PESH - 3 years of hard won baybees for the over-30's

[AlpinePony]

This is NOT a list:

BESH BAYBEES

dontrythisathome, girl born March 25 2010.
Cheggers, twinz girlz, born April 2010.
FannyPriceless, boy, born June 8 2010.
CurlyCasper, girl, born June 24 2010.
CUNextTuesday, boy, born June 29 2010.
AlpinePony, boy, born 1 July 2010.
Carrots, boy, born July 2010.
IggyPiggy, girl, born July 2010.
Cosmosis, boy, born Sept 5 2010.
Backinthebox, boy, born Sept 7 2010.
Skatergrrrl, girl, born Sept 10 2010.
VAG, boy, born Oct 2 2010.
Silversky, boy, born Nov 1 2010.
SomethingSuitablyWitty, girl born Nov 2 2010.
Honeymoo, boy, born Nov 11 2010.
okiecokie, girl, born Nov 12 2010.
ReginaMonologue, boy, born Nov 13 2010.
Lightspaperstandback, boy, born Nov 14 2010.
Maswera, boy, born Dec 24 2010.
PollyPoo, girl, born Jan 5 2011.
MrsFC, boy, born Jan 7 2011.
ChoChoSan, girl, born 6 Feb 2011.
Ginhag, boy born 11 Feb 2011.
Muser, girl, born 15 Feb 2011.
CluckyKate, boy, born 18 Feb 2011.
Perfect Dromedary, boy, born 23rd February 2011.
Casserole, girl, born 19th March 2011.
Medee, girl, born 26th March 2011.
StiffyByng, girl, born 17th May 2011.
Scorpette, boy, born 21st May 2011.
Rocketleaf, girl, born 23rd May 2011.
TwinkleToes, girl, born 7th June 2011.
Laurielou, boy, born 9th June 2011.
Orchid, girl, born 24th June 2011.
Ginfox, loving the new mega-boobs, due 12th July.
LadyGoneGaga, girl, born 24 July 2011.
Mrbitey, boy, born 29th July 2011.
Macaroonmum, boy, born 28th July 2011.
Owlbooty, boy, born 18th August 2011.
Ocarina, girl, born 6th September 2011.
Mountie, boy, born 27th August 2011.
Truffkin, boy, born 25th November 2011.
Islegrin, boy, born 14th December 2011.

UPDIFFED

BarbiesBeaver, can't quite believe it, due Christmas Day
BrownB, Baybee passport-grabbing bitch, due 22nd January 2012
AlpinePony, Greedy Double-Esh Baybee Boy Grabbing Bitch, due 19th Feb 2012
Rollerbaby, No pink here, expecting boy due March 20th 2012
KitandKat, third time lucky baybee, due 12th April 2012
IveBeenExpectingYou (CockDodger), A very active baby girl, due March 28th 2012
Silver, hoping for an easier sneeze, due mid-July 2012
Starryeyedmole, regretting recently investing in scales

And we're all on beaver watch in time for xmas!

Me too. I got some free decaf tea bags in my Bounty pack so I am tentatively sipping at one to see if I can tolerate it and not projectile vomit. Do feel quite queasy anyway today. Tis scary you know, lots of people on my ante-natal thread not having viable pregnancies. One ectopic and one MMC discovered yesterday. Trying to maintain a positive attitude -I've got no reason to assume there will be a problem with this pregnancy.

Hang in there. I remember it well. Horrid few weeks.

Soon you will be like me: fat, moaning about having a bad back and being even more knackered all the time. According to everyone else I am blooming though!

I feel much better today as the builder who is the trusted friend of the family came to see the house and was very 'can do' about the whole thing. he was pretty convinced we would be in by the time the baby came and thought we had a lovely house with great potential.

Yes that was a horrible time on my AN thread too. Some very brave and lovely people having to go through horrible things.

It is wonderful to see people's progress though and know that they are all soon to meet their baybees. Like Dor says, soon you'll be at the stage when everyone tells you you're blooming and you feel like crap!

Dor that is ace news about your house. I felt really overwhelmed by everything at your stage of pgy and I wasn't doing anything like as life-changing a thing as buying a house. Wonderful to think of it all being ready for your baybee.

dor it'll be fine...I was up to my ears living in a house being renovated when pregnant with DS...and well into his first year actually....

faith my AN thread had loads of 'goodbyes' in the early weeks. It was sad because we developed a little friendly group and it was heartbreaking to see people leave. I have to say it's partly behind why I went so quiet.....i sort of retreated from the net a bit because I had too much of my own worry to deal with. Every day I had a mix of emotions - utterly fed up at feeling so sick and tired and yet relieved that those feelings were a good sign.

oh and yes....people keep telling me I look great and pregnancy suits me. If only they could see me first thing in the morning, looking blotchy and retching until I get my breakfast down.....

Fanks PESHies. There's loads of us on it so I suppose statistically you'd expect some pregnancies not to continue but it's a but yucky. MSB asks me almost daily if I'm still diffed! I just reply that there's no real changes and I continue to have symptoms which is a good sign! I am whiling the time away to my 12 week scan, sadly that time frame also means leaving my job behind which is a bit pants. I said to MSB I have to tell boss - I pointed out he probably won't be my manager when I apply for new jobs anyway! - and he agreed. Just got to find an opportunity now.

dor it's great that the builder is so positive :) my advice would be to take loads of photos and videos so you can look back at the changes. That really helped me with the fire refurb.

