The PESH deli – how extraorder, we're all in pig

[Muser]

We smacked our ovaries and sent them to Madame Bovary, and now we're in pig. MSDP ends here, just waiting for the MAD lot to join us.

BESH BAYBEES
dontrythisathome, girl born March 25.
Cheggers, twinz girlz, born April
FannyPriceless, boy, born June 8
CurlyCasper, girl, born June 24
CUNextTuesday, boy, born June 29
Skihorse, boy, born 1 July
Carrots, boy, born July
IggyPiggy, girl, born July

UPDIFFED
Cosmosis, the baybee that is never going to come out, due August 22
backinthebox, thinking of inventive uses for courgettes, due September 6
skatergrrrl, the one that overtook the rest, September 1
VAG, lives in De Nile, due 19 September
silversky, the biggest farter, due 18 October (first baybee)
Honeymoo, 3 wees a night, due October 31 (boy)
okiecokie, self-confessed control freak, due November 6
SomethingSuitablyWitty, benelux babe, due November 14
ReginaMonologue, knows when all the sales are, due November 20 (boy)
maswera, jungle hottie - due December 11
PollyPoo, wants to name her baybee after the dog, The New Messiah is due December 25
ChoChoSan "and Lo! The lord did resurrect her petrified womb" due 31 January
CluckyKate, hatching an egg - due February 2
Perfect Dromedary, defied medical science - due February 24
Ginhag, reckless cake-carrier, due 28th Feb
Muser, I threw up behind a tree - due February 27
Medee, finally over the Haribo craving, due March 12
Casserole living on hula hoops - due April 10
MrsFC, joining whether she wants to or not

ooh, how exciting, Kate!

Scan is now 20+2 instead of 22+6, so much happier. Decided to do it by phone, rather than wait for my appointment after my holiday, so that is a relief. Hopefully, it won't be an issue anyway, but I'd like the time to know - besides, it is 2 weeks sooner to see my baby again.

sorry, Cho, not Kate!

cho! Moving baybeeeee! WHAT DOES IT FEEL LIKE? I'm still weeks away from feeling Berwhale move and it is annoying me greatly.

I can't remember what it felt like any more Make the most of it girls...

Poor Cunty. Am assuming that the presence of a RL screaming pooing vomiting baybee makes up for it? Oh, hang on...

It's just everyone says it feels like butterflies in your tummy or being hungry and it's NOT helpful. Enquiring minds need to know what to expect.

Oooooh, how wonderful, Cho! It must feel absolutely magic

Everyone keeps talking about mattresses and whatnot and I'm utterly confused. Where do people get all this info from?

Medeecation, could you pop on your spangly leotard and tap shoes and hoof it over to the Palace? Only HB has a stonking hangover and I'm sure a bit of tap would perk her right up

PS Glad you got a better date for your scan.

She's baaaa -ack :

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1043039-Very-worried-after-huge-fight-with-husband-could-I-have

Read it and weep. Menkul to the power of menkul.

god, just wait till the baby arrives, then she'll know what a rough patch is

I miss baybee in tum too, cunts. But how lovely for choochoo! IIRC I wasn't sure if it was just rumbles in the early days. Then it felt like there was a sparrow trapped in there, beating its wings softly against me. Eventually a big wiggly, squirmy thing, that is the same on the outside. But with accompanying loud noises

Oh blimey - whatever next

Fucking troll. couldn't help myself.

It's so lovely cho - enjoy it!!! I'm at the point now where I can feel difference between hands and feet and have been assured head is down by scan and manual poking about. The spinning babies website is briliant at helping you work out how they are positioned. Spent most of last night on hands and knees trying to flip him back to lying on left side (apparently this is best position to start labour in) and now I can feel feet at top right of bump and hands at bottom right of bump so it worked! :)

silver yep got mattress protector for cot and 3 lots of fitted sheets. Only got normal sheets for moses basket since it probably won't get used for that long anyway.

Right, PESHs, give me some incentive to sort my life house out. I have:

The Mumsnet Guide to Pregnancy

Celtic Baby Names book

two generic baby names books

newborn girl clothes (inc Next, Junior J, Pumpkin Patch baby gros, vests, outfits, scratch mits...)

The Best Friend's Guide to Motherhood book

The Baby Owner's Manual (good gift for man, but mine has not touched it. He's not really the reading up type)

Another pregnancy manual dished out at my private scan.

A fish tank net (for anyone considering a water birth. This arrived day before Lana was born but has never been used. Still in its wrapping).

