back where I belong

10 hours on an antenatal ward waiting for someone to break my waters or even just talk through the options. I wasn't even examined, a baby certainly didn't appear. The wait was accompanied by the "soothing" sound of a woman alternating between contracting and snogging her boyfriend. Eventually I was sent home and I'm back where I belong.

I thought Eve would be disappointed that I'd returned without a (visible) baby but she told me she's pleased I don't have to sleep with the doctors. I wasn't aware that was ever the plan! She gave me a hero's welcome. I was also glad to see my stepdad and my big sister and surely labour is more likely to pick up here than Tameside hospital?! Time will tell.