Mad March in the PESH deli; in like a lion, out like a lamb?

[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
Perfect Dromedary, boy, born 23rd February

UPDIFFED

Medee, Gah! Top of the list! Was due March 12
Casserole, cracking open the sunroof on March 31
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, sprouting out all over the place, due 1st 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, appears to have eaten posh spice, due 27th July.
Milanomum, eating for 7, due Aug 6th
Owlbooty, suddenly weeble-shaped, due 7th August
Ocarina, there's a what in there?! due late August
Mountie, too shy to shine, due Autumn
Truffkin, growing a padawan, due 17th November

Yes we are! Smooches all round! I have made the error of stepping outside the world of ESH and am now having a stupid argument over whether or not I read the small print properly on a ryan air flight three and a half years ago! That'll teach me for getting bored while doing data entry!

I also looked up caring for the stump, another job for the FDH methinks!

In other me me me news I have to go to North Wales for a training course in May for five days. It is a five hour journey and we have just been told that we have to all go in a minibus for the team building. Gads! I can't actually think of anything worse! Also the project manager is a little git who has already moaned about me to everyone else on the course for having the temerity to get diffed and creating the need to train someone else as well. Apparently this has pushed the project's costs to the limit and the reason why we can't take our own cars. Just hope they can fit a seven month differ and all my comfort acoutrements on board. I am wondering at what point to mention that I need to pee ALL THE TIME now and it is only going to get worse. Perhaps I won't and just make sure that any accidents happen when I am sitting next to him.

Yeah, you're going to be stopping every half an hour. Catheter, anyone?

Could you stand on your head all the way there to prevent Minibites sitting on your bladder?

No? How VERY INCONSIDERATE. Pffft.

I have a pram sitting in my office. If one more fecker strolls past and asks me if I've had it yet I shall staple their ear to the desk.

People keep asking me how much longer I have left (obviously expecting me to pop any minute). When I say I've still got another 16 weeks they visibly recoil with horror. Or maybe I am particularly paranoid.

Bitey is there really much point in you have 5 days out training when you are on maternity leave less than two months later?

Not really geegee! The project I am moving onto is uber micro managed by an imbecile. I think he is best described as a show pony!

Next time a sticky beak asks you when you are due you should tell them you due date was ten days ago and you are feeling ever so twingey!

owly stick one of these or better yet, one of these no, hang on deffo this one in the pram and cluck proudly!

GG I had my first one of those comments yesterday! I'm not even that large yet. Cheeky buggers aren't they? I guess now is about the time all that sort of thing starts. Joy joy joy.

I luff the owl.

I luff the owl too, please get one anyway!

owls are the best. I luffs that fluffy one almost as much as i luffs this

Bitey, I'd go and make sure I was sat next to the arsehole, so I could fart all over him every 10 mins and potentially leak a bit of wee his way I'd also take some print-outs of pictures of lochia and the different types of poos done by newborns, etc.

This and other tips are available in my new book A Differ's Guide To Popularity

Love your pram ideas too. My Mum has always wanted a pet monkey (she's not right in t'head) and the bebeh orangutan might push her over the edge!

Talking of my mad-but-lovely Mum, she has popped round today excited to be bringing me a glamorous new gift: one of those special 'Momma's Reaching Sticks' that 50 stone people have to use to pick things up with. I am calling it my Crippa Grippa £3 from Aldi! I can now pick up the tv control that rolled under the coffee table this morning and watch some crappy telly, woohoo!

What news of sweet little EA today, Meds? Has she been draining you dry again? :)

PS I started getting bump comments at 10 wks

OMG Rocket I must haff the chewable owl. I must.

Rocket, I want that owl toy for ME, sod the baby getting hold of it!

BTW, is my favourite owl vid - watch it all the way to the end, it's bonkers!

ah yes, transforming owl is bonkers!! I could do with one of those sticks, I dont have SPD or anything but bending forward is becoming less of an option these days, problem is I keep forgetting and kneeling down to pick something up and then getting stuck down there :o

What is that, like Big Brother Owl? Does one vote out the least appealing owl?

You can always rely on Japanese TV for proper mentalism

scorps That video is the strangest thing I have ever seen! Can't wait for differ's guide to popularity, is it out in paper back yet? (Tight cow)

That owl is fabby sprocket! Are we all getting one? If I ever see a RL life baybee chewing on one I am going to wondering if its mother is of the evil and selfish variety.

I'm back and I haz ze drucks! Woo hoo am hopeful for miracles this evening (i.e not up chucking my dinner - how ambitious!) I saw the most luffly GP who really sympathised and reassured me that I'm not harming the baybee and the odds are I'll feel better in a few weeks. She did say that there was a trace of blood in my urine (will I have to pee in a tube every time I see a GP now?) which might be an infection so I was a little bit scared about that but she didn't seem too fussed so hopefully it's fine. I also got the drucks for free so double huzzah!

Bitey that training trip sounds a right pain, is there no way you can avoid it? The PM also sounds like a pain in the arse too!

Regarding bumps, I was not blessed of a washboard stomach before diffment but would be quite happy to let it all hang out already! Am looking forward to getting to a point where a) people know and b) it's socially acceptable to be bumpalicious (as I really think 8 weeks is pushing it!)

truffs yay for the drucks! hope you can now enjoy some barf-free festivities!

