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.

I don't even know what Isofix is!

rocket We've also managed to buy both carseats in the twice-yearly sales and got them for ~50% off too. You know there are going to be sales in January/July so just think ahead. I buy all Bear's "good quality" stuff in the sales, just need to buy for sizes he'll fit in to in the future.

(I would rather spend the money on me (me) (ME) than my baybee!

we wouldn't have bought the isofix if it wasn't for his stupid car, but it was cheaper than a new car!!

Scorps you are class, that's what you are

I should be getting the carseat delivered in the next couple of weeks. You will hear my wails of despair from wherever you are in the country as I try to stick it in our van. Joy! If I can't work out how to do it I intend to bungee-cord the babyseat to the side panels in the back of the van instead.

Wouldn't it be great if I could effortlessly trump out The Lad?

PAAARP! WAAAH! WAAAH!

We bought a new car but didn't check about isofix. It's 2nd-hand, reg. 2003, which is practically from the future compared to our old banger. It's massive and yet I'll still have to sit with my knees crammed against the dashboard with the car seat in (TYF is tall and leggy so can't put his seat forward, so we have to put the car seat behind my passenger seat). Mind you, I intend to sit in the back with The Lad so he doesn't get lonely/anxious.

PFB, moi?

PS I would like to clarify that I do not have a bucket fanny (worringly the opposite) and, indeed, have never had fanny fart ishoos until this last month of pg and the obligatory pillow-between-the-legs thang. Honest!

My car actually has got isofix points despite being from 2004. However I wince at the 125 for a familyfix base. I may revise this decision when I have seen how difficult it is to fit the cabriofix seat with belts and whether I feel it is wobbly or not. After all, I have just over 12 weeks to think about it. Wah!!!! It seems like 5 minutes ago I was wailing my way through the first 12 weeks.

Scorps I do like the idea of the alternative sneeze you are planning. I will listen out for it

yeah yeah thats your story merseytunnelscore

booty what kind of van? If its old enough and has no air bag in the front you can put the baby in the front. Or you can disable the air bag. But that of course means the none driver is relegated to the back seat. We REALLY want a van. Looked at a VW Trooper the other day, my chiropractors mum is selling hers. It was gorgeous and immaculate (and had seat belts in the back) but 15,000 so errrm that'll be a just slightly out of our price range then :(

pone you are a woman after my own heart. I don't think I have paid full/off the shelf price for ANYTHING for Sproutlet so far. Maybe some of the clothes if they were cheap enough anyway. Car seat was basically free with the push chair because i got JL to price match and internet deal. Good call re jan/july sales tho. January will be the perfect time to be looking out for the next one.

What idiot decides to construct a push chair with freshly painted nails? Moi thats who. going to have to do them again. Pah.

Christ on a fucking bike, there's only EIGHT days left until my due date! How did that happen?!

I love the fact there are no boundaries on here .

Talking of car seats and the like, I got ours down out of the loft at the weekend. I have now washed everything there is possible to wash and it is all dried and put back together. I now have a fully functioning nursery etc - hooray! The last thing on my baby to do list is kick miniO out of his cotbed take delivery of mini O's new single bed tomorrow, put it together and assemble the cotbed back to being cot like and put it in squidge's room. Once that's done I think we're pretty much there. It's a good job as I am pooped most of the time and couldn't face having much more to do.

Scorps I am not ashamed to say that I still sit in the back with mini O whenever we go out as a family. One of us has done ever since he was born (unless he's going to sleep/is asleep). We find it easier as we can keep him occupied with books etc. It's habit now. We won't be able to do it once we have two car seats though so poor squidge won't get the same treatment, although he/she will have mini O for entertainment purposes. I am probably OTT where mini O is concerned, but I figure he won't be little for long so I'm enjoying him before he turns into a hormonal teenager!

Loving the idea of fannyfart birth!

We don't have a car, I've never owned a car, so all this talk is pretty much Greek to me. Although you have now made me start worrying about how to get to/from hospital when the day comes. Which really is to early to be worrying about all things considered.
Do you have to have a car seat even if you don't have a car?

And thanks for all the reassurance :) I did not start hypervomming this morning, but I have come down with the monster cold from hell, bad enough to warrant staying home from work. Am so bunged up my head might explode, and sudafed/lemsip is off :( Argh!

C&C, if you use a taxi you legally have to put baby in a car seat in the taxi, apparently. Sorry to hear about the cold

Orchid, If I see a gorgeous preggo in the back seat with her PFB whilst travelling around our fair city, I'll give you a wave :)

Rocket arsemongers; it's a transit-type van - so there isn't a back seat. There are 3 seats in the front so we'll just have to squish up; I suspect it will be a bit tight.

I've just checked on the AA website and it says if the taxi doesn't have a child seat you are exempt provided they are in the back. So that is good at least.

Our car has isofix, we were just too cheap to pay for it. Didn't even use the carseat until she was 6 weeks old. Walked home from the hospital.

I just googled it. Wikipedia entry is very technical! I think the reason i don't know what it is is because we have been given all of our car seats. We had one stage one M&P car seat with 2 bases for each car. It was always fine. If your car has Isofix does that mean you have to buy a specific seat then? Or if you don't have a modern car does that mean the new seats don't fit in them very well?

Sorry, that should read, ' 2 bases, one for each car'.

