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.

Greasy food made me boak when the sickness was really bad. The idea of Burger King onion rings makes me feel sick still. However, a McDs cheeseburger was always welcome.

I have been feeling moopy today for no reason I can quite decide on. Just very tired. TBG, knowing of my moopiness, bought me squirty aerosol cream and made me cocoa with lots of squirty cream and fudge pieces on top. Yum.

And now I'm going to go to bed because I'm shattered.

Please can we stop mentioning On Rs? I never liked them before I was pg and now... solid boakfest

I want a Wimpy burger, the way they used to do them - no sauce, raw chopped onions, overtoasted bun. Food of the gods!

honey haha - 'tis a test of troo lurve - whether he'll hold your yellow handbag or not. We were talking about it last night and he said the worst bit was when he was carrying it and it "warmed up"!

Your doggy will be fine and you're going to have so much fun with the two of them. Yesterday I had Bear propped up on the sofa and little dog chose to sat between me and him. He was well supported so was able to twist his shoulders around and really grab out. He was thumping stroking her face and even grabbed and ear and pulled it! She just takes it, but tries to inch closer and closer for a tongue-kiss... there will of course come a time when he is the one trying to kiss her!

Btw, I think you're allowed to change your mind if you go beyond a certain point in pregnancy, you know, like re-setting the clock or something.

muser Congratulations on reaching 24 weeks. It seemed to me too like a small victory.

I feel such a fraud. I've only actually vommed once. Once. And I'm moaning. I feel constantly sick though.

Not sure how Mr Loz is going to cope as he still goes on about the once I vommed (we were on hols, he was having a relaxing morning shower when I barged in shouting "Out!" "Sick!" Oh, the glamour.

I feel crap this morning as I had to outright lie to one of my oldest friend's last night. She's the RL one who knows of our FC shenanigans. Anyway, she saw my sickness band, grabbed my hand & said "Something you want to tell me?" whilst grinning like a fool. I made up some almighty shit story about still being on Clomid making me sick etc etc. We're DETERMINED to wait unil the 12 week magic mark. I know she'll forgive my lie but ARGH!

Midwife is coming over in 20 mins for my hour long booking in appointment. An hour, really? I mean I'm diffed. I just want to know 1. When is my 12 week scan so I can finally announce to all & sundry 2. Can I dye my hair coz my roots are minging.

Moo hope you're OK & managed a good sleep. Have some extra nipple tweaks from me.

Muser 24 weeks? You do realise you are well over halfway to baybee delivery????

Sorry gals am skim reading the VomChat as eating porridge.

OMG we are selling the dog. Had best night's undisturbed sleep evah. According to my ma via sms he slept in his bed on their bedroom floor and not their bed. Little monkey... I'll swap a family pack of crunchies every month for the hairy mammal.

Woke up at 9am this morning after an erotic dream about William Defoe with a really intense cramp down below. Hmmm Mr Moo not too chuffed about Mr Defoe starting off proceedings. Nuffink since but think I will go for a longish walk this morning and pray.

Loz good luck with your booking in! And yes you can dye your roots!

Loz constant nausea is not to be underestimated. I hope you start to get over it soon. And Scorps you made me almost vom with your Tales of Solid Vom.

Pone yes it is rather extreme (two pregnancies and SPD to get TG to put the dishwasher on) but needs must. And it seems to be working. Well it worked brilliantly over the weekend, but when he was at work yesterday I just sat around looking at all the stuff that needed doing thinking ARGHHHH! He specifically forbade me from hoovering. Now hoovering and me do not generally go together anyway, so I think it was the fact I was forbade that produced the sudden desire in me to turn from slattern in Hyacinth fecking Bouquet. Contrary cow that I am....

Well I think I am no longer in de nile. Tomorrow I have my 34 week check (yes count 'em 34) with mw. And last night I bought a birth pool. Eeeek.

MooMa I hope you are doing ok. Have you laid yet?

Right, today I am off to see our landlord to negotiate us moving into the much bigger farmhouse next door. They are having trouble letting it and I have a feeling they would like us out of here so that their nephew, his wife and new baybee could move in. They certainly seem very keen to encourage us to move - I think our house is more lettable (new warm and toasty conversion as opposed to 14thC farmhouse that hasn't been updated since Noah set sail in the ark), and they are offering us discounted rent for 6 months while the building work behind us is completed. It is a lovely old house with rayburn and logburner and probably about double the size of ours. On the downside, it is colder but I don't reckon that is such a bad thing. I am quite excited but at same time wondering if we are insane. I definitely favour moving in before xmas/due date, rather than move with small baybee. Was it FP who moved at about 37 weeks with SPD?!

Sorry, all very dull and memememe. Got so much in my head at mo and it is all spewing out!

Definitely move before baybee Pol. We want to move next year, but it won't be until autumn probably so at least the baby is a decent age. That's if we can even sell our current flat. I can't believe you're 34 weeks already, where does the time go?

Moo well over halfway now, it is a bit scary. Now get walking and bring that baybee on.

