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.

much love to Scorps,hope you are better and home soon

Anyone getting cramp? Woke up this morning shriekingwith pain as calf had seized up. Not nice, PESHies. and MrG was downstrairs and didn't even respond to my shrieks . What's he going to do in labour?

Hope you're ok, Score and they're getting the BP sorted oot.

And if you are lurking through a sleep deprived haze, Rocket, hope bf continuing to improve and you are surviving. Has made me remember the tough first week. Went out to dinner with MrG last night and described it to him in great detail as will be his first time

Lovely baby clothes got left out all night last night - they do look ,lovely fluttering on the line though.

I got cramp, gaga, only cure was putting weight on it, hard to do quickly when diffed.

Aw Scorps am sending you much BESHly luff - splitting of stitches is no fun whatsoever. Hope they are unsplit v.soon.

GG YES. I managed a double leg cramp this morning and scared the living crap out of Mr Boots. My calves still hurt now. I find that I can't sleep lying on my side all night, I have to sleep sitting up from about half past 4 onwards because my ribs and hips hurt too much. So I don't think that helped matters.

I reckon baby loz wants to be born on 2nd June as is my wedding anniversary innit. 10 years.

Do feel for you though loz I went 14 days over and honestly was longest 2 weeks of my life. I turned in to a right hermit, all I wanted to do was sit at home and feel sorry for self.

I'm getting cramp a lot LadyG, but was advised to force toes up/heel down to clear it. Seems to work every time.

This morning I wake up with a dead arm - as I do most mornings, presumably from lying on my side all night. My hand and wrist were really puffed up, and it was excruciating trying to get the fluid moving.

As scary as it is to only be 6 weeks from EDD, I cannot wait to be back in my old body (or what's left of it), and able to just move around relatively normally.

RE: leg cramp sufferers - I got this really badly in both of my pregnancies. Used to wake up in agony and then have really sore legs for a couple of days. This time I was recommended a magnesium spray for my legs by a herbalist in my local health food shop and I haven't had any cramps since! I used it everyday for a couple of weeks and now only about once a week. The one I have is made by a company called BetterYou and is just called Magnesium Oil (goodnight spray). Worth a try...?

Score hope you're feeling a bit better.

Laurie hope it all starts moving for you soon!

All newborn baby clothes and muslins are washed and away . They look so cute!!! Will do 0-3 months stuff some other time.

Thanks for tip on magnesium spray, Twink - will look into it if they get any worse.

Owlie this sitting up sleeping doesn't sound much fun. Can you do some kind of pillows/cushions arrangement to stop ribs and hip hurting?

I know what you're saying, Gin. Would be nice to sit down or bend over without emitting as loud, involuntary "Huh" noise. MrG made the most crashingly insensitive comment about my boobs earlier. He wasn't being nasty, he just doesn't think but said they were "Huge and pendulous like something from National Geographic" . There is such a thing as too much honesty. He has since apologised for being thoughtless.

Oooh. Twinks ta for that; I reckon anything is worth a try.

GG I have a four pillow configuration but it's not working. I need a cloud to sleep on. I sleep like shite at the best of times though so this was inevitable and I am somewhat resigned to it for the next 7-12 weeks.

at MrG's comment - have had similar from Mr Boots when I remarked that whilst I felt like a right heiffer, at least my arse hadn't expanded. He kindly informed me that I was wrong. I did not need to know that! Have been trying to inspect arse-catastrophe in mirror ever since but cannot lean round far enough to view the damage.

Am v.v.jealous of your luffly newborn freshly washed stash. We have major building work starting on Tuesday so I cannot do anything as I know it will all end up coated in dust and I'll have to wash it again.

Ginnyginfox I concur. Whilst I said I would never whinge about being updiffed, this last slog is bloody hard work and I too would like to be able to reach my feet again etc.

