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.

cross post score although SURE that post did not take me 10 minutes to write! Good skills on the Aaron knowledge there. He just gets more delicious sounding by the minute.

Well if you are going to be THAT kind of MIL then I will just have to hope lozzer has a boy ;-)

She might like older boys anyway Rocket so she can marry mine :o

Chuffed for you sweetness

Lovely scan news, Sprocket. A little girl for you to dress in pwetty dwesses and pink frilly bits . T'is lovely news though. although I know she'll only have eyes for my MiniG, the roguish, curly blond, blue eyed ladieez man that he is.

Now boo that is a very very good point :o and a long held if little acknowledged dream of mine. Although MiniG would also be very eligible match, they are both gorgeous boys! I am now realising the advantage of the bias towards having boys in the Deli :o

Mind you, if she anything like her mum she'll be after some yet to be conceived BESH offspring from the distant future

Aw Muse, you hormonal menkul! Not long and you will be posting pictures of your beautiful Bob and we will all be cooing over her/him. Have this slap around the chops with a wet nappy. That better?

I am a hormonal menkul Polly. But your baby is so lovely it would bring out the menkul in anyone.

Right, I am going to give OBEM a go. I loved it last time, made me feel all inspired to have a baby, but the Christmas one had too many NICU babies for comfort.

I'll give yer summat to cry about, Muse!

Waaaargh! Opening credits show birthing pool like scene out of Jaws

I still don't think I can watch that... good luck Scorps!

And thanks Muse. Obv I think BB is gorg and utterly adorable, but is all heartwarmy and melty when others agree.

So far it's not freaking me out. I weirdly like seeing the possible ways birth can go. Makes me feel more prepared. Plus, tiny babies at the end! They always look so happy when they get their baby, it must be worth it.

I am avoiding OBEM this time round, all a bit too close to the bone for my liking. The trailer for the Xmas one was making me too freaked out so I am definitely thinking it is Not a Good Idea for me to watch it.

score I am thinking that you with your Scorpio ways and me with my airy fairy Aqauri ways would be the ESH MIL equivalent of Meet the Fockers

What pisses me off is the amont of women that start on their fecking backs.

Pol, BB sure is a gorgeous chick - this is objective opinion, not just subjective

Famous Last Words - woman on OBEM who said 'I don't like making a fuss': 'WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! THEPAINTHEPAINTHEPAAAAAIN! NOOOOOOOOO!' x infinity.

Me too Princess, too much laying around squirming. They obviously want to move off their backs, so why aren't they doing anything but laying there?

Or rather, why aren't they being encouraged to do anything but lay there? That woman is very scared now and obviously can't think straight. Couldn't they have been more supportive to stop her getting to that point?

Me three. That fucking annoys me - ok, I had to give birth on my back as was strapped to bed and monitors and stuff, but was not my choice and makes it so much harder. Is it that women are not educated about these things, or are the film makers only want to show certain types of birth?

Don't mock it Scorps - BB came out so quickly (second stage of labour was 11 mins!) and it was sooo intense that I was yelling my head off with the best of them. I won't go into details here but will sort out the birf story in FESH soon, promise. At least I didn't try to punch TG in the face this time although this was prolly only cos I couldn't reach...

Am channel hopping - can't watch a full episode of OBEM on my own, and Mr Fox is away. He is very squeamish, so I usually laugh at him squirming, but I can't be that brave by myself.

Watched last series tho - pre-diffment - and did note that all the women stay on their backs most of the time. Is it a modesty thing for TV? I mean for the viewers, as the mums are obviously past caring who sees what.

Apparently the unit where they film this has a birthing centre attached but didn't have cameras in there. So the people we see are the ones not using the birthing centre, which I guess influences the kind of birth you have to show.

They did have the birthing pool clip so I'm hoping we get one of those. And Scorps, if you're freaking out it's worth trying to track down the bit of video of the birthing pool experience from Cherry Has a Baby. Amazingly calm and serene and beautiful.

That makes a lot of sense muse. I also think anyone with a clue about what might happen would be the last person to agree to having cameras there. Hence you don't actually get a very balanced cross section of people. Hands up anyone who would? Not me!!!!

No way in hell would I. That's why it's all teenagers. They think "ooh, telly". Whereas I would be "feck off, I don't care if there's no actual camera crew. NOBODY is seeing me go through this."

I'd second what Muse says - the BP experience on CHAB was also a hippobirth which they didn't mention at the time.

Score - lansinoh is your friend & was brill for nipple-related ishoos

Oooh, I saw that, Muse. It was magical. I've wanted a water birth ever since I read about them in my early 20s! No fucker better even be thinking about that birthing pool in the hossie when The Lad decides to make his entrance into the world.

Pol, am not mocking the screamer, because I have the most awful sinking feeling that I will be that bad too. I used to be almost that bad with period pains (aaaah, almost a forgotten memory )

Are they going to show any wimminz not laying on their backs? Is interesting to know that this isn't the birthing centre, so these are women with slightly more difficult/painful labours.

Nor me LeafyLady. In fact I might ban mobile phones from the room, just to be absolutely sure no-one is filming or otherwise recording me.

I think they don't film the people that move around because you wouldn't be able to help filming the fanjo :o

I was on all fours at times - at one point my husband and matewhowantstobeadoula named my piles while peering at my bits