Still with the pate, Melissa? You poor thing!
I'd bring a 6-pack of oatmeal stout if I wasn't so sure baby is going to be attached to my boob the entire time. And a big bloody steak!
I didn't know a thing about them until I had my issues with Maisie. I took fenugreek, blessed thistle, goat's rue, and brewer's yeast with her. Not sure any of those but goat's rue helped so I have an insane list of things to try this time. I actually ordered 10 different herbs just today. By the last month of my pregnancy, I'll already be taking alfalfa, goat's rue, nettle, inositol, malunggay/moringa, red clover, and red raspberry leaves. 
The list to start after birth is pretty much insane. I'm just throwing everything at it. I guess I'm desperate to be able to breastfeed. 
If not exclusively, I'd at least like to have somemore milk and a more positive experience than I did with dd.
I may not have my hospital bag packed or the crib bought or the newborn clothes washed, but I have the mentally ill-sized container of oats all ready to go.
But, from what I remember (and my brain has a clever little way of forgetting, I'm sure), it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, given my tear situation. Hospitals give them to you here, but if not there, I HIGHLY recommend a squirt bottle that you can fill with water to squirt on your bits while you pee! Sounds silly, but it really took the sting out of it. And, also sounds weird, but get some toilet paper and press on your perineum during your first few poos after birth. My hospital didn't give me laxatives, but they did give me stool softeners. I don't think I pooed for like 3-4 days after birth (I don't go super often anyway... not that you all need to know my bathroom habits 
). I was TERRIFIED. And it wasn't pleasant, but also wasn't that bad. And I was SO relieved after (mostly mentally)! During my first pregnancy, I was dreading the first poo more than labor/delivery. In hindsight, OF COURSE the labor was more painful and intense (also awesome -- there are lots of adjectives I can use simultaneously, it's not just all pain & badness!). But the poo is still my least favorite memory of it all. Mostly because labor and delivery results in a baby and a poo results in poo. I think the fear of it is what gets me. I seriously don't remember the poo itself being all that horrible. I'm done talking about poop (for now).
I had to re-read because I fist thought BM = Bowel movement, and I was really starting to worry about why you would want her to leak everywhere ahahaha 
See this is what I'm terrified of...having to HOLD YOURSELF while you poo! I don't comprehend how awful it must feel to need to do that! So I suppose I'm going to be ok as I am expecting just a horrific experience, and it can't be worse than my imagination (in which my insides basically fall out!) so the only way is up!
I think it's great that you're taking so much to help your BM production, and I really hope that it all works for you and you are literally leaking everywhere! I do definitely need to read up a bit more on herbal supplements to take to help out, as I'm worried I will have a low supply (no reasoning behind this at all!) so I would like to follow in your footsteps and take preventative measures.
I now have one born every minute on, and the girl just said her last baby was stuck for three days. This is not the sort of thing I need to be hearing
I remember like 6-7 hours after Maisie was born, the night nurse asked me if I needed anything and I said "Yes.... another epidural, please!" No luck! Stingy cow! I've been in th breastfeeding forum too much!
ill definitely have a good read through that.
its just poo lol drink some black coffee that will loosen you up.. and walk alot Xx
And I seriously love that word galactagogues. It sounds so superhero-esque. I also read somewhere not to take them until you know something is amiss. So disappointed that I can't yet work that word into my daily vocabulary. "Pass me my galactagogue would you?" Will definitely be bringing some oatmeal raisin cookies in my hospital bag... oatmeal for the boobs, raisins for the booty I hadn't put any thought into my hospital bag until you ladies started talking about it. I did book us in for our childbirth classes in a few weeks, but that's as much prep as I have done for childbirth so far. And I have been reading some books. I also signed myself up for a breastfeeding class, and have a breastfeeding book on my list of things to read as well. Its the Ina May Gaskin one. Should be suitably crunchy and hippied out for my liking Other than that I am trying not to worry too much about it all. She is going to come out and she is going to eat something. Its inevitable!
It is good that they are being cautious, and you will get extra testing and see the specialist etc. I will be thinking of you and Emmaleigh!! 
I miht go down to Southampton though and check out their mothercare and babiesrus stores they tend to have more. 
