Here come the PESH - over 3 years of hard fought baby wins!

[HaveALittleFaith]

The Not-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.

Need dates:

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

cakeandcava (32), approaching walrus proportions, DC1 EDD 21/10/12
blonderthanred (36), no sugar I'm sweet enough, DC1 EDD 6/11/12
FriendofDorothy (36) DC1 EDD 16/12/12
LauraPalmer (38) DC1 EDD 9/2/13
Queenrollo (37) DC2 EDD 10/2/13
CamelKnees (34) fat and fatigued DC2 EDD 22/04/2013
HaveALittleFaith (31), head down toilet, DC1 EDD 26/4/13
fertilityFTW (34), weepy and whiny, DC 1 EDD 21/5/13

Welcome to our new home! :)

Hope you had a better night's sleep Rollo.

Dor I have found that movement has changed over time, from sharper kicks to more of a rolling movement. As long as you are still feeling movement it should be fine but I can understand the worry. Is it worth making some notes on what type of movement you feel at different times of day so you can see if there's a pattern or explain to your mw more clearly?

Weird night last night, woke up at 3am bit sweaty and went for a wee but suddenly had this huge 'shiver', don't know how to describe it without being overdramatic but it kind of wracked my whole body. Teeth chattering, shaking, felt like I was going to vomit and poo. Dived back into bed, DH woke up and tried to ask what was wrong but thought I was saying No as my head was shaking involuntarily. Kept coming in waves every 30 secs or so. Eventually died down after 20 mins or so. Got some more sleep but kept waking up drenched in sweat, however if I took a layer off it felt like the shivering would start again.

I googled and apparently some women shake in early labour or transition due to hormone changes but I am still not contracting or anything, just mild period pains. Anyone heard of this?

Today I have a had a lot more movement. You are right that the movements vary. At the moment it feels like he is doing barrel rolls!

Good to hear Dor. I was always surprised to find that the baby was in the same position at my appointments as it feels like it rolls all over the place.

So, any news. Anyone nearer to laying yet? I am getting excited now!

Sorry about sick DS rollo. Hope he's on the mend

blondey how you doing love? Shaking sounds like a very unnerving experience but good to know others have it too. At the least it hopefully means something is happening even if not as quickly as you'd like. Hope things pick up soon.

cake how you doing kiddo?? Any news?

dor glad the movement has picked back up again. It's scary shiz all this isn't it?

Hi fee know about you mean about sudden tummy firmness. It's a good job I'm finally coming clean at work tomorrow. Seem to have had a massive growth spurt over the weekend and look very obviously pregnant all of a sudden. Am actually quite nervous about telling work. Hope all the senior bods are around first thing so that I can just getting out of the way and get on with my day.

It is really scary. I thought it got easier, but clearly not!

dot I've heard it gets a tiny bit less scary once theyre here and they're about......45 so err only a lifetime to go then

I've been wondering how cake is getting on.

Nothing much else has happened so I have gone totally barking and started trying out old wives' tales (well I am an old wife).

In the last 24 hrs:
Curry
Sex
Evening Primrose
Warm bath
Clary Sage oil
Walking (a bit)
Birthing ball
Halfhearted amateur reflexology
Nipple tweaking...
... While watching breastfeeding videos

Eyed up the castor oil but instead currently experimenting with a glass of Prosecco. It's the (2nd) most enjoyable option so far.

Oooh exciting! Maybe it will come down to the induction after all blonderer?! At least you've done your homework for that. I read your post and thought oh you have to be careful with reflexology, it can bring in labour!

I have had weird stretchy pains tonight - MSB is convinced that it was baybee movement! I think it's my uterus stretching! cam we're at similar dates and you've done this before - what do you reckon?! I went public at church this morning, 'twas luffly and I got lots of hugs and joy :)

dor I'm glad Winston is wiggling more, must be reassuring :)

Hope lickle rollo is on the mend now and you've had some rest!

blonde you might want to watch the castor oil. At our parentcraft class the bonkers midwife was telling us that she had a lady in labour or took some before delivery and the birth was characterised by her liquid shit throughout. Gross!

Oh how mortifying! Like the idea of doing a normal poo isn't bad enough?!

blonde prosecco and sex???? I'm well jel! Good work on trying to smoke the little tinker out before the induction.

faif yes have also stretching this week. Have had what I think is round ligament pain low down like before but also some funny muscle twinges much higher up sort of on a line with my belly button. Normally when I get up from lying down or stretch in a funny way.

