The PESH Deli - Going MAD for Hallowe'en.

[Scorpette]

Tales from the dark side, from a coven of evil hags obsessed with ghoulies. Hellish talk of FJ and puke will chill you to the marrow. Unspeakable horrors from our uterine crypts do creep - but thankfully, we're also having baybees...

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.
AlpinePony, boy, born 1 July.
Carrots, boy, born July.
IggyPiggy, girl, born July.
Cosmosis, boy, born Sept 5.
Backinthebox, boy, born Sept 7.
Skatergrrrl, girl, born Sept 10.
VAG, boy, born Oct 2.

UPDIFFED

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, will she ever stop puking?, 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 21 May.
Rocketleaf, no longer jealous of morning sickness, due 3 June.
Twinkle Toes, supergluing her fanjo shut, due 23 June.

So come on in and leave your broomsticks and pointy hats by the door!

silver defo YNBU ditto what mrs fc said.

Had to log in on my phone as for some reason this thread has exceeded the 'weighted phrase limit' reason? Pornography! Lol what HAVE you been talking about?

Fanks tarts. MIL looked meek when she said that X wanted to know. X is a family member. However I told her that I don't want people to know I am in labour. HI thinks I am weird for minding. Its private as far as I am concerned and I would rather be able to do things as I want.

So trooooo that when you are a preggo you become effing public effing property. HI said that now I have told MIL she won't say anything. I think she will. I even told X that when MIL gets the call that I don't want MIL informing everyone for the reasons above. X said oh well get used to it. People are just excited. My response was I agree but there is a time and a place and it's my decision. Still I'll put £ on it that MIL tells X.

HI has been instructed that no facecrack announcement til I say and deffo no bloody updates whilst I am in labour!!!!!!!

I am half tempted to find someone else to take care of K9. That is how strongly I feel.

It's not the smell of smokers that worries me, it's the crap that they continue to breathe out afterwards for a while and whatever lingers on their hair and clothes. And like I said, I have scientific proof that being around smoking when little has left me with some serious health probs for life - and my brother has the same, to a lesser extent - so there's no way I'm going to inflict even a tiny percentage of that on my child(ren). It does stand to reason that my offspring could share a genetic propensity for being v adversely affected by it. When the right to pursue an addiction that everyone knows makes others ill becomes more important than the right to breathe clean air, then I'll chillax about the issue.

I would refuse to take my child anywhere where people smoke indoors, but then again, me and TYF wouldn't go anywhere like that ourselves and we don't know anyone who smokes indoors anyway (the few smokers I know don't smoke inside their homes, which is cool). Of course people have the right to smoke in their own homes, it'd be absurd to suggest otherwise, but people have an equal right to refuse to visit for very real reasons.

I would go bloody mental if someone announced my baby's birth before me. Quite a few times, I've noticed on people's FB pages where friends or relatives have written 'Congratulations on your boy!' or 'Welcome to the world baby Edna!' or similar, before the actual woman or her partner have posted a single word about even going into labour, never mind anything about the birth, sex or name And those people who write the stuff can see nothing's been mentioned, so what goes through their minds (or what doesn't), I do not know. That's different from things like Curly's BIL making an announcement for them, as it's clear that he's been asked to.

silver I don't blame you. I think parents get uber excited and then can't control their impulses. My mum told me when my SIL's sister was in labour. I think it will be virtually impossible to stop her. My dad will have to confiscate her phone and tape her mouth shut when it happens to me. She is irish and has the gob of Father Ted's housekeeper if you get my drift. Plan is for them to come up and look after the dog in our hoose, so no doubt most of SW London will know before I'm even in the 2nd stage.

MrsFC just read this after message in other place. Mucho ARF ARF at thought of me working in finance. I can just about work a calculator. It's client servicing so basically that means I do everything for not enough money or thanks.

Friend of mine was posting updates on FB via phone from the labour ward. YUCK!

I think I will just suspend my FB account tbh. I am even worried about peeps posting congrates on there when it becomes public knowledge I am diffed as I know how much it can hurt if you are have trouble TTC, having been on the sharp end. Unfortunately I know some of my friends live their lives by FB so will be hard to avoid. Tis a quandary so it is.

silver 'oh well just get used to it'???? I would be spitting feathers I tell you. I am an only child and so used to getting my own way. Not a brat, but a bit of a diva. Don't cross me.

But I don't mind about fb entries as I am the fb queen & will be on it before anyone else after I've given birth....

God. I will have an actual another child in three months time. I am now an expert on playground politics, Harry Potter and the 4x table.

I have NO CLUE about the other stuff. Can't remember. I was too knackered...

Morning slaags.

2 days until 3 exams and I am so full of cold tis untrue

So sorry so many of you are facing job uncertainties. Tis the last thing you need.

We didn't tell anyone when I went into labour last time. I didn't want to feel rushed. This time we'll have to tell my parents for dog and mini sitting purposes but that will be it. If I get my elective then I'm not making the date known to all and sundry either. Never got why people do that...

Is it wrong that I am now contemplating a speed addication? I could do with a bit more energy and some weight loss. Would help my cold, too. Hmm....

I would never dream of passing on someone else's news unless given permission.

Don't care if X is offended. They'll get over it and besides they should respect my wishes. Same goes for sharer or anyone else who steps in to take care of hoss. They will be asked to keep it to themselves as it could be a false alarm. Parents are like vultures aren't they. If word is spread i will be sure to Mop up afterwards in NO uncertain terms.

