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!

Aww fee you poor thing. Apparently it peaks at 9 weeks so not too long to go.

Know what you mean about MS taking its toll. I've been a shit wide recently.

I watched OBEM when I was in labour with DD

Whilst in labour?!

I am feeling rather sorry for myself although MSB has done some stuff round the house which helps. Just had dinner and in either waiting for it to settle or return (!) and then I'm going to bed.

Have a nice ante-natal class dor!

More precisely whilst in enormous amounts of pain but having been sent home from the hospital for not being in 'established' labour and only being a pitiful 2cm dilated.... Was actually annoyed that all these women were busy pushing out babies on the TV and mine didn't want to come out. Think I must have been delirious! Actually now I think about it I also watched about 7 episodes of the good wife. Must remember to save a good box set for this time.

Hope you don't see that tea again faith!

Now faithy has anyone guessed you iz diffed? Girl at work who I haven't seen for a while emailed me today after a little impromptu coffee machine chat and asked me if I was diffed due to my enormous boobs. Feel well and truly rumbled! If the boobs are that obvious surely everyone knows??? Gaaahhhhhhh!

I had to confess it yesterday! I was at another hospital and my colleague kept asking if I was ok, in fact several people did because I felt so ill! In the end I just explained I was in fact, ok, but diffed hence the peakiness! I have been told about 10 times in the last week....may fake a virus

I have seriously been to the most bizarre ante-natal class ever. The woman taking it would appear to be a bit of an island treasure, and came out with some classics such as...

?I much prefer pregnant vaginas, they are a magenta pink colour and I had a ball gown that colour once?.

I massively lost the plot at one point, mainly when I caught the eye of this guys sitting the other side of the room. Apparently the classes only get better/worse!

So that's what I have to look forward to dor? Magenta vagina? Doesn't that sound like a good MN NN?!

It's a great MN NN!! I like it :)
And the woman sounds totally bonkers -but maybe that's a good thing? Ours is boringly normal -I was almost hoping to have more stories of crazy woo!

Last day of work today for a whole year!! So strange. Can't believe I'm actually going to go on maternity leave. It's all becoming scaringly real...

If only I wasn't such a prude I'd name change! :)

I'm counting down the hours til I can go home! Might slip off early to be fair....I'm rather pleased to be 8+0 today. Feels like a good landmark somehow. Hopefully only 4 weeks til my scan!

Be proud of me PESHies, I have told my soon to be boss of my diffment. She can be a bit blunt (!) but she was luffly about it all. I am having 10 days leave between leaving this job and going back but she said herself you won't be a staff nurse forever and to keep looking (she has plenty of staff!). She had a feeling I was going to say I was diffed though! I am going to see returning to my old job as a opportunity to get extended skills like taking blood, ECGs so I am skilled up when going for new jobs :) phew, glad that's done. Took me an hour to build up the courage!

well done Faith!!

When is your 10 days leave?

Starts 3rd October :) got another 10 days doing my job on my own, then a week handing over then holiday!!!! I'm looking forward to pottering round at home, lie ins, tidying, catching up with people. Mmm it'll be great!

Hello all, hope you've had a naice week. I had a super time in the sun sea and sand (none of the other) with the ILs and luffly niece.

Back to work today and I am ready to go on mat leave now I think! Two weeks left... c&c you must be feeling very strange. Unfortunately we are right in the middle of some busy stuff so it wasn't a quiet day, lots of stuff to sort out (in fact I am still at work now). My replacement starts on Monday so it will be a full-on couple of weeks.

Had a scan at lunchtime (with GD they do one at 32 & 36 wks) and the baby is measuring about 2-3 weeks ahead. The sonographer was really serious and grave about it but then said, oh it's still in normal range though, very common and nothing to worry about! So I felt a bit confused. But he did say everything else was completely normal and ended up being really cheerful. Maybe he saw the worry on mine and TBI's faces.

Well done Faith and Dor for being all assertive and decisive re. work and pelvises. V impressed. Hope everyone's husbands and partners are behaving.

Some of my AN thread say they have BLUE vulvas. I am too scared to get a mirror out.

I was blissfully unaware of the state of my foof in my last pregnancy until being examined in labour the midwife asked me if the varicose vein had been giving me any trouble ......mind you four hours later a varicose vein was the least of my worries!
I'm so damn hairy down there this time it has it's own theme tune.. The Forest by The Cure

HOLB has gone out for fish and chips. A kind of celebratory dinner as we're embarking on a new business venture. All been a bit cloak and dagger, but it's exciting and scary at the same time.

Heheh my local hospital is on the TV. A new series called "Island Hospital".

Basically we are people spotting!

How many people have you recognised so far dor?

I have seen a couple and my Mum has seen a few more. We were all asked whether we wanted to be on it at work and we all declined.

The Scottish midwife did my booking in appointment!

How exciting! We finally watched American Pie the reunion. Very amusing :)

we watched World of Sport, which was a round up of the 70's and laughed a lot. Then we left it on whatever channel it was on and watched the original film version of The Sweeney
It's a novelty, we haven't had television for 3 years but I remember pregnancy insomnia/early days walking the floor with baby and decided I couldn't do it without some mindless TV to keep me going.

We have drifted miles down my threads I'm on! How are you all PESHlas?
I am feeling rough (on and off) still. Very tired, sick at least once a day. Ths afternoon MSB is going out for a bike ride (he will go miles so I won't join him) and I fancy a walk while it's sunny, maybe 5k. Will take about an hour. Then I might attempt to bake scones. Mmmm. Yum.

queen I can't imagine life without a TV! Is that terrible?

Sorry to hear you are still sick Faith.

Do you have any baby appointments through? Are you having an early scan or do you have to wait till 12 weeks?

It's not terrible at all faith. We got rid of ours because just before we moved here we realised we were barely watching it. We tend to listen to music and read in the evening, or spend the time together in the kitchen bothering food and chatting. We won't watch it all that much now to be honest, very little programming appeals to us. It'll be nice to have when baby arrives though!

If you aren't feeling too ill during your 10 days off we could arrange to meet up for coffee?

blonder I've got blood tests Tuesday because I'm now 8 weeks - too early to do them at my booking in appointment! It's actually at 9.40 so I get a lie-in and go into work late :)
I've had a cheeky check on the hospital system and my scan is registered on there as needing to be booked but no date yet. I'm hoping it'll come for when I'm on leave. Just be nice to go into new (old) job telling people.

queen I'd love to meet up when I'm on leave! That'd be ace!

I have got a really dodgy tummy this afternoon. Hope I am not coming down with anything :(

Oh no dor! Maybe it's just the change in water or stress from travel? I hope it settles soon. Speaking of that end of things...I had the horrors today of bleeding when I wiped. Obviously went into full panic mode but really it was not baybee but back passage related clearly the long term constipation has. Abused either a fissure or pile. It's started hasn't it? The changes to my body have commenced. I will see if it settles down and if not will have to purchase some anusol

We went for a walk this afternoon. It was good actually. I got all stressed out about that state of the house (even though it wasn't really that bad) as we started walking. DH was about to race hme to do stuff but I said no and insisted we walk. By the end of the walk I felt loads better and had things back in perspective. When we got home we had a quick rest (it was tiring!) and then got a fair bit done. I feel tonnes better now! I blame the hormones. It's their fault, yes?

Definitely their fault.

I keep going into major crisis mode when I think about our house. I really wanted to be in by the time the baby is born and I just an not sure we will be which is a shame.

I had really awful constipation in the first trimester. I have found that taking one Fybogel sachet a day just keeps things regular and stops it becoming a problem.