The PESH deli: Beware the Peshes of March

[Medee]

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
ChoChoSan, girl, born 6 Feb
Ginhag, boy born 11 Feb
Muser, girl, born 15 Feb
CluckyKate, boy, born 18 Feb

UPDIFFED

Perfect Dromedary, defied medical science, due February 24
Medee, freaking out at being second on the list, 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, still can't stop belching, due 7th August
Ocarina, there's a what in there?! due late August
Mountie, too shy to shine, due Autumn

have asked MNHQ to edit out the question mark.

I really should have thought of a better tag line for this one but I too am out of witty things to say so it will just have to stay like that for now.

Nice one for doing this medee

Don't worry Meds, no biggie. I was a bit slow on the uptake. The updiffed list is indeed getting rather short. About time we had some BESH wins. Where is LovelyLyra btw? Anyone heard from her? I do think of her and LyraPops.

I think about Lyra and PapaLyra lots too. I do so luff her...

Poll Sorry you've had a rough time recently. I just wanted to say that you are a top mum just for knowing it was time to make a change to make things better for you all.

LGG and Owlboots I am almost convinced I can feel little popping, fluttery-type movements going on. I think it started a few weeks ago, but my gyno said it was too early, but I'm sure it's not down to the large amounts of food I'm eating. It's also quite far down, at the bottom of the bump. I suppose I'll have to wait for a full on kick to be sure!

Ermm don't want to offend anyone but I've already forgotten everything else I read about 2 minutes ago on the old fred...

Good work on the new fred, Meds.

Polls you are absolutely right that PND is nothing to be ashamed of. I'm glad that you've spoken out about it - we've done our best to help each other through all manner of shenanigans, & this is no different. Quite sad really that we think nothing of discussing pant snot, Teh Secks & poking around our fangos with cigar-paper, yet have to work up to discussing PND.

Got any spare rocky road bites going?

I'd love to see any BESH added to our list, but must confess I have a top few who I would dance nekkid in the streets if they came to join us...........

Big hugs for Polly. Don't care if it's unESH, I am too sleep deprived and full of squishy lovely hormones for violence. Definitely good to be open about these things. As the doc put it to me when she was going through everything at discharge time, 1 in 4 women get PND - which meant one of the women on my 4 bed ward would likely have PND. It's common and treatable and nothing to be ashamed of.

I would like to third Lozza and Muse on that - I've suffered from depression on and off all my life and it is nothing to be ashamed of any more than PND is. It's like any other condition that you learn to manage via one means or the other, I wish people would be more open about it as that would make it easier to deal with.

Lozza I believe it's only Scorps that does the cigar thang , although it has become a BESHlegend along with the FCFU and various other traditions handed down from PESH to BESH through the ages.

Hello all, been prepping for my job interview and staying away from internet and now have lots catching up to do!

Sorry you've been having such a horrid time pol but glad it's been diagnosed fairly quickly and the pills are beginning to kick in. I understand it can take up to three weeks to feel full effects so hoping you are just going to feel better and better. Big hugs and an ever so gentle chinese burn.

Lovely kicking news ladygooga am as all I can feel in my lower abdomen is the burn of a UTI! Dying to feel some wriggling now. Bet I get the first one in the job interview tomorrow where I am pretending very hard not to look like a four month differ!

Loz Eddershaws is lovely and full of lucious things but also uber expensive. We are going there pram shopping as they let you take them out of the shop and test how they fit into your boot. Will then order off internet for much cheapness.

On the subject of bras can I take back all the moaning about the grandma bras marks and spencer supplied me with? That they measured me for one size and I fit into a different one altogether is not great but my boobs look fantastic! Think high and round rather than low and wide, or two seperate breasts rather than one boobular shelf with nipples! The most suportive non-wired bras around I think. Out of my clothes is another story and I have a bosom out of the forties (to match my lady garden out of the sixties)!

Dearest PolleeeeePants, sorry you're blue. PND is awful and you're very brave for tackling it head on

How very dare you, Booty! I need some elder FESH to come here to defend the noble art of cigaring, for I was not alone. I just hope all that cigar action hasn't ruined me for a natural labour

Bitey, my M&S bras look godawful but give me fab 'lift and separate' magic and a slightly Burlesque profile in clothes too. I haven't succumbed to granny pants the size of Alaska yet though.

I too applaud Poll for being open about the PND. It's nothing to be ashamed or coy about. An illness is an illness is an illness, be it mind, body or spirit. When you think of all the stress, change and upheaval and huge physical demands of early motherhood, it's amazing that more women don't get PND! I will be open here and say that I think I'm suffering on and off from a bit of mild antenatal depression, mainly due to the headaches and their crappy effects of limiting what I do but also cos of all the massive change bearing down on us like a juggernaut. And I'm prone to depression anyway. So if I'm extra-whiny or fretty at times, you'll all know why now :)

Thank-you scorps for your succint "lift and separate"! Could you tell I was scraping for the right words there, when I had to resort to boobular shelf?

