PESH deli: the one where we get loads of lays

[LadyGoneGaga]

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
PollyPoo, girl, born Jan 5?
MrsFC, boy, born Jan 7

UPDIFFED

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 27th Feb
Medee, doesn't feel as "neat" as everyone makes out, due March 12
Casserole, completely out of witty things to add, due April 8
Scorpette, thinking of displaying her enorma-bump at freak shows, 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.
LadyGoneGaga, Has lost her waist, due 24 July
Ivegotmrbitey, Marmite is a lovely name for a baybee, due 27th July.
Milanomum, showing it off, due Aug 6th
Owlbooty, can't stop belching, due 7th August
Ocarina, there's a what in there?! due late August
BarbiesBeaver, Forever the Dildocam Slut, due Early October
Mountie, too shy to shine, due Autumn

I am looking forward to this concept of not giving a rat's ass who sees what as opposed to current state of Victorian prudery.

Mountie Sleep? No, cannot remember what that is. And I am 15 weeks so rocket is fibbing

Scorps your poor poor head

Thanks chicks, that makes me feel better. Now, if you do not mind I am going to stay out of birth talk for the time being. Apart from nudging Clucky to lay.

muse not at all, my packed tankini is more of a back-up option, or to be kept on till it is flung off.

the tankini has drop-cups, so if it does stay on can quickly get to skin-to-skin. That all said, the medics are going to be seeing a helluva lot more of me than just my boobs so who gives a... if you are comfortable getting nekkid.

MrM has said he doesn't want to get in the pool, though I thought we should take some trunks for him just in case.

Heh heh, thanks ladies - I probably will let it all hang out (literally) when the time comes but do not underestimate the depths and strength of my body-hatred. I haven't worn a swimming cossie since I was 23, I can't bear anyone seeing me nekkid so badly! Would I look menkul if I wore a short sleeved cardigan unbuttoned? Covers the arms but still allows S2S contact (hint: this is actually a joke).

Weirdly, I don't have a problem with medical peeps looking at me undercarriage, cos I can't see it so I don't care! I'm not right in t'head, am I?

BTW, my solicitor has warned you about demanding porny pics of me numerous times, GG - when will you get the hint?

Mounty, I remember crying in TYF's arms in the first trimester because I had so little sleep I was convinced it must be bad for my baybee (that and the fact that all I could keep down were chips). Like the experts say about everything horrible in pg (insomnia, sickness, headaches, etc.), it's YOU that suffers - the growing baby is like a pig in muck. Not much consolation for you, but a relief about the adorable little parasites :) I'm still getting not much kip but The Lad is still a happy, active little bugger.

Cheers, Booty

Mounty I had the opposite problem and slept constantly in the first trimester. I was in bed at 8/9pm most nights. Not being able to sleep at all must be grim. But that little baby isn't going to care at all.

In non-birth related news, I have just discovered the downside to being married to an accountanty type. We decided to sort out our budget now we have the joint account and separate account. Which meant I had to watch double entry book keeping and try to look interested. But now I know how much money we have for joint stuff, and how much money I have in my own account, and all is good.

GIN! huzzah for miniginny!
Sorry I'm just a little late but was away and missed the grand finale.

Scorps My dh is very very shy too but nothing clinical. I actually didn't talk much to him at all during the birth and he just sat by my side (near my head!) and providing random fanning or hand-gripping. He only told me months later that he'd actually looked when the head came out. He doesn't seem too traumatised! My point is that he didn't necessarily have to 'do' much really except just be there physically so he didn't feel under pressure.
As for birthing attire, I wore a baggy nightshirt for most of it which buttoned down the front so when they passed me the we'an at the end there was skin contact. To be honest, there comes a point when you really just don't care what you have/haven't got on.

muse I wish I had my own personal accountant. We are not big spenders but are crap at keeping tabs on the outgoings. I wish I'd paid more attention in maths class.

mountie I suffered from insomnia randomly over the first trimester but think it was more to do with worry than anything else because it seems to have gone away now (at 15 weeks).

Thanks all for calming me down!

MM - yeah, I think it may by worry type stuff, though cannot be sure... It'll get better, as long as the kiddo's like pig in muck, as Score says.

Thanks, AlyssaMilano, that's v reassuring. Is also groovy to know that others love a Shy Guy too. I think I've been worrying it'll all be horrible and traumatic and he won't cope, but that's all projection and pessimism. I do think TYF will be ace when put to the test, after all my worrying - he's surprised me by being v enthusiastic about going to NCT classes and wants me to book them tomorrow. He says so long as he has 'researched' stuff then he feels confident and he wants to train himself to socialise so the classes will also be good for that (he finds it easier to chat if there is a 'specific' reason to do so, ie like discussing projects at work).