I'm inclined to agree Muse. In fact, if we are going to move, I want to do it within the next two weeks. I do not want to be moving at 38/39 weeks. Imagine if I go into labour before, or even during the move.

I am slightly freaked out by the 34 week thing. How can I have been ttc for two years, pregnant for over 7 months and now be freaking out about the idea of having a baybee?

Get walking MooMa. You are just milking it now... hury up and lay this baybee!

Haha, I thought Alpini meant an actual yellow handbag (had visions of Jailbait trotting along with a swish bag!) but I now suspect I've been dense and you mean a drip/pissbag

Lozza, why do men think they have any right to the bathroom? Gah! Did I tell yehs about the family friend espying my anti-vom bands at my Gran's birthday and yelling loudly about preggos wearing them?! I had to drag him off to 'help with stuff in the kitchen' where I told him the truth and he apologised and excitedly promised to keep quiet. I didn't mind telling him, as his husband died recently and he could do with a bit of good news. I then bullshitted to everyone about them helping my digestive probs.

I thought I'd managed to convince my Gran they are for a tummy bug but she keeps asking how I am and if there's any news at our end, etc. Yeah, she's totally fooled

Poo, if you're going to move, I'd do it ASAP. Keep the truth of how exhausting and stressy things will be with a new addition around clearer in your mind than the fantasies of a fab new home We're looking to move too - we love our flat, but is too small (nowhere to put a cot, even) and I'd never be able to wrangle a pram/buggy up and down the weird internal stairs alone (I can't even manage my bike).

HUZZAH for 6 months Muse! Keep on truckin'

Sorry to hear about the sickliness Loz and Scorps. Scorps are your intolerances so bad in that you could not have a little bit of what you fancy? Pregnancy can be a strange thing and the body can adapt for a short time. I have a friend with MS who has a child. Basically she was advised if she was to fall pregnant all MS symptoms would go during the pregnancy although they would come back worse once she delivered. She decided to go ahead and have a baby (this was a huge decision for her) but it just shows sometimes the body works in weird ways.

No movements here. All a bit dull really. However have been analysing the dates this week and tomorrow it will be 10.11.10 and Friday will be 12.11.10 so I think I will opt for either of those. Mr C did come home last night with a rather large pineapple under his arm, chopped it all up and told me to eat it all up for breakfast which I duly did. He is so desperate to get out of work this week! I worry that the excess fruit is just going to make me ahem, poo a lot!

Moo have you tried teh sechs yet?

Well we are not moving. Despite the heavily discounted rent and offer to help us move out/in, it is all the extras that have really done it - it would cost us up to £300 a month more what with extra rent, a huge extra council tax bill, extra leccy and oil to heat the place etc. Much as I want to move, I'd rather put up and shut up for another year so we can pay off debts/afford a holiday etc. There is no doubt we will have to move in the next year or so as we are fast outgrowing this house - mainly due to all of TG's crap hobbies. Strangely, even though I sometimes hate this house I am not actually disappointed. I think I just wanted to know one way or the other so we could make plans/get organised. I think I want to nest but there was no point until now.

Phew... am exhausted now. Insomnia seems to have struck just at the time when I could really do with storing up the ZZZZs. I was up until 3am watching crap tv last night. Still, rather that than have the nausea back again any day.

Do you reckon Moo is laying right now? She has gone v quiet...

Okie are you saying you are bored of daytime tv? I went 12 days overdue with Boo and was soooo bored by the time I went into labour. I actually did a little excited jig when my plug fell out, I was so relieved it was kicking off.

Hi chaps, no laying here. No instead I am VERY ANGRY and despite the risk of boring you all senseless I need to VENT. I suspect the baybee may be slightly scared of coming out now.

I don't get angry very often so 3 episodes in one trip to our local shops is quite significant. Clearly too much daytime TV!

Episode 1) Went to Gails for lunch and a drink. Incompetent staff tried to put a huge sliced loaf loose in a bag. Who puts a fucking loaf of bread loose in a bag - it will go stale in about 13 minutes. I asked the "boy" serving us if he could bring the take away bits over whilst we sat down and waited for our food and he said no I had to wait. I waited whilst he served 5 other people and then lost it and walked off and sat down.

Episode 2) Attempted to return a dress to Pretty Pregnant which I bought a while ago but which looks totally discoloured and awful when stretched across the bump. Manager (who I had to wait 20 mins to see) told me to my face I was wrong and that there's nothing wrong with it and that's just the way stretchy fabric is. GGRRRRRR. I quoted Sale of Goods Act and Fit for Purpose at her, asked for H.Q. contact details and stormed out. I have spent nearly a fucking £1000 in that shop over the last 9 months and won't be treated like that. Annoyingly I needed to buy a feeding bra from there and can't now having stomped out.

Episode 3) Starbucks forgot my order.

I think I need a drink and a lie down. Hormonal moi?

polly £300 a month is a lot and you don't want to be stressing about money worries now. That place does sound great, but as you say, if you're not that disappointed is probably the right thing to do.

