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

Morning differs.

Am sitting in Costa enjoying a rare moments peace and quiet while I sip my latte. Impossible to keep up with you all so won't even attempt it but hope all bumps and blimps are doing good.....hugs to you too Score - you is a right trooper!!

I too found GF a bit ott but have taken a few tips from her which worked a treat with LC - 7am start, business-like attitude at nighttime but agree that the babies will find their own rountine (or at least mine did).

Gin - was thinking about you....hope you're doing alright. MrCK has also had no pat leave and it's been blardy tough what with a stroppy toddler too!

Gotta go - the boy awakes and is demanding milk...

Before I started TTC (back in the mists of time) I had this insane idea that I would lose a stone, get fit, stop eating cake, tidy the house, become a career woman, etc, in preparation for the baybee arriving.

Unsurprisingly, none of those things have happened and I am sitting here having done no work all morning, troughing a creme egg.

Oh well, never mind eh?

Rocket that sounds ace. I especially like the hammock bit although can see how a differ could get comically stuck in one of those (for god's sake don't let Lorry near it)

Bites I'm still only about 50/50 as to whether it's baybee or wind. Did they not doppler you at your 16 week check? Tis not long til scan now (and The Shopping). I am determined to hold out til then and not go pitifully begging for more doppler action.

Please, please, please I beg of one of you to go over to the Pregnancy board and ask if you're allowed to eat cadbury's creme eggs. It will make my day , month , year!

We did not want to introduce any routine to Bear whilst he was very, very wee - we figured he was a baybee and didn't know up from down. By approx 10-12 weeks he was happily settling in to "our" routine, you know, day vs. night and by 6 months we had a good routine established. We all muddle along the best we can. :)

Oh Booty are you me? I am still trying to tidy the house, sort my career, lose three a stone, and get fit. I had a vain hope that running after toddler smallboo would make me thin. It hasn't. Bah.

Oh yeh, and for all you "I'm going to do x, y and z on my maternity leave" people - might I just remind you that I spent my maternity leave : one day sat by the pool, then admitted to hospital and told was "not leaving without a baybee". In light of this I'm starting my maternity when I get my next BFP.

Hello ginny, sorry I completely ignored you in my over excitement about pancake day! Sorry to hear things are tough but glad you are surviving. Is MrHag still working vay hard?

Thanks for reassurances about the wee one. Because of the ongoing saga with the ante-natal clinic and my dates I have missed my 16 week appointment so haven't had the joy of the doppler yet. Think I would feel a bit happier if I had heard the heartbeat. Still it means that next week will be just lovely with the double whammy of hearing the heart beat on Monday and seeing the little hider on Tuesday. I am just going to have wait and not drink coke while shouting oy! at my middle be patient until then.

Have just spat chocolate brownie crumbs everywhere at the thought of comedy differ in hammock scenario boots

But "stuck in hammock' is exactly the excuse I am going to use for not doing the washing up/mopping/laundry booty

Here you go

HAPPY WOMEN'S PANCAKE DAY! I don't actually like pancakes that much but may well force some down to show my solidarity TYF loves them - possibly the best gift I ever bought him was the swanky crepe-making kit and special pan a few Xmases ago. Way to a man's heart, etc.

Re: GF. I'm a control-freak but disorganised and lazy. I think I will err on the winging it side (not suggesting the other wingers are lazy, etc., just me!).

OBEM was sweet last night. The men were nice, although I was a bit at that geezer playing his PSP and moaning about losing players when his bird was screeching in agony. My heart went out to the multiple-mc couple; so glad they got their darling boy at last.

V sad to hear about Mr Bitey's parents and Mr Boo's dad. Must be v difficult for them; feel like they're carrying on the family line, but so painful that they won't witness it Did you/will you use any of their names?

The Lad's a bit quiet today too, Rocket. He was non-stop yesterday, however, so has possibly tired himself out. Babies do have quiet days, just like we do, but it's nervous-making, isn't it?

Snogs, and to Gin, Muse and any lurking ESH. Shame there's no pancake smiley (sort it ahhht, MNHQ!).

BTW, Bitey: 1) I didn't feel anything 'proper' until wk 22 (some 'popcorn' from @ wk 20, tho') and b) cool coat :)

PS I actually slept okay, but hips still hurt. The sofa is the only place I can properly drop off, but it's in our open-plan lounge-kitchen (not as posh as it sounds!), so not good for TYF getting his brekkie or leaving for work).

