Morning everyone! I am so hoping that today will be a far better day than yesterday was!! It wasn't awful, just not to plan!
I went to the MW appt, and she was lovely, but the whole homebirth thing (the way I want to do it anyway) appears to be out of the window. Initially when we discussed HBs, she advised me that there was nothing I needed to do, that they will bring out the kit when I am 36 weeks. This was to include a birth pool which is owned by the community midwife team. I would have to pay £10 for a new sterile liner, but that would be it. Well, I asked her about it, and she said oh she doesn't even know where the pool is at the moment. She promised to have a look but I don't hold my breath on that one. Then she said I need to get to Saturday morning (37 weeks exactly) to stand any chance of the homebirth, which I knew anyway, but that the soonest anyone can bring the kit out to me would be Sunday, if the MW on duty doesn't have too much on on that day. But, don't worry, because if you go into labour before then, we all have the kit in our car. But nothing would be set up in the house as she told me there didn't need to be anything set up, and not to even think about it until 36 weeks! The icing on the cake was that she then followed this up by saying that this is the busiest time of year for them, and that the chances are that there won't be anyone available to come out as they'll need the staff on the delivery suite! Argh!!!!!! I work for the NHS and understand staff shortages, I just wish I hadn't been promised something which seems totally unreachable now!
The good thing is that the baby appears fine, and she thinks I could be in early slow labour, but that it could go on for a week!
Cramps wise, things seem to have settled a wee bit. My back is very achy and sore but nothing much else going on, so maybe I will get to Saturday after all. I think if I do, my priority has changed and I would rather aim for a hospital birth using a pool than a homebirth with nothing ready. I don't know, but I think I've made my mind up on that one!
So I went off to my mum's and did lots of knitting and stuff, then went swimming with DH and the kids. Felt lots better for that. Then when I came home I realised my phone was dead - it's a touchscreen jobby, and when DH took it apart to look at it, it looks like the screen has completely gone bump. At the one time when I need a phone, loads of people are texting me and calling me to see how I am, and if I go into labour I need a bloody phone!! Argh!!! So it totally threw me, and I ended up at Argos at 7.45pm, buying a phone I don't even like just so I've got one. It doesn't take much to get me going at the moment, I was like a bear with a sore head!! Anyway, DH has ordered me a new screen (the wonders of eBay) and I can use this other one as a spare hopefully once my lovely phone is up and running again!
Sorry, I am being all selfish and ranty this morning, I promise I will be better later..... Jack has just come in with his baby (a doll) and asked me if I can put it in his tummy like mine, so I've shoved it up his t-shirt, he's wandered off and said to Archie "look I'm like mummy!" - if I can get a good pic on my crap mobile I will post one, he looks so cute!
Hope everyone is okay this morning, I look forward to being back as usual later on!! Deep breaths!!!
Well so far this morning Tabs and i have done the washing and then we have made Daddy a birthday card and now we are just playing with glitter 
So thats my day with a toddler planned 
I woke up feeling full of a cold so i've had a lemsip and i'm keeping my fingers crossed it doesnt get worse, i don't want to have my baba when i've got a snotty nose and can't breathe! 
