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

BECAUSE THE WATER GOES IN YOUR VAGINA AND THE BAYBEE DROWNS! When you are pregnant you should not bath or shower, you may wipe yourself down with organic babywipes but please to avoid areas below waist. Or areas below neck.

ffs. Once I get my bikini line waxed again, I'm going to search out aquanatal classes.

honey, I'm there with you on your birth thoughts. I had a section last time & I'm sure it wasn't helped by my stress about being in hospital for three days while they tried to dilate me (which didn't work - my cervix wasn't openin' for no one man...)and so by the time they decided to do a section I was all over the shop with stress. I also have a total knife phobia... So I thought hypno birthing might help me chill the hell out!

I like Cluckys plan the best...

Are you lying in state & ringing your bell lots witty? I hope so.

I am very concerned as I have been doing aqua aerobics. Have I drowned my baybee then??

Now then - just had a veeeery interesting conversation. Phone went, as it does, and it was my new IM's back-up. My first thought was 'FFS! What's wrong with the second one!' as my plan to pay for one-to-one consistency seemed to be going out of the window. Then she said she was just passing and had been asked to drop in as our house is difficult to find and No.2 IM thinks when I go into labour it will be a race to see who gets there first - a midwife or baybee! So, that sounds promising, eh? This MW reckoned that even by looking at my tummy through her car window she could see the position was good again, so good baybee has got himself back in the right place.

Must dash - got lots of bouncing on my ball to do now! Bonce the bugger out.....

PS I am sure Clucky's plan includes lots of drucks somewhere too

And it should be bounce.....

Drucks is out if I gets to stay at home for this one....am going to give hippobirthing a whirl instead. If I ends up in hospital you're darn right there - drugs are good .

Hope you're OK Switter - what a worry. As others have said - commandeer the telly & get MrSwits earning his keep....and no jumping the queue - d'ya hear me!!!

Get the laydee-garden sorted now Meds - the longer you leave it the more it hurts

ski just seen the dog in the pond thread... GGGGRRRRRRRR. Have had to walk away calmly.

swits I COMMAND you to do sod all except lie in bed DEMANDING that the man in your life is at your beck and call. Carrying you to the toilet if necessary.

This pm I have felt dizzy and iffy . Think was to do with the heat. Feel ok now tho.

Bloody dog is still pratting around! Who knows what has got into her. Behaving very strangely and being v clingy to Him Indoors.

Soglad it's the weekend I really am!

silver hope doglet ok. mine keeps climbing onto our laps too - quite clingy. Prob to do with fact that he's had 6 people giving attention for a week and doesn't know what to do with himself!

I'm in a right mood everyone. Hope to feel better tomorrow.

Dog is driving me crazy! Lots of barking and won't settle. Won't eat! Argghhh. Can do without this kind of extra stress!

moomoo new day tmw, fresh new start. If you wake up in the same mood tmw. That's cool too. Preggos are entitled to be in whatever mood they want.

I'm booked for a couple of weeks time, Kate, just timing it for holidays.

Please can it be next week? This time next week I will be on hols. There will be sunshine, tzatski, beaches and trashy novels.

swits you'd better be in bed

box you'd better not give birth before me

Right, I am off to hossie for monitoring sesh number 1.

and two weeks today I will be on mine.

Best of luck, Cos!

Anyone contemplating a wee thimblefull of sweet sherry once a week?

Anyone contemplating a wee bump to get them up & going every morning?

ooh cossie just seen your monitoring pic... now don't leave without the baybee remember ok? ;) Good luck!

Finally feel like have made a bit of progress front today on the "sorting shit out". Went and chose the remaining baby furniture from a shop and should have it for first day of maternity leave... they even paint it for you which is rather handy. Was going to get white company drawers but decided obscenely £££ and not even wood. This stuff is pine and much cheaper and will last for decades and we can repaint as and when. They are going to make the changing tray to fit and everything. Brill. Going to try and finish constructing crib tonight which should lead to arguments.

Also bought massive leg o lamb to slow cook and shred for shepherds pie posh style, and foil trays and lids for the impending cookathon. Nice. Mr Moo did lots of patient waiting outside shops with dog, so I am allowing him a 20 minute sit down before nagging recommences. :) Dog urgently needs a bath, but can't face that today.

ski thimblefull of sherry? Pint of beer more like? Wot is "bump"? Like bump 'n' grind? Offered that on my birthday but mr moo was too tired... Who the feck is pregnant here is what I want to know.

Cos I was thinking of laying da baybee today, but your threatening look has scared it back inside! Hopefully you'll get it all done soon - you're really going in for the record for stamina otherwise!

mmmm, sherry! Have bought some celebratory Stilton and Brie to keep for a week or so, so that they will be as stinky as anything by the time I can eat them . The boy on the supermarket checkout learnt not to tell a 40 weeker just how much his legs hurt! Ffs - he must have been only 15 or so. Then he had the cheek to ask if I would be able to feel the baby kicking soon - he had the good (bad?) sense to than admit he thought that you could only feel babies once they were kicking their way out . As I said - about 15 years old. Bless.

Hello hello. Thanks for the good wishes, useful suggestions and threatening looks - all very helpful. The new sofa we bought a couple of weeks back has come into its own. I am on the L-shaped part with my feet up and propped up on my pregnancy pillow and have been here most of the time since yesterday. Boyfy has been star and is looking after me really well. So I haven't needed to introduce the bell as of yet.

Speaking of sherry: the midwife prescribed me some kind of plant-based calming formula intended to relax the uterus, which I take in drop form. It looks like and smells like and tastes like sherry - and is 30% alcohol. I hope it does the trick :)

Pliz to explain to me the purpose of the pre-baby cookathon? Am in awe of heavily-pregnant wimminz organising stuff and wondering if there is some sort of reason that I shouldn't at that point just fill the freezer with ready-meals and put the local Thai on autodial?

witty glad you are feeling niiiiice and relaxed.

drom I fear malnutrition if I don't make plans for food. Mr Moo has many talents but catering is not one of them. The man has no concept of 5 a day. He could go a week just eating meat or bread.

drom I am with you on the Thai.

Equine peeps - fricking OR boots have rubbed from knobbing about in the field. Div. Have out green oils on to soothe and taken boots off. Do I a) bin them b) make them bigger if so how (as has been wearin them for two weeks now with no probs) c) persevere - no pain no gain theory

I plan to do the same, but I guess it depends how you are at cooking in general - if stocking up your freezer with stews and soups is something you do anyway, then I guess you'll want to do it for post-birth, but if that's not your thing, then the ready meals and Thai takeaway on speed dial is definitely a good option. I suspect I will end up with a mixture of both.

Tonight is a mixture of M+S and homegrown.

oh, and I plan to have some wine tonight.

Heh Silver I thought exactly the same about my contribution to the overall drop!

Pizza here tonight. Healthyhealthyhealthy but if it feels like it will stay down, well, that's my only criteria at the moment.

Witty glad you're resting up. What's the special midwife dram called then?! Intriguing...