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

I'm glad none of you are laughing . Even I thought it looked funny written down. Didn't seem funny at the time though.

Have been to GP about new head-mole. You know its not a good sign when the GP recoils in horror saying "bleurgh!" & immediately washes his hands. He's referring me to specialist to get it whipped off (mole, not entire head I hope. That would be a bit of a bummer). Then I asked would there be any problem being diffed - he just looked at me & said, "Oh, how many weeks?" FFS. He's referring me anyway but prolly won't get head / mole removed before I lay. Considering the speed this one grew by the time I lay it'll look like I have 2 heads.

Anyhoo, enough of that. Rocket your cold has outstayed its welcome now, hasn't it?

Waiting for scans is the longest wait ever. Even worse than waiting for Christmas Day as a kid. But they're worth the wait. However, I'm 28 weeks & still haven't bought anything that I've immediately brought home! Mr Loz's step-mum bought us some new born little vests - I nearly cried when I saw them, they're so small. Then I imagined a head & legs & that size coming out my fango & suddenly it just became giant-baby.

Bitey that's lovely news! (Your sis being diffed, not sicking in cat puke). Isn't it funny how feeling sick can sometimes be so reassuring? Oh, they did finish my hair, thanks - hairdresser cut non-mole side while other hairdresser held tissue to my head waiting for it to stop bleeding.

Scorps I presume you're at the hospital now - hope they don't keep you waiting long. Sometimes junior consultants are better as they are yet to become embroiled in all the shenanigans. I hope so, for your sake anyway. I'm sending some of my better vibes your way.

Good God, yes, what do they wear on their legs?

Just put babies in sleepsuits, so much easier when you're changing nappies a billion times a day.

Scorps hope you get some well-informed info today

lozzalou You might have to be the funniest tragi-comic pregnant laydee I have ever heard of. Maybe you should get some bubble wrap for baybee for when it's born? Hope you get to keep your head. It might come in useful.

GeeupLady great scan news! Are you on a shopping spree then?

Owlie and bitey my scan isn't till the 23rd when I'll be 20+something I still can't quite believe your restraint when confronted by littler-than-little socks. bitey my sis is due a few days after me! It's thrown my mum into a tizz about who she's going to be helping and when, heh heh.

orchid me too! I'm getting loads of little fluttery-type movements and even got my hand kicked the other day. Of course, it means I go menkul when I don't feel anything for a few hours day.

As for baybees' legs - don't you have any of the full-length baby-gros (the ones with feet)? That's what thechild wore for the first 5 months (comfy) and we only graduated to leggings and trousers with socks after that.

I have just eaten a huge bowl of lentil soup and 2 portions of apple crumble. Am already eyeing up the left-overs. If only I could get custard over here...

muser! how's gorgeous bobkate doing?

She's good Milano, growing away. Currently preventing me from going to the Post Office by deciding she'd like to feed some more. Just when I thought she'd got a bit more balanced in her feeding time as well.

Milano Now you understand why a sling is seriously not on my essential buy list.

Muser How can someone so little have such power over your day? It amazes me. I can't wait!

I was given a copy of Gina Ford's Contented Little Baby book. Has anyone seen it? There is a routine, strict routine in there, for newborns. Now I love routine, but honestly, this was incredible. I'm sure it works for a huge amount of wimminz, but I lost it when it began "7am - baby should be awake, nappy changed & feeding". Yeah right. I also didn't see "sit in dressing gown with a cup of tea & chocolate hob-nob" in her routine. Must be there somewhere?

Sorry; 7am??? Wtf? That is not happening.

My offspring will be dressed like a tramp with dribble everywhere and poo stains.

Bobkate sounds ace :)

Mine too Booty. I remember my godson once peddling his little legs for all he was worth on his bike, whilst dressed as Batman . Was the only way my friend could get him out of the house.

Lozza Gina Ford is like marmite. Some women do love her, but I think if I'd have followed her regime I would have ended up seriously depressed, instead of having all the cuddles and lovely moments I had when miniboo was tiny.

7 am start! In my dreams.... When O was tiny, our day could often start any time from 4.30. I would have loved to know that I was just getting up at 7am each day. As it was, we embraced the variety is the spice of life philosophy and got on with it. Don't think we hasd any sort of discernable routine for about a year . I had to learn to go with the flow quite quickly as routine was never in the reportoire.

Thank you "already mums" for putting my mind at rest. As a first timer I was beginning to wonder if I had my head in the clouds a bit. Its going to be tough not having much of a routine, but I think I'd tie myself up in knots trying to maintain a strict routine. Skimming through no-where did it say to put on some appropriate clothing & go for a walk, or sing & dance around the kitchen. It looked very, very regimented. My friend's sister did follow Gina Ford's potty training in 1 week, & it worked. However, they didn't leave the house for a week & her older daughter was driving everyone mad.

