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.

Morning Hags (been wide awake since 5am so might as well do something productive arse about on t'interweb).

GG I know GD needs to be managed, but I'm surprised you have the whole team turning out to see you - thought that only happened for full-time diabetics. You sound as if you're as on top of things as you can be. My birth plan is best case scenario, with a nod to a plan B C and D if necessary. Your midwife should be working in your best interests, and making sure this is adhered to as far as poss, so should have read the thing by now. Could you email it to her.

Hurrah for scan BrownB. Worth the money for your peace-of-mind, even if you did have a long wait.

What are you doing awake at 5am, Gin. Gearing up for a lay I wonder? Enjoy the gardening.

I am taking MiniG to softplay this morning so I can sit around drinking tea and reading trashy magazines observe him burning off some energy. Then preparing for packers coming tomorrow - sort of tidying up, sorting a weekend bag for us and chucking out any junk. This stuff is NOT my forte. I just stare at the enormity of the task with a bemused look on my face and then go back to Mumsnetting.

Followed advice of eating more cereal at breakfast with some protein. Blood sugars fucked. Arse biscuits. Might as well eat cake

Hello Shlags, sorry for being AWOL. I can't remember if I said congratulations to OrchidFlower on her newest arrival, so big snog from me.

GG I'm so sorry you are still getting dicked about. Just what you need on top of moving house.

Foxy what plants did you get? Tis my favourite time of year in the garden, all the sweetpeas are bursting out so the kitchen smells fabulous with cut flowers.

ChocolateBrownie so glad to hear all looks good on your scan! The odds really are massively in your favour now.

Alps oh no about the vomming starting. At nearly 15 weeks mine is calming down a bit. I still tore my throat on Monday though after a particularly horrible puke. Bleurgh.

ladyG cereals are not low-carb or low-GI, in addition milk is metabolism in an odd way (I.e., fast). What about a continental brekkie? Pumpernickel, cheeses, crap ham, egg, tomato, cucumber type thing.

Great news brownie and well done fun size brownie for waving with both hands at your delighted mum!

Enjoy the baby shopping truff, I loved the ambi nest but in the end couldn't justify the spend as we got given a cot by SIL. am a resentful and ungrateful cow My mum loved doing the baby paraphanalia shopping and squeed even more than I did

Love that sprout has found her thumb rocket, what a gorgeous and clever girl she is! I think Taliesin is a gorgeous boys name. I work with a woman with two boys named Aneurin and Taliesin, Nye and Tal for short, and I love both names. The FDH has an inexplicable hatred of Welsh names though so they not an option.

How's the blood now GG? I think milk may be a speedy blood sugar raiser as well. Can't remember where I have got that from but it is lodged in my brain as fact

Sorry about the nipple standing accident ski, sounds very very painful!

We bought a family car yesterday! Have been worrying about my tiny car as bits fall off it when I drive over 40, it pulls to the left, there is a hole in the exhaust, the air con hasn't worked for three summers, it won't start in the rain or if it gets cold and smells bad from September to April. The dealers took tiny car in part ex without asking about any of the above problems so it didn't cost us too much either. Now that I know what car I am going to be driving I can buy a car seat, something I am ridiculously excited about! It is a VW Golf btw, and is black. That is all the information I have managed to retain about it!

Nice work on the car upgrade Bitey especially on getting a good deal. My current acr is a black Golf although I lease it and it is going back in October so I need to think about what I want to replace it with. Am currently toying with the idea of not replacing straight away as we will still be in London for a month or so after baby arrives and then get something once we're back in Birmingham. Am also liking the idea of not having a commitment to paying for a car each month so I can eke out my maternity leave for longer

Unfortunately it seems that my 'expensive taste' applies to baby stuff as well as everything else (I'm the girl who will choose the £3000 pair of shoes from a page of 100 pairs of shoes without knowing the price first) as I also really like the Stokke Xplory. But really a grand for a pram

GG crapola on the breakfast fail. If the stuff they are telling you to eat isn't working, then what chance do you have? Your HCPs sound like a waste of space. Much better to take your advice from Mumsnet instead

Yuck, BB. Hope the vomming buggers off soon. You've had your fair share now I think.

