The PESH Deli - No ESH left behind

[PerfectDromedary]

I have opened the virtual gin, found the Desperate Romantics and am about to start playing I've Never. Who's with me?

And I forgot the fecking not-list
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, due 22 Jan
Scorpette, now carrying a RL baby in addition to Clothilda and the squid - due 19th May

Which obvs needs updating but I couldn't remember dates of birth of PESH babas and I wanted to answer gin's question.

I was weeping with sharp stabby pains that scared the crapola out of me a couple of weekends ago. I think it was round ligament, but if you're worried, call someone. Just wanted to say that it happened to me and all was ok.

Thanks drom. have just called midwife, they're in appts but are ringing back. Wasn't gonna ring but had another whilst sitting doing absolutely nothing, which doesn't fit with what I know/have experienced of ligament pain.

Prob won't get a call back till 4 apparently. Not quite sure what to do when mooch wakes up...

Have had no pain for about 10 mins now. Hopefully will all amount to nowt and I'll feel silly :)

I was having them on the train while sitting still doing absolutely nothing. Had been carrying hefty shit around and running up and downstairs the day before and wondered if that triggered it? Either that or bloody baby having an inconsiderate growth spurt.

Very, very sharp stabby pains, just in my lower left side.

I had them at around 17 weeks. But they weren't that bad, just felt like I'd pulled something. Can you still feel the fluttering?

Hope all is well GinJoint, sounds like ligamenty stuff though.

Cunty my enz is in east lahndon, so a bit far away for you to come round running your white-gloved fingers along the top of my picture rails, thank you very much!

Is anyone thnking about their baby's bedroom yet - a bit early I know and totally PFB, but I have a room needs decorating anyway, so I was thinking I might as well plan it for baybeez room, and wanted thougths/ideas

gin my pain was short sharp stabby ones on right hand side about midway up. Was ligament pain. At the time I was proper freaked out and panicked. As every menkul woman would.

cho decorating baby room we haz found v v v v difficult. Ain't seen nuffin we like.

mrsfc the fluttering is still so intermittent at the mo I couldn't tell you for sure! Exactly though, my memory of ligament stuff is a sharp feeling as if I'd pulled something. This feels different. Hard to describe.

cho you're feckin' joking! We may not be in this house by then (hope!) but poor mooch never had his room sorted n decorated till he was about 9 months old! I think this is a tad unusual however :)

I had really sharp pains low down on the left last week after the day of mucho vomiting on the boat. I decided it was muscular. They've gone now.

Cho Our baby isn't going to have a room, poor deprived Bob. We only have a small study and while MrM is going to clear away a few bookcases so we can fit cot, chest of drawers/changing table, and baby wotnot, it will still mostly be books.

IF I had a room I think I would do warm coloured walls (maybe a yellow, or maybe just a rich cream) and then paint on big circles (plate sized) in bright colours as a border round the room. So it would be nice and vibrant but also not cutesy.

cho, I'm East Londan too - nearly Essex though...

I'm thinking about the bedroom definitely. And the upstairs bedroom where my 7 year old boy child will be moving to, and the kitchen too. Hmm.. probably a good job the FC is being made redundant - he has a lot of work!

What are you thinking of doing? Is anyone else getting nursing chairs? I know they seem like an extra cost, but from experience last time & only having an uncomfy chair to feed in without going downstairs we are thinking about getting another chair that we can use downstairs when he's sleeping though at six weeks afterwards.

I would love a nursing chair. Unfortunately we also have no room for that. We will be getting a chairbed from Ikea so one of us can sleep on it if necessary. I shall do all my feeding in bed.

ginster glad you've called for reassurance. If it helps, I had ridiculously sharp stabbing pains in my lower right abdo throughout pregnancy. Not quite lig pain, but turned out to be nothing serious either. Nonetheless, it frequently took my breath away and had me imagining all sorts. It disappeared as soon as she was born. I still wonder that it might have been somehow related to my SPD.

Our baby room is currently a dumping ground. For her stuff. It looked v nice when she was born (not that we decorated, because house is rented), but she sleeps in our room and more and more stuff is piling up in there. It's a bloody mess, and on my list of Things To Sort in the coming week.

I am a leetle happy today because if I was at work it would be the annual day of Hell, which usually ends in a blinding headache. But I have been to the shops and am now thinking of watching a film. Suppose I should do some washing or summat as well...