It's luffly to have you around again queenie

the other thing faif is that loads of people on my group found out they were diffed really early on.....so most of the ones that left did so in the first two or three weeks with 'early m/c'. So yes statistically you would expect to see some people go.

Was supposed to go to first NCT coffee morning this morning but I feel a bit ropey, so decided not to spread my germs and stay home and rest.
DH has had a stinking cold, which has predictably gone to his chest, i nearly killed him at 1.30am i growled 'either you go to the spare room or I will'.....ten minutes later he's still coughing so I stropped off to the spare bed, but not until I'd ranted at him. He started coughing a couple of weeks ago and I told him to start using his inhaler....he didn't until about a week later and of course now the blasted thing has gone to his chest. It took him three months to properly get better from the last one.

Sorry for posting and running. No heart beat at 6+4, which basically means it is a miscarriage waiting to happen. Another scan next week if it has not come out before. We're devastated.

there aren't really any words for this. Just know that we're thinking of you xx

Lemon I'm so very sorry to read that. It's awful. :( Look after yourself and each other in the coming days.

Oh drizz, I'm really sorry :(

Oh Lemon I'm terribly sorry to hear your news. It's total pants. Please take good care of yourself

Oh lemon I'm gutted for you both xx

lemons I am so sorry that this has happened. Shitty beyond words.

Oh lemon I'm so sad to read this. Sending you love and thinking of you. So unfair.

Oh Lordy me. MSB has been to see his mother. First time he's had contact with her in 5 years (since we got married). He told her I was diffed. 5 minutes later she's announced she's going to be a granny on FB. Great stuff. He has now told her not to tell anyone! He's relieved that he's done first contact though which is good..he's been dreading it.

I can't believe she put it on farking Facebook!! Has she taken it down yet? That would piss me off no end. Good thing to hear that there's been contact though (if that's what you want).

Off to IKEA today. Always fun fun fun on a Saturday that... But it's time to finally actually buy some stuff for the minicakes. Can't be living in denial for ever...

Yes she has removed it, we have checked! Next thing SIL has rung MSB giving him hell for telling MIL! She is a bit dramatic

Bonne chance down Ikea! I have been clearing out the last remaining junk room in the house since we moved. I've made some head way in the last hour but lunch has now distracted me for a bit. Have to pace myself anyway. I'm doing before and after pics so I'll put them on my profile if you are nosey! :)

That's shit Faith although maybe good that he has made contact. Families are so complicated.

I have bought a baby bouncer and a breast pump this week which were my first baby purchases. Also a couple of babygros including a 'little froggie' one from H&M this morning! I'm off on holiday so I braved Brent Cross to buy a couple of bits to wear. Ikea is super-brave though. I'm going to try and do that one mid-week.

That's exciting blonder! I keep getting mushy looking at the baybee stuff in Tesco but nowhere near brave enough to buy anything yet!

Things with MSB's family are about as complicated as they get. He thinks she bipolar, I think she's got a personality disorder but either way, she's totally self-absorbed and only thinks about herself. She had many affairs when she was still married to MSB's Dad. They had a very tempestuous relationship and the kids were often caught in the cross fire He cut contact with her around the time he met me, simply because he couldn't cope with her behaviour. She wouldn't come to our wedding because we didn't meet her demands...it's taken a lot for him to make contact but now I'm diffed I'm glad he has. It's always been something that's at the back of his mind.

That is pretty messed up Faith. Like you say it is good he has broken the ice but it sounds like keeping her at arm's length for your own self-preservation might be a good idea.

TBI & I each bought the baby a toy a while ago but other than that I've also been too scared to start buying stuff. But now I've only got 6-ish weeks it seems like we'd better make a start. We do also have a pram on order that my PILs have bought us but that hasn't seemed real!

6 weeks?! Is that all?! your last few months have gone quickly to me!

I must be tempting fate because we've already bought a Moses basket, several outfits, a teething ring toy-thing and (at TinyTOM's insistence) a sweet cuddly animal!

Can't believe your MIL and her facebooking Faife. Our families and friends are on strict orders to keep the pregnancy off FB.

Ver vet impressed with the Saturday IKEA bravery Cake!

Where're you headed off to Blondie?

So, today I saw an acquaintance who looked at my belly then congratulated me on the obviously bumping out pregnancy. She proceeded to tell me that she's also updiffed. I glanced at her amazingly flat tum and asked how far along thinking she must have just gotten her BFP. Turns out we're due ONE DAY APART. She kept commenting about 'how big' I look. . (But of course later she admitted to be jealous of my bump! )

The bump size thing is a funny one, people seem to grow at different rates but then we all measure about the same in the last trimester according to the docs. How many weeks are you now LP?

The last few weeks have really raced along but particularly as I've 'lost' a couple of weeks as they will induce me at 38. I'll be 32 wks on tues which feels very strange to type!

I'm going to France, the PILs and assorted family have hired a villa for a couple of weeks so we're going to join them for a few days (via train). I'm the opposite to you Faith as my family are the dysfunctional ones and TBI's are about as functional as you can get. Love my loopy lot but always enjoy spending time with the ILs.

To be fair, my side are better than his but with the not-step-monster lurking we've had some fun on my side. MSB doesn't get in very well with my Dad.
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32 weeks blimey!

The bumpiness is weird. I swear my belly is already getting firm but my weight remains the same. My jeans feel snug but that could just be bloating due to the bowel issues.

lors I don't think it's tempting fate, I think it's just waiting til it's sensible (or desperate in cakey's case!). Wth everything that happened before with you, to get it this point must be amazing. So you can go shopping!