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.

Luffly shopping gaga! the Ginger bread stuff is gorgeous isn't it?

I am having a rather bad day, we were going to decorate the baby's room today. Instead the FDH has been felled with cyclic vomitting and has now thrown up every twenty minutes for 20 hours. The only thing to relieve until the Dr brings drucks is a hot bath. This had lead to water pouring through the kitchen ceiling via the light sockets. And it's raining on my washing, and I'm sooooo tired! On the bright side I have gotthe doc to agree to do a house call which is a very special skill in these parts!

Hope that everyone is ok, and sorry for mega whine!

Yuck, Bitey. Hope the FDH is better soon. Be careful with that water and electrics too.

Whoop! I have found plain buttoning nighties here

Good old M&S.

GG A wall is being knocked out today and complete central heating refit. I am thinking birthing pool on the lawn under a gazebo. Your new buggy was on my hit list too; it looks ace, love the funky colours :)

Bitey You whine away. Poor old FDH, that is no fun at all. If he's been doing it for 20 hours though he will have a full appreciation of labour when it happens, no?

What buggy are you going for instead, Owlie? I got a pack of two nighties suitable for BF from Mothercare. One is front opening and one has nursing clips on. No cartoons.

Building works don't sound like much fun but hopefully will be all done in good time.

Got midwife's appt today. Quite looking forward to it.

And attending a free two hour Preparation for Birth class on Sat. No idea what it will be like as it is free but she says no other couples have confirmed yet so she might be coming to our house if we want! She teaches hypnobirthing so maybe this is a free taster session to drum up business? Have got that and my Yoga birthing workshop so hopefully will be enough to educate MrG!

That sounds fab gaga, and you can ask millions of questions in privacy of own home. Don't worry about the water versus electricity, I have a victorian's pathological fear of electricity and won't even allow the fdh to drill holes in walls unless we are both standing on piles of newspaper and I have a wooden broom handle to knock the drill away in the event of sparky disaster! I will be cooking by candle light until it is sorted!

Glad you got the nighties sorted owlie and feel silly for worrying about kitchen ceiling when you are having entire walls removed!

Doc has been, husband is drugged and asleep and it has stopped raining, things are looking up!

GG I have gone for a Babystyle Oyster - tis dinky and has an electric blue cover thingy. Hoorah for the free class - sounds ace.

Bites the ceiling got flooded last year; bits of it have been falling off into my cooking ever since This is what happens when one moves in with a long-term bachelor. At least we now have a door on the bathroom. I share your fear of the Electrickery as my rather gung-ho family have pretty much all managed to give themselves major shocks at various points. Not least my Dad who tried to rewire a socket without turning the power off because he couldn't be arsed.

Happy due date Lozza ! Pliz to hang on another 4 days as agreed

Fanks for adding me LadyG.

Sending sneezey vibes to Lozza. Just to say also TENS felt completely different to me in labour - hated it when we practiced beforehand and it really helped during the real thing. So fret not if it just felt weird.

Bitey that sounds like a nightmare of a day. Glad its looking a bit better now. Here have a

Sooo.................. what else is up?
Thought we may have had systems a-go-go yesterday - few trips to the loo followed by some cramping. So bounced on ball then........ nothing. All went away. Gah!

Cass interesting to hear about TENS. We put mine together yesterday & tried it out - I found it a bit annoying & tickly . But will try it out during labour. We then watched the part in Jackass where they attach the TENS pads to their nads Made me laugh until my stomach hurt. I've asked Mr Loz to do this during my labour. He's unsurprisingly not liking that.

Oh well, another raspberry leaf tea me thinks.

Nightie here

Gaga things not brill. Latch is fine and she's feeding but it's v v sore and getting worse :-( sorry dobt really want to bang on about it here xx

lovely Rocket. Where's your BFing thread?

Sounds like funtime round yours, Bitey Hope all sorts itself out soon. You are not alone in your electrophobia - my Mum believes that anything plugged in to a switched-off socket can mysteriously turn itself on and therefore burn the house down, FFS. You don't happen to also believe that photos steal your soul, do you?

Come on Loz, gerramoveon gal!

I nivvah got to use my TENS, worra jip.

