I wandered lonely as a PESH

[Muser]

That floats on high o'er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
Of cackling, quaffing, ne-er-do-wells

Pull up a seat, grap a glass of vino and a piece of sushi, it's Delitime again.

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.
Silversky, boy, born Nov 1
SomethingSuitablyWitty, awaiting update

UPDIFFED
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
MrsFC, joining whether she wants to or not, due 22 Jan
ChoChoSan, "and Lo! The lord did resurrect her petrified womb", due 31 Jan
CluckyKate, hatching an egg, due February 2
Perfect Dromedary, defied medical science, due February 24
Muser, will she ever stop puking?, due February 27
Ginhag, reckless cake-carrier, due 28th Feb
Medee, finally over the Haribo craving, due March 12
Casserole, completely out of witty things to add, due April 8
Scorpette, now carrying a RL baby in addition to Clothilda and the squid, due 21 May.
Laurielou, the unmarried hussy with the "surprise" diff, due 31 May (ish)
Rocketleaf, no longer jealous of morning sickness, due 1 June.
Twinkle Toes, supergluing her fanjo shut, due 23 June.

My parents' first grandchild was conceived OUT OF WEDLOCK to a 17 year old that was not yet out of Sunday School. Not only was it not met with excitement: I think it bloody nearly killed the pair of them

THE HORROR! Knowing a little of your background, I can imagine that the party poppers were left in the drawer for that particular announcement

Similar thing happened with first of TYF's cousins - devout RC parents, eldest daughter had baby at 15. Slight scandal, esp. as they coincidentally lived next door to the RC chapel (TYF's gran still does). Still, she got married to the father and had another son and they're still together.

I think MIL will say 'that's nice, dear' and then talk for 15 minutes about barn owls (usual drill). In her lingo, this means 'I am literally weeping with joy at the news I am going to be a Grandma; you have made my life complete. I'm so proud of you, son'...

Cho - I can't believe you think you have outgrown your mat clothes, you have looked like a total style icon both times I have seen you!

mas & meds, I know what you mean about BF obsessed MW's. It's like they are so used to hearing 'no I want to FF', that they actually don't hear a positive answer!!

I BF'd for 10 months, but it makes me REALLY CROSS when people judge others on their feeding choices. Being a parent is tough enough without adding more guilt about how you feed your baby.

FWWW score, Bob could be short for Roberta - my favourite girl character from the Railway Children! You do seem pretty keen on it being a girl - how will you feel if its a boy??? Sorry to hear about the IL's, but I guess you could just tell them in a matter of fact way, not expecting a reaction, and then save all your joy for each other. It's not their baby and wonderful news, it's YOURS. Let them have the news but keep the joy to yourself. And I wish I could tell you the heartburn stops, but it just gets worse I'm afraid!

MrsFC, I haven't said whether I prefer a girl or boy. I really don't think me referring to a foetus using a girl's name before we know the sex will traumatise the future child if it's a boy! Whatever it is, it'll have a lifetime of nonsensical gender stereotyping to deal with, so I'm not bothered about giving it a daft name right now in the Deli. If it is a boy, will change it on here. In private, we have a silly, non-genderised name for it, which is what matters. We just want a healthy, happy baby, that's all - don't read too much into me calling it 'Isadora' :)

Am v worried about acid getting worse - am already on strongest dose of drucks possible in pregnancy for it and it's not taking away all the pain as it is

As for the ILs, we realise they won't be that exuberant. It's just that they pay TYF so little attention and interest that I guess we'd like a little bit for him. If they don't react, it won't dent our joy, cos nothing could :)

What drugs are you on Score ?

My lovely MIL keeps telling me that the only thing motherhood definitely brings you is a sense of guilt. She has always worried about how much food her sons managed to eat - TNB was officially diagnosed as failing to thrive, and she managed to persist with BF purely by expressing.

Gender is a weird thing, isn't it? I honestly don't have a preference either way, I'm just so thrilled to be pregnant (Pollyanna again). And having just finished reading this plus all of the current debate about how bollocks all of the gendered neuroscience is, it's hard to see that my baby will be anything but itself.

Omeprazole (think I've spelt that right). It's taken away about 80% of the pain, which is great (shame about the rest).

Drom I have that book on order at the mo! And I'll thankyou not to say neuroscience in my presence again, you KNOW that's my current revision hell.....

bangers!

EXACTLY how I feel, Drom. We do privately have a slight preference, but I can honestly say that I won't be upset whatever we've got. Just so thrilled to be pg.

All the current genderising of clothes, toys, everything is ridiculous - and far more extreme than when we were growing up in an otherwise much more sexist society. Male, female, gay, straight, transgendered - I don't care, I'll just love that child. Having studied sex and sexuality development science in massive depth for my MA, I know what a load of bollocks the majority of belief about gender and sexuality is.

Polpot hello my lovely. Just to let you know, if I lived nearer I'd be over like a shot to help you nest. So sorry to hear about the high BP - am crossing everything that it stabilises. xxx

Polly you make me realise how lucky I am not to be really suffering like that. I'm so sorry my love. I would also be over like THAT if I lived anywhere near you, Dyson and casserole in hand...

