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Two nights of even-less-sleep-than-usual, and running about doing stuff yesterday have taken their toll on me, and I’ve spent today doing as little as possible. Was hoping to have finished the fifth HP before Scratchy goes off to buy the new one at midnight, but not sure if that will happen now.

We went to visit my friend M yesterday; her baby R is about four weeks old and very very lovely. All my lot got cuddles, Barney in particular was very pleased (he likes babies a lot). Did a few errands afterwards, then came home to find a note from the community midwifery manager in the mailbox - she’d been by while we were out. The note said she had “some ideas for the birth plan”…hmm…I phoned her, and had a very frustrating discussion. Despite agreeing with me that there is no point in worrying about the baby’s position until I actually go into labour, she keeps pointing out that none of her midwives is experienced with breech birth. I did say that then she could get someone who is experienced but she just says it’s too late for any of them to do the study day now *sigh*. She’s also quite determined to find fault with the pool I’ve got - first it was “will it be big enough/deep enough?”, then, when she’d actually been in it and found it was, she started talking about heat retention. We’ve done a trial run and it only dropped about five degrees in 12 hours, and it doesn’t take a lot of hot water to heat it up again by that amount, so now she’s saying she talked to someone who had an inflatable pool (”it might not have been the same as yours”) and the sides weren’t firm enough *sigh*. I’m feeling less and less supported by the midwives, and more and more hassled…the old familiar story.

This evening, Scratchy has taken Barney, George and Freddy off to see an outdoors production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Barney is very keen on Shakespeare generally - we examined Twelfth Night in great detail a while back, and it has really stimulated an interest. George is interested too, though more in the storylines than the language and cultural stuff. Freddy hasn’t so far shown much interest, but was quite determined to go with them this evening. So it’s just me and Jack at home, and Jack is currently lying beside me, about to fall asleep. So I should really get off the computer, give him a cuddle, and get on with reading HP5