Birth plan complete, trial run of 'bed-time routine' achieved... still itching!

I've had a few more bad nights with itching - and am feeling very very tired. Yesterday I was prompted to dig out the maternity mats and lie them under the bed sheet just in case as I'd been feeling some quite painful tightenings, which have continued for most of today. Nothing major though.

I had an interesting antenatal appointment with the midwife yesterday. Whilst running through my list of queries and concerns she suddenly realised that if I'd had a pph with over 500ml of blood lost (I lost 600ml) I will have to go to the consultant ward for the baby's birth, so all my questions over Telford or Shrewsbury become academic. I've never been seen by a consultant though, and am completely in the dark about why nobody has mentioned this to me, or in fact why the sonographer at my 20 week scan suggested I'd be fine to go to Telford. Typical. The midwife was quite helpful in terms of discussing the use (or not) of the syntocinon drip and continuous monitoring, and I now have a few copies of my bullet-pointed birth plan in my notes and feel more confident that things WILL BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME. She was very positive that (a) the baby is not large (b) my body will respond quicker as it knows what it is doing and (c) I can decline induction, monitoring and syntocinon.

Elizabeth went to bed fine on Tuesday night with Nanny and Grandad looking after her for the first time. I took husband to antenatal yoga, and they gave her tea and did bath/story/bed and we were somewhat amazed that she was successfully down by 7pm. It was quite refreshing to have a night off as we've been doing that routine for two years now! I certainly feel more reassured, but have got a lot more writing to do to ensure I've left instructions for every eventuality.

I've ordered a pram mattress from Silver Cross after completely overlooking the fact that we'd need one, so that is on the way. The cotbed mattress has arrived, and the nursery is looking more geared up for receiving the new arrival. I've packed my bags more properly than I had this time last week, and feel fleeting positive thoughts in amongst the tiredness and desperation. We've had lots of snow, and the interest rate has been cut down to 1%. I've got my appointment at the fracture clinic tomorrow so hopefully I'll be getting the splint off!!! Yey!