Car sounds ace, Bitey. We're keeping my rubbish old one and have replaced MrG's with a newish Focus which is 5 doors so much easier to get the two kids in and out of. Need to sort mine out at some point but low priority right now as MrG can use mine medium term.

Truff def let's meet up when you are back in Brum. Am not far at all.

I know, Alps - but they specifically told me to eat more cereal with something else to see what happens. Fail is what happens! And have also been told I need to ensure enough milk for the calcium at this point. Back to the eggs tomorrow. Humph. Cunts.

So I just drove past the new house ...and guess who is moving out today?! Moving vans there and everything. So much for Monday being the earliest possible. Cunts . S'not like we're in a hurry or anything.

I am a grumpy old witch right now. Feel the world is against me and spending my days raging about stuff. Am turning into a hormonal loon. I say again, cuuuuuunts.

*Apologises for using the C word three times. Actually fuck it. I'm not even sorry. Cuuuuuuunnnnnnnttttssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of calcium in gaviscon gg Can't believe your sellers are moving out today. Echo your sentiments but on works computer so can't say 'em!

Eeeeeeeeep to a grand for a pram truffle! Although if it is very nice..........

Bitey when's your Mat leave starting? Are you back at work now or still signed off? Surely you must finish soon?

Bizarrely not really suffering from heartburn. Get the odd bout but very seldom. Must be a bald baby.

Lady they are cunts. Why are they telling you to do stuff you already know makes you worse? It's your body. Idiots.

I did a google when I had it and found a website listing low gi foods and tried to eat as much of them as possible. Here is is ( and sorry if I'm teaching granny to suck eggs - I just remember how it felt and want to be helpful x): www.the-gi-diet.org/lowgifoods/

Got another two weeks gaga. Must say, they are being much kinder now am counting down the dys though. I'm 36 weeks today! Also counting down the days until d-day.

Ooops, pressed send a bit quick then! Am counting down to d-day but this maybe foolish when I get to day minus one and start shouting "where is ma baybee"!

I concur, GG they are a bunch of fucking bastard cunts and that is that. FUCKERS. They can cock off, the lot of them with their BreakfastFail ideas. I reckon eating cheese would give you enough calcium, no? Cheese is lush.

Special happy dance for MiniBrownie though, that is absolutely ace

Barbs 15 weeks already?? Bloody hell, where did that go? Glad the vomming is subsiding but not so glad about the throat damage, that sounds horrible.

Bites I have one week left and I am very glad about this as I had some annual leave to use up and am thus bunking off from 36 weeks onwards. I covet your lovely new vehicle. My car is tiny and has no air con. I suspect it is the absence of air con that will force me to upgrade at some point to avoid baking Owlet.

I hope it doesn't get any worse. And that it buggers off as soon as possible.

Today's ice cream is gooseberry and elderflower. Or at least it would be if I'd got off my sorry arse and made it yesterday but I had about two hours of full-on branstons that actually left me unable to walk or even get out of a chair, coupled with stabby pains in what might have been my cervix. I think it was caused by dehydration but it shat me up royally for a bit as they were regular and felt rather like contractions. When it went it was fine, though, so don't know what that was all about. Bloody stupid body.

36 weeks onwards would be a very ggod time to start ML owlie not actualy sure I can keep going for another two weeks! I can work at home a lot which makes it a bit easier and allows an afternoon nap too so hopefully I will make it.

Nranstons sound scary, especially for that long I get the stabby pains and I'm sure they are worse when I'm tired. They make me shout ooooh and double up in a way that must be alarming to witness a differ do, especially in Tesco Drink lots and lots and then spend the whole night doing tinywees

Ah yes, the tinywees. Damn them to hell. Mr Boots is now quite used to me emerging from the bathroom after a period of protracted silence with gritted teeth growling about 'pointless waste of time'.

Afternoon naps sound top, though, I intend to do that tomorrow on my day off.

I am excited by all these Tonys and cervix twinges!! I suppose I am getting bit ahead of myself if you are both only 36 weeks.

