The Deli gets funky: Ah, PESH it good - P-PESH IT REAL GOOD!

[Scorpette]

This fred ain't for everybody - only the menkul wimminz!

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.
Medee, girl, born 26th March.
Casserole, girl born?

UPDIFFED

Scorpette, not top of the list at all, lalala, I can't hear you!, 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, No, it's not fucking twins, due 24 July.
Ivegotmrbitey, appears to have eaten posh spice, due 27th July.
Macaroonmum, 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.
kat2504, 25 sticks pissed on and counting, due 5th December.

Yikes truffs that well spennie for NCT. As alps said I don't think it will leave a massive hole in your life if you don't do it. I did learn a few useful things but the main gain has definitely been the people on the course. If thats not a consideration for you then I can understand you not wanting to bother. It depends if you have any burning questions or are undecided about how you want your birth experience to go. I know a lot of the other people on our course felt it gave them a lot more confidence to manage their births how they wanted (although remains to be seen how much of that flys out the window when the time comes!!)

I think I might have the loveliest MW on the planet, she did her first hypnobirth 20 years ago! and is all for it. It's such a shame that they have changed the system from continuous care now so I can't guarantee that she will actually attend my birth but the other MWs in her team also sound lovely so I guess I will just have to role with it. Bless her, she actually described it as a bereavement when she was no longer allowed to attend all her patients births as she had been for 20 years.

role roll (wtf?) Also TB heard the heart beat for the first time on the doppler and just admitted to having a bit of a moment. AND Sprouts head has dropped which is quite unusual for a first timer at this stage but a good sign apparently. We have decided a good day for her to come would be the 28th of May which would be 12 years since the day we met, or the 23rd when TB has a PDR he wants to avoid So thats pretty much a guarantee she will come on the 11th then (TBs b'day) :o

Where is everyone?

Sorry that was all a bit memememe. hope truffs is ok and booty you are feeling better today and have no cause to grump at MrBoots although he should know better than to keep a differ from her dinner.

score how you feeling today?

meds I am ok for names, prob better suit some of the earlier differs.

Is Scorps laying? She best hurry up, I'm a bit bored.

Boo to all the people feeling rubbish, perhaps I can cheer you up with some coke floats? I had one today at a cafe and felt pleasingly childish again.

I have just been dying a bunch of boring pastel pink baby clothes. Bloody marvellous it has been. I wanted to dye my Calin Bleu sling as the white looked a bit too much like I had a sheet wrapped round me. So I got some Dylon machine dye in Burlesque Red and dyed it. And while I was at it threw in the pastelly presents that I was not at all keen on.

Everything has come out looking ace. One of the little outfits had embroidery and sequins on, and that's all stayed pink as obviously not cotton. It looks really funky having this dark reddish/brown with the pink. It has gone from being an outfit that made me squirm a little at the tweeness to one I am excited to put on her. And the sling looks ruddy marvellous too.

I highly recommend the dying approach to any gifts you receive which do not quite meet your colour requirements. And if anyone queries just tell them there was a poonami and it was the only way to remove the stain.

mm, that's a good idea, we've had a lot of pink.

She's not laying as she's just posted on an FB photo of mine.

I saw that. How terribly disappointing.

Have a go with some dye! So many potential colours you could cover with. But do remember that hems, threads, embroidery, etc probably won't dye. So pick something that will match.

I shall look at doing that. Also, I've a couple of things with gift receipts which are going back - 1 was a duplicate and another was the wrong season for the size given - so shall go for something a bit bolder.

How are you doing triffic? I don't think you're being whiny btw just felt so sorry for you with all the vomming and everything.

I have eaten far too much and am slipping into a food coma so will catch up tomooeow. Please tuck into home made chocolate brownies and cherry ice cream, night all

I luffs dying too, i have resurrected many a white gone grey favourite item. am seriously considering dying the cellular blankets a bright colour. but be warned muse they probably won't be colour fast for quite a few washes so mdke sure you wash them separately or with other red or dark clothes at first. And don't leave them damp in the machine. I've had colour transference happen on to anything lighter or different.

I'm here, not laying! Mind you, ESH baybees are so goddamn cute that I would probably be writing comments on their photos whilst in transition

I've been feeling very quiet and 'internal', if that makes sense. Also needing to nap/relax a lot and when not doing that, my sausage fingers make typing a chore. Baby feels very low and engaged (a random woman yesterday told me she was a mw and I looked ready to 'drop') and am now walking in a comedy John Wayne fashion.

Good stuff on the clothes-dying, Muse. My Aunt has told me she has knitted me a bunch of stuff in pastel blue (gag) so after some cute pics of The Lad wearing them for her benefit (they live Darn Sarf and rarely see me), I will be scouring the Dylon range in JL. Am not ungrateful and they will be top quality, but she is v old-fashioned about gender stuff.

Hope all went well today, Truff :)

Sorry hags, but I think "dyeing" has an "e". Your talk of loving dying had me horribly startled.