Hugs right back atcha, Kate! You enjoy every moment of that latte!

I misread your post coffeeKate and thought you were in costa rica! Was feeling vay jealous!

If the baby is a blue flava scorps he will probably have FDH's dad's name as a middle name. If it is a pink one we will be using a middle name that both our grandmothers had as first names. This may sound terrible but my MIL died six months before our wedding and we had a few teary moments in the run up and on the day. I know there will be more to come from both of us but I don't want my baby daughter's name to be the cause of more sad feelings when she should be about joy. Maybe if we had second girl in a couple of years time when things aren't so raw, as I do think it would be a lovely way to remember a truly nice lady who would have spoilt her granchildren rotten. Oh balls, have made myself cry now!

Earlier talk of routines has inspired me to find this link: example of a newborn's day

Thought it might be useful for those about to lay to have bookmarked, so when you start freaking out that your baby is abnormal you can see it's not.

Oh sweet jesus.

Umm, yeah. You may just want to save the link, rather than look at it now if you're in De Nile.

Ta for the link muser although I am fairly prepared for the constant feeding/sleeping cycle after reading what the FESH normally get up to for the first few weeks. Just been to see my freind and her 3 week old and he's the same, got about 3 mins of contentedness out of him after a feed before he started crying and pointing at his mouth again. It was quite funny how confused he obviously was that I didn't immediately offer him my boob :) vey cute tho bless him.

Aww, didn't mean to make you cry, Bitey. Lovely if you use a family middle name, but only if you two agree. We're considering using a family name from my side as a middle name for The Lad (but am under no pressure from anyone) - we're caught between honouring the past and not burdening our child with the weight of those 'gone before', IYKWIM. MIL sounds lovely, she must be sorely missed

Was v close to my maternal Granddad but his name rhymes with my surname, so is out!

Rocket, I remember holding a friend's v young baby and he kept constantly pawing and headbutting my chest and gumming at my top. He too was most aggrieved and confused that I wasn't wapping one out for him! He then punished me by doing the most enormous stinking shit whilst I held him (luckily, there was no leakage).

Oh, Muser, you are a kidder with that silly chart! As if looking after a newborn could be that much work, tccchhhh.

Rocket He might have been able to smell your milk coming in and thought he was in with a chance :o

Scorps Smallboo's middle names are MrBoo's Dad's names. Mr Boo's Dad's first name is the same as my Dad's first name so that was a happy co-incidence too.Smallboo's first name (although we call him the shortened version unless he's being a scamp) is the same as my Grandad, who knew MrBoo and would have been overjoyed that the two of us got together.

Talking of naming babies. please consider how the name reads backwards. Clearly we didn't and I have just realised the ridicule my little girl will face at school (please don't out name on here though)

Oh Curlz :(

If it helps at all, I have never noticed it and that's God's truth.

Does she have a middle name?

I have never noticed it either and had to think very hard to figure out what you meant. I bet she does just fine. I had a ridiculous last name and never got the rude teasing for it at school.

Also Aries my lovely, how are you doing?

I'd never noticed it either Curlyone, so here's hoping no-one at school will either. It's too lovely a name for anyone to think of wanting to corrupt.

I thought the tiredness was supposed to get better in the second trimester but it's back with a vengeance this week, which of course is just the week I need lots of energy for work. I am however discovering just how efficient the grapevine is round here, so I think that means this is now well and truly public, which is scaring me a little.

Curlers, I was evil for finding ways to tease people about their names (and still am) and until you pointed it out, I had never thought about it.

The kid with the worst nicknames at my secondary school was called John Smith. This was because he once shat himself when we were doing country dancing An eloquent commentary, in hindsight.

Also beware names that rhyme with a lot of other words - mine does and that was hellish (also sharing a name with a sleb doesn't help). We've racked our brains and can only come up with two very random nickname possibilities for our chosen baybee name and neither of them are offensive. This means a lot to us as me and TYF both have names that somehow managed to create a massive choice for our respective piss-takers.

Boo, your name choice stuff is lovely :)

I has done an enorma-poo and has a bleeding botty as a result I am slightly less scared of giving birth now.

PS I meant to add big hugs for poor knackered Orchid. with a Pro-Plus chaser, my dear?

Bah, can't sleep. Anyone else noticed that Medee has been quiet today... ?