Thanks scorps - I will, of course, wave back

Can't add to the car seat debate too well. We have the cabriofix and just used the seatbelt. It did wobble a bit, but we had it fitted by the shop and that's what it was like when they did it too. Haven't tried it in the car I have now, I have to admit. Perhaps I should!

In other news I have just taken delivery of mini O's bedstead. That should keep Mr O busy for a while this evening . Hooray!

Going to pick the pool up in a bit Whoot!

ginfox my hippobirthing lady brought b=me some info on Vit K that my local hossie released. It explains why they give it and the 2 different forms. I have scanned and uploaded it so you can (and anyone else) can have a read. bear in mind this is just one hospitals recommendation but all the stats will be true so you can make your own mind up.

sorry link fail, attachment is here

I've put in my birth plan that we're happy for baybee to have the Vit K injection after birth. I figured that there'll be so much going on then that an injection will just blur into the general WTFness for The Lad. As for me seeing someone stick a needle into My Preciousssss, well, I'm blocking that out of my mind.

39 weeks today!!! I have 'beaten' everyone in my family by getting this far along. My cousin thinks it's because I'm the tallest woman in the family... at a towering 5ft 4"
He's not been very active these last 24 hours. From Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting crazy activity on Monday to Zen Buddhism yesterday. I did get more than the minimum 10 movements and I was v tired myself, so perhaps that had an effect. Bump is v tight and quite painful now and I don't think there's any space left whatsoever, but can't help but worry that the wriggling has really reduced, even though I know movements reduce at this stage now. Pliz to tell me I'm being daft!

score you are being daft. It's just cause there is less room and he is conserving his energy for the efforts to come! As long as you get the 10 or feel a bit of movement within 4-6 hours its sposed to be ok. Ohhhhhh. Exciting! My bump has only just started to hurt, I am not looking forward to putting up with it for the next 3 or 4 weeks.

39 weeks hey! Try not to worry about the going quiet thing - some days they are just quieter than others. Squidge had a quiet day yesterday too (and is again today), other days are just manic! It could be that The Lad is gearing up to make his grand appearance? Like pocketrocket says, as long as you having some movements all should be well. If you're still worried later you could always phone the hossie and ask them?

I've just written my birth plan and am about to print. I should be working, but have been distracted (easily done ).

He's moving now, phew, but the movements are very subtle, not the big biff-bam-pows like usual. Guess there really is no room left, poor thing! I've probably not been noticing these smaller movements over the last 24 hours.

The thought that I could go into labour at any mo is very bizarre. Can't get my mind round it. I kinda want it to happen just to know what it's like (and to meet The Lad, of course!).

Hello, menkuls! It's been ages. I'm too grumpy for interacting with people mostly. I am now 8 days overdue and my exciting home birth is fading away as induction marches towards me with big boots. My body just doesn't seem to want to do labour even though I'm not at all worried about it - hippobirthing has lied to me. Hmpf. Nothing has shifted this baby yet, 3 sweeps, 3 reflexologies, lots of sex (relatively), nipple twiddling, curry... Curry though gives me truly mega wind. I could be used as an alternative energy source.

Anyway, and I may be terrible here and leave many of you out, in which case, many apologies.

bb how nice to see you here! (you will have no idea at all who I am)
truffs excellent scan results. I'm so sorry your friend's having such a hard time. When I got pregnant, I had a friend who was going through IVF and it was unsuccessful. She was wonderful about me, and called me last Friday to tell me she's now 16 weeks pregnant after her second attempt. But it's so difficult to know what to do, and I really hope your friend will feel better in time.
scorps you are soooo going to beat me. Caaah.

Um... vitamin K. Our only non-hippy choice is the injection. MrB lost one of his children in his first marriage to a very rare disease and felt that if the injection minimised any risk, however tiny, he wanted to do that, and I respected it. But I would have been fine with the oral personally.

NCT-one of the couples in mine (queue jumping harridans the lot of them) lives miles away at the moment and booked to come to the classes where they will be living. It showed dedication as they had to get back home at 10pm one night a week.

Grandparents - my in-laws are lovely but live at the other end of the country. They still manage to have a very strong relationship with my steps and their cousin, and we foster this particularly when it involves weeks of childcare while we go away alone. My FiL is going bonkers on FB waiting for the baby. My parents on the other hand are all dead (M) and in the end stages of lung cancer, unable to move as they are hooked to an oxygen machine and have only rung me twice in the last year (F) so my poor old Blob isn't going to have them around. I have interested aunt types, but am rather feeling the lack of interested parents right now.

Car seat - our Pebble has sat unexamined in our bedroom since delivery. I keep telling MonsieurLeByng that we need to try it out. We bought a new car recently on assurances that it had Isofix - it's only a year old too. Does it buggery. But at least we don't have to spend the money.

And finally, I'm fed up with people telling me I should be enjoying these last days. A, because it's hard to enjoy such a weird period, even though my SPD has almost disappeared, to the bewilderment of the medical profession, and B, because that makes me feel utter terror at how much my life is going to change and make me feel I've ruined my life forever etc. etc.

Sorry to rant on, and apologies again for anything I missed. I'm using my new legs today to go for a walk to meet NCT people for coffee and get this baby to bounce on my cervix. Midwives don't seem particularly optimistic for me going into labour any time soon as things stand, although two fingers can now be inserted up my fandango - woo.

Bing have you tried walking sideways up and down the longest flight of stairs you can find? I know of someone who managed to kick things off doing that. Worth a bash, eh, now your legs are all shiny and new?