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?

Distinct lack of pampering here. We did go out at the weekend though. Am currently watching Big Bang Theory and watching MrM wash up. It is my turn to wash up. That's love that is.

Ah thats IS love. I am so lucky as TB doesn't cook it's never my turn to wash up (well almost never)

Ok, rocker, not as impressive as boxy or what you are proposing, but Squeaks came with me, in my belly, to Northern Finland when I was 8 weeks pregnant and flying there and back in one day did neither of us any harm. But one of my RL friends later gave me a real ticking off about it, saying something about radioactivity . I think the temperatures of down to -23c were actually a bigger worry!

to that show of affection muser.

But that means it's always your turn to cook. Which is no fun.

Ah well i love cooking mostly, although recently I have been teaching TB a few things by text message and getting him to start dinner, he doesn't seem to have noticed that really I should do half the washing up. And the other day he said he supposed he'd have to learnt to cook as soon I wouldn't be able to as I 'wouldn't be able to get near the cooker' not going to complain tho. :o

I attempted to use that excuse to get me out of doing the washing up in future. Eventually surely my arms won't reach far enough?

Ohh backin sorry missed your post somehow! Ok thats good to know. I am oscillating between HTFU and just going for it and thinking I really can't be bothered. Problem is if we book now I really can't back out if I suddenly get hit by sickness in a few weeks time. Plus as I've said I don't normally sleep in cattle class unless drugged up. I'm going to sleep on it, but I am a terrible procrastinator at the best of time and diffment seems to have amplified it tenfold. Your job sounds VERY interesting!!

muse is worth a try surely?

Apollo! Good to see all is still well with you! I have no more useful flying advice than others have given, but I just wanted to say I would be completely as apprehensive as you, being so far from home. I'm also completely fascinated as to what you do that means you get to go to Alaska for your work!

Hope you're doing ok. And muse, I heard that fairy liquid is right dangerous for pregnant women.

slowcooker awww cute image of your little guy in his peapod get up.

rocket as soon as I hit 6 wks so did the nausea. Bad. I found being at work bloody dreadful. At home was better but then could have been cos it was too early to tell work so had to hide it. Give it some thought. boxy is the expert in this area fo' sho'.

box I need your wisdom in the spa kindly equine lass.

Can't sleep. Oh how shittin' unusual. That's what happens when you have a worry wart for a bleedin' brain and typically tmw I am expecting a delivery anytime from 8am so will no doubt be shattered.

mused congrats on the celebrations. If we agree no gifts, then it's strictly no gifts HOWEVER I demand gently insist hint on a lovely card. In fact a card means more to me than a present. Tho if that present was say an Oakley horsebox then that would of course outweigh any old bit of A5 containing a loving message. Just.

rocket Will you have a chance to stretch your legs at the layovers? At least you'll get plenty of fresh air in Alaska! rocket My commute was enough for me at that stage - I didn't have the energy to walk through an international terminal that's fo sho. :(

I've been checking the register and we appear to have a case of absenteeism, has anyone seen switty, or is she "queue-jumping"? I know she was having a few problems and was having extra check-ups... no fb activity.

And where is that there VAG too???

Just popping in on vagwatch. Nowt to report I see.

No, no it has not sunk in. I kind of feel a bit in no-mans land. Feel insensitve posting in the Palais about "ooh I'm diffed but don't feel any different" (although I always genuinely loved visits & tales from differs), I don't feel a fully fledged member of the Deli yet either. I waited 3 years for that POAS moment, & now coz I have no (real) symptoms, told no-one in RL, don't look diffed etc its all a bit surreal.

My norks are hooge & feel vay heavy without a bra. But bra helps support them & I think reigns them in a bit, so that's OK. Slight waves of nausea but again a sip of water, deep breath & I'm OK. Oh, skin is crap.

I'm off on holidays next Thurs too - planning a long haul flight to LA ready for our California road trip. Undoubtedly that's when sickness will set in

Still managed not to tell my mum. But I feel like I'm bare-faced lying to her.

Alpine you clearly have name changed and I have no idea who you are? Yes, Where is wit and reg for that matter?

Moo Happy Last Day of Work!! I trust you will do very little other than have a nice big lunch and get plenty of well wishes and leave early.

