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I am subsiding towards the birth.
Why is it that when you are preparing yourself mentally for something and trying to reassure yourself, there is always something that does just the opposite in the papers? For instance, take the other day. I settled down after a long day of doing inductions, going into London on the tube [not a pleasant experience at 8 months pregnant and I’m so glad I don’t have to do it daily this time round] and a long walk uphill, to read the paper only to open it at page three and find a huge article with a headline saying something along the lines of mothers more likely to die in childbirth in the UK than in Albania. I read the first few paragraphs. You guessed it. The reason was partly due to the increase in "older mothers" [although it is, I am assured, very rare]. I am a very old mother. I feel older by the second. I think I can safely say I am subsiding towards the birth.
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Anonymous says:
I well remember commuting when I was eight months pregnant. The only people who ever gave me a seat were pensioners (usually female). All the fit young blokes and women were too enthralled in their newspapers – funny how they managed to look up, leap up and get their right stop though!