Kaybee - lol re the "bigger massiver one"! Man they say the funniest things. But I totally second the awesomeness of little boys - even if they can be a little boisterous at times.

Grub - yes!! I'm so excited with all this actual baby talk rather than pregnancy talk. I think I am more excited about this one than I was with DS as I know what great stuff is ahead... once I get past the first few weeks which absolutely killed me last time. We are getting back a bunch of DS's stuff from storage today (he had a lot of gender neutral stuff early on) so I can wash it all up. Awww!!

Lori - What a c**ppy time to be getting hassles over your work. It does sound a little sus, if this woman was so darn offended why would she keep bringing her kids back to you? Some people are just pains in the bum and you'll never be able to please them. In terms of what's inappropriate to be talked about in front of kids, I'm not really sure, as what is a sensitive topic for one person is completely fine for another, but as you said I would have thought as long as you steer clear of sexual/racial etc and anything that is intentionally hurtful or malicious I can't see how you can go wrong. And anyway, I imagine that some of the stuff that comes out of kids' mouths at regular day care that they bring along from home (prejudices, swearing etc) would be far far worse than anything you could've said. Try not to stress about it. As for the pains, they're not round ligament pains? Where you described sounds like round ligament but I've always felt them to be more sharp than crampy.

Is there a midwife at the hospy you can call just to put your mind at ease? Other things in that region could be gas (I get some terrible gas pains if I eat too much chocolate... like now...), appendicitis (unlikely but in that location) or just old regular stretching. But if you're worried, check.

Airline - great to hear you are going well with litlle Lewis!!