The PESH deli - Happy New Year! The one where Polly finally lays and we get lots more BESHy wins.

[PollyPoo]

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, girl born Nov 2
okiecokie, girl, born Nov 12
Honeymoo, boy, born Nov 11
ReginaMonologue, boy, born Nov 13
Maswera, boy, born Dec 24

UPDIFFED

PollyPoo, wondering if this baybee is every going to come out, due 23 Dec or 28 Dec, depending on who you trust
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, blooming at last, due February 27
Ginhag, reckless cake-carrier, due 28th Feb
Medee, has a deceptive bump, 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 18th May.
Laurielou, the unmarried hussy with the "surprise" diff, due 31 May (ish)
Rocketleaf, no longer jealous of morning sickness, due 1 June.
TwinkleToes, supergluing her fanjo shut, due 20 June.
Orchid, hoping for a zen like child, due 1st July
Ginfox, loving the new mega-boobs, due 12th July.
Ivegotmrbitey, Marmite is a lovely name for a baybee, due 27th July.
LadyGoneGaga, Compulsive Stick pisser, due 28 July

Sorry for the not terribly inventive opening, but I need to moan update you all...

Come in, grab a chair, a wheel of brie and a glass of champagne to welcome in the new year.

Round these parts they call that bit 'Biffin's bridge' Med.

Ah, I love an inappropriate earworm.

I used to sing one of the flight of the conchords songs to mooch when he was teeny...cos I could remember all the words, and it used to bring on the gummy grins...

However, walking along the street singing 'now there's people on the street getting diseases from monkeys' etc whilst pushing the pram most definately made me look like a menkul

At least is wasn't "hermaphrodite ladies!" gin :o

My inappropriate earworm is always Bongwaters "sucking and shopping, sucking and shopping, cos thats what being a womans all about" Gets strange looks from TB.

We used to sing this to smallchild when he was a tiny baybee: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKDtUzRIG6I Fish heads]

oops

Rocket 'They have Nick Cave dolls now? I want one!'

poooooooooo where are yoooooooouuuu???

If, right, I do all the stuff you are supposed to do to encourage a breech baby to go head down but the baby actually WAS head down already, does that mean you will akshurely be persuading it to go arse down??

I have Done Some Stuff this morning. Which means I am now wiped out and hurty. And just to finish me off mooch has decided we should watch bala fucking mory. Aaaaaargh.

Oh my God, fish heads!!! I thought I was the only person who remember that!

TB has just found the poster from the night back in 1998 that we met at. I think we should frame it and put it in the nursery :o

gin what makes you think no.2 is breech? Is it just a feeling? Can you get confirmation before you do anything? There is plenty of time yet I think. Don't know if you can flip from normal way round to breech, I know my sis had DN1 manipulated round but she just flipped back to breech position a day or two later.

Sorry for balamory eep, can you at least monopolise the sofa and have a lie down?

rocket am relatively clueless tbh BUT this morning all strong kicks were low down ( very low down, was waiting for a leg to come out my foof...)

Strong kicks= legs/feet
Lighter 'kicks'= arms/hands

So I read somewhere at some point. However they could've felt like 'strong kicks' because I was lying on the poor sod's arm and he was trying to struggle free!

Also there is a hard lump at top of bump. Either head or arse (hope I can tell the difference when he comes out! )

I know there's not really any point in worrying, it's just with him having moved down so much and me having this insane conviction that he will be here early that I would just like to know he's the right way up!

Have collapsed on sofa. Mooch is experimenting with how many times he can ask 'why' before mummy's head explodes.

have you some chores to do on your knees, like floor scrubbing, gin? That is meant to help.

I have done 2 hours of ironing while watching Kiki's Delivery Service - now it is time to take the tree down. I am Doing Stuff.

Hmm gin could be and I know he should be turned by now but you aren't due for 8 weeks so there is still time no? If you are worried tho I'd try and get to see someone asap so you can start trying to do something about it.

balamory and "why?" The joys yet to come :o

Also forgot to say hello to cas and hope the revision is going well! Short but sweet!

Spending lots of time kneeling forward, on all fours or lying on left side (which is a fave as is the only one that doesn't hurt.) am also hoping all the hippo-related positivity will mean all is peachy.

No mw appt til 35 weeks n she didn't check at the 28 week one, so not really sure I can do a lot. And I sure as fuck can't scrub the floor...

I may just decide to stop wondering about it and assume all is fine :) seems like the easiest option....

still nothing from poop I notice

(italics for dramatic effect)

We have taken 4 big boxes of books and the big ladder to our shiny new storage facility. Well, not really ours. A friend's, who we are now splitting it with. More must go. I think I can hear TBG doing more sorting. They are all his books.

My favourite moments of the journey were the looks I gave TBG when he said we had to park in a carpark the opposite side of the road to the storage place and carry the books over. And then the look I gave him when he said our unit was upstairs. Sometimes he forgets I am really quite pregnant and am not about to hump a big, heavy box of books across a busy road and then up some stairs. We got let into the carpark at the back of the unit and then he discovered the trolleys and the lift.

I might just stare at paint on Dulux and decide what colour I want to repaint the room.

Ah exciting times muse I am going to do a book sort very soon but am going to be ruthless and car boot most of them. Some of my arty books can go in the roof.

yes polly must either be laying or having another massive lie in just to tease us again. Hoping for the former.

gin not worrying about it sounds like a good plan! Although my MW said that the appointments that they needed to see us at were at those intervals but that if anything was worrying me I should arrange one at any time. If it continues to pray on your mind just go see her, that's what shes there for!

I have been ruthless rocket and have very few books anymore. TBG has been ruthless for him, but he has so many books that even have sent 250 odd to charity shops, we still have masses.

I agree with rocket, gin, if it's bugging you go to the midwife anyway.

Still here, sans baybee. . Really thought it was kicking off last night, woke at 2 with rather strong contractions and baybee's feet pushing into the top of my ute, which meant head was really pushing on cervix. Contractions initially came every 15 mins, but then I had some weaker ones and they had really random time lapses between them. I eventually fell asleep and once again woke up with nothing doing this morn. Been to visit Nice SIL this morning, she is due tomorrow and has had no twinges at all yet, not even any BH. Sooooo beyond bored now.

Sorry to hear about achey backs and ouchy ribs. Can't summon any energy for violence, but I do have a lovely stash of half price chocs and a thorntons cake from waitrose - feel free to dig in.

Yup, thirded. At least then you can check whether the baby's head as engaged - if not, really doesn't matter which way up he is at the moment.

I'm currently dealing with living space being full of piles of books. Has really put me off buying more physical books - kindle only from now on, I reckon.

Pollster Are you there? How are you feeling?

X-post! Sorry about the lazy baby, Pol, but sounds promising?

oh poo proper frustrating, as drom says tho, sounds like you won't be waiting much longer!

Fuck know drom! Seems there is nothing I can do to influence this baybee (stubborn git) so instead I am going to sit on my arse and rest as much as poss, while stuffing my face with chocolate.

That strikes me as a good plan Polster.

Bob is kicking up a storm today. And I've realised I'm back to having two bellies. My belly, and then the baby belly on top. Weird. I thought it would be all one mass of stomach at this point.

gin your forearms over head advice, do you mean fold so my hand is touching each elbow - as if I was about to do some Russian kicky leg HEY HEY dancing?