Have also some a few flutters that I think probably are movement. They're very faint and feel like what I think people used toe describe as the quickening in the super old days. Not discernible movement but very much butterflies in my tummy very low down. I recognised the feeling as soon as it happened. Can't wait for proper kicks and pokes.

Liquid shit???????? Fecking hell!

Ps faith how nice re coming out at church. I took DD this morning (which I've not done for about a year as she's far too much of a handful now to sit still). She was actually pretty good. My fave bit was her declaring as soon as we'd sat down "oh mummy church is like a show!" (she loves anything involving a stage dahling)

I started to get some ligament stretching around your stage Faith. It could be very unnerving at times.

Dor I think I am going to leave the Castor oil in the cupboard having read some scary shit (sorry) about it - I don't mind having a tummy upset but apparently it can cause the baybee to pass meconium and I am not up for that.

I'm still having mild contractions but only for a few seconds at a time so I think Tuesday might happen after all. At least it might mean the pessary takes effect more quickly if I am on the way.

Camel I love the term 'quickening'. TBI and I were discussing earlier how archaic many of the pregnancy terms sound - midwife, confinement, show. And I still find it hard not to giggle when anyone mentions the ripeness of cervices.

That is v true goldilocks, although the term ripe cervix make me want to vom a little bit. Always makes me think of over squashy fruit! I quite like the idea of confinement - all that peace and quiet and dark just waiting for something to happen

Yes I think it's ligament stretching. It was quite intense at work yesterday! I had one little jerk Friday night could be bowel! but no discernible flutters yet.

Still 36 hours, could go either way blonde.

I luff the 'church is like a show'! If there was a like button I'd press it :) yes it was wonderful. One lady said she'd been praying for us for years. She said she prayed for one couple who thought they couldn't have kids and they had five - based on that would I like her to stop praying now?! I said yes! Two would be luffly but one would be enough!

Oh fee that's lovely. I really really love the sense of family and community that comes with church. How wonderful of people to keep you in their prayers. Makes me feel a bit teary. Your fertility fairy has obviously got a pretty effective hotline to The Big Man - I'd be asking her to stand down now as well. 5 is too many for any normal woman!!!

DS is better thanks for all your thoughts. He's a typical kid, while us parents are still trying to get over the sleep deprivvation of nursing them they bounce straight back. Yesterday was hard work....I was tired and he was FULL of energy. But still...it's better than seeing them ill.

Oh dear, just dissolved a bit. Think I had really got my hopes up about persuading this baby to arrive before the induction - and today would have been my beloved Nana's 92nd birthday.

After a busy day having another sweep, going for a walk and monitoring every twinge, I fell asleep on the sofa, woke up and burst into tears. I don't think I had realised how much I had hoped I could do it. Now I have to get my head together and get ready for tomorrow.

Sorry for poor little me post but I am suddenly realising this really is IT.

blonde you are perfectly entitled to feel a little er....disappointed? that it didn't happen when you hoped it would. These last few days before you make the transition from pregnant lady to mummy are quite frankly a headfuck.

I even felt odd when I found out I was PG and realised I wasn't going to have a Piscean baby.....because oddly I had my heart set on one

Thank you Rollo, I think I am a bit of a hormonal version of an 8-strand plait loaf (in case you are watching Great British Bake Off).

I'm glad your DS is much better, hope you have caught up with him!

I think the enormity of everything is catching up with you blonder. Most people don't know when their baybees are going to turn up, Tis unusual to be in your position. Your baybee will have its one birthday. A special day. If its Wednesday it'll be my Granny's birthday! :) What time are you going in?

I am tired from work and my ankles are swollen from being on my feet all day! Day off and seeing Pickle again tomorrow.

Thanks Faith. I'll be thinking of you and your pickle! Just had another big cry about the Moses basket. TBI and DBro being very lovely.

I keep saying to my bump, I really hope that you know what to do, because I haven't got a clue!

blonder it goes: eat - sleep - cry - poo - cry - sleep - cry - eat or thereabouts. They're quite simple to start with! :) you'll be fine!

at faith's description of what life is like with a newborn.

I was in hospital for 4 days with DS. I remember coming home, putting his car seat down on the floor and sitting and looking at him thinking 'oh fuck.....there are no nurses or midwives to ask. What the hell do I do when he wakes up?'

My doula is coming round for another chat tomorrow. Sounds like we all have busy baby-oriented days tomorrow.