It's my last day at work tomorrow. Can't believe I am finally leaving and can't wait. leaving due to stress caused by the place. Hoping I'll get some temporary work during the pregnancy at least. But looking forward to a bit of stress free rest too :)

Evening all. Another marathon feeding day with EA. Last night she eventually settled around 12.50, and we had to get up again at 3.30 to go through for her 12-hourly antibiotics. She fed for a wee while then, but settled quicker. I left her in the ward and returned to bed, where I got a solid 3 hours until MrM arrived!

Since getting up she has fed and cried and fed and cried most of the day. MrM managed to get her off to sleep with the magic pinkie at one point, allowing me a nap. My parents also arrived today to visit, having not seen her since the morning she fell ill. She was lovely on their first visit, alert and Gran had lovely cuddles. We escaped for some lunch until I got a call to return and feed her, and there it went on. The doctor had to redo her canula, so took her ages to settle before and after that. Eventually got her off again about 7, and MrM and my dad are off to get us some pizzas while my mum irons!

We had another poonami this morning, though not as bad as yesterday. Tomorrow is the last day of the antibiotics, then it is the countdown to hometime! And her new ward home is HDU, not quite SCBU, but one down from ICU. But as she's off the ward for all but meds and obs, all is well.

Lovely to hear from you Medee, sounds like everything is going well. Hooray for your hungry little girl.

Medee that sounds fantastic. How lovely that your parents were able to visit her too. Sounds like hometime is within sight now.

Everything is moving swiftly in the right direction, Meds, fab news :) Great that your folks could be with her too - all that love will be so healing and comforting for her. Your family sound really helpful and supportive; she's a lucky girl. Good luck for her last day of antibiotics tomorrow XX

Great news meds as score said all moving in the right direction. It sounds like very hard work for you and MrM but very well worth it! You must be knackered, hope you can get a bit more rest tonight. Lovely that your folks have been able to spend some time with her too.

Hope the drugs are doing the trick truffs and you are happily stuffing your face with something yummy nutritious.

Brill news Medee :)

Yay for babyMeds, that's sounding like excellent progress, and yay for drucks for Truffs. I've been lucky enough to avoid ms thus far and am profoundly grateful for this, it sounds utterly miserable.

Thanks for the update, Meds. It's great to hear that EA is making progress and that you have some extra support. Hope she continues to do so well.

Meds lovely update. Good luck for the last day of antibiotics. Your parents sound fab too - if you fancy sending you mum to mine for a spot of ironing that would be great . I really hope you have your lovely little family all home soon.

Drom Pliz to not post at silly o'clock - it reminds me of the delights I have in the not too distant future . Seriously, hope all is OK the fact you're on here at that time.

I've had a few bump comments, & I don't like it. I know I'm meant to be getting bigger & its all a good sign for Bug. I'm fine with that part of it. But as someone who has struggled with weight all my life, I find it a very sensitive subject, & just can't fully embrace the whole "oooh look at the size of your stomach" comments with a grin.

Actually - can I have a dull me me me moan? Pliz feel free to skip to end. This week I've felt knackered & particularly cumbersome. Mr Loz felt the pure mental of my hormones last night. As I was blending into the sofa having fallen asleep, looking the size of a small country, I laid into him about my fears of him working surrounded by young, slim, energetic lovlies then coming home to me. I said I was afraid he was gong to up & leave. Of course he denied & did his best to reassure me, but I'd worked myself into a frenzy of the point of no return. Oh, I think it started as he told me he's been invited to a pretty important conference in Jul which means an overnight away. He's told his boss yes, but that the details will have to depend on me, but he's quite excited & very flattered to be approached. Of course I'm very proud & glad for him, but scared at the same time. I'll be alone overnight with a tiny baby & his career goes from strength to strength. Christ, that sounds awful & utterly selfish. I'm just having a "moment"

I would offer some tequila, but I think I'm going to slouch in a corner & drink the lot myself. Pliz to form a queue & bitch slap some sense into me.

loz hope you are feeling better today. I think its hard when you are older to make that transition from being equal and independent when it comes to career/money etc. Its going to take a bit of adjusting too so don't beat yourself up, remember the hormones and tiredness are going to be playing merry hell with your emotions and amplifying everything. But you do know you are being a silly arse and MrL loves you very much, dont you?!! I imagine he is also feeling a bit of pressure to be 'bread winner' now so any boost in his career is a good thing for both of you. By the time July comes round you will be totally in control of all things baby related, so I am sure it will be fine. Also you've got to remember that what you are doing is just as important (if not a million times more) as earning a crust! And before you know it that precious time wil be over and you'll be back at work!!

In a way you are lucky, TB is wonderful and supportive and I love him very much but he has absolutely no ambition at all. A new person who has just been employed on the same level as him is being sent on a conference in a few weeks time, he has worked there 10 years and never been sent on anything!! I am a bit that he always gets over looked as he doesn't push himself forward even tho he is very capable of doing more. I doubt he will ever have a 'career' as such. Its a bit worrying when I have always been the main earner and that is all going to change now for a while at least (trying not to think about any of that tho, lalalalal!)