23w 6d

Went to the birthing unit this weekend for a 'meet & greet' and to officially get booked in for my birth there. I was pretty scared walking in, as the reality of it all started to hit me, but the midwife Jo was friendly and reassuring. It's not exactly the gleaming high-tech space I might have imagined, but you get your own private room (unlike on the labour ward, where you have to pay £180 a night extra for one) and there are birthing pools and a bath and a tea-making area, and on a Saturday morning it seemed pretty relaxed.

Plus it's only one floor above the labour ward, where doctors and epidurals etc are available if the need arises. Although (and this may well be total naivety on my part) I still prefer the idea of a birth as 'natural' as possible.

Everything else is fine, the bump is jumping around regularly now and I've chilled out a bit about the frequency of movement. Next midwife appt is at 28 weeks, so not much to do til then but sit around and get fatter.