Thanks twinks I will have a look for that too, my legs feel as if I have been mauled by a dog with the after aches of many cramps still twinging in my calves.

gaga and owlie the FDH watched me oiling my bump with interest and said ooooh look, a stretch mark! Turned to to be a false alarm but am now obsessing about them and greasing ymself to within an inch of my life! They need to go on a sensitivty awareness course I think.

I had a lesson in not overdoing things today when I had the inlaws round for lunch. I was up and cooking at eight but couldn't get the very hungover FDH out of bed. By five I was almost hysterical with tiredness, hated my neice and nephew, had been scratched by the cat and had to go bed!

Bites - a word of advice. Do not look on the undersides of your buzzwams. They hide there you see. Stealth stretchmarks.

I have already asked this somewhere else but can anyone point me in the direction of a nightie that is dark coloured, cheap, front-buttoning or opening in some way and not resplendent with a picture of snoopy?

I am not welcoming PFB into the world with fucking snoopy across my stretchmarked bosom.

Bitey, I hope you're making FDH suffer. Esp when you were cooking for his parentals!

I'm trying to do a massive and extra thorough spring-clean before the foxcub arrives and I give up housework for the foreseeable. But generally have run out of energy by lunchtime and mooch around for the rest of the day feeling sorry for myself. Can't imagine how PESHettes with toddlers handle it - I would bow down to your amazing endurance, but then would be stuck on the floor.

Check out Next booty. I got a black nursing nightie from there which I wore in the hospital. Only afterwards though. I was nekkid for baby arrival as I whipped my top off for skin to skin.

PussInBoots I saw this sundress in Asda and thought it would do as a nightie. V cheap, and stretchy around the neck for easy buzzwam access.

Ho hum........... still nothing doing. Am actually perfectly OK as still deeply in denial about the whole thing anyway . Due tomorrow............ when do you reckon it'll hit me?

LadyG for some reason I've always had 4 June in mind anyway. Maybe I've already prepared myself for going late. Though Mr Loz & I are usually very strict about timekeeping, so lots of friends reckon Bug wouldn't dare be late. We'll see.

I've had the leg cramps too - nightmare. Apparently cramp can also be caused by dehydration. I've never been convinced by this as I'm usually pretty good on the water front but maybe worth downing a few more glasses. As long as the bladder can cope of course.

Much love to Scorps & Rocket (& everyone else of course).

Happy due date Laurie!

Scorps hope you are doing ok...

Owlie I feel your nightie pain. The only other option here apart from Snoopy, Donald Duck and co is the kind of thing you'd see in a nursing home. Floral, shapeless, calf-length, button-through sexiness. Surely Primark would have something? Primark always has something...
Are those stealth-stretchmarks then? FFS.

Foxy I have got a Big Plan for tidying, de-cluttering and being generally vey organised for during mat leave. So far I've bought the storage boxes and those amazing vaccum-effect storage bags which will prolly just gather dust forever.

As for cramp - Bananas. That's all.

Primark is where I got my strappy nighties for hospital. They have a lot of cartoon crap to search past though.

Happy due day Loz!

Don't worry owlie I already have so many underboob stretch marks from rocketing through puberty that there simply isn't room for anymore! Unless you get stretch marks on stretch marks?

I am going to have to give and buy bigger pants, had been getting away with those short style ones but they are now cutting off the circulation to my legs. The big question is how big to buy? I have another eight and a half weeks growing to do so maybe two sizes up is practical? I don't know if I can cope mentally with that size knicker though!

Re: nighties, my primark has lots of 100% cotton plain things in, but they are all sodding white! My sil gave me a black nursing one from mother care and it's pretty nice. I am planning to get another twin pack from there. Also, their nursing pjs are nice with supportive tops and dark bottomzs.

Happy BH all! Is pissing it down here and my whole town has gone football crazy but lush not to be in work

laurie laurie laurie Tbh, I am bored with your cervix. Show us yer baps instead?

I bet there's not even anything decent on telly on a bank hol so you may as well push.

bitey Commando?