MooMa sorry to hear about your nightmarish morning. And you haven't even got the dog to kick. Incompetent shop staff drive me absolutely insane with rage. I recommend a glass of wine with diagnosis murder, feet up and breaaaathe.....

I think you are right Moo it is too much - we have only just reached a comfortable place with TG getting his payrise, so it seems mad to spend it all on a massive house and go back to how we were. I am trying to ignore the fact that he won't actually have a job there in a year or two... la la la. Gotta love these preggo hormones, I feel like I'm in a little bubble of happiness and nothing really penetrates it.

Sorry to hear about the house PooPoo but it does sound like it's for the best. At least you know what you're doing now.

moo rubbish shop staff give me the rage as well. I agree with the glass of wine & telly cure. Or just lay the baybee, that'll take your mind off it.

I may well go and get a glass of wine now and pop some crapola on. You are right - what I need is some contractions to take my mind off the rage. I have written a strongly worded email to PP HQ and sense checked with the great legal mind upstairs, Mr Moo. He's asked me if I'm prepared to spend our savings suing them, so I've tempered it a bit. :O Ha ha.

Cleaner also just put brand new tracksuit trousers in the tumble dryer. GAAAAAHHHHH.

Cokiefiend, sadly, most of my allergies cause massive digestive problems v similar to my sickness - terrible nausea, awful stomach pains plus appalling diarrhoea to boot, so it would be madness to 'cheat'! Cheers for thinking 'bout me, though. At least I'm used to not being able to eat what I want Keep munching that pineapple!

Moo, you rant away, m'dear. You deserve it. Loose bread in a bag? Would never have happened in my day, mumble, grumble. I'm not taking the piss, I agree. Some people haven't got the sense they were born with. And as for Pretty Pregnant treating you so shoddily - WANKERS! Don't worry about returning for a bra; they'll be used to hormonal mega-preggos

Bums about the house, Poll, but £300 extra a month is bollocks. At least now you can avoid the stress of moving when you're ready to lay :)

RESULT!! Owner of Pretty Preggers just phoned me and apologised profusely and offered me whatever I want. Haha ha ha ha ha ha. I should be on Watchdog I tell you! Vindication! Going to pop down now to drop the dress off, be all gracious to the shopgirls and go for a celebratory pint.

Hehe, that has put a smile on your face Moo. Oooh I could really do with a pint right about now...

I am oddly very happy to not be moving, despite having been desperate to move out of this house for about 3 years. It must be the nesting instinct. I just want to make it all cosy and lovely for Shrimp. And now, given the SPD, I would quite happily welcome some queue jumping from Shrimp.

good on yer moo sounds like you kicked ass! hell hath no fury like a preggo scorned eh? :o

pol glad you are feeling sanguine about the house move. Last thing you need is extra money worries really.

Congrats, Moo! I think WatchPESH would make an excellent tv programme - swollen, hormonal, frazzled, nauseous women bellowing at fucktards and jobsworths until they get results

Or PESHwatch.... like autumn watch, but following preggos around and observing them in their natural habitat. Actually, come to think of it, an hour long show of us lot sat on our arses, stuffing our faces while MNing would not make very good tv.

He he he. Just back now. Tell you what, I should fuck off this advertising malarky and go into human rights or something. Maybe I could help poor beleaguered preggos with heavy cakes and other serious complaints?

We did have half a pint of guest ale in the draft house and a pot of chili cashews to celebrate me actually putting some money INTO the joint account. Yumtious. Amazing how a bit of shopgirl vindication can put you in a good mood . I feel all gracious again. And I got to buy another Bravado feeding bra which was lucky.

Nesting is very important polly and you'd feel at sea I think if you weren't 100% sure about moving. I went totally quackers for a fortnight cleaning like a maniac.

So sweep numero 2 and scan booked for morning. Slightly worried about the consequences if this doesn't work. It has to though right? I've had a show... and it's STILL coming out...

If no workie with that we will have to resort to curry and The Secks. I just can't face either at the moment. Too fat and risk of heartburn too painful.

Ha ha I like it scorps and pollo - PESHwatch.

Moo I reckon you should just ride MrMoo tonight until he can't walk and then hopefully you won't need the scan/sweep tomorrow.

Well I just called the landlords to let them know we are staying put. They were v disappointed - they don't want the old house empty over winter and fear that may be the case and really wanted us in there as it would make such a fab family home etc etc. And then she said she will talk to her DH tonight and see what he says! Gawd, they are already heavily discounting the rent for us, and I can't see they could drop any more... No. I am not moving. I have just got my head around staying!

hehe, I've just eaten three bags of extra-sour halloween haribo (we didn't get any trick or treaters and I am not feeding any child of mine sweets, so I am doing the decent thing. Waste not, want not!) Shrimp is now doing gymnastics and my stomach is stretching in ways I'd never thought possible!

come on moo have they not kicked you out of here yet????