Summer, summer, summer PESH: Get in your birthing pools, it's going to be a hot one

[LadyGoneGaga]

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.
Casserole, girl born 19th March
Medee, girl, born 26th March.
Scorpette, boy, born 21st May.
Rocketleaf, girl, born 23rd May.

UPDIFFED

Laurielou, the unmarried hussy with the "surprise" diff, due 31 May (ish).
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.

Sending all good vibes to Barbie for this afternoon.

Welcome back Alps, tis good to have you :) Please to bring lots more BESHes along ASAP, seeing as we're doing quite well at despatching people to the CRESH at the mo.

I wanted a tongue sticky out smiley for your stupid work Bites, but there doesn't appear to be one. (I realise they obviously deserve far worse, but unlike Muse I'm a nice girl and don't do swearing.... ;)) Hope the GP can make it abundantly clear it's them not diffedness that's the issue. But yay for more money!

Oh and Gin, tis very lovely to see you around these parts, you will stick around won't you.

Thanks hags GP is luvverly usually so have high hopes. Do feel a bit worried that having stress and anxiety related ishoos this late on will bring the health visitor a-knocking but also think that if I don't cheer up and calm down soon my post-birth mental health will be affected anyway. The money news is most welcomed especially since in the light of my forthcoming poverty I paid off an enormous credit card debt with the money I didn't spend on wine and fags . I am now considering the purchase of something nice for myself as a reward, or hiding some money from myself to buy something nice that also fits later in the year.

Sorry you are feeling nasty bootylove, feel free to throw things but has anyone else suggested spatone?

foxy please instruct the cub to stay put a little bit longer, it's far too scary for end of July differs if mid July baybees start dropping hints! occy I think a world revolves around me smiley would be appropriate at this point if you are going to contact MNHQ anyway?

maccers could round thing be a bum? Since bitey bach turned there has been a regular appearance of a round thing and then kicks in the rib area?

Well not such a good hossie appt .

First off they found sugar in my wee. Then they measured me and I came in at 37 cm. Off the scale. So then they decided to scan me - had to wait two hours for a slot. Turns out the baybee weighs in at an estimated 6 and a half pounds already at 34 weeks. So they think I could have Gestational Diabetes. Got to have a GTT next Monday. Fuuuuuuuck. Home birth def ruled out if this is the case. But would explain my ridic levels of thirst and water drinking I have had lately. And the fact I have put on 4 stone and now outweigh a prop forward. In interim have to eat no sugary stuff. Oh, and baby also a bit oblique .

Lots of luck for BB's scan - thinking of you. I know how horribly stressy these are - really hope you just get a lovely look at your wriggly baby.

Fuck the knob ends, Bitey. Hard, in the bum, with unlubed dildocam. Have a nice rest. And I don't think they can trigger maternity leave unless you are off sick after 36 weeks with something preggo related. So you are safe.

I agree it does sound like could be a bum, Maccabee. My baybees bum feels big and hard - but that's cos I have a little fatso in there.

Alps you're not pregnant until you've wee'ed on at least 30 sticks. Fact. Check out mine and Owlie's piccies for proof.

Off to torture myself with Dr Google now.

Oh bollocks gaga what a horrible morning you've had . Will next Monday's results be the deciding factor for the HB? Don't forget when reading Dr google that you are normally very fit and healthy and don't scare yourself too much, I know that is easier said than done. Fucksticks.

GG step away from google. You know it won't come to any good. Sorry to hear it wasn't such good news. None of it's anything I have any experience of, but I do know a) that growth scans can be MILES out with their estimates of weight, and b) GD can be controlled with sensible diet and so on. Obviously hope you don't have it and the home birth is still on. Why such a long wait for the GTT? (OK, so a week's not a long time, but it is in differ-time). Sending you virtual sugar-free Brownies, and I'm sure other people will have more knowledgable advice.

Fucking buggery fuck, GG :(

It might well still just be a big baybee (did you not say before that you got pretty large with MiniG?) and sugar in wee can come and go so here's hoping that when you go for the GTT they find absolutely bugger all to shout about and the HB can go ahead. I too am thirsty all the time and there was no sugar in my wee last Friday.

Alps she is right; at least 30 sticks required

Ginnyfox that is v.exciting altho clearly not so fun with the waddling etc.

Bites I reckon a jiffy bag is in order. Bonus points if you set fire to it. I am already doing the Spatone sachets - one of those fellows in the morning and the Evil Brown Tablet of Doom in the evening as this is all I can stomach and even that gives me gut ache.

I feel obliged to have a mini-rant about the pharmaceutical industry and the NHS, sorry.

1. Why the fuck have they not invented some form of iron that is actually absorbable as opposed to indigestible? Because they are cheap-arses who don't care about my innards, that is why.

1. Why, according to the NICE guidelines, is there no clear evidence whether water birth provides better results than non-water birth, given that thousands of women have baybees every bastard year in the UK?

1. Why, again, do the NICE guidelines say local anaesthetic should be offered for stitches post-birth and yet I know more than one person who has been told that it doesn't hurt and they should grin and bear it? Are we in the WWI trenches or something here?

1. Why are they obsessing over iron levels anyway when for a large proportion of diffed women they are just showing big increase in blood volume equalling big dilution of red blood cells rather than actual anaemia?

As you were.

I think so - but even if it is normal I still have to have another consultant's appt at 38 weeks. I presume so they can decide what to do about Enorma Baby. Might have to get my head around going into hospital and then if at home then will be a nice bonus. But even if it gains the normal amount of weight at this point that would still put it about 10lb's at full term. FFS. I struggled enough getting an 8lb-er out.