Oops you are absolutely right rie I should know better. I blame baby brain and possibly iphone predictive text.

Sounds to me like you are getting mentally prepared for D day score How are you feeling about breaking the family early lay tradition? Hope it doesn't go too far the other way for you.

I have also vetoed the 'baby blue' colour but suspect that something will probably turn up. I guess I can always dye it darker blue. I am not keen on pastel colours full stop.

Rie you are right about the extra e and full sympathies on the caneston, I have been down that road once and never ever want to do it again!

I have a local MN group who I've been meeting with in RL - they are mostly delivered now and so it has become a group of a few of us diffed and many squeeeeee-inducing tinies - it is making me terribly impatient as I now want Owlet to arrive so I can join in the mass-snuffling.

Re the dyeing - I would be v.v.careful with putting anything dyed next to anything pale as I have also made that error in the past and it does not bloody come off! Dylon is fabulous stuff tho.

rocks they have the same system where I am which is bloody annoying as I want my lovely MW to deliver not some random. And where I used to work the CMWs came into the MW-led unit to deliver the baybees and here they don't which surely must mean that the CMWs hardly ever get to deliver any baybees at all - no wonder mine is uber-keen on me having a homebirth. I really don't think this is a good system at all. MWs don't get what they want and neither do we - it'd be so much easier with a MW we already knew. Effing NHS.

Although, as we are grown ups and all, perhaps we should have affogatos instead. Where is Milano when you need her??

mmm, affogato.

There is a clear division here between CMWs who you see during your pregnancy and the hospital ones, any of whom could deliver your baby. We were lucky that Audrey came on shift shortly after my waters were broken, and was with us all the way to delivery.

ps, I had the same CMW all the way through and in the post-natal period.

Yep I have had Deirdre all the way through as well and will see her afterwards. She is even coming here for my next one when really it should be at the clinic. Think she prefers doing them at home. I did see one of her colleagues at my 16 week appointment but as I forgot to take my notes to that one we have no idea who I saw I think thats why she is so keen on Home births as well booty She is giving me a copy of the shifts so I will know who to phone, wondering if I can cross my legs til she is on when the time comes :o

PS I now want a coke float. I havent had one since i worked at Pizza Hit as a student I don't think.

PPS rie hope your flange sorts itself out quick smart. I've never had it really badly but even mildly is bad enough.

I thought I was spelling dying/dyeing wrong, but my brain has reduced itself to only being able to think 'Dairylea box, waaargh!' and 'Christ, not another wee!'.

MW thing in my area is like Med's - ones you see during pg and ones in the hossie for Teh Laying. Annoyingly, the area mws won't do home visits until after you've laid, which has been v inconvenient with the SPD.

Talking of which and not-so-early laying, how come I have to break the family preemie thang when having an early-but-safely-early baby is considered best for SPD sufferers (if it happens), as smaller baby = less pelvis horror, theoretically. Just my bloody luck

Mind you, not at my dd yet, so who knows...

I know dyeing has an e. Why didn't I use my e? Stupid me.

On the bright side, 'Why didn't I use my e? Stupid me' is v. Dr Seuss, Muse

Or Mr. C

Anyone got any Veras?

Naughty, naughty, very naughty...

Grabbing my pew for crotch-watch.

I just thought, 'whose crotch are we watching?' and then realised it's MINE! Piss off the lot of yehs!

I always love the build-up to someone else's imminent lay but now it's mine, me no likee My parents ring me at least once a day, every day now, to 'check'. When I first got pg, they were being overbearing about wanting to wait in hossie the entire time I was in labour, etc., so I told them nicely they were being OTT and that I wouldn't be telling anyone when labour was in its early phase, so they have circumvented this by double-checking all the time

Well, at least they care, unlike MIL who has suddenly been coming up with a variety of excuses not to come up and see The Lad - their first grandchild - when he is born, the 'best' of which being that she doesn't want to miss out on going to the Chelsea Flower Show like she does every year Quote: 'Well, you can just come down in August like usual and we'll see him then'.

Let me think about that for a moment.... er, FUCK OFF (even if it would be okay to take a few-months-old-baby on a 6 hour trip in blazing sun, which I wouldn't do).

Sorry, had to get that out of my system. Just can't believe her attitude. I know it's cos she's pathologically terrified of change, but FFS!

It's possible I have been watching too much V but score do you think she might be a lizard in human skin that just does not actually feel emotion? Chelsea flower show ffs. Mind you classic convo with my mum about a month after she got back from the holiday I didn't go on so I could look after her husband.

Me: so how are you?
Mum: mmm ok. Bit depressed.
Me: oh really? Whats up (apart from dad of course)
Mum: well, I've got nothing to look forward to now.
Me: ......
Mum: oh apart from the baby of course.
Me: ......

So yeah 3rd grandchild = pretty exciting but < to a holiday abroad. Not that I'm bitter or anything. I know she didn't mean it but upset me a bit in my hormonal state at the time.