I already have the stretchmarks on my hips from suddenly getting taller as a teenager. Another of those things that never bothered me until I found out what they were - tbh they don't bother me that much anyway, because they've always been there.

Lozza 4th June would be the acest day for your sneeze. It has traditionally been a shit day for me for all manner of reasons so if you can have a splendid birth that would go some way towards improving it.

Many thanks ESHes for the nightie suggestions. My local Primark is full of fucking cartoons unfortunately and nothing else but I shall peruse the other options suggested.

I've got some stuff from Neal's Yard someone gave me as a present - it's a combination of beeswax and various oils and can be rubbed on bump. I note, however, that is is also apparently suitable for the perineal massage (or foof prep as I like to think of it). I shall let you know if I actually attempt this but right now it's looking unlikely as I am also supposed to be doing breathing practice, pilates practice, pelvic floor practice, leaning forwards for optimal positioning of baybee, relaxation practice...

Oh and some builders are coming tomorrow to rip most of the house to bits. I am sure they will finish by the time i need to inflate a birth pool. Right?

Alps bap-flashage I can do.............

Cervix still aint playing ball. Midwife visited earlier, BP seems back to its normal level, who knows what pissed me off last week. She mentioned possibility of a stretch & sweep next week if nothing happened by then. I feel a bit achy in tummy, but honestly, no different.

Booty 4 June hasn't had such good memories for me either, maybe that's why I was thinking about it. It would be nice to fill it with good times. I'll see what I can do.

Mr Loz & I tried out the TENS machine earlier - odd feeling that is. Then we watched Jackass where they put the pads on their nads. Childish but made me laugh until I cried. Then thought I didn't really want Jonny Knoxville & Party Boy responsible for me going into labour.

Hope everyone is enjoying the Bank Holiday.

Just popping in to say happy due date to lozzer Ketchup love

And sorry to hear about the ongoing trials score hope they fix you up good in hossie. 36 on the drip WTF? I have a nice story about a (probably junior) consultant who came in and started banging on about putting me on syntocin when I had only been in the place about 3 hours, then looked down at the birthing ball i was on, and said the the MW "whats with the ball?" really filled me with confidence in his advice, NOT?

Hope everyone else is doing well, still haven't got the energy to do catch up I'm afraid. Who would have thought reading the internet would be so tiring.

Tis very quiet in here. Everyone must've had a luffly exciting BH Monday.

Hope you are feeling better Scorps.

Rocketeer amused - but not surprised - to read about the doctor who didn't recognise the birthing ball. Many years with the NHS has taught me that many doctors walk around all day with their eyes shut.

Laurie boobwatch is much better than springwatch.

Morning all.

Hope breastfeeding still improving, Rocket. Have you had any more BF counselling advice?

Am presuming Score still in hossie as we've heard nowt? Lots of PESHly luffs and get well soon.

Am not going to watch any of Lozza's bits today on the basis that a watched pot never boils. and a watched cervix is a shy beast. But suffice to say hope you got lots of curry and shagging in this weekend.

What you having done, Owlie? Worst case scenario you can birth in the garden, right?

Bitey I bought some short style maternity pants from H&M. Pre-preg was a 10-12 but have piled on weight so went for a 14 so as to be comfy.

I had puberty induced stretchmarks all over hips and bum but oddly have never had any preggo ones. Think all elasticity in skin is fucked which means you are less likely to get them - weirdly.

Have forgiven MrG for insensitive remarks. After umming and ah-ing for ages we decided to buy a new buggy after all. The thinking was that I could do with something that is easy to push one handed so I can marshall toddler with the other hand. And would like to have the option of parent facing. So have prob just wasted loads of cash but hey ho. Much cheaper than the iCandy i had been drooling over so a good compromise. We're getting this. And as MrG was feeling bad he offered to buy me a new dress but I said not worth it for 7 more weeks so he could buy me a lovely blanket instead. So have got this