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!

MW (not my assigned one - quelle surprise) is brill. She said to try and avoid induction and advised telling hossie No. She is rock and roll !

The quack at the hossie is a bit scary tbh. So good job HI is coming with.

I am measuring at 40cm which is good. I wonder if it is a case of wrong dates really as according to them I am 41+1 or I could be 40+5!!!

Have no prob with monitoring so I will try and go for that option. Wondering if they will do another exam tmw. Ouch!

ok have lovely lunch with moo.

I will be dog walking later then off to stables to see to one very wet hoss. Very wet here today.

Still teary today. Pathetic. Need to man up!

silver echo everything okie and clucky say...

It is well worth bearing in mind, that you need to try and stay as relaxed as you can. Feeling really tense and anxious might just inhibit you more, so as hard as it is please try and do some nice things and keep your mind off bad stuff. Whatever happens you WILL be meeting your baybee very very soon so focus on that and not the possible scenarios.

What you need is a nice bubble bath, funny film or box set and some bouncing on that ball! Apparently romantic films get your oxytocin going (like nipple tweaking) so get out some pride and prejudice or whatever floats your boat and get lusting girl!

moosie I haz been good student and ball bouncing and been out walking. Had relaxing bath this morning when I got back from morning stables.

Have done very little else except watch tv today - oh and eat!

Got a few days off from stable chores now so I am looking forward to that.

I am contemplating a pedicure but have been told that hossie make you remove nail varnish so it seems bit of a waste of HI's hard earned cash.

Got NCT meet up this week tho I was expecting not to make it due to poss baybee arrival. Alas looks like I can make it which will be nice.

From this moment forth it's Operation Chill Out BIg Momma.

Silver spend the money you were thinking about spending on a pedicure on some reflexology instead. You still get your feet some pampering, and a good reflexologist with pregnancy experience will be able to help you on your way. I saw my reflexologist on my due date and less than 20hrs later had a baby!

Hugs 'n' shit, Sky. You could get a pedicure with all the pamper, but just a clear finish, and as Box says get a bit of reflexology done at the same time - there's apparently somewhere near your achilles that sets of labour.

not of, off!

They didn't remove my dark red nail varnish last time so go ahead and have a pedicure and see reflexologist too silv

Apparently the pressure on my "back passage" is becasue my whole pelvic floor dropped from birth #1 and the increased weight and pressure on it all now is making me feel like baybee is coming out of my bum. Nice. I guess I just have to put up with it and constantly clench until this one comes out the correct exit.

Today my What to Expect ap has told me that the baby is the size of a papaya. I do enjoy the fruit references. Although if it gets to watermelon I may cry.

Great to growing a papaya although I do dislike papayas. I prefer mangoes

Mango is my all time favourite fruit.

ok soz about your butt. I'd trade you my bum grapes if they weren't so firmly attached.

Awesome reminder about reexologist gals. Thanks again. I have been sent a recommendation so will call them tmw and hopefully can be squeezed in or summat. Totally forgot abot reflexology so I did.

Hope the foot fiddler does the needful sky

So, hags, what is the wisdom on me purchasing a Take That ticket for the same week as my EDD? Good idea? Bad idea? :o Swore I would see them this time round so its bloody sods law its the same week. Humph.

Buy it! You can always flog it!

It is the kind of ticket you'll be able to flog easily enough if you can't go. And imagine if you're 2 weeks overdue and don't go? You'll be so pissed off.

I have just found a piece of paper that explains why I got an internal at the rubbish 20 week scan. Apparently extensive research has shown that the length of the neck of the womb is very important in determining whether you're in risk of going into labour early. My hospital is offering screening for it, I suspect because they're doing some sort of trial on those with a short cervix. Screening is done with an internal scan.

Now why couldn't they have told me that in the room? I vaguely remember this letter arriving at some point, but I didn't pay much attention. It has an address for the screening coordinators. I should contact them and tell them how rubbish the explanations was, shouldn't I?

I have a love/hate relationship with the sodding What to Expect app. If it tells me to watch my weight one more time, I will fling it across the room, but I do like the constant food refs...

I hate those ones too. And the "try to get some exercise you heifer" updates. And the ones for men are always awful.

Basically, I like the fruit.

Apparently my baby is the size of a head of cauliflower. Which is better than last week when it was the size of a cucumber.

Reflexology silv definitely. It's just so nice even if it doesn't do the trick...

I have a pink ticket from the FC to buy TT tickets. I have seen them once before they split and twice after and Robbie at Knebworth, but never together. The FC understands it's importance. (as an aside, I was BFing the small child when I went to see Robbie and had to take my pump and express in one of those portaloos. Not nice....)

Mine is only the size of an apple pip but at least it's finally making me feel a bit sick, or hungry, I can't quite decide which it is yet but haribo halloween sweets are doing the trick.

We've been having a Gregory Isaacs tribute night in our living room. Who doesn't love a bit of lovers rock, eh?!

I'm off to bed to read the Finkler Question. Anyone read it? I'm a bit hooked.

Silver, hope you're feeling okay. Defo echo what peeps are saying about getting some lovely pampering done to yourself. Reflexology v good, and a nice hand massage or head and neck one might also be v dreamy (I imagine you probably don't want the torso or bump being manhandled).

