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

Mainly sleepsuits and vests, a few outfits which I've gone on to replace in larger sizes. If anyone is having a winter baby and wants loads of white vests I'll happily ship them off to you, they are unworn owing to the heat when R was born and also his superhuman weight gain

Massiveweesmell! You're back (from outer space, etc.). I wonder if your new Doc will confirm your suspicions that you're pg?
That flight attendant was out of order. I'm not a fan of booze, but it's no-one's fucking business what anyone else chooses to do or not do. Good for you for complaining.

Is so great you're back now!

PS Honey, science has now proven that all our ideas about what men are 'like' and good at and vice versa is virtually all culturally constructed and people start to shape their children from those constructs from birth, sometimes even before birth (ie if a boy kicks in the womb, people will be all 'oooh, he's a proper little fighter/he's a footballer already!' but ignore the same level of activity of a girl or say it's her being 'a madam' or similar). Which is what I've thought since I was a kid.

Still, we've all been inculcated now so it is best to work as a team, playing to each individual's strengths. Me and TYF do everything 50-50 and we don't have any 'male' or 'female' jobs and that works for us. Doesn't mean it would work for anyone else. :) We didn't really discuss it, it's just how it happened, which is lucky (because if he hadn't presumed things were going to be 50-50, he'd have had a sharp learning curve ahead of him, like my Ex did!).

And I use the monitor loads

I also used a fair amount of new born stuff but mainly sleep suits and vests and not outfits as such. these are great for winter babes and can be popped over a sleepsuit for when out and about.

I have brought my birth ball into work - it is a bit like taking your toys into school towards the end of term. I am sat on it as a type and it is tres comfortable.

So I'm waiting for my appointment with the consultant MW to discuss a VBAC, and there is a lady across from me in the antenatal waiting room fully dressed in a jumper and combat trousers with a towelling dressing gown on top. What's that all about then???

That is normal if you wonder down Kilburn High Road or parts of Wandsworth MrsFC

Really? I used to go to Wandsworth to score when I was a student. Never noticed, but my mnd was on other things... Still, this IS Walthamstow....

I like you, MrsFC

It is still the same MrFC. I am lucky enough to have an office in Wandsworth. Only this week the police turned up outside the office and picked up a knife from the alleyway down the side and took it away. I have just popped out for a sandwich and walked past a fella just hanging around smoking the weed. My company is well into Corporate Social Responsibility (sniggers). I have become quite blasé about it really taking it as "normal" in that there London.

Glad to hear it's still the same. I thought it had gone up market in with all the people who couldn't afford Putney. Does it still smell grim on brewing days?

VBAC appointment a waste of time really, it was more to persuade me to have one rather than tips on how to achieve one. Still, got to hear the heartbeat, which is always fun. I'm jus going to aim for more moving and less pie eating than last time & hope that helps.

Bedside cot What do we think, PESH?

MrsFC How was your Bluewater trip? And are you still getting to the gym? I have yet to find ANY energy to do so.

i have a bedside cot but never really use it as such. For a start, we can't fully seal the gap between it and our bed. But its removable side is otherwise handy. (mothercare one). For the first couple of weeks baby and co-slept on a futon in the nursery. Actually, she started each night in her basket, and ended up in with me later, after/during feeds. we're quite independent sleepers now, but I can still watch her through the cot bars.

I want a bedside cot. Because I am lazy and want to just reach over and grab the baby to feed.

I forgot the other good news from my midwife appointment. I do not have HIV, syphilis, hepatitis C, sickle cell anaemia or thalissemia. And I do still have rubella antibodies. So that was all nice.

Afternoon, all.

Sorry that I'm about to post stuff all about ME but I have five minutes before I have to take my stepson swimming. I have read lots with interest though!

Had a deeply embarrassing experience on Monday. I'd been told preg yoga was a goer from the start as it would relax me, and was encouraged to go by the midwife co-ordinator I saw that morning. So I turn up to the class at my gym and was welcomed etc. until I said how pregnant I was. Instructor had assumed that I was far gone because of my fattitude (first of many humiliations on that line I expect) and tried to turn me out because 'before 15 weeks it can cause miscarriage'. All the other lovely women laughed and she let me stay for just one lesson - it was all rotating toes and fingers. Running for the bus is more strenuous. Most shame-making.

Hen night was nice and only one person confronted me in the loos, but my lovely bridesmaid had pre-ordered champagne everywhere we went so no rounds, no chance to secretly order 'gin and tonics' so eight hours of tap water for me. Hey ho.

I am going to ask for a home birth despite having a BMI of 32. I'll see what happens. We have community midwives here who prioritise home births so fingers crossed. NICE guidelines are that BMI 30-35 can be considered for a HB as long as they're in good health so I'll have to stay bright eyed in general.

I would proudly like to announce that I have done my first non-diarrhoea poo since getting my BFP. I thought this wondrous news should be spread throughout the globe

oh how i fondly remember the BFP runs scorps! well done.

drom, I did nearly buy that cot, but it wouldn't have worked with my strange bed. I do like it muchly.

oops, sorry about the yoga experience stiffler. I managed to miss my first lesson back in Feb cause I was in the pub with iggy, two hours' fast train ride away.

when I did go, despite being almost 20 weeks, I was the least preggo there by a long shot. Still managed to lay mine before some of the others though

drom, I like that cot - it's lovely. Bluewater was ok, but the FC didn't come so I had no one to hold my bags while I ate my pretzel... I spent ages in John L:ewis lusting after the Bugaboo Bee.

I keep trying to go to the gym, but like you I'm just too tired. I have been trying to do Erin O'Connors DVD once a week though, and it leaves my muscles feeling like they've done something.

stiffy, sorry that your yoga experence was not what you hoped. I wanted to do it but I haven't got round to it yet. Am I too late at 23 weeks?

score mine haven't stopped yet - which is nice.

Stiffler glad the hen do was more succesful than the yoga. Surely if you just lie there saying ommmmmm it can't do much to damage the baybeeee non?

Congratuations on the poo scorpypoo, poo chat around these parts is welcome and frequent.

FC I started preggo yoga at 31 weeks, 23 weeks is just fine.

are any of you from/near the Midlands/Glos,/Cheshire/ central-ish Scotland? Just trying to give myself an ESH social life and represent both Midlanders and Jocks.

Really okie? Thanks - I will get organised and call now top get booked in.

curly I live in London Tahn, but grew up in Glos & still visit parents in Tetbury occasionally - does that count?

deffo counts if you are up for a Cotswolds pub feast at any point, MrsFC. My ILs are in the Gloucestershire Cotswolds and we spend a fair bit of time there.

just googled it fc, that's Bristol way, no?

Ooh mrs fc, I used to date a tetters lad! I wonder if you know him.

Iz moses basket next to bed as good as bedside cot?
I fear baby will be in bed with us as bed so big that I won't be able to resist.... Bad mother.