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Date: 29 June 2007 15:23:44
I guess I now have no excuse not to post since I've been at home for weeks and still no baby. Maternity leave is a wonderful thing. I've slept a lot, made a lot of lasagne and had lunch with lots of people. Being able to sleep in the day has given me the energy to go out in the evenings so my social life has also revived temporarily.
All that is about to change. I'm due on Tuesday - eek - but I suspect this little one will hang around for a while.
Meanwhile I have been disturbed by the buying orgy that seems to go with having a baby. I have been relatively strong and tried not to buy things we don't need - but did catch myself hormonally sobbing because we had a second-hand buggy for our lovely baby rather than a bugaboo like all the other people at NCT. The baby will be fine in the buggy, which folds up beautifully small and is in very very good nick - and in the end I bought it a new lambskin to line it with as a compromise, which made me feel much less mean. Everything else is now as ready as it can be before little one arrives I think.
we've had one scare when I was sent to hospital because the midwife was worried about "accelerations" on the baby's heartbeat. After two trips to the Maternal Assessment Unit at Kings (quite a fraught place- two pregnant women nearly came to blows over the last chair at one point), the midwives and doctors concluded that our baby is just "very, very busy and active" - which does not bpde well for the calm sleepy angel I was hoping for!
Now we just wait. I guess... and keep very very busy so we don't get impatient. Anyone want a lasagne?