Cross-post with Owlie - yes he did measure big - but more at 37 weeks than 34 weeks.

Dunno why I haz to wait, Occy. Apparently was the first time they could fit me in. Reckon I will be about to give birth by time any of the treatments actually have any effect!

Oh gaga that's pants. :( Thirst/weeing sounds right for diabetes though - although isn't it "hilarious" that these pregnancy afflictions mimic er... being heavily pregnant. Tired? Slightly swollen? Walking like a duck? Are you pregnant or just about to keel over with pre-eclampsia? :(

bitey I for one am going to run with MOG Twinz!

I've got cheese by the bucketload and also various salamis which may or may not have been cured by simply storing under the provencal midday sun. Raw prawn sarnies to follow.

Hugs and chinese burns to Bitey and Gaga, and crossed fingers for Barbie.

Yes, Alps T'is the same kind of irony that makes all early differs symptoms almost identical to pre-menstrual symptoms.

Might as well since not allowed anything sweet.

Shitey shiteness LGG Them lot up there have said all sorts of wise things so I'll just offer you a bag of cheesy puffs and a hug.

Bumholes ladygee. Hope the test shows all is actually ok, and this was just a one off.

Thanks for all the luffs, baby was alive and wriggling. Thankfully it was in a different scan room and the waiting room was quiet and not full of idiots waving scan photos about. Sonographer was very kind too which helped. I might even be brave enough to go on the next Not List.

Aw, fantastic news, BB . So, so happy for you. Bet it was lovely to see and such a massive relief. I blarted all over the sonographer at my scan with pure relief. Looking forward to sharing Not list space with you.

Wahoo!!!!!!!!

BB that is top news and you are in luck (or not) as I have not yet replaced my clothing from dancing about having seen Alps good news.

Macca I'm on it - will be easier when I have a fecking kitchen again though

Some cheese?

BB your news has made my day

GG I guess getting your head round the possibility of a hospital birth is sensible, and then when you hopefully get your home sneeze that will make it extra special. Better to be mentally prepared for as many eventualities as possible. And I guess having to see the consultant at 38 weeks means they'll be working on more up to date info and not making decisions on the basis of stuff which may have changed for the better.

Fab news BB.

Fabulous news BB :o very very pleased for you and glad it wasn't too traumatic.

lady this might be a stupid question but was it first morning urine they tested? Just that i had a bit of sugar in my wee a few times when I had already eaten or drunk during the morning, MW said it was probably just a bit leaking through so next time I did FMU and it was all clear. And I thought sizing scans were notoriously ropey. Just hoping its a combo of those things and not GD? Can't believe you have to wait til Monday to find out. grrrh.

Great news BB. I remember being a bit stunned after my 12 week scan, as I was absolutely convinced there'd just be an empty space. And now here I am trying to remove a foot from under my ribs for the umpteenth time today

LadyG this is obviously a blip, and you'll get the all clear on Monday. MW told me that bump measurements are only a rough guide anyway, due to growth spurts, your height and build etc. Damn them and their bloody charts and protocols! Gah!

Owl I agree with your ranting. There seems to be jack-all evidence for lots of things relating to pregnancy. We asked our midwife about the Vit K thing, not because I don't want Foxcub to have it, but because I'm a bit baffled as to why all babies get a supplement when there is very poor evidence for or against it. "We've been using it for all births since the 1950's". So that's ok then.

Bitey how did you get on at the GP?

Hello, lucious news barbiegirl! very, very happy for you! Is it me or is dusty in here again?

GP was fabby, I'm to self cert for a week, double check that it won't impact on ML and she will then sign me off for as long as needed. She was most reassuring that stress wasn't going to upset biteybach.

Go barbie! There's a baybeee in there! farking marvellous news.

Sorry to all suffering ailments and awkward babies

Sorry, that was a bit abrupt! On iPod so can't see what I have written! Feel much happier after talkng to dr and will hopefully sleep better tonight too thanks for all support!

Yay for Barbie's baby!

Bollocks to diabetes and stress and all that shebang.

Good news day all round then! Congrats to Pony, hope you don't spend too much more on pee sticks in the coming week/few weeks , unless you're going for a xmas tree type affair like GG I think it was?

BB absolutely delighted for you. Be good to see you on the Not List.

Biteme glad your GP was understanding. Bah humbug to your work for making you feel like this.

LGG sorry your hossie appt didn't go better. I also thought they didn't pay too much attention to bump size and weights guestimated by a scan? Hoping they look after you and you do get to have the sneezy home birth in the long run.

Ginfox feel free to overtake me on the Not List pliz. I'm not too keen on heading this list at the moment!!!! Wah, I'm not ready....... I am convinced squidge is going to turn up early, just how early is the question. I have now got to the point where I can barely walk because I feel like a little hand is about to pop through my foof and wave to everyone. It's a most perculiar feeling . I did have a panic this morning though as I realised that I hadn't felt much or any movement overnight which is unusual. I made Mr O get the doppler out and spent a good few minutes frantically searching for a heartbeat whilst he held his breath. I found it in the end but it had us both quite scared for a while. I've since checked it another few times over the day and found it much quicker. Movements are still a little down on what they are usually though? In other news, first day of ML has been spent productively re-painting the loft hatch, front door and some render outside that Mr O had to re-do because of a wasps nest. Tomorrow Mini O has his first visit to pre-school in the morning and then I have a hair cut and colour booked for the afternoon. So, am keeping busy for now.

Any more news from lorry?