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.

We can't bundle her! She'll die beneath our combined weight!

piles on top of riebundle she'll be fine! :o

pol have just spent the last hour trawling various websites drewling over pointless and impractical shoes that I won't have the occasion to wear EVER, and its all your fault!

poop did you look at asos? Nuffin as bargainous but there is a pretty grey mango wrap dress for 30 squid and a dizty print shirt dress (cute but short) for bout 50...

Though the one you found is lovely so yeah, you could always order and see how easy it is to get to yer buzzwams!

Natal hippo cut out just as I was heading toward transition. Got it back on again but that's not ideal really is it??

Alright Gels, and hi to Aries. I thought I had stumbled into an old GinPalace fred when I opened this one up, what with so many old familiars heaving their bumps around.

Don't worry about being queue jumped Poll, not from me anyway, as this is my first I am not expecting it to come early, but will be mightily miffed if it's v late, due to wasted ML, and diminished hb options! Anyway no twinges, BHs or owt like that anyway...looks like I will be going back to work in Jan after all!

The boyf has cleaned up our 'new' buggy, and I put all the fabrics in the wash, so that's all ready to go. Although we got a bugaboo, I always found folding the fuckers to be a complete pain in the arse, and not v practical (godchild had one), but lots of people think they are fab, so we lazily went for one to save doing any research on other unknown models. I hope to be rocking up to lunch at the Wharf with a sling (if that is asseptable and not too lentil weavy for the futuristic utopia of Canary Wharf). It is also my understanding that the bugaboo gets ditch in favour of mclaren within a few months.

Okay, what's the word on the street about washing all the stuff we've bought for the baybee before it is ever worn....is this really necessary or is it a mugs game....not sure I can be arced tbh, and then you have to IRON the fucking stuff if you want it to be nice for newborn babber....can we have a vote....is Cho a lazy behotch, aye or nay?

iron baby clothes?

Mentallist!

Hello DanielSan. Lovely to see you, but... IRONING? Why would the baby give a fuck? OK, washing it I can understand because there will be residual chemicals from manufacture.

Don't!

Am also alarmed at pram talk and very glad I live in the sticks where people still push those stripy buggies we had in the Seventies.

Yeah, BUT, Gins surely you want at least the first lot of clothes that go on to be ironed...obviously it would never EVER happen again, but first outfit?

We only ditched the buggerboo quite recently, when monkey boy got too heavy, and we were not using a pushchair all the time anyway. A friend gave me an old shite mclaren - I hate it and it hates me. I make him walk everywhere now because I am evil it's good for him.

Re washing stuff, I forgot last time. Mooch still has all limbs. This time I'm washing LOADS but that's cos it's come out of our attic and it doesn't seem right to not bother.

And I repeat...

Ironing baby clothes?

MENTALLIST

Stripey deckchair buggies are cool for folding down whilst holding baby, fag and half a lager...the boyf is constantly going on about impractical modern buggies, comparing them to umbrella fold mclarens, but I have to remind him that prior to us seventies babies graduating to super slim folders, we were all parked outside our front doors in silver cross prams the size of Sherman tanks!

cho in all honesty it would never cross my mind. am not really sure babygros need ironing. Plus, I am a slattern

Also it may only be on for 30 seconds before it is covered in some sort of poo/puke/milk/wine....

Fucking iPad! I DO NOT ALWAYS WANT TO WRITE 'AM' IN ITALICS!!!!!

Yes to washing (maybe) no to ironing. I don't DO ironing as the large pile of creased clothes in the spare room will testify to. My mother scares me when she talks about ironing bed sheets. I worry that my sister was right all those years ago when she said I was adopted.

but you are a slattern

That's settled then, me no washee.

Right, next...what is it with Mongomerys tubercles, those bumpy bits on the areola? I thought that they were milk related, but they produce sticky orange jus not....will this change once I start producing milk, or will milk still just exude from top hat section of nipple?

I will be washing the clothes, because I hear that's a good thing to do. Ironing baby clothes, Never Going To Happen unless I get an insane bout of nesting wotsit. I barely iron my own clothes. And all those sleepsuits and stuff are stretchy, surely they don't crease?

Lovely mango wrap dress Gin, but unfortunately they don't have it in my size. (and I do hate it when a size 14 is described as XL, grr)

Sorry Rocket but you and me both if it is any consolation! Love irregular choice - those turquoise ones are gorg but may be a bit much with the dress. Hmmm... the search continues. I have a friend with a fab shoe shop in bath so I may need to visit her and see what she has. Just need to get this blimmin baby out. Have ordered the dress, fingers x'd it is long enough.

Spose I should go and bounce on the ball and tweak my nips. Oh the glamour.

rocket.

[cho] you produce colostrum to start with, is greasy fatty weirdness full of vitamins n antibodies and magic for the baybee. Baybee has that til milk kicks in after couple days.

Btw when milk actually comes in proper you go stark staring mad for a bit (well, I did.) It's quite scary and I wish someone had warned me. Fecking hormones.

You also get giant square boobs. A bit like bricks but with knobbly lumps in

Teach me to refresh... Cho no no no to ironing baybee clothes. I have washed them, cos they have been in bin bags in a rat infested barn for the last 3 years. Washing = reasonable. Ironing = No. Not even the first outfit! What are you thinking woman?!

My mum is another that irons sheets, handkerchiefs, pants etc. It is just wrong. It is all her fault I am a domestic slattern - I just had to rebel.

milk only really comes from top hat bit btw. Just as more of a sprinkler system than a tap.

@ 'top hat bit'.

Hey, never let it be said that I iron unnecessarily...I just thought that I might want the first outfit baybeee wears to be pressed...I'm not a complete fucking nutter!

Re colostrum...I know about colostrum and milk coming in etc, but does anything ever come out of bumpy areola bits, or does it just come from the pointy bit of nipple?

tweak tweak!

sorry rant alert. I am getting really pissed off looking for maternity wear online. I just want plain things, why does everything have to have ruffles or gems on it or bloody naff prints or be made from bloody viscose. I can find any PLAIN leggings or long sleeve tops anywhere. Even topshop has let me down as all the colours are beige or light grey which is going to be about as flattering as a bloody flour sack. I might have to bite the bullet and actually visit some shops :( (sorry rant over)