karen van - good to hear from you And with two little ones I'm incredibly impressed with the thoroughness of your post!! I swear you've managed to cover more than I can ever even remember when i'm posting! lol Great to know that everything is going so well and I love the image of your DH mowing the lawn with two hitchhikers!

kirsten - welcome and congratulations! I your baby keeps growing stronger and stronger and that you can stay in here for the full 9 months. It's very good that you have some answers for what has gone wrong in the past and even better that you know that you can create beautiful happy healthy babies as you've done so three times already. Let this one be the next sticky one for you

AFM the foot is mostly good now, I think the podiatrist was right when he said I had caused damage from too much walking, combined with an ankle roll just before Christmas. Seems the swelling in the joints has gone down and for the most part it's all good now.