Probably plenty more to come but all of the above will be sent, free of charge, to the first takers. If you want the girls stuff but don't want to reveal gender of child, message me privately and I shall keep me mouth shut. Message me on FB.

I haz sent you a msg baggsying (sp?) summat. Not the girl's stuff, as, of course, don't know the flavour yet! Feel like a right scrounger now

not scrounging at all, we ESH chicks like to share. If we can pass on OPK sticks and scribbled on diff tests, we can certainly share great tomes of advice

and clothes, and shoes (what do you mean noone wants to hand over their Jimmy Choos?), and husbands...

Ok, so that pushed it too far

You can have my husband. He's stressed and rubbish at the moment, and I don't want him. He's quite nice and clever and funny, but he really needs to be housebroken.

How "girly" am the girls stuff, Casp? If is unisex at all, I wouldn't mind baggsying some of it. But NOT YET! Am not having any baby stuff (bar baby monitor that a friend gave me) in the house until the 20 week scan is done and dusted.

I'm definitely up for "husband" swap - although tbh I think most of us would prefer "husband-riddance" whereupon we send them off to a remote island for a week. Or six.

honey remarkable self-control wrt risotto - but she's opened herself up for a dog/rabies reference... ifyouwouldbesokind!

ok, so the swap won't work if we are all trying to get rid of our other halves

drom i'm afraid it's very girly stuff. I'm keeping the few neutrals we have at SFF's request in case there's another child. But I'm not ready to think about that yet.

we set out not to have a pink princess, but gifts and donations would suggest otherwise. I only bought a few white and lilac basics. Most came from Squeaker's slighter older, more affluent, very pink cousin

Clucky my previous hospital notes took about 4 weeks but they apologised for the delay and dud not charge me because of the delay. You just need to write to the medical records officer and they will send you a consent form which you need to get counter signed and then they will send them to you. Actually I sat for 2 weeks with them still in the envelop scared to open them, but eventually did and sent them straight off again to consultant!

Moo did you scrub the floors while you were down there.

Cho great news on first movements! It is so reassuring. I am slightly worried I am breading a hyperactive child though as this one moves heaps!

Just popping in to drop off the large pan of HOT curry for VAG You know you want it.........

Gin lovely news on the HB front.

Cho how fantabulous to feel baybee moving. drom your time will come - patience

scorps tis lubberly to see you settling in over here, genuinely earning your place. Not gate crashing like me

Right, am off to read that loon-link.

oh my God I have just realised I sounded a bit like Kiki84 then.

ski will pop back and add something suitably cutting shortly.

okie fortunately the cleaner was there to hoover round me. :)

curly I haz some very posh shoes acquired over the years of being a profligate idiot. I actually got some out of the box the other day to say hello. I wonder when I'll ever have the occasion or energy to squeeze my feet in again. Boooooooooooo.

Clucky - go for it wrt the one-off sesh. She is worth it! It took me about 6 weeks to get my notes from hopsital, and that was with a bit of chasing. They are obliged to provide them to you within 8 weeks of taking payment (but they can dither about the payment bit!) Tell them you have a bit of a timescale issue, and if that doesn't help ring the patient liaison service (PALS) - all hospitals have one.

And Gin - if you followed what happened to me, you'll see I intended a very 'I am having a baby in hospital and then scarpering, thank you very much!' VBAC. I had appointments with consultants, consultant midwives - the lot. They were all very pro-VBAC and we discussed things like continuous monitoring (ie me not having it)in detail. I even took my IM to the consultant midwife appointment. Everything was planned to the last detail, but always with the knowledge that once labour starts it could take you in any direction. One thing I was certain on though - was I was not having the baby at home unless it just fell out by accident. As it was - he just fell out by accident! Full story is over in FESH-land.

Even weirder - one of the reasons I didn't want to be at home was because we live in a very hard to find spot quite a way from any hospital, and I was a bit concerned that if I had to go in in an emergency the only way I would get there would be flat out with blue lights and sirens, and even then the ambulance might take a while to find me (especially in the dark. I live down an unlit track in a forest behind an isolated 19th century cemetery - think Blair Witch Project ) In the event - the ambulance that was called to take me in for my stitches knew exactly where to go - an ambulance has only ever been called to our house once before (to take away the corpse of the previous resident) and it had the same driver! So I think it was all meant to be. Any questions about plopping baybees out in fractions of a second on the bedroom floor - I will try to answer. But VBACs, when they go right, are fabulous things.

honey Post-partum, I dug out sexy heeled non-lesbotronic shoez - they shredded my feet. :(