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

PS Am not using a gym ball yet - does this make me a terrible mother and thus ensure me a terrible birf?

Dr google recommends wrapping your legs in savoy cabbage leaves to draw the water out. If anyone does this will they please take a picture?

i think its sleeping on your back thats the problem, ie lying on your back for 8 hours. I think if you do it for 15 minutes every now and then its not going to do any harm and will help with the odema. Ok get two cushions. Put one next to the wall and one where your head would be if your bum was against the wall and try that? Use a yoga mat or a folded towel for extra cushioning if you have hard floors. get your bum as close to the wall as poss and lie with your legs up the wall if you can. I find this a bit hard cos my ham strings are so crap but if its painful just bend them a bit or move further from the wall.

They don't give you the results up here. they only contact you if there is a problem. I thought maybe they would get put on my notes and I would get told at next MW appointment but she said no. So I guess they just gather dust in some corner of the NHS until they get binned. Is shite as even tho I know they cant be bad I would still like to know if they are particularly good.

I have just been presented with a lovely bunch of flowers!

I?m likely to have a lovely weekend, with friends visiting and lunch with other friends on Sunday, but am really looking forward to Monday when I have absolutely hee-haw planned. I might get dressed, I might not, I might watch Glee, I might piss about on the internet. Tuesday my mum arrives for the cookathon, but Monday is my day to do fuck-all!

Get some Japanese toe-socks, scorps!

My results were in 1 in 474 I think, so all considered well within low-risk ranges.

I can't believe they don't give you the numbers rocket it's not like they don't have them in order to calculate your score?

Does anyone else have the feeling that differs are all sort of lumped in together and information given based on the intelligence of the most stupid ones? I think this is my first brush with not being able to access information as and when I want it and am really struggling with it!

Glad you have lovely flowers m'dear, did you cry? Love the thought of a whole day doing nothing!

I like your plans for Monday, Medee

Rocket, if you want to know the results, demand them. They are not legally allowed to withhold information kept on you if you request it. Don't get involved in discussions as to why you want to know - tell them it's your right, end of story

I can't do that position against the wall - am physically capable of it but one of the reasons I'm seeing the Dr is that my heart goes mental and I can barely breathe if I so much as lean back quite far and defo if I lie on my back, even for a few mins (sleeping is fun). I think if I grew a 2nd head at 32 weeks I wouldn't be surprised now, given the never-ending rubbishness of my pg health!

Bitey, I've found that most medical peeps, however well-meaning, do tend to treat everyone like they're clueless and need to know as little as possible, but being pg does seem to intensify it (esp. in a v annoying 'don't worry your pretty little head about it' way).

Oh Scorps I know you're struggling & I'm not being cruel, but your descriptions do make me laff. At least you haven't lost your sense of humour. If it helps my shoes are off in the office today & I just tried to put them on. Eh, that wasn't happening. So at this rate I'll have to drive home in my stockinged feet. Seriously I hope the GP can help you this afternoon.

Isn't eating celery meant to be good for water retention too? And you don't have to lie on your back to eat it.

I asked my MW about the whole lying on the back thing & she said it was fine. I don't spend 8 hours a night on my back (not since TTC days ) but I always wake up on my back. Also lie on the sofa a lot in the evenings.

Meds glad you're having a nice day & some lovely flowers. Though I have to say Mon sound great.

Rocket I just had a letter saying I was low risk. Nosy cow that I am wanted to know the number & it wasn't in my notes. When I saw MW she said the hossie had the results, the hossie wouldn't send them to me but would put them aside for the MW to pick up when she was next at the hossie, then the MW could give them to me at my appointment. Perfect sense . Anyways, long & short is I got my number & my chance was 1 in 1730! So I suppose your results are somewhere & there is no reason why you can't have them.

Yes I suppose you are all right but I am not sure I can be bothered to put up a fight. In a way if they are over 150 then why do I need to know and why waste resources finding out. Why should I get special treatment when all the other diffrers are happy to take their word for it. Meh.

Meh meh meh. Think dad must be rubbing off on me as just burst into tears cos TB said he was lonely and now I can't stop. Stupid hormones. :(

Poor Rocket When will you see TB again? 2 days did you say? Try & busy yourself making plans for your return home - plan a meal, or a film to cosy up & watch. I know you're keeping your dad company, but can you take some time out & treat yourself to some make up / manicure / book? Failing that a big mug of & a muffin usually help. Don't tell anyone but ((((hugs))))

Aww, Rocket, you'll be with TB v soon. And just think how lovely your reunion will be :) D'you want to sit on my knee for a bit and let my stroke your hair?

driving bare foot is illegal???

As soon as it stops being winter, and I have to stop wearing boots, I am straight into flip-flops and there I pretty much stay until it is boot season again. I can't drive in flip-flops though because they get stuck under the pedals. So I probably drive barefoot from April to September. I love the feeling! ooops!

