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

Also he works with students, so if anyone is surround by slim, lovely (often foreign) young things, then I should be most worried :o

Rocket thanks for that, thought I'd killed the fred with my whinging.

I know I'm being a daft mare - I even knew it as I was moaning away last night, but I couldn't stop.

I've posted before about having trouble getting my head around the fact that I'm not going to be quite as independent money wise anymore. I know the problem lies 100% with me - Mr Loz quite likes the idea of being the main provider (he earns way more than me anyway).

I think the fact that I'm nearing mat leave & going to ante natal tomorrow its all becoming a little more real. And scary.

On the plus side Mr Loz bought 2 more pointless bodysuits last night, so there was much sqeeeeeing. He also bought some muslim (as he calls them) cloths (vay practical). The spare room is starting to resemble a nursery.

There's still some dregs of tequila left if you want some...........

Thanks again for the virtual bitch slap - much needed!

All understandable loz Its all getting progressively more real, isn't it? I can't even look at the list. But just think how poor scorps feels at the top :o

I think if I hadn't deliberately sabotaged my career a few times already, (and wasnt so work shy) I would probably be feeling a LOT less in denial chilled about it all.

Loz, I've been having real big moments of insecurity and not feeling like I know who I am any more too. I think it's pretty normal. Your body doesn't look like your own any more, it doesn't feel like it's yours either and everything is going to change big time in every aspect of your life. I've not been able to work because I've been so ill the whole pg (apart from a few freelance bits and bobs) but I have some of my own money to live on but TYF has had to pay all the bills, which has made me feel like a parasite - he says this is stupid as, if he lived alone, he'd be paying the same, so I'm not to feel guilty, but it's unavoidable (he's so goddamn pragmatic and calm!). I guess this has helped get me used to being dependent on him for stuff like that, but it's not the greatest feeling in the world. I think when The Lad is here I'll feel better about it because being a mum will be my job, just an unpaid one.

As for feeling jealous and uggers, well, I'm glad that TYF's workplace is all male (not a typically masculine environment, just a coincidence). But virtually every day he has to reassure me that he doesn't think I'm gross and still thinks I'm pretty, etc. I'm huge, my formerly perky norks have lost all their volume and now look like an African tribeswoman's and the only way to describe the severity and lividity of my stretchmarks would be through the medium of expressive dance - if I could actually move better than a 100 yr old. And he's so beautiful and youthful and sexy and I can't help thinking, he's young, healthy, gorgeous and doing well in his career and here I am burdening him with an ill, whale-sized, penniless, loser, repulsive crone who has to ask him to do virtually everything round the house and help her loads, because she can't do hardly anything any more who then is pathetically needy about reassurance. Obvy, he tells me I'm mad, but I can't help it (esp. as my Evil Ex was EA and made me feel like an ugly, unlovable burden).

And you thought you were being ridiculous?!

PS All chat about me being top of the list is water off a duck's back - I feel so rough I just want it all to be over and have my son in my arms, so NAH!

meds EA sounds like a healthy little girl! Good luck with the anitbiotics and hop you all get home soon.

Loz, rocket and scorps I am convinced that your blokes are completely blown away by the fact that their partner is growing their child And, anyway, you all sound completely normal for people who are about to go through a life-changing event.

I have been waking up recently with my heart thumping convinced that something's not right because I can't feel the boy moving. It's like an instant reaction to waking up. I don't feel him much first thing but then he squidges around during the day so I don't know why it's happening -I know he's fine. Madness.

In other, less interesting news, it's really friggin hot here and I need floaty dresses.

Oh PEShies pliz to not be so self deprecating? Am certain that your menfolk are absolutely overwhelmed by your human incubating abilities and what you perceive as hideous preggo deformities, they don't even notice half the time! I hope the lovely sunshine perks you up, let's all have a BBQ this weekend!

Meds more great news, fabulous stuff! Everyone around you sounds like they are contributing so much and you and MrM are doing brilliantly. Am already getting prepared for the thread party when EA comes home!

