Welcome zstar - I certainly hope you are here for the long haul as well!!!

Megsmum - oh sweeting - I am so sorry you are not getting a let up with the illness - it is so unfair! I hope you can enjoy the last weeks without any further discomfort - kwym about pulling things - did something very unpleasant with a fast turn from the floor a few weeks back and it is seriously not fun... My poor DD has a full-on snot fest going at the moment and is very unimpressed that mummy keeps asking her to blow her nose and wash her hands and not cough in mummy's face - I guess, as this is my last pg too, I am probably a bit possessive of it.

WTH - kwym about the insomnia - it is probably one of the few things about pg I get really frustrated with at times - esp. when I was still trying to drag to work and keep up with DD and her erratic sleep patterns - I am really starting to realise how much more interesting it will be with a toddler and a newborn and little luxury of just sleeping in or slopping around the house till whenever when you're sleep deprived and BF every couple of hours... - ain't gonna happen this time

As someone has noted - yes, am on maternity leave and yes posts are getting longer - and maybe I need to reign them in a little????? Hmmmm......

Rach - it is beautiful how you honour your daughter with your memory and your emotions - you will always be her mum

Possums and Buliej - thank you for thinking of us - it is really lovely

Hi Meredith - hope you don't feel like you're being peer group pressured into a wig...

Sympathy for the bleeding gums at the dentist - my nose has been bleeding for weeks now - esp. since it has gone cold and dry up her - yes - all the UK and Adelaidean and southern belles are welcome to laugh at that one - I know how pathetic I am with 'cold'

Much good health and good wishes to HannahD, Chappas, Erybery, Easha, Babymiracles, Lee, Pash, Greenslw and all our wonderful support group here

AFM - iron and haemoglobin not quite where I would like them to be so have started on a liquid iron supplement and upped certain aspects of diet - have felt a little run down for a while so it came as no surprise - am on tail end of frantic end of semester stuff, so it happens... DP, DD and I are meeting with our midwife next Sat - so am very excited to finally start getting some focus on our birth and actually embrace the pg in a concerted fashion - have felt a bit floaty about details for a while now. Really starting to zone in on pg yoga which is giving me a lot of relief from the shoulder thing and a good sense of energy - so I suppose it is all happening

Yep - I think this post is scary enough now...
Karen van