Hope all goes well with the Drs scorps, would you and lozengecut be interested in [[http://www.wideshoe.co.uk/betsy-ladies-slippers-i601241.html these]?

Link fail! Try these

It is indeed illegal to drive barefoot and also in flipflops (ie unsuitable footwear - think slippers come under this too). It's also illegal to drive a tractor wearing wellies, but the police don't really enforce these laws, as you can tell! My Dad was a magistrate for decades and did a lot of traffic cases, so my family now know all the bloody minutiae of this sort of thing. Makes me a fun person to have next to you in a car, I can tell you When I'm not asleep in a car, I'm pontificating about all the mistakes other drivers are making (despite not being able to drive myself, haha!). Good job TYF is a great driver with the patience of a saint/ability to switch off!

Although the law might've changed recently and I don't know it, so hmmm.

Am going to nap. Not seeing Dr till after 5. ZZZZZZ....

Actually I am a bit pissed of with him. I might have told him I was missing him but I never once reproached him for going away having fun in tje snow the week of my birthday. I didn't tell him I was lonely because I got off my arse and made sure I was busy the whole week. It's not like being here is a barrel of laughs and if he missed me that much he could get the train down but no that would involve some effort on his part. Now I am upset and trying to hide from dad so he doesn't feel bad. I'm alright really just a bit grhhhhh. Sorry for memenemeness

I am the same with the flip flops bitey but I drive in them all the time. can't wait for the weather to get better so I can ditch the trainers and boots.

Ooh those slippers are horrible. My eyes!!!!!

Have you got cankles yet, Score or still confined to feet? I am awaiting my cankles any day now. Last time they arrived pretty mcuh on the stroke of 20 weeks.

I had to go to a friends wedding at 39 weeks prgnant on hottest day of the year - only one pair of shoes could I get on and they were still bulging alarmingly round the straps. Hate the oedema thing!

Rocket maybe he was just trying to make you feel wanted and missed? Rather than guilting you? But obviously be cross if is the latter. I spend 90% of the time pissed off with MrG for no good reason at all. I am bad person.

Probably gaga I don't think he was deliberately trying to make me feel bad, far from it! Hes just being a bit self indulgent. I asked him if he had seen anyone this week and he said 'like who' so I gave him a list. I think he is a bit on a downer because the last of his old school freinds moved away from the immediate area last week but we have plenty of other freinds around it's just normally me who organises our social life. But that's not my fault and right now I need support not another thing to worry about!! Oh well I just need to HTFU really.

Googling whether it's illegal to drive in flip flops was a nice distraction the :o it's not fyi. Apparently it's not actually illegal to drive on the otherwise of the road providing you aren't putting anyone else at risk by doing so.

Rocket I find menfolk are rubbish at entertaining themselves. Once Mr Loz has been killed on his PS3 a number of times & thrown the remote in a strop, looked at porn football updates on t'interweb he's pretty much out of ideas.

Bitey those slippers are not lookers, but is that a velcro flap? IE can they be fastened as tight - or as loose - as you want?

Just tried my shoes again - FUCK! My feet are growing by the second. And its raining. I'm going to have to strap my lunchbox to my foot & hop to the car. FFS, I've already ditched heels, my knee length boots are a no go & on the best of days I'm a clod-hopping size 7. I'm starting to resemble a hobbit with my enorma-feet. Wah!

Scorps hope you manage a few zzzzz before GP.

loz your poor feet! Are there any polypockets in your office? Or do you have any kindly co-workers (not the one who showed you the poo in the toilet, nor indeed the phantom pooper) who would drive you car to the door for you? Is it possible to elevate your feet for the remainder of the afternoon?

That is indeed a velcro flap!

Bitey you are genius! Polypockets are the way to go. Or my in & out trays can be strapped to my feet like snow shoes. Ah, possibilities are now endless. Am trying to discreetly put my feet up, but its prolly not the most professional position with a whole heap of management milling around. Bunch of arse.

Normally my feet are fine. This is only the second time they've swelled. And boy, have they swelled.

Where, uh, did you find those slippers? Just in case my uh, Nana needs some?

Loving the image of loz slaloming across the car park in new shoes made of in trays, poly pockets and accessorised with paper clips!

I googled comfortable slippers for old ladies They were the the floweriest!

Thanks lovely ESH, I have now officially Calmed Down and apologised to TB for being a right hormonal mentalist. He says he feels better now hes had something to eat I am going to have to make very sure Sprout is never hungry to avoid tantrums if she takes after her daddy one little bit.

loz and scorps for future ref I would recommend these

You also had me momentarily while I tried to figure out how on earth a small plastic doll was going to help lozzers footwear problem.

Shooooo-oooooo-oooooes! They are fabby sprocket!

Glad you are feeling better, that reunion is going to be so lovely!