I had a dream last night that I went into labour. The contractions were pretty bad and I was pacing the corridors of the hospital but then they just stopped. I didn't want to go home in case they got really bad again so I just sat around reading a magazine. The doctor was so bored of waiting for me to get on with it on she climbed into the bed and went to sleep! Then the baby was born. Simple as. Clearly this bodes very well for a sneeze and baybee landing in my arms.

Aww Newbie PESHs! Fantastic! Congratulations :)

Just nipping in for a couple of quickies:

1. Please please please read "The Politics of Birth" by Sheila Kitzinger if you are wanting to become more informed about your birth options. It's really interesting and useful. It's a midwifery/obstetric study book, not a maternity book, but it really goes into the backgrounds of interventions - the actual pros and cons - proper statistics and information and so on. Very highly recommended. I had been reading "Birth without Fear" by Dick Grantly-Reed as those FEShs who were with me may recall, but I don't recommend it... Kitzinger covers the relevent points in that book in a way which is actually comprehensible.

2. polpol has decided she's too tall for my birth pool (hooru callin' a short arse? ). Therefore it's still up for grabs at a grand total of forty five British pounds including to your door delivery. If you're interested please email me via my website as I seldom have time to check back here. Although I eventually had the little fella in a hopsital pool I absolutely am a huge fan of waterbirth (now!) and having had one land and one water birth, if I ever went for number three (and cut off his willy and feed it to the dog if I ever consider it) I would absolutely go for the water birth as it was fantastic. Massive pain relief, lovely to be able to move around - brilliant. What was nice about the home pool is it's lovely to bob in when you're heavily diffed - so relaxing - even if you don't go for a home water birth.

Well that's all for now. Off to have brekkie. LC woke me and Comma up this morning by bouncing around the house before school (grrr) so I'm up earlier than normal (grrr) but it wasn't a bad night so there we are. Comma's second jabs today - pour me a gin :(

Chin up rots - jabs should hopefully make him sleep!

Can definitely recommend submersion for heavily-dffed PESHes - going to the swimming pool was bliss and I spent the day swimming before going in to hospital...

rots Thought you said you'd already decided a "yes" to number 3?

It'll come laurie. And you just described a whole bunch of symptoms, so clearly diffment is not in your imagination. Come and chat in the deli anytime, I think you need it in the early weeks when it's all new and weird.

Could I fast forward to tomorrow? I have a very long day ahead and only the knowledge that I have a day off tomorrow is keeping me going.

I re-tested before my first appointment, just to make sure I wasn't imagining it.

Does anyone have any recommendations from their other halves of books on fatherhood? MrM doesn?t want pregnancy for dads, but wants to start preparing himself for when the baby arrives (whereas I am in denial about the fact that at the end of all this there will be a baby!)

Was reporting my midwife appointment to my mum the other night, and she asked if I had been told to start ?preparing my breasts?. I assumed this was 1970s outdatedness, and told her I was relying on mother nature doing that for me ? anyone know what that used to entail, and whether I really should be doing anything to ?prepare my breasts??!

"It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again"?

Rocket while a few of the PESHes have suffered sorely form sickness, it is not a given that you will get it too. My main symptoms at 7 weeks (both times) were that I slipped into a wierd alternative universe where all I could do was eat or sleep. Eat-sleep-eat-sleep-etc. I also actually managed to ski the entire length of the Aguille Rouge when 7 weeks earlier this year. My napping and hot chocolate timetable was carefully planned though!

So, anyway - what are you doing in Alaska?

Meds no nips prep required IMO. There is nowt you can do - I did ask same question funnily enough and the answer was nada.

Alpine it is really bugging me now... and I the only one to be this thick?

hehe yes you are toots! My fb has me in the swimming pool with my little fella.

Okie think of it like a crossword clue. Alps = what? and pony is a bit like a ...?

Am taking DS for his first swim tomorrow! Was terrified with DD, but DS can get straight in there.

Oh FFS of course I get it now. Blonde and 8 months diffed means I currently have 1 brain cell.

Box did you send the hippo book? I have not received but that is fine as I know you have your mits full. I just wanted to check in case you have and it has gone astray or the my fella picked up the post that day and has put it somewhere stupid safe ...

Okie err, mumble mumble.... is sent, but only just. Have a very greedy baby and am not getting out much! Sorry.