs, of course), and not becoming too tired.

Oneday, just wishing for you that time speeds by until your scan. Early in my pregnancy, I had left-side ovary pain and lots of brown bleeding and definitely thought it was ectopic. I guess, there's a lot of info online to torture you. I would just create a small space each day when you practise relaxation, and if you worry the rest of the time, fine, that's how it's going to be for now. It will change.

Sorry for no more persies (it's the hands: my fingers feel like frankfurters boiling in a pot of water, about to split!).

AFM, I am 10 days past my due date and will be induced, like it or not, on Monday. Thank God, baby is still thriving and I don't have any problems (well ... emotional, as always, and very sore legs/hands). So, I've had acupuncture induction which was half an hour of pain (produces pretty decent contractions, but sadly these faded pretty quickly). I have another session booked for tomorrow - cannot wait!! In case it's not obvious, I have become pretty down. I don't really feel like leaving the house. I feel like my body has failed (again). My brother and SIL, my DH's SIL and my German host sister have all delivered (on time) in the last 2 weeks. I know it's crazy, but I feel like something is going to go wrong now, and I won't get a baby after all. The last 2 weeks feel like a microcosm of the whole IVF/infertility years. Also, I am absolutely sick with fear about having to start labour on a drip with a monitor in a hospital. IVF didn't work for me. What worked was rejecting what my doctors told me and demanding a lap for endo, having that endo removed and becoming pregnant through sex about a month later. I just have no faith in doctors, and a lot of hostility towards them, to be honest.
Anyway ... I know that I'm all out of what with perspective and so forth. I am SO luck to be having this chance to have a baby. But you know, even at nearly 42 weeks pregnant, I still think of it as "a chance". I see the baby's feet poking out at my ribs, and I still think that nothing is guaranteed.

Also, for the record, this particular web site (Belly Belly) makes induction sound criminal if you do it by choice and downright dangerous in any case. It's incredibly unhelpful and stress-provoking for mothers who are being told that they have no other choice. It makes me really mad, so I guess I should write to the web people.

Sorry for the rant ladies.

Take care all and next time I write, I hope I'll be a little sunnier.

WW