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!

Our labour room had a fridge in it Scorps - something to ask about when you do your hossie inspection.

Scorps I am also down as Miss which fucks me off. I would have complained but I was distracted by the fact that they'd managed to get my date of birth wrong by three years, thereby making all my Downs etc odds wrong (results the same day, thank heavens). I'll make a noise at the 23 week scan I'm having though-if I end up in hospital, being addressed as Miss will seriously bother me. (More likely to be Mrs maybe now I'm married?)

I am also down as Miss because the midwife didn't hear my Ms. And I'm married and everything. I can't be arsed to complain. I just changed it on the front of my book. I'd rather be a Miss than a Mrs.

Suggest when seeing these people next time that you blatantly Look at their name badges and call them an entirely different name. They will soon be irritated and see your point.

Where is moo? Q jumping????

Thanks for that tip, Cluckers :) Am a bit clueless about what to expect, apart from pain, strangers faffing with me foofoo then a babybee. I could request a private room on grounds of having those special food needs (or find the cash for one).

StiffyLittleFingers, good to know I'm not the only one who gets so wound up by Miss-takes I think if I was married and still called Miss AND they got my DOB wrong, I might go mental with an automatic weapon Defo complain ASAP! My friend, who is married but stayed as Ms Maidenname, was called Miss Husband'ssurname by her NHS trust for about 6 months when she was differed (I got irate emails on the subject, as she knows I share her views). I wonder if it's something about getting pg that triggers the bureaucratic weirdness?

On the plus side, getting wound up about it made me feel less queasy. To this end, I have rung the newsagents to ask to have the Daily Mail delivered daily Who'd-a thunk that Richard Littlejohn could prevent bile, instead of causing it?

(Please note: I'm not really getting the Heil delivered. No amount of illness is worth that!)

Umm... Looks like I could be alone here, but I don't really mind what Im called. I would point it out if it was wrong, but if they couldn't or wouldn't change it I wouldn't waste their time or my energy arguing about it.

But like I said, I think Im probably alone in thinking that!!

Silver, that's what TYF suggests I might just call everyone Bernard, see how they like it!

Muser - you too? What is it with calling married birds Miss? It's been Best Practice guidelines for over a decade that Ms is the default setting for all women over 18, so is depressing that the NHS can't seem to get it right. I foresee a 'hilarious' game of cat and mouse where I ring peeps up and get them to make sure I'm Ms in the system then the fuckwit MW writes me up as Miss and so on and so forth until I murder her with sticklebricks in the Sure Start Centre.

I would be furious about the DOB though....

Please please please don't play cat n mouse score, they are busy enough as it is....

moo is living it up at a party I believe!

That's cool, MrsFC. But it matters v much to me on political grounds (TYF feels same). And I do see Miss as a little girl's title. The people one speaks to about these matters are in 'Data Quality' and it's their job to sort out minor database niggles like wrong DOBs, spelling mistakes in names or men getting called Mrs or similar, so is not stopping actual medical peeps getting on with the important stuff :)

Meant to add that of course I wouldn't play cat and mouse if it was nurses, etc., I had to hassle. But seeing as there's a department solely to deal with stuff like this, then that's okay. And if the farkin' MW didn't have a weird agenda, I wouldn't have to have done anything at all in the first place!

Oh I didn't realise that about the data people, Im sorry.

I haven't left yet!!! Handing over twitter to my dog shortly....

Moomintroll, I is your newest twitter follower SMOOOOCH>

FC - It bothers me but I do recognise that people dying, etc., is slightly more important than my Feminist values...

Oh ignore me score I'm all hormonal and not thinking straight (the FC and boy child have been taking it all day!).

I know you understand my luvver (Brizzle talk as Im back on home turf), and I was typically over reacting. Kiss n make up?

Taking the piss is my way of showing I luffs yer

I kept my maiden name, but confuse everyone by being called 'Mrs Maiden-name.' So what? At work they call me 'Ma'am.' Or sometimes 'Sir,' depending on where I am and what their grasp of the English language is.

I think I'd like to call you Sir too

I LOVES the Moomins. They were the best thing on TV, er, once upon a time... I am very excited to have a whole new Twitter friend scropy. I think I have about 12.

Partay was very good. Proper grown up canapes and champagne. I stood up too long and made my pelvis hurty. People tried to tell me scary stories but I la, la, la, la-ed. I think they were amazed I was out so late given the size of my abdomen.

