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So, heading home in just about 5 minutes.

@Cherrybee: I hope water and rest calm everything down.

@MaisyMay: oh my goodness! So adorable!

@Cherrybee: sounds like it could be promising!

@Cherrybee: totally sounds laborish to me! Hope when you lay down you get a better idea of what's going on.

@MaisyMay: so adorable! Yay for going home! Did your older LO come to the hospital to meet baby?

@poppygirl15: no not weird at all. I went until 41 weeks with my first but never went into labor. I wish I had waited another week. Being induced was rough on me, as I was not dilated at all. @MaisyMay: so sweet! Happy to hear your headed home!!
@Cherrybee: what?! Hope rest and lots of water settles things down. It worked for me;) let us know how your doing!!

I got my hair done today, some highlights. It was nice to fix it up before baby comes because I know there won't be any time for it for awhile. It took 3 hours! I have a lot of hair :0

@jh524: I have a hair appointment next Saturday,just a cut, but she blocks off 3 hours for me when I get color too lol. Remind me, are you having a c section?

@jh524: Good idea. It makes all the difference when you've got a new baby when your hair looks nice!

@poppygirl15: I'm with you! We still have a fair few things on our to-do list, including washing the car seat and installing it. We're not ready yet baby (and I'm having a sweep tomorrow, agh!).

Well, I had a warm bath 8pm and the cramps and back pain went away completely. We sat on the sofa to watch TV and, by 10pm, they were back. I managed to sleep okay though and, as at 8am, I feel fine - but I haven't got out of bed yet, so we will see!

@JennyLayneAZ: yes it's scheduled for Monday the 11th in the morning.
@Cherrybee: how are you doing today?
@poppygirl15: oh I still have lots of cleaning to do, install car seat, pay bills, and more more more

I'm so excited this week is finally here!! Hubby gets home tonight and Monday starts his paternity leave. So thankful he can stay home and help me for a few weeks. MIL comes into town on Saturday as well as my parents. MIL will stay for a week to help us. I've been going crazy wanting to prune my plants for spring but we still have snow! It's driving me crazy but I'll have to wait after baby i guess and let my husband do it. I have a green thumb, I love being outside fixing up my plants, garden, etc. anyone else? We had a super hard winter but I will be much happier when all this white stuff melts!!! I was outside yesterday trying to undig a plant and was thinking people prob think I'm crazy. This huge preggo lady shoveling the snow off her plants!!?? Yep. That was me.

@jh524: I love gardening as well. Some of my early spring bulbs are starting to come up, and it's exciting! I can't wait to get out in the garden in the next few months with my LO by my side and get some work done. I haven't touched much yet, but there isn't much I can do until late April when the ground warms up. What do you plant? I've had a small veggie garden in past years and I'm not sure if I should continue it this year, or just make it smaller.

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: Hooray for getting stuff done! I'm probably in the minority here, but I only get my hair cut every 6 months or a year or so. If I go past next week, I might try to find another way to pamper myself though.

@Cherrybee: I hope you are feeling better today.

@MaisyMay: I hope your first night at home was a good one.

10 more days for me, 11 until my induction. The house is mostly clean, or clean enough for me, baby laundry is done, padcicles made, and I might make some lactation cookies later today. But now most of the baby prep is done and I am just waiting. I'm kind of glad I'm working next week, or I think I would drive myself crazy being at home all next week, waiting.

I have been getting more constant BH contractions (I think). I've been reading that this is a good thing, and that labor is near. Has this/ is this happening to anyone else? I have my prenatal appointment on Tuesday and I kind of hope she checks my cervix this time, even though it is uncomfortable. She didn't check last time. But I'm not very hopeful that anything is opening up down there.

Having pretty regular contractions here, I think this is it! Every 8 min or so now. Waiting to see where they go from here...

@mamabolt: oh my goodness! So exciting!

@mamabolt: sending good vibes your way!

Car seat safety from my fire department:

- don't use backseat mirrors
-put loose objects ie umbrellas in drawstring gym bags and secure them with bunny cords attached to the seat hardware
-straps should have no slack- passing the pinch test means no pinch!

To get the proper angle for my carseat the fire inspectors used a pool noodle. Anyone else use a noodle?

@Mrs. Lemon-Lime: yes the fire guy used a pool noodle for our seat last time. Glad you reminded me of that! Why no backseat mirrors?

@auggiefrog: thanks!! I cut lavender bundles in the summer and sell them. It's a fun way to make some extra cash:)
I llove raspberries but actually just ripped out 3 bushes last summer because they got out of control. But we planted the bushes next to our house, south facing. I would suggest keeping them away from your house lol !! I transplanted them off our property a bit so it'll be interesting if they took this year.

@jh524: for tomatoes, have you tried planting them in tires? My dad did this one year and when it was about Friday time he built a cage of 2x4 and plastic sheeting, would hang a mechanic's light in our at night. It was totally low cost and easy but he had fresh tomatoes through January that way. This was when we lived just south of the Oregon border, so it got fairly cool.

@mamabolt: oh my goodness! That is crazy! Congratulations! Can't wait to see a pic!

@mamabolt: Damn girl, that was quick! You are amazing! Congrats!

@mamabolt: wow, congratulations!! Hope you're both doing well!!

@mamabolt: Congratulations! What wonderful news! So quick!!

Okay.... So the weird early labour/feels like food poisoning and period pain mixed together feeling came back this afternoon and persisted all evening. I've had a couple of quite significant contractions (??? I think) but they're mostly just uncomfortable and not at all regular. Its not even possible to time them because I can't define when they start and stop, mostly - its like waves of gripeiness mixed with the usual Braxton Hicks type feelings. I thought I needed a huge poop (sorry) but then I did one and the feeling never went away. I'm sure I'm just being a huge drama llama!!! I'm in bed now and they seem to have stopped again so we will see what happens at my doctor's appointment tomorrow!

@mamabolt: congratulations!!! That was quick! Welcome Henry!