Am back from hossie. Can confirm NHS is a shambles on Bank Holidays. And you 'Orrible Lot can piss off with your h'insinuations about my dodgy episiotomy - my perineum has broken down at the site of it and is all bleeeeurgh. No stitching but extra-long healing for me. Have promised TYF we can have Sechs by 2015 at the earliest to make sure he's not feeling too frustrated (although I think that's still too soon). My BP won't settle; Drs all WTF? because I've had low or normal BP my whole life. Am on crazy old man strength BP tablets and I think they released me from hossie purely because they couldn't cater for my allergies and the fact that I have become the world's most neurotic PFB-er (although I can now go up to 15 mins at a time without panicking that Mr T will somehow stop breathing if I'm not constantly looking at him ). Have so many bloody follow-up appointments for all the various crap that I now have wrong with wrong with me (plus Mr T needs some physio) that it puts the Royal Wedding planning to shame and am knackered and in redonks amount of various pain but I can see his perfect little face (and chest moving) in his moses basket as I type so all is right with the world. Will write up my birth story in the CRESH spa eventually - wanted to write it up ASAP, whether online or privately, to keep it fresh to me but have been too poorly. Meh.

Oh, and TYF's most annoying and interfering Aunt is coming round this avo (the fool was too nice/wimpy to put her off). Pray for my sanity and mortal soul...

Oh, Rocket I'm v sore too, despite Mr T also having a good latch. Everyone just says to persevere, which doesn't really help, does it? I'd give you big hugs, but how do we get around the achey breaky zeppelin norks issue?

Scorps! Glad you finally got parole. Hopefully just being at home will cure your BP - although visiting Aunts may bump it up again. Surely you can get your GP to prescribe total rest, relaxation, and top quality visitors only.

I is praying for your soul anyways, as I do for all ESH on a daily basis.

Hugs to Rocket

LadyG I have been doing preggo-yoga for a while - mainly to keep back pain at bay - and also have started listening to hippobirthing CD. I predict that July will be filled with easy sneezy chilled-out birthings (but keep drucks on standby anyway).

But then everyone says it shouldn't hurt while the actual feeding is going on. Does it hurt after initial let down for you? Do your nips look deformed after? sore nips I can handle but a hot needle down the nip every time she sucks is a bit much!!

Rocket you might just want to check whether there are any signs of thrush in her mouth/your nipples. I've heard that can lead to the needly type pain.

lady it's a possibity I've been thinking about as I had to have a couple of iv antibiotics when first admitted to the delivery suite. Could gave given us both thrush. Heading to GP tomorrow.

in that case arm yourself with this some docs are a bit crap with thrush.

Gentlest of cuddles for score and rocket you poor loves

I just had the same thought as gaga re: the thrush, red nethers on her are another symptom. Hope you can get it sorted, sounds very painful.

Yow - you poor lovelies. I know so many people who have said similar things about bfeeding, it appears to be absolute bollocks that it's all swimmingly wonderful and easy, and actually requires an epic amount of DHBness and bloody minded belligerence which is the last thing you need when you've both had a rough ride already.

Meant to say, lovely to see you back home safe and sound, Score. Hopefully this time will keep BP down and all will be dandy. Hope aunt has buggered off and left you in peace now.

Are any of the various pregnancy related ailments sorting themselves out yet at all? Seems too cruel to get a fresh set of ishoos without getting rid of the first lot.

Hope you get these pains sorted out Rocket - is hard work. My nipples did hurt to begin with but only for first few days and then just a bit during initial let down (and then not at all a few weeks in). Is not much fun for you.

Hello lovely PESHies, sorry have not been around over the weekend to send my hugest congratulations to Salade and the baby gem! Sorry to hear you're having some ishoos with the BFing and really hope you get some good support to feel better soon.

Score sorry you were back in hossie too but glad you are back home now. Although it sounds like your health woes are far from behind you, having the most delectable MrT to gaze at sounds like it is definitely taking away from the worst of it.

Am definitely not watching Loz's cervix at all, in the hope that we can coax it into a false sense of security enough to decide to spring into action.

The house buying delay does sound like a pain LadyG although in my experience the process can't possibly be entirely flaw-free and it sounds like your buyer has been ok so far. Fingers crossed that the date works for you in the end and you can get moved in time for some quality nesting.