Um. I heart Gina. But I'm weird

We used her as a rough guideline last time around and I found it really helpful. I think the key is not to beat yourself up on days when it doesn't work. But it was really helpful as a benchmark to roughly aim for.

In my edition she definitely talked about making sure you'd had something to eat and got out for some fresh air, etc.

Anyway. As you were.

That's the thing innit Cass? All Mums and all babies are different. So I think if you react to Gina badly then don't do it, but if you think she's godsend then it's all good. No drama, whatever floats your boat, horses for courses and a rolling stone gathers no moss and all that :o

Zactly

Just realised that my post may have inferred that Gina Mums don't have cuddles and lovely moments! Sorry - didn't put that too well. But strict routines make me crazy - so I wouldn't have been in the mood for cuddles regardless of miniboo's behaviour is what I meant

Oh, I shall get out and wear clothes and stuff. But the Owlet will still be covered in shit and dribble.

Orchs - 4.30am??? Wtf??

Potty training???

I've gone right off this baybee idea.

I think I need to Gina Ford myself before I attempt to wrangle my baybee into a routine - I couldn't get myself dressed and fed by 7am, never mind a newborn!

Lozza, you do make me larf (sorry). I'm getting the impression that you're maybe a tad accident-prone/prone to weird things happening to you, ahem. Don't get your head removed, though - it's a very snoggable one

Thanks for lovely thoughts, ESHes. Saw the registrar and she was v nice. No protein or glucose in urine today, not even a hint, so no need for GTT, she says it must have just been 'one of those things' t'other day. Had scan and The Lad is big but still within the realms of normal big - no need to suspect he'll be a fanny-ripper or a cs-necessitator. She was worried about my extreme insomnia and has pressed a prescription for temazepam onto me, so gertcha jellies here! Also have to get phsyio, as it looks like I do have mild SPD, which is causing me huge pain at night and comedy waddling and uselessness during the day. Finally, as to my feeling shite all the time, she concluded that pg is just exacerbating my existing health probs (CFS, endocrinal prob) to an extreme level but there's nothing they can do about it. Ironically, the only help would be extra sleep . So is a case of continuing to be virtually housebound with fatigue, weakness and pain Said that it's better to be ill this way than to have an illness they can treat, because I might feel better on the surface, but the illness would be worse to have going on underneath, iykwim. I can still have a normal birth and she's going to put a flag on my notes (paper & online) that I am a priority for pain relief and epidural in labour.

So. Crap that they can't really do much for me (and I really don't want to take temazepam) but good that I'm just at the extreme end of 'poorly but not a threat to my life or the baby's'. And I did get to see The Lad's face during the scan. Gorgeous, obviously

I'm not against routines at all but just found the idea of a clock routine a bit too stressful and would have cracked up because our first few months were just like Orchid's. It was so nice just to do what I felt i could cope with at the beginning when I wanted to and not having any ideas of what was 'wrong' or 'right' made life a lot more bearable too.
Loz I found The Baby Whisperer idea (E.A.S.Y.)really worked for us because it was a routine in the sense of things being repeated in the same order, without times associated, but that said, we only started it after the first 3 months because I think it's just a lot of pressure to put on yourself to expect predictability before then. It's just what worked for me, the way GF worked for Cass and millions of others
It's actually one of the things that is worrying (in the loosest sense of the word) me about no2 arriving - having to fit the child in with our family routine of pre-school etc and not being able to do what I feel like!

P.S.I love the idea of a little Batman peddling about

Hooray for no GTT scorps, excellent news.

On routines, definitely don't have one of those. If we had to be up for 7am how would I do the "go back to sleep" thing? I have not read any Gina Ford or any other books. Winging it here.

cross-posted scorps
That's great news that it isn't GD but crap form the point of view that you just seem to be allergic to pregnancy! at 'fanny-ripper'

Owlie there's a woman in the town where I live who has triplets about 18 months old. She's fully dressed and even wears makeup and her boys are all dressed - how the fuck??!!

'winging it' that sounds like you're doing things about right muser

Good news on the GD all clear score not so good about not being able to help with your other symptoms but get what you are saying re it not being something treatable but more 'serious' in term of impacting The Lad. Pass the jellies. ;-)

Winging it sounds like more my style, but babies come with their own user guide don't they?

That's right Sprocks, it's a little known fact that there's a memory stick on which you find tailor made baybee instructions that they find in the middle of the placenta after the fourth stage. :o

Yes preloaded software and a remote control with a pause button? THATS what I'm talking about ;-)