"I need the toilet!"

Daisy has done remarkably well this past week or so. After trying to get everything ready for the beebee's arrival I took potty training by the horns and decided to just do it and get it done! I'm a very impatient girl and when I want something done, it has to get done there and then. I understand that kids will be dry when they are good and ready but I had been dancing around potty training for quite some time, spending days with Daisy in just her vest running about the house and others without offering the potty at all. How terrible!?

Anyway, I brought Daisy some proper big girl knickers (the sweetest thing to peg on the line!) and popped her in them. She was super happy and has had about two accidents since being in them which is absolutely fab! I am cheating a little with a potty training aid in the form of the Dry Like Me training pads which turn knickers into 'training pants' They where invented by mums Jude and Di and are nothing more than a sticky pad that goes in pants to partially absorb any leaks to save a little mess and embarrassment but leaves the child knowing they have had an accident. They are really a security blanket for parents, without these Daisy wouldn't be flashing her knickers to people in supermarkets and she would have me asking if she needs the toilet every 5 minutes and hassling her. They have left her confident and feeling grown up enough to ask to use the toilet where ever we are, at nursery and has even been dry through the night! So she has one nappy a day (while shes asleep) and doesn't even pee in it which is saving me some pennies :)

The best recommendation I can give to the parent of a potty training child!

Plus Seven.

Day 7. As in seven days since due date and no Beebee.

Everyone has been swarming me like vultures for information on the progress of this beebee! This is what I look like. This is how many days I have unfortunately kept everyone waiting. I am uncomfortable and the meanest woman around to the poor Mr (who could make himself some money if I pop today) which might make up for how grumpy I have been towards him lately :/

 I will lovingly apologise, especially after he brought the Daisy home from shopping and got her to run through the house with bunches of flowers shouting 'I LOVE YOU' 'SMILE MOMMA'

 (he is wonderful.) I couldn't possibly be grumpy after Daisy chose one of my fav flowers!

After a 41 week appointment at the hospital this morning, Mrs Midwife says she is likely to see me back in hospital in the next 24 hours after doing her 'thing' to get things moving. Eek. If not and I go another 5 days its Bristol hospital for me :(
Just as a footnote, I am freekin' petrified of having a beebee. (just so you know.) Me, Daisy and the Mr are such a team and nothing scares me more than the possibility of something changing that.