So, it appears the drugs do work -yippee! I managed to keep down my dinner (very sensuible chicken, new pots and salad) with no problem and even fancied an M&S crispy caramel square for pud - result. I've got Cyclizine, which I understand is in the category of 'we don't think it does any harm but have neveer conducted clinical trials on preggos because, well, who wants us science bods to mess with their baybees?' but the GP was reassuring about the low level of risk. Even so, I am going to use it sparingly so not every day (e.g. tomoz at friends' BBQ when need to put on human disguise for few hours will be using but on Sunday when I can spend all day at home vomming on demand, will probs not bother) Am delighted to have something that provides respite and am coping well with vomming this morning, because I know I can make it go away if I need to. Am also clinging on to the fact that it is statistically likely to stop in 3 1/2 weeks time

TGB works with entirely geeky computer types and all men, I hope he doesn't decide to bat for the other side once faced with the whale-like stretch mark saurus I will definitely potentially become! I think he's had good practice though as when my eczema and allergies are playing up I have moments where I wail at him (you know the type of thing, 'why would you want to be married to the elephant man when you could have a normal-skinned wife?' - he's a goodun!)

Truffs the cyclizine is more effective if you take it regularly. I was on it and Bob appears to be all in one piece.

Scorps I'm sorry you feel the same, but thankyou for making me feel more normal about it. I don't think I've done too badly to get to this stage before becoming a hormonal mentallist, so Mr Loz is a lucky man . And I do not plan on making this mental last - its too exhausting!

Truffs so glad that the drucks have worked - & that quickly too.

I'm planning a vay early night tonight - I think tiredness is part of my low mood. I enjoyed the breastfeeding workshop on Wed, & seeing as tomorrow will be mostly the same crowd I think tomorrow should be good too. Then Mr Loz & I are going out for dinner tomorrow eve, just us 2. I can't wait

Truff, I would take it regularly if I was you. Muser's BobKate is a wriggly bundle of gorgeous proof that the drucks won't turn your baybee Quasimodo. I've had to be on Omeprazole for severe acid reflux since wk 12, and taking paracetamol every day since @ wk 14 for my headaches/migraines and briefly had to take amitryptiline (sp?) for them too and all scans, etc., show a super-healthy baby inside me, so hurrah! Before I got pg, I wouldn't take anything for anything (except satanic period pains) so was v wary of drucks, but they have been an absolute godsend for my pg.

BTW, we're worrying that our menfolk are thinking 'Urrrgh, she's so fat/stretchmarked/flaky/whatever' but they're probably actually thinking 'I can't believe someone as gorgeous as her could fancy a scrawny/bald/big-nosed/athlete's foot sufferer/etc. like me' (Those are imaginary examples - I'm not trying to say everyones blokes are weedy, stinky, slaphead Barry Manilow-alikes, okay?! )

truffs I took Cyclizine on an adhoc basis - sometimes twice a day, sometimes not for 10 days. There were degrees of nausea I could cope with. Baybee is fine. I'm sorry, I'm not sure which stage you're at - but mine was definitely at its height from 10-14 weeks although obviously did not disappear.

Oi, dont lump me in with those two menkullists, I'm FINE :o

loz tiredness DEFINITELY a massive factor. I have been feeling a bit low for a few weeks because of my back kicking off. Plus I wasn't getting my crucial couple of hours of back to sleep time once TB left for work at 7 am, because of the guy doing the work on the house arriving at 8. I couldn't really have an afternoon nap with him around plus it felt like the house was a horrible tip. This week has been a whole other kettle of fish plus the weather looking up and I am back feeling good again. I know you have to get up for work so no lies in for you but I would really recommend just having a lie down for an hour when you get in, it really helps. Or just going to bed at 8 pm worked for me when I was working and really tired in first trimester. You just have to molly coddle yourself for a bit especially at this stage I think. Roll on ML for you my love when you can just laze about.

truffs so glad the drugs are working but I would heed muses advice (she is the Oracle of Barf) Its probably only going to be for a few weeks anyway and if you are going to take them, you might as well get the maximum benefit imo.

Yeah, I'm a mardy bitch if I'm tired . Wish I had half as much energy as Bug, wriggly little buggar.

I am going to go home & go to bed soon - g'night lovely ladeez!

Posting at silly o'clock because feeding, Loz...ah, the delights in store for you May laydeez.

From the newborn frontline: I wouldn't be too quick to wish pregnancy away - however revolting you feel during pregnancy, it's probably the last time you will be able to be ill for the next year. Berwhale tends not to care if I'm exhausted, he still wants to be fed, changed, cuddled, fed again... Mind you, I have a Velcro baby and I know other people who are more capable of putting theirs down. And it's worth it when he smiles, or makes eye contact, or makes a new noise.

Can I just say that the phrase 'Oracle of Barf' is wonderful?

