Still not mum!

[lnr]

So, I'm now running 5 days late and counting. I saw the midwife on Monday and she reckons baby may well turn up of its own accord at the weekend - but all is well in the meantime and there's no need to try do anything to hurry it up just yet. Seeing them again next Monday. Quite happy to continue to potter about and enjoy all this unexpected leisure time - definitely not bored yet.

So what I have I been up to? We bought a new bird table from the RSPB and built it. I've finished the last Wheel of Time book (review on librarything), read a book on coping with starting a family from Relate (review on librarything) and started the next in Tad Williams' Shadowmarch series. I finished my jigsaw. Clare came round for lunch at my house, I took cake round to visit Lucy and Edward, and I've had lunch in town with Cat from our NCT antenatal group (3 of whom now have baby boys - the rest of us are still waiting). The internet did a good impression of being fixed for 10 days, and then broke again, so I've got another engineer booked for Monday (if I'm around!). And today I've done some more baking - chocolate fudge cake (using this cake recipe and this icing recipe) and cornflake cakes (using up the icing, which turned out to be about twice as much as needed). It's all good.

Comments

[ceb.livejournal.com]

Gosh that looks like good cake!

[lnr]

I suspect I should invite you (and other people) to come and help me eat it :)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Wow, your fudge cake icing looks so perfectly smooth and shiny!
Glad to hear all's still well, even if you're still not mum :)

[lnr]

Icing which is so runny you have to pour it rather than spreading it does make for a nice even finish :)

[naath.livejournal.com]

Unless it all runs *off* :( :( I'm bad at icing things. That cake does look scrummy.

[lnr]

I did make a lot of mess. A small advantage of accidentally making enough icing for twice as much cake.

[hoiho.livejournal.com]

Exactly 17 years ago, Small (she's taller than me, now) was running just as late as your bump. She held off for nearly another week, narrowly missing induction.

[lnr]

Aww, Happy Belated Birthday to Small! I'm hoping to miss induction too, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.

[uisgebeatha.livejournal.com]

I am most envious of your glossy icing :O

[lnr]

It has to be about the easiest icing *ever* - though it did drip rather a lot off the edge of the plate.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

You sound a lot happier and more productive than I was at that stage! That cake looks fantastic.

Fingers crossed for spontaneous and not inconveniently timed developments. :)

[lnr]

Thanks! I'm definitely lucky to be suffering from only the minor inconveniences of pregnancy (heartburn, piles, small nosebleeds, etc) rather than any of the more major discomforts! Quite a lot slower than I was mind :)

[tigerfort.livejournal.com]

ISTR research that suggested the "due date" given by the usual calculation as at least a week early, but can't remember where I saw it. (Other than the writeup was done by someone I trusted to both check and understand the statistics.) Funnily enough, it's hard to search for; there seem to be a lot of hits for all the search terms involved :)

As I recall, the explanation was that the "correct" due date was calculated using the mean of all live births - including those that are definitely premature. But almost no-one goes more than a couple of weeks "overdue", because if you're over it's time to induce, whereas one baby that's sixteen weeks early cancels out a lot of those.... And once you recalculated the figures including only non-induced, non-premature (I don't remember quite where they drew the line on premature, but I think it was basically "able to survive without intensive care"), the "normal" suddenly got a bit later.

All of which is basically a lengthy way of saying "don't worry". Also, cake omnomnomnomnomnom. Hopefully see you soon (and sorry to miss you when I was over for CEB's party.)