Stay where you are!

This baby is on the move - and in the wrong direction if you ask me. Having been in the same 'head down, back away from my back and down the left-hand side' (i.e. perfect) position for weeks on end, I am now getting a bottom (or is it a head) poking about on the right side of my tummy with little limbs of some sort down the bottom where the head's supposed to be! Bugger. Let's just hope the little one is playing about and will settle back down in the next few days. It was incredibly uncomfortable last night which doesn't bode well...

Plus we're meeting a doula tonight - the only one in Bristol who happens to be free for our due date! I hope we like her. But if it's a breech and an elective C-section, I'm not sure we'll be needing her services. Who knows... appointment with midwife on Friday should confirm where babe is lying now. I just want to meet this little person now, find out what kind of bits it has and get on with it. I am sick of being pregnant!

One incentive I have to get back to being a normal size again (if that's possible...) is a Boden order on its way. Pair of cords and a summer skirt, both size 12 and both lovely. I WILL be wearing them this summer. Boden to me is like Internet porn must be to some men - completely addictive! N often finds me poring over the sales pages late at night even though I've checked what's there dozens of times. In fact, I feel a session coming on now...

Before I indulge, an update on the making friends front. I am receiving a lady for tea tomorrow afternoon! She's from the antenatal class and also has a little boy already - she's a northerner with a great sense of humour and hopefully we can be new baby pals. Very sweetly, she's offered to step into the breach (or is that breech?) on the O front if I ever go into labour naturally!

More on doula, baby position (or lack of it) and new friends soon! And at some point, perhaps this blog may contain content which is of more intellectual interest to you discerning readers. Come to think of it, perhaps not. But I have just finished a great book - Hilary Mantel's Beyond Black which is a modern-day ghost story and brilliantly written. Funny and creepy at the same time.