Well, I've had 3 separate people tell me today that they think I'm having OMG_TWINZZZ!1!!1!! [hshock] This is due to me having unrelenting nausea and a small bump already. Yes, I really do have a bump. I know you're all thinking I'm deluding myself and I need to lay off the pies and do a few preggo-approved crunches, but I DO have a bump. I thought I was imagining it, but Needles Lady was the first to comment - she pointed out that it was v prominent when I lay down, whilst fat tums flatten down when you're horizontal. And despite being overweight, I don't have a particularly big belly. Then she pointed out the double trouble possibility. Then my parents commented and made the twinz crack. Then the Wyse Womyn who works at the groovy health food shop asked me how far along I am and when I said 'just over 10 wks' and she laughed 'with a bump that size already, I'd start buying two of everything if I were you!'. Her name is something like Moondragon or Moonflower, so she knows what she's talking about [hhmm]

I dunno if twinz would be good or if I'm just a heifer! [hgrin] Roll on the scan, eh?!

silv Fuck mn - I'm going to hug you 'til you pop - unless you feel that's a bad idea right now! Get the pedicure if you want one - if they're arseholes and want you to take the polish off, roll your eyes, gurn and ask if they can supply "a solvent-dunked rag on a stick" because removing it yourself is going to be far, far beyond your capabilities. I had an induction and emcs with nail polish and semi-face on. As for the VE, I just read VAG's birth story this morning and saw that she too found it very painful. Me too - in fact it was possibly worse (more intense?) than everything that went wrong that afternoon... fuck knows why it's so painful - but it was horrible for me and of course doesn't have the slower build up which a labour should have which perhaps is why it's such a shock to the system.

muser I went on water slides at around 6 months. Biggest hazard was heaving self up numerous flights of stairs and having to stare down judgey-pants. Baybee still alive.

rocket I'm having a sulk about TT tickets too. I've seen Robbie, but never all of them & swore after the last tour that I would see them next time. By my calculations I'm prolly due about 31 May. TT are in Cardiff on 14 June. What to do, what to do? I'm prolly going to boring sensible & not book a ticket. Then spend the whole of their tour watching updates with a face on. I'm mature like that

twinks I'm glad its not just me who feels sick & hungry at the same time. WTF is that all about? Its disgusting. Oh I feel sick, lets gorge on a huge slice of bread & butter. Mr Loz caught me eating crackers in bed last night - yesterday was a particularly pig-tastic day.

scorps OMGTWINZZZ!!!111!! When do you have your scan? I have dildocam scan in, oooh, 24 hrs time I shall know. 8.45 in the morning. Still seems unreal. At the moment I'm more excited at the thought of an extra hour in bed in the morning, as we're going to hossie straight from home.

I've still managed not to tell anyone - Mr Loz is determined we wait until after scan - we're not sure whether to announce after tomorrow's scan or the magic 12 weeks. However, I have told random people like my chiropractor & some poor woman in the swimming pool on holiday. She did ask if we had kids, I didn't just swim over to her & announce it.

alpine excuse my complete ignorance - VE? Pliz to tell what that is.

Right, am off to hunt down vag story.

Shit, I've already eaten a bag of crisps - its not good, is it?

laurie 'tis best if you don't know what a VE is until it's needed! It's something which "might" happen when you sneeze. In your shoes, I would book the TT concert. If it's totally fucking inconvenient or you're still pregnant you can sell it on ebay for a small fortune and treat your baybee to something veh posh from Howell's. Or , you could go in to late labour at the concert and then they all drag you on stage and Robbie becomes the godfather to your child and showers you it in expensive gifts forever more. If you've laid by then you may welcome an evening off.

loopyloo VE = vaginal examination. It's all glamour I tell thee. Good luck for dildoville tmw.

Have called the reflex lady. May also call the toe lady too (tho that sounds dodge!).

HI is in bad mood. He has a cold. We are off to hossie today and I am about to have a cup of RLT. The first of a few today no doubt.

I feel better today. Have had a bath and hair wash, discovered that all my clothes are in the wash, eg clothes that are decent to be seen in! At the moment it's tracksuit city round here and even HIs clothing is no longer his own. I have taken to cross dressing! only ishoo is that I can't get nuffin to do up over my preggo bump!!!!!

I'd just fathomed out what VE is & hot-footed it in here to tell you not to elaborate. Of course, I'm planning a polite cough & producing a talc smelling cherub, so I don't need to worry about such things anyway .

Oooh, Robbie as Godfather. Now we're talking. Thankfully tickets don't go on sale until Fri, so hopefully after dilcocam delight tomorrow I'll know a bit more & then decide.

silver glad you're feeling a bit better today. I'm keeping the whole reflexology thing in mind. Convinced it helped me get diffed (twas the only thing I did differently after 3 years of TTC).

Silv and all other preggos who are struggling with clothes I have found these to be excellent

I was only wearing them around the house as they are tres casual but as only leggings now fit and jeans are just a bit too hurty I have started wearing them out and about. I have just been to Sainsburys in them - I think I looked like I was in my pjs but there were only old people in there at this time so I didn't look out of place. I also prefer to park in the "wider" bay parking space as I can't get out between the cars in normal spaces. Today I am going to the dentist and then going to make a range of different chutneys for Christmas gifts - the house will stink once I am done.

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