Yay! I has drucks! Saw the other lady Doc at the surgery - and she is 5 months pg, so totally understood. Have got some tabs - I can't read her handwriting (of course), think it says 'prochloperzine', but they're apparently the safest during pregnancy and I don't have to take them every day, just when I'm feeling my worst. They work best for wimminz whose big problem is keeping liquid down, which is my main ishoo, so I might be able to stop having dehydration headaches every day now (I can drink okay after 9pm, but by then, I'm already parched).

Wait - have Googled it and it's Prochlorperazine... and it's also an anti-psychotic. WTF? Oh, and its main side effect is seizures! Am not so chuffed now. Why did I not ask about this in the surgery? I just felt so rank and was so grateful for drucks that I slunk off with a smile. Arsebuckets. Dunno if I dare take them now!

I didn't make a big deal of this at the time, but I lost my job to restructuring when I was 10 weeks pregnant. They didn't know, but there was no advantage to me in telling them, as I was in a pool of 1! I have a new job (I started immediately after I finished the previous one) and will lose out on the equivalent of a month's pay or so (ie the 6 weeks at 90%) by being on Maternity Allowance rather than SMP, but this is offset by the compo I got. It's a bit scary I won't have a guaranteed job to go back to, but we'll cope.

Yay and then eek to your drucks, Scorps! Can you call the surgery and ask to speak to her, or speak to your pharmacist?

Oh, bloody hell, I think they're the tablets you let dissolve under your top lip - have had those in the past and they didn't work for me

It'll be fine Scorps . The trade name is Stemetil, it's a commonly prescribed first -line antiemetic.

It works on a bit of your brain called the Chemoceptor Trigger Zone, or The Vomming Centre as I like to call it. It's an effective route for treating nausea. Trust me, I haz done a pharmacology exam (along with the many other pointless exams I haz done in the last 2 years) AND I know my anti-emetics from personal experience! They all list scary side effects. Honestly. You won't get anything that doesn't list scary side effects.

Plus, you won't be psychotic, right? Surely a bonus for all differds everywhere. I think my husband would argue I could do with a course of them.

As I was self employed before I started this job I never expected any job security anyway so I don't really mind about that. I have no idea what I will be entitled to but just assumes I will be eligible for Mat Allowance from the gov rather than getting it through work. need to find out as I could be completely wrong. I just hope I can work her or somewhere else later than Dec (when my contract finishes) as could do with saving some more.

scorps Google is NOT your friend. does it tell you how likely you are to get side effects 10%? 2%? 0.25%? I would have thought being constantly dehydrated would be just as likely to give you a seizure!!! But if you are worried why don't you ring lovely lady GP and ask?

Sorry, crosspost.

Buccal administration (dissolving under your top lip or in your cheek) is actually a more effective route of administration than swalling them orally. You get a large percentage of the drug into your bloodstream because it avoids your digestive tract, where all your stomach juices 'impound' half the dose and send it packing to your liver and kidneys.

So if it is those, it doesn't mean it won't work. In fact it should mean the opposite. Give it a try and see. You can always go back.

ps buccal often given in cases of sickness to avoid problems with having to keep the tablet down.

Cass is all knowledgable. Most anti-vom pills were originally developed for something else weren't they? Cyclizine is an anti-histamine I believe.

so the anti emetic is itself a side affect? :o All hail cass our resident pharmacological expert.

OMG i have just eaten an out of date yoghurt. Will this harm my baby? (I am really on fire this week with risking my baby's health, may as well do some gardening without gardening gloves [hshock])

I've been given those buccal ones 3 times now and all they've done is made me retch even worse from the vile taste - they've had zero effect in the past when I had severe, non-stop vomiting triggered by mental period pains, which was much worse than what I've got now, so have v little faith they'll work now. Although it might mean they'll worse for lesser probs, obvy. This new surgery doesn't let you speak to Docs over the phone; you have to make an appointment to see them

Thanks for the reassurance, tho', DrCass. Is good to know the facts.

oh that's shite scorps :( worth a try tho i suppose. hope they have some effect

Scorps you could try putting something you do like the taste of on your tongue / in your other cheek at the same time?

If it is the buccal ones and you do struggle after trying them, then you should be able to ring the GP surgery and ask them to rewrite the script for the same drug but in oral formulation without needing to see the doc again.

And if you do have leftovers, send them over here. I just said hello to my DVD player. I think I need the antipsychotic effects....

Are you not meant to talk to inanimate objects, then?

Good plan about getting them to rewrite the script. I can keep enough liquid down in the day to get a tablet down.

What does the script say? If you're not sure what the preparation type is then if you type it out I can look it up in my BNF, which is the drug book the GPs / Pharmacists use. If that would help.

I haz had a hot toddy, thanks to the genius of Ocarina, and am feeling human again and therefore revising. Pathology is our subject this afternoon people. All together now - PUS! Everything seems to lead to pus. I don't know why this isn't better known...

PUS!

Mmmm, I think I need one of those tablets right NOW, thanks, Cass

Scropt reads: 'Prochloperazine - smg + TDS pm'. Then 28 for quantity. That's not very helpful, is it. I presume 'smg & TDS PM' is referring to me feeling shit day and night? Or is she inferring that I'm smug and tedious?

Oops, sorry bout that Scorps.

1 'smg' is, I suspect, 5mg, which is the dose.

1. TDS means you can take them up to 3 times a day.
2. Could the 'pm' be 'prn'? That would mean 3 times a day or when required.

The good news for you is that I think it'll be swallowing tablets, rather than buccal ones. The only buccal ones listed as licensed for this are a dosage of 3mg and the dose is 1-2 of them twice daily. Which isn't what she's written for you so hopefully you've just got to lie back and swallow

So hopefully you're golden.

Let me know how you get on!