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! :)

So how are the remaining PESH doing? We need to update the 'not list' really!

I iz tired. These long days are hard but I really think buying new work shoes would help! :)

I am tired and on a serious countdown to maternity leave. 24 working days to go now!

i'm finding it increasingly difficult to get up off the sofa and yesterday went into town to do some shopping and it is quite obvious that 20 mins is about my limit before bump gets really uncomfortable and the Braxton Hicks become really intense.
This pregnancy so far has been much better physically than with DS but I have 3 months basically still to go and am not sure just how I'm going to cope physically the bigger I get. Thankfully most days HOLB is now working from home.....

I feel absolutely massive already and I have such sore hips. I am just hanging on in there. Working full time means I am just knackered.

I am quite worried about how I'll cope on long days when my bump is big!

Happily I have today off but then have to do two together currently residing on the sofa! We have recliner sofas but I did comment to MSB that in the future I'd probably wish they were riser/recliners! :)

It is hard isn't it. I think I felt throughout my pgy that I had to tough it out and keep up the appearance that I was having no trouble at all coping with work and life. Now I'm not really sure why I felt like that.

The best advice I was given was to make sure you take some time to enjoy your pregnancies, the pgy yoga and our trip to Brittany with the PILs were the best things I did. Slightly different for you Rollo I know but hopefully you can still do this a bit.

I am due to start a 5 week pregnancy yoga course on Saturday. I would have gone earlier but unfortunately all the classes were full.

I worked right up until the week before DS was born, long days and 6 days a week. The only reason I didn't work that last week was because I had a compressed nerve and couldn't walk properly. I really have a lot of sympathy with those of you working through pregnancy. I'm trying to be positive about this pregnancy, it's my last go and I want to really embrace it - but my hormones occassionally conspire against me.
Everyone has started telling me that I have got the 'bloom' though, and I have to admit I do seem to have a glow about me this time round. No doubt it'll last a couple of weeks and i'll be back to looking tired out.....

dor enjoy the yoga

Happy Halloween PESHlettes!

The antenatal yoga has been great for me - I have so many back issues and have been doing it weekly since I was 18wks. That said, my back pain is getting worse by the day and sleeping is near impossible. [grumpy cunt face]. But we're looking at getting one of those Homedic chair massagers so TOM won't have to rub my back every night.

The other weird (& not very wonderful) symptom I've been experiencing is something like acid reflux. Basically it feels like my food stays lodged in my throat. Gross. And irritating. And mucho uncomfortable.

This is my last week of full contract work - next week it all drops down to one day a week through the end of November then I'm officially on work maternity leave. Unfortunately, I've still got the full-time PhD work that will continue through the end of January...Roll on, 2013!

Btw, is anyone doing an NCT class? Ours starts next week. Seems awfully early, but Xmas gets in the way and the class doesn't finish until the 2nd week in January. (It's for 'early Feb' baybees.)

I was so grateful for nct when I had dc1; the women I met there formed the bulk of my social life for about the first 6 months of my mat leave and I still see some of them now, nearly 5 years on.

That's exactly what I'm hoping for Bess!

Is Gaviscon any help LP? I had bottles of the stuff everywhere.

I like the notion of your [grumpy cunt face]. Ah the image that sprang into my mind.

laurapalmer your baybee is due on my birthday

That's a good Bday!

Well, I finally put something up on FB. No announcement per se, but I posted a picture of my very preggo belly AND used it for my profile pic. (And this is big business for a girl who religiously avoids putting anything too personal on my page!) You can't even see my face in the photo...just a lot of belly with a cute skull tshirt stretched over it and a comment that says 'Boo!'

I thought it was a fabulous way to make an announcement!

That's been fun!!

I saw it via dor, tres bonne lppo!

I'm so tired but I have to go and do it all over again tomorrow. Emotional day too (patient died) but family were luffly which was nice.

I want to do NCT but MSB is being tight and saying we should just do the free NHS one [hhmm] but I want to really know what I'm doing in labour and meet naice mummies since I only know one person due around the same time as me! I have emailed to ask about costs. I will also be looking into preggo yoga. Sounds like fun. Mostly my exercise is currently tearing round a ward for 13 hours 3 days a week!

We decided not to do NCT classes, but that was partly because we have good health service classes over here.

gulp... I have just realised I will be having a baby next month. How did that sneak up on me!?

Crazy, innit, Dory?! 29 days and counting until MAT leave...

I sent you a PM from the secret bat cave Faife

My hips and back are so painful today that I am finding walking difficult. I had a TOIL day and loads of stuff to do for the house - I have managed it but it has been a struggle!

Evening PESHlas! How are tricks?

dor how are the hips? How is the house coming along?

I've enjoyed a day off doing very little! Hung out with my Dad and DNephew (cheeky monkey by his own admission!). Currently watching the second Sherlock Holmes film whilst trying to master the concept of knit one/purl one! :)

Hips are still pretty sore at the moment and my back is killing me.

The house is coming along albeit slowly. We went to look at wood-burners yesterday which is really exciting! Hopefully Mum and I are going to go and do a bit of undercoating tomorrow. I am just hoping it doesn't make my back/hips worse.

I went to an NCT sale with my Mum tonight which was nice. Bought some lovely clothes and bits and pieces :)

Really sorry about the hips Dor. I was lucky only to get a bit of hip pain at night. I did get a new mattress (well overdue after 10 yrs) which helped a lot, as did yoga and the dream genii - am I right that you have one? I used mine sort of upside down so the propping up bit was down at my ankles if that makes sense.

Good news is it disappears straight away! I also suddenly realised the other night how wonderful it was not to need the loo every 3 minutes. I loved being pg but I do not miss that.