Things
As you may know Janey has a fairly advanced case of the pregnants. We're halfway through a 4-session pre-natal course, which has been pretty useful so far. Especially since actual labour seems to be quite different from what you might gather from movies and television. Firstly, you don't have to go into hospital immediately when the labour starts. Especially for a first pregnancy, it takes hours before the contractions are close enough that you really need to go anywhere. They recommend if the contractions start at night, just stay in bed and worry about it in the morning because you need to save your energy. Also, the water breaking very rarely starts a labour, that's more likely to happen at the end of the first stage (contractions, cervix dilating, 10-12 hours (!)) and at the start of the second (pushing!). Last night we learned about all the things that can go wrong! Joy! We're with a birth centre, which means you work with a team of midwives, no doctors, and they try to give you as natural a birth as possible. You get transferred to a medical ward if you want an epidural or there's complications or anything.

Anyway I got the study and bedroom painted over the weekend. It's not the best job in the world but it's probably better than the one I painted over. It took all weekend so I haven't been able to put the furniture back yet (we didn't get back from the course last night until after 9). Tonight we go back to the hospital for the regular checkup but should be back in time to at least vacuum up and move the major stuff (bed, drawers, desk).

So the shuttle landing got delayed by cloud, right? And one of the astronauts, Andy Thomas, was born in Australia. So today's newspaper headline? AUSSIE SPACE DRAMA!!!!!!!