PLiz could you come with me tomorrow to translate my incoherent ramblings into job interview speak?

On another note completely I would just like to inform all that Haagen Daz (sp????) pralines and cream is nowhere near as nice as B&Js fairly nuts. Guess which one I bought?

Just came over to mark my spot. I will do so giving a big ((((((()))))) to Pols. You know you can come and sit with me in the PND and FF corners in the spa. The former has a no-booze rule, but the latter positively encourages it .

And I am also standing at scorps's side on the cigaring front.

Bitey, I was traumatised at an early age by the Playtex Cross Your Heart bra adverts, that's how I knoweth of 'lift and separate' Am crap at job interviews but if you ever need a proposal for graduate study doing, I'm yer nerd. BTW, I thought 'boobular shelf' was most evocative!

Cheers for the rolled-up bog roll solidarity, Casp. BTW, bloody hate my FESH pals suffering so. Fancy a quick grope behind the bike sheds for old time's sake?

Thanks for all the support and kind words. You lot are Bloody Fabulous. And thanks for coming in speshly rie, I luffs you I do.

Curls it has occurred to me that the hideous side effects from the ADs might have been worsened by the vodka I was drinking. It didn't say on the packet not to drink, but the effects were greatly reduced when I stopped the booze. Buggeration! A welcome side effect of the PND is that my appetite has packed a bag and left. Baby belly should be gone in a month then. Cloud, silver lining etc.

Good luck with the interview Bitey.

I have to say I was not a fan of the cigar, more that I constantly had my hand in my pants/up my foof.

Bites may I strongly recommend you do not use the phrase 'boobular shelf' in your job interview. Which, btw, I do hope goes swimmingly. Have you stopped pissing fire yet? You are clearly having a fun week

Thanks polly

When the droid failed to appear I cigarred once or twice but spent most of my time holding white knickers up to the light and i still do

Interview is at 12.45 tomorrow so if I don't get a wink of sleep tonight at least I can have a bit of a snooze in the morning. Have settled on maternity trousers from new look in a black pinstripe suit style that really don't look like differ trousers, black jersey v-neck and this cardigan which hides a multitude of swellings. If I get the job it starts mid-may and I am going on ML mid July. Trying not to worry about that little revelation yet!

Still pissing fire boots but not quite as burny as the weekend. Have drunk three litres of cranberry juice and three litres of sparkling mineral water since Saturday and now when I go for a burny wee it is at least a proper wee rather than a teeny drop that I thought I was going to wet myself over!

As of the last half hour the noxious wind has returned too

At least my boobs look fabby!

sorry bitey, not ignoring you, just got a rather sluggish brain. Good luck with the interview.

pols how else do you think i've lost nearlytwo stone? Mental and physical illness beat weightwatchers any day.

I really must go and feed child, pack bags etc

Bitey, my tip would be to get cranberry tablets, not drink the juice. Because it's so tart, they have to bung a fuckload of sugar and/or sweeteners in, both of which exacerbate UTIs, etc. The juice will help but the sugar will retard the efficacy, if you get me. Cranberry tabs are pretty cheap and available from any old health shop. I also drink Ame (a sparkling fruity soft drink, all natural, no sugar) if I get the old fire-piss, as it is very alkaline. Dunno if you can get it near you, but they sell it in bigger Waitroses and on Ocado (the berry flavour is nicest IMO).

Lovely cardi and good luck! Remember that they're not allowed to ask about pg, etc., and you don't have to reveal it yet either. Well, not until 24 wks, I think it is.

Thanks all! Will go to Holland and Barrett after interview and stock up on the cranberry tablets.

Can't wait until all this is over and I can actually tell my colleagues!

Evening PESHs-after brief extensive consultation in the Palais, some people were thinking that we might have a place in ESHland for a wee spot a bit further on from the Deli, where we can moan and despair delight in the joys of 'a bit older' small people: from experience I know that when you have a week old baby, that's a whole 168 hours of parenting qus right there, and as more and more PESH graduate () it will and should continue to have quite a new baby focus. this is just a completely selfish ruse to pick the brains of senior esh with first borneds older than mine I/We also don't feel happy talking about other children lots in the palais for sensitivity reasons

Anyway, if you want to come, and share or advise, please do- am about doing this as feel bit presumptuous, so hope haven't offended anyone (particularly with lame thread name- had to strike before my iron chickened out, but any improvements welcomed)
While am here, poo so sorry to hear that you've not had an easy ride, glad you're sorting it,may your next months with BB be joy filled to capacity, and skinny
Tuna slaps and nipple tweaks

star you'll find the FESH spa (post natal) group berates discusses ESH offspring of a variety of ages. It is/has been home to all those who have laid, as well as differs and TTCrs with other children. C'mon over. (just excuse the man-bashing at the mo)

oh damn she's already done it Casper. We weren't sure you orgiBESH would appreciate us relative noobs crashing your fred.

oh bugger I meant to say origiBESH. But if the cap fits