Muser, I always think TB sounds a bit like my Dad (minus the clunkingly tactless Asperger's factor), esp. cos I know of him from that other place. V funny guy, devoted DH, good with the maffs 'n' munny and more. A fab, hands-on Dad too, so I bet the likeness continues in that direction :) He used to drill us in good money management when we were young - was (and is) piss-boring but by god, we know how to eke every penny out of a pound so it was worth it. My Pops has already found a super-high interest child savings account for The Lad from a totally obscure little building society. Am interested to know how well your joint + separate accounts situation works out, cos we're thinking of doing the same.

I am the accountant in our relationship, so that all sounds very familiar.

I am too meds which is a bit worrying as I plan on approaching everything in the same haphazard way I always have. I suppose we should have a joint account but I am not sure I can be arsed with setting it up and transferring all the direct debits over to the new account. Easier to leave it as it is and just demand more money from TB if it looks necessary

I seem to have done nothing but eat and sleep today, I think pregnancy has turned me into even more of a cat. Perfect sunday.

Evening all. Back from the Motherland. Have had cuddle with new baybee and done Motherly birthday duties. MiniG was unbelievably sweet and gentle with both the one year old and newborn babies we saw this weekend. Bodes well . And made me a very proud Mummy.

Appear to have forgotten valentine's day though (oops) - will have to get a card and summat nice for tea tomorrow.

Bit afraid everyone seems to have systems and suchlike for dealing with finance. We are very haphazard in that regard and muddle through somehow. Perhaps when we get new house and new joint financial responsibilities we should take a leaf out of your books!

Am starving so have ordered Dominos (classy). Now wearing a hole in the carpet waiting for it to arrive. And drinking a no fun beer. Had (and enjoyed) first proper glass of red wine whole pregnancy yesterday. 1997 Rioja. Lovely. Had to stop myself drinking the bottle though, but didn't .

We have our own accounts, into which our salaries get paid, a joint account, into which we pay a share, and the joint bills come out of, and joint and personal savings and credit cards. And a big spreadsheet from which I tell MrM what he has to pay where.

MrM brought me non-alcoholic beer one night recently - it was surprisingly pleasant.

rocket we have not done anything about transferring direct debits. We have them split between the two accounts so we pay about the same (proportionally, not equally). My account got made a joint account and I opened a separate sole account. So my old account, with all my direct debits in, becomes a joint household one that TBG will pay money into and my wages will go into. My share of the household bills and money for food will go out of it. Other households bills/mortgage still go out of TBG's. And our personal accounts are for fun spending.

Scorps TBG is good at accounting, not so good at personal budgeting. We have no savings. Although that is about to change as we've decided to start being a bit grown up and sensible. I'm probably better at working on a tight budget than he is.

Meant to say, me and TYF sort our own financial stuff out, although he has more patience for bills and all that than I do. He sorts 'em, I do all contact with suppliers, banks and so on. Although I say we're going to go partially joint, I bet we don't get round to it.

Rocket, that does sound like a perfect Sunday... and not dissimilar to my own :) Love the image of a contented preggo being like a cat, v apt!

Ah, Muser, sounds like we've got the opposite deal going on: we're good at personal budgeting but not so much accounting. I'm used to not having a particularly good wage (flaky creative type, innit), he's been brought up by parents as tight as a gnat's chuff.

I think I need to marry Medee. She can tap dance, cook, account like a mofo and she's quite a looker too

and I've just opened a new ISA as my current one's rate is coming down to a pitiful amount.

You're scaring me, Medee

tbh, the only way I can achieve anything at the moment is to do a to-do list containing the most banal along with the productive. So around "open new ISA" is "fold socks" and "tidy my chair".

Medee is the child my father could only dream of...

Just wait until you list reads: Get dressed, have a wee, eat...

Just wanted to direct some of my FB chums to a plan hatching in the knitted baby appreciation zone

moneysavingexpert is my friend, it tells me where to switch our ISAs to every year :o

I used the same thing, via the Guardian website.

Morning lovelies. How are we all this Valentine's Day? Any laying news from Clucky yet?

I have had a lovely Valentine's Day card from TBG and a lovely Valentine's Day puke from Bob. Thanks for that Bob.