#1 has decided to go away for a few days to see her, well, ex-stepfather is the best I can come up with. I don’t mind her going to see him, he’s not a bad bloke, I just couldn’t actually live with him. The thing I’m not so happy about is that it’s all the way in Gravesend and we’re in Surrey and she is almost 38 weeks pregnant now so the baby could be along at any time really. If she goes into labour while he’s at work (another AA patrol like my hubby), it could take him hours to get back to her, and then it’s an hour back here and another half an hour to the hospital. That’s if the traffic is good.
So she might end up having the baby in a hopsital in Kent.
Or in the back of a Porche on the M25.
I am only her mother, though, not her keeper. Everything will probably be fine. First babies are often late (although she herself was born 10 days early). Even if she does go into labour it’s likely to be fairly long, unless she turns out to be one of these women that’s in labour for about half an hour. If that’s the case, even if she was here she wouldn’t make it to hospital; I am trying to be calm about this. Rational.
But it’s not easy. I’m like a cat on hot bricks right now and it’ll get worse. And my husband was talking about going away camping next week when he’s on holiday. 10 days before the baby’s due. Talk about laugh!