X-post! So sorry to hear about the lack of support, Poll Being so capable can come back to kick you in the teeth, cos people see you as the one that never needs help. Is weird how strongly labels affect people's behaviour and judgement, even in the face of being proven obviously wrong. I guess it's backhanded and not-very-helpful compliment that they think you don't need any help

If they never helped any of your sibs out, then that would be different and you'd be disgruntled but understand, but if they'll help one, then they should help the others (this imbalance is what winds me up about the way TYF gets overlooked). You're wonderful and need a bit of help

Feel so sorry that it was mixed blessings with the MW Must've been so upsetting to hear you're ideal for a home birth BUT then your bp might mean you're whipped off to hossie anyway. Will send you lots of ideal bp love and vibes and you try to relax as much as you can, when you can and get necking that pineapple madras come next Thursday :)

You deserve to be mememe - you're having a hard time of it at the mo ]

PS Must point out to all that TYF isn't whiny about his parents not reacting well - it's just that he doesn't feel like telling them as it'll be virtually pointless knowing how they usually greet news, even exciting news (blankly, as if it's weird to be told anything about anyone, ever).

Oooh, Polyps. Cross-post. I really hope the bp stabilises and that you get your lentil-weaving homebirth.

pols I hear ya. One set of roolz for everyone else innit. When I was preggo, MIL was interested but not overly, esp when home alone a lot due to HI working but now MB is here. Well she's here at every opportunity. Not for me of course. For MB. Its great that she is doing the ironing. However HI and I dont even do any ironing. Dont really feel I can say "Could you do the skirting boards and scrub the floor dans la cuisine?"

GooGaGa thanks for ye tips! I am not sure if MB may have a little bit of white on his tongue. I will get HV to check it out on Fri. Cos I thought MB had colic or reflux or still does! He gets very upset whilst feeding and occ arches his back, pulls his legs or pushes his legs out straight and the sorta shudder and he then takes to clamping on my nip. . Sorry I digress, I read that feeding more upright would help, but I will go back to tummy to mummy. Does having big boobs make feeding tougher? I find I am having to support my boob whilst he's on it. Sorry differs if this should be in the SPA.

Oh omeprazole, Score? I think that's in Zanprol. It works a treat doesn't it? We have some for when MrA has overdone it the night before and he always gets an awful acidy tummy. He would sympathise with you, but doesn't deserve to of course as his is entirely self inflicted. Typical man - he groans like a stuck pig because of a hangover! I just shove some Zanprol down his throat. What we would do if men had to bear babies, I shudder to think.

Rie, I keep telling TYF that he's having the next one, but he seems to think that's impossible, for some stupid reason

Have just watched vid of Curly's wee one on FB and have MELTED. Babies are quite nice, aren't they?

Ah, the only reason I mentioned it score was because I was SO CERTAIN my baby was a 'Millie'. And when it was a boy - I was delighted for the FC, but about three days later I was weirdly upset. I just couldn't get my head around it. I am delighted with my first born boy child, but I wanted a girl more than I would admit to anyone, and so I couldn't even admit how upset I was that it wasn't. I mean - I'd wanted another baby so desperately, why would something like the gender upset me? Honestly - it was really awful. I didn't tell anyone. I'm completely fine about my huge boy baby now - delighted in fact, about growing old surrounded by big tall men to look after me. But I reckon it took till I was around 25 weeks....

I'm glad you won't let the IL's dent your joy. Fuck em.

Oh pols, you are a true trooper.I'm so so so sorry for your crappy SPD. And rubbish families. Will it make birth really painful too? Or will an epidural sort that out? And how long will it take after the birth for you to recover? I heart you and I don't care who knows it.

FC, I think that whatever I'm having I'll probably have a few days of feeling a bit weird about not getting the other flavour - even if I'm getting my slight preference! 'Want what you can't have' syndrome, innit! I had a strong preference when we started TTC but after it taking over a year, I'm just grateful full stop. And I love my baby so much already that my preference is for THEM, not a fantasy 'ideal sex' child. It's a funny old game. Glad you're so happy about the sex now - and what fun you'll have becoming the MIL from hell in the future, buahahaha (every Scorpio woman's dream, right?)

So maybe if it is wee chap, Score you can change the name from Isadora to Rudolf? Or Njinsky?

Sorry, I have no idea what I'm doing here...I'm a blatant interloper

Exactly score - I plan to be a very aggravating MIL whose son's can do no wrong. But in my defence they will have DH's that know how to cook & use a washing machine!

Interloper! Seize her!!! Make her stay!!!

Probably Javier, Rie (Javier de Frutos is one of my fave contemporary dancers and I was once lucky enough to do a workshop with him). Or maybe just Izzy (if it's good enough for Jewish boys...).

Mmmmm, being an evil MIL... livin' the dream!

Bob is not short for Roberta. But Kate is short for Bob. As any fule kno.

In that case, I'm going to call my soon-to-be bean Howard after Howard Goodall one of my fave contemporary composers. I once spoke to him after a free concert I won on Classic fm! We talked about the the relative merits of Penny Lane vs Get Back as the Beatles's finest hour. Not sure what I'll do if it's a girl - Howardine? Howarda?

I'm not sure I've heard of de Fructos? Is he Spanish?