I wonder when this baybee is coming out.

honey especially for you: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/pregnancy/1067932-airport-scanners - n.b., I think it may be "her"...

Ditto here. Each day I am out and about friends are v surprised I am still going strong and then they spend a few mins discussing if bump has dropped or not.

Last night I scoffed delicately snacked on fresh pineapple. Seems to have done sod all except add to my quota of five a day.

Did I catch up on my lost sleep yday? No! I fell asleep at about 9pm on the sofa for two hours. Put myself to bed and then I was wide awake with an achy bump so got back up. Came back to bed at 130am and then eventually dropped orf. Not being able to get to sleep after my nap was very frustrating.

Only things to do today are chores and maybe some internet shopping. Gotta get sunblinds for the car for the baybee. Any suggestions? I am still umming and ahhing about which sling/carrier to get. HI likes the Ergo.

Should really haul ass outta bed as my hip is going numb but I can hear the drone of HI watching F1. I mean who invented such a boring sport. It bores me to tears and it goes on for frigging hours and we have to have it invade not just one day but bloody two/three.

I agree silver the most boring, pointless and (dare i say it?) environmentally wasteful sport in existence. Couple of my best mates and my BIL are really into it, luckily TB can take it or leave it although has got the aftermath on the tv now. Snore.

pistefilly are you just rawling MN looking for the daftest titles for our viewing pleasure? :o keep up the good work.

I have on occasion received work correspondence and phone calls for Mr MyFirstName, but these are from foreign parts so is fairly understandable. And also phone calls asking me if I am Mr Silly (those that know my first name will understand) fun times! Is not the same as people in the UK getting it wrong, must be v frustrating. Your MW sounds a bit mental scorps

I always know when I go to the hospital that it's my turn for the scan. Someone comes out clutching my pregnancy book and looks terrified as they try and decipher my name. And then they call me Ms Muser, when everyone else got called in as Firstname.

Heh heh, but your name is so EASY to spell and decipher, Muse That reminds me of watching the Dean of my Uni try to read out my Greek friend's full name at our degree ceremony. In the end, she stormed up to the mic and said it for him!

Re: names - I think one reason why I get touchy about my title is that no-one seems to be able to spell my first name, even though it's easy (I realise it's uncommon but everyone's heard of it) and there's a well-known UK celeb with the same name. They often pronounce it wrong, which is quite a feat. AND no-one seems able to get my surname right, even though it's a short and easy surname . So I feel that surely people could get the title part of my name right!

Rocket, the MW was a bit... odd. She spent longer talking about why she hates the title Ms than anything else She kept saying that she'd love to be married and wanted to be a Miss so men knew she was single, etc. I also got the impression that she didn't have children of her own and she was about 50. And she talked a lot about how overweight she is (she was a big gal, but not particularly fat). Oh yeah, and because TYF hadn't gone with me (didn't know he was supposed to), she spent the first 5 mins trying to touch my hand and talking in a soft voice about domestic violence, as men 'not being interested in the pregnancy' is the first sign of DV 'apparently' Although I take DV very seriously, of course, I'm afraid I burst out laughing at the idea of TYF being a threat. This is a man who won't speak to people he doesn't know on the phone and gets upset if I trap a spider under a mug. And he's really into reading up about pg and the baby. I don't think she was fully convinced he's not a monster. And she asked why he'd not married me yet. Woman has ISHOOS!

Oh kaaaay!! well I suppose she meant well but seriously? I fucking hate it when people make assumptions like that, cheeky caah, you are right, she obv has ishoos. Or maybe she has just come across a lot of women with that sort of problem. I think you just need to chalk it up to her being a bit weird and bear that in mind with all future dealings with her. This probably has nothing to do with her ability as a MW but its a shame as really you want someone you can trust or at least have a bit of common ground with. :(

I am now in a bit of a quandary. My dating scan will be too early for the Nuchal fold test (at 9+6 i think so anyway) and then I am not to see my MW until 16 weeks, so I am not sure if they will book another test when I go for my scan or whether I need to sort this with my MW. I haven't met her as at my booking in it was a different one (not sure if she was off sick or on hols or what) and I didn't really know anythign aout it at that point and nothing was mentioned. IDK whether to leave it til the scan or try and see or speak to the MW next week as I am concerned about waiting lists and missing the window. Humph.