Truffs v.glad you are managing to keep things down, it must be such a relief.

Truffs I took thrice daily cyclizine for months with both and they are both just fine, hale and hearty. And actually cyclizine is one of the older antiemetics, which means it's been used in lots more pregnancies than some of the newers, and is generally considered pretty well tolerated and pretty much safe as can be said about anything for differs. HTH.

Medee am so thrilled to read your updates.

Sorry not more to say. Tired and one handed. Foot rubs and nipple tweaks to all.

Point taken, Drom :) Soon enough he'll de-velcro and you'll probably miss this stage!

Rocket, 'Oracle of Barf' is indeed GENIUS. I think Muse should get business cards made up with that as her job title

Tiredness is my constant companion. From needing at least 9 (seriously!) to feel human, I now feel proud of myself if I manage 5! Got 4 last night and am only half-menkul.

TYF came home early and we've done a big spring-clean blitz (found a way for me to sit and him to pass me things to sort out, although he did all the donkey work). Seeing how well we work as a team is v encouraging. I also told him some of us were fretting about our menfolk's opinion of us and he said that we are a) mad, b) men don't notice change as much as we think they do ie to him, I've just got a big tum and I'm a bit wonky on me feet and c) our menz are simultaneously in awe of us carrying their kids and grateful that it's us and not them!

Meds, I hope EA has had another good 24 hours and gets through her last day on anti-bs like the little star we know she is :)

Lovely to hear from drom and cass from the front line.

TB has just told be he loves bump and me, notice I came second. Just realised I AM going to have competition from another woman soon :o He also told loz to "man the F up" he means it well tho. Contrast to the lovely TYF or what?

In other news, have just spent half an hour cleaning the blind in the nursery, it was RANK and I am not sure how I have managed to over look how dirty it was before. Nesting in full effect then. Looking forward to starting the wall art on Monday, whoot!

Oh, TYF is just arselicking cos he knows what side his bread's buttered

Ello, ello, ello, what's occurring?

Some of you may recall me from the dim and distant past, some of you not. I now feel eligible to join in what with being 12+2 following IVF in January. Yep it only bloody worked!

I have been shitting myself about something going wrong (and still in denial a little) but having made it public knowledge in the past few days following scan I don't think I'll tempt any terrible fate by posting on here

I recognise a few of you and can't believe you're close to laying Am sure there is something weird going on with time that should be looked at by a professional. It seems to be slow yet fast all at the same time.

Also just wanted to say I had a quick read back and am really happy to see that Meds little girl is getting stronger all the time. What a terrible time you've been through but will be a scary memory that you forget about as time goes on and she grows strong and healthy.

Oh cinco, fab news on the successful IVF. Woot!

Lovely to see you in here, my darling!! 12+2, how lovely. So so pleased for you (as you already know) :o :o :o

The time thing is strange, I think its because the first 8 weeks after a BFP waiting until the 12 week mark go soooo slowly because you are shitting it until the magic dating scan confirms you havent made the whole thing up. And I imagine this is probably even more so after IVF. Yet for the rest of us further on, time seems to be speeding up. It's a paradox that I don't even question now. TBH the 1st of June still seems miles away to me yet everyone who asks my due date keeps saying "not long now" I think they either haven't experienced or have forgotten about Differs Elastic Chronographic Syndrome.

Wait until they're born. KateBob will be 2 months old on Tuesday. How the FUCK did that happen?

Fanks :)

Forgot to say massive congratulations to all those who have laid their baybees whilst I've been away. There have been a fair few of you!

cincodemaya Whoop whoop!

Cinco! What amazing news!!! So pleased for you...and lovely to see you in here too.

Have been busy at work today so not time to fanny around . Just to say all your menfolk should feel bloody lucky and blessed to have such a fab bunch of ladies as your good selfs. Who are voluntarily putting themselves through puking, varicose veins, constipation, sPD and being generally hugely fat and ungainly (not to mention the unspeakable foof damage) just so they get to snuggle their firstborns (or secondborns) (men love a snuggle too - tis the troof).

Drom MiniG was a velcro baby too. You prob know this already but a sling was lifesaver for me. Also things got a lot easier once he started to get mobile and wanted to be off exploring. We also had one of these which he went in from about 4 months which was a godsend as I could stick him in their happily "DJ-ing" whilst I cooked dinner or had a shower.

Hands and feet and legs NOT reacting well to the nice weather. I'm starting to balloon up a bit. Lovely