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As I'm typing this 3:25pm on the 1st of feb, I am to be admitted to hospital at 6:30pm tonight to get things going. My waters broke yesterday and sadly no contractions have started :(

But hey HO!

I too, like you, wanted a water birth, but know that it's not an option now!

So here I am 38weeks+3days, ready to bring my little girl into the world!

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Kate, I'm thinking of you!! And, please don't be scared - I have been meaning to share this birth story for a few days now (but been stuck in a I-hate-January-rut - hurray for February!). I received a comment from Nikki a while ago about Hypnobirthing, so we had a brief exchange of emails at the time. Then a few weeks ago I got back in touch with Nikki to see how she got on. She

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Have I got a treat for you guys!!

Recently I've been chatting to some of the lovely people who have taken the time to write comments on my posts to a) see how they are getting on and b) pick their brains for ideas because I tend to write about what's going on for me right here and now.

I have had some wonderful suggestions back and this particular post comes curtesy of my pregnant, soon-to-be-pushing, friends. Sophie, who is currently 21 weeks pregnant, in particular is interested in hypnobirthing and asked if I could I ask my nephew's mum for her story. Why hadn't I thought of this before? My own birth-story is one of planning something (in my mind, of course) and the opposite happening (here's what I wanted to happen, here's what actually happened) so this is an ideal, positive story we can all take hope from.

Almost a year ago Diane, Rowan's mum, had a

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I've hit the proverbial brick wall a bit this week and it all started after a trip to the birthing centre last Sunday that I've been wanting to write about but struggling to know/articulate how I'm feeling. I'll give you the back ground...

When my brother's little boy, Rowan, was born back in February at home with no pain relief, I thought they were mad! Rowan was Diane's first baby too and after spending some time with Diane and hearing her experience (and also reading the accompanying hypnobirthing pamphlet, which was just up my street as it was nice and short), I did a total u-turn.

What really struck a cord with me from the hypnobirthing pamphlet was that if a woman is frightened her body will actually slow down or stop the progression of labour until she feels safe again. To my mind hospitals can be quite scary places. All my

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I've been on a skivathon! It wasn't intentional, I've got loads I want to write about (I haven't even dobbed Mike in for coming in at 4:30 on Thursday morning yet!) but it's just been a bit manic and then when I do sit down, I'm shattered.

Anyway, despite all the other things I had planned to write about (e.g. I think I might have started to develop carpal tunnel, the generic aches and pains have started, getting ready for my holiday - inc nice clothes, my thoughts on the swim wear I've got - cute DIY baby things I've found, etc.), I've decided to scrap it all because I've been thinking about babies with the arrival of my cousin's (who's like my sister) baby yesterday morning.

On Saturday afternoon I got the call to come and get Jo's little boy, Dylan, who's 4. He came for a 'sleep over' and played

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Well, so much for starting the week as I meant to go on...

This week is all change - I officially start my job on Thursday! I'm sort of excited and certainly looking forward to having my own money but I was really enjoying being at home, doing my own thing. Never-the-less I start on thursday so I have a million things that I wanted to do around the house (things normal people do all the time but not me because I hate it!!) - tidy/hoover/do the washing/clean the bathroom/put my clothes away/clean the kitchen/etc. etc.

I also don't want to stop writing in my blog! I'm enjoying it but I'm worried that when I've been at work all day, the last thing I'll want to do is to come home and write about piles or something. So I want to get a good plan in place and start writing a few

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