Btw gooseberry and elderflower ice-cream sounds bloody AMAZE!! I will happily pimp out Sprout for snuffles in exchange for some. While your there could you winded her and change her nappy? :o

GG CUNTS, the lot of 'em. that's all.

Bitey I have serious car envy now. I want a big, slidey-door, van-type car which we can't possibly afford instead of our teeny Panda which necessitates deciding to take either a child OR shopping back to the house. Not both. Happy 36 weeks!

BB 15 weeks!!

Truffs Do not spend £1000 on a pram. spend half and then spend the rest on shoes, no?

Alps Hope you still manage a bit of a certain 1-yr-old's burfday cake today without vomming too much ;)

as for the rest...
Heartburn - check
Teenywees - hell no - i get those 'ohmygodihavetopeeormybladderwillexplode' ones a couple of times a night with involve getting out of bed too quickly, falling over, crashing off walls and then waking up the neighbours with the niagra falls-type noise.
Branstons - check, check, check.

Thanks for the name suggestions too! I do love Lorenzo but I want a non-Italian name on the principle that he'll be Italian, with an Italian surname, living in Italy, so give me something to link him to my origins please. Problem is that most Irish names are impossible to pronounce by Italians or as TIS says, sound like a belch .

Also happy birthday to Bear and happy moving day to Lady

Happy Birthday Bear!

I have niagra falls wee envy maccers, although owlie I tried the standing over the toilet technique last night and had an average wee. In a strange reversal of our worlds, I left the seat up and the FDH fell in the bowl this morning

We are only packing today, Rocket*. Move day is Monday. We will be having an "interesting weekend" surrounded by boxes. He's fast though - was a bit to start with when he took his first cup of tea/fag break 15 mins after getting here but has nearly packed all of downstairs already!

Macca how about Rory? (Is that Irish?). Seems quite phonetic too. I like that one but MrG vetoed...

Happy Birthday to Bear.

Am most jealous of those ice cream flavours Owlie - pliz to save some in your freezer until I have given birth.

Oh happy packing day then, that doesn't really work does it!

I quite like Aiden for a boy, surely that couldn't get mangled too badly? If sprout had been a boy he would have bern called Lincoln after my maternal great grandfather. Link for short after the character from Zelda. This would have tied in very nicely with a longstanding family joke that my BIL wanted to call DN1 Zelda :-)

I like Aiden too . You will just have to have another one to use Lincoln then, Rocket . Or get another cat...talking of cats I think mine may have run away under duress. Am going to have to go and capture them over weekend and keep the shup up in a bedroom.

He's properly flying now. Just finishing the kitchen and then up in loft. I reckon he'll be done by 3. Amaze.

Oooh I was going to suggest Aiden as a "nice easy to pronounce" name. :) We had the same thing, wanted a really Scottish name but wanted something which wasn't going to have tongues a-twisted!

LadyG I can only assume the rest of 2011 is going to be lovely to you as you keep getting kneed in the nuts by idiots right now. :( As for my work situation, here there is no probationary or mandatory period for entitlement to maternity pay - so it wouldn't matter if I were to change employer.

Someone was up waaaaaaaaaaay too early, dropped off at creche so we could be at the stables for the blacksmith, picked him up and he's miserable and exhausted, the book says "went to bed, but did not sleep"!. :(

Was going to ride today but came over all dizzy and had to sit down on the floor - figured that's not good for riding. :( I puke, I lurch, I fall over. Pls to have surrogate next time? I've got some cyclizine upstairs but I'm a bit scared to take it because i) it's not that bad right now and ii) I'm a little apprehensive about taking it so early in the pregnancy which I know is nonsense because of course it's all fine.

truffs Honestly, do not waste 1000 quid on a pram unless you're the type who wipes their bum with 20's. The actual "pram" fixture is only "good" for a few months - a really good fucking buggy which can be folded with one hand, carried and thrown in to the boot of a small car will be worth its weight in gold. People get very fucked off very quickly with beomoths which take up the entire boot. (But you'll buy one anyway becuase you're a first time mum and they want your green stuff (n.b., not bogies)).

I suspect we're goign to see some dirty queue-jumping action.

I'm off to dig up the PESH thread from this time last year.