TBH, if I wasn't going to do some work in there that required decorating afterwards, this baby would probably end up in a plain white sensory deprivation cell, but though I might take advantage of the opportunity to do it up. Also, I think the decoration scheme will be more to mine and the boyf's taste than any baby - but that will make up for the fact that we will probably have to paint it some vile garish disney colour in the future!

these prints are my source of inspiration...slightly sinister fairytale stuff....mainly monochrome with splashes of red, but would prefer a slightly warmer colour than white on the walls...maybe a warm grey/light taupe? Also, wondering if red/white gingham good for curtains, or something else?

cho you'd best FB me your address then you inconsiderate bitch . I'm going away for the weekend though so don't bother laying over the next couple of days else your baybee will freeze.

Ah, shiny new fred.

Gin first - I do remember similar pains last time around. The ligaments as you know soften and stretch. It could be that something you've done has pulled one of them too quickly, and it's inflamed, and the sharp pains even when you're sitting down are just because the inflammation is already there and signalling it's presence to your brain. In which case it will settle down again v soon. But if you're worried you are absolutely right to get midwife opinion, as none of us can know for sure where or what your pain is. Just try and take it easy this afternoon (cbeebies?). Hope they call back soon.

We didn't buy a nursing chair last time. I had a rocking chair which I tried to feed in but couldn't get position right. Either on the sofa or the bed worked best for me - sofa in the early weeks and bed when he was a bit bigger; couldn't get him into right position lying down before then.

Oh. My due date's moved to Apr 8 now for the notlist, not that it matters really. And hula hoops now make me vomit. This month's food of choice is pain au chocolat...

Cunty that last post made me LOL!!! Literally!!! You trying to kill ma baybeee???? I'll try not to lay for another, oooh 4 months or so, if I can hold it in, that is. Will FB you ... Fanks!!!!

Nursing chair is one of many things I considered and am now glad I didn't buy because it would not have been used. Might have been a different id I'd managed to continue BFing though.

We moved our iJoy massage chair into the nursery, partly because it would not fit anywhere else when we moved. I did use it for night feeding sometimes but I actually preferred the futon in that room, or my own bed. But in the very early days it all took so long that I went downstairs and fed on the sofa with laptop, snacks and TV remote to hand.

For the short while she was having bottled night feeds, I just sat on the edge of the bed, between where I sleep and the cot. Only took 20 mins or so.

How are you now gin? Are the pains easing off? Hope the mw calls back soon. But if they don't call them again - I know mine never called back the one time I called.

I liked feeding in bed too. When I was in hospital a very lovely mw taught ne how to do it lying down. But I only liked doing in it the daytime with the duvet off as I'm a heavy sleeper & it scared me.

cho - the thing I reckon with curtains is they need to be dark dark dark. So if you get red & white gigham ones it's probably worth paying for them to be blackout.

And now I am craving a pain au chocolate.

I am totally deffo having blackout backings MrsFC on curtains - but then I think maybe it will be impossible to get baybee to sleep under any other conditions apart from pitch blackness, if it gets to used to it - what do the wise FESHes think?

PS I think we are from the same enz MrsFC, so if we ever meet, you better share the same postcode or it's blam blam for you, ya get me?

So far, cho, levels of light don't seem to matter to Squeaks. I think they'll all sleep under pretty much any conditions when very young. But she can still nap in broad daylight at 3 months (she's fast asleep facing the living room window right now). Not sure if it would affect her overnight sleep though, because it's pretty dark between 9pm and 7am anyway these days. I guess we'll find out in the spring time.

I certainly don't want to create a situation where she has to sleep in the dark if I can help it - it has been the bane of my own life! I'm solar-powered - awake at first light, but completely useless one the sun goes down.

I'm friends with Drom & HB on that FB, maybe you can find me...!!

Have been hanging out on the 'shit song lyrics' thread as good distraction.

Still getting pain every now and then. Tbh I don't think tis ligaments, feels nothing like it. Hopefully is nothing anyway. Was told it could be 4 before mw calls.

cho mooch's room is dark-ish. He was terrible sleeper for aaaages but that had nothing to do with darkness levels, tried everything. Sleeps fine now though....

gin, would it help to feel the fluttering?when I wanted to feel it I used to lie very still on my side & then sometimes it would come.

I have a blackout blind that lets light in at the side so it's not total darkness but it's definitely 'sleep time'.