All this talk of muslin cloths has made me grateful for the little stash of baby things my Mom has started to collect. e visited her on Sunday and she showed me some of things she has bought for us already. Things like babygros, vests, muslins, newborn nappies, wipes etc. She's also knitting us little tiny cardigans and pram suits in the softest wools ever. I did have a bit of a squee over them! She and my sister are also so convinced we are having a girl that they have both bought baby girl outfits - hope they aren't too disappointed if they've wasted their money and baby boy appears

So our bank holiday weekend turned out to be a little hectic. It took us 3 hours to get up to Birmingham on Saturday (normally 2) so I was in a rush to get to my sister in law's baby shower (was a bit late) and then straight to a friends' BBQ afterwards to celebrate their recent engagement. I had a very sickly day and eventually had to call time at midnight and persuade a drunken husband to leave so I could get to bed. Then yesterday we trekked across town to another friends' birthday BBQ, which took ages as the district line wasn't running so we took a bit of a roundabout way to get there. Again, TGB enjoyed quite a bit of their award winning home-brew cider and I had to eventually insist we left, otherwise I think he'd have happily stayed all night. We had the start of a little chat about me not being quite as up for long, drunken sessions whilst trying to keep 'operation stealth vomit' under wraps, but think I may need to re-visit when he's more sober. He doesn't mean to piss me off at all, but I don't think it's quite hit home how much of a challenge it is to enjoy our old social settings whilst constantly feeling / being sick. I'm also really conscious of not turning into a moaning old preggo, who thinks gestation is an excuse to whinge all the time. I'm definitely in the camp of 'I'm pregnant, not dying' but I think 10 weeks of sickness is starting to take its' toll. Still, I've taken a sick day today (feel guilty - how to balance my work ethic?!?!) so am taking it easy and resting, which will hopefully help. I also have my next midwife appointment next Tuesday so will talk to her if it's still no better.

In better news, TGB has taken the day off with me for that appointment next week, as we will hear the heartbeat for the first time! I am hoping to get him inside a baby store to allow the first sight of pram / cot / car seat etc prices to sink in as I don't think he has any clue of what we are saving for!

Wow, this has turned into a proper mammoth old ramble. Sorry about that laydees, although am glad to have got it off my chest! I promise to be more up beat and less self-focussed for the rest of the week

Truffers I recall saying to Mr Fox something along the lines of "I don't mind you having the odd drink, just don't take the piss". He rarely drinks anyway. Wish I'd been a bit harder on him though because a) it is extremely irritating watching/listening to/trying to have a sensible conversation with a pissed bloke. And b) being sober and diffed made me less tolerant than usual of behaviour outlined in a), even if it is a rare occurance.

LadyG I started taking iron tabs a few weeks ago, having been told I was anaemic. But last 2 MW appointments haven't had levels checked to see if I'm any better now. Am tempted to stop taking the evil feckers and just start eating more spinach.

Big luffs for everyone's lovely wishes. Sadly, still have monster reflux, headaches and SPD, although all are slowly fading, huzzah! Snogs and roundhouse kicks to all, esp. to the enticingly quiet Lozzles...

Rocket, for me, the latch-on is like bloody knives and for the last 3 days, he keeps latching on for 5 mins, snoozing for 5 then going on again for 5, etc., etc. Time-consuming and painful. The rest is okay (except he will only feed laying on his back on the BFing cushion with me leaning my nip into him, lazy bugger) but my nips are agony for up to an hour afterwards, even though they return to normal shape and he is getting a big enough mouthful. And I'm slapping on the Lahnisoh like it's going out of fashion! Is not frush in our case. Am still confident we'll get there.

Anyway, he is finally asleep after a v fractious day so night night all!

To keep babies awake while feeding, remove some clothes and pump their little arm. That does not sound like a comfy way to feed to me Scorps. Have you had any support from a breastfeeding specialist? Yours does not sound like a normal sort of pain.

Big hugs to you and rocket. You are both amaze.

truffs I felt very similar at around that time. I wasn't feeling so sick but very very tired and pretty bored of pissed people. For me it was round after round of Christmas parties and I felt really quite lonely. It does get better but drunk partners will be annoying throughout pregnancy (well mine has been anyway). Snoring, cramping, kicking, hogging the bed, night terrors and general nocturnal thrashing as you expand are mother nature's way of getting revenge on them

I am being unreasonable to wish that it was a) winter and b) that I could afford this?