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! :)

Yeah the Dream Genii is brilliant. Hopefully the physio will fix me on Monday!

Now the mothercare one is reduced to £15 but is that false economy and I'll end up paying out again for the dream genie?!

Dunno what the mothercare one is like. Have you got a link?

Ah its back up to £30 :( probably not worth buying that only to find that I should have forked out the extra £45 for the Dream genii, right?!

I am starting to think about prams. Budget is between £300-400. I want one that switches from pram to pushchair, not too heavy, small enough to fit in the back of a polo. Any suggestions?

I would actually have been fine with that one, I never really used the back support bit of the dg. But I know lots of people do. I'm using it as a bf pillow now.

My pram arrived on Fri eve so we took L out yesterday for a walk round the block. First time I've left the house too which was weird. We have this one . Too early to review but I love it so far!

If you do go with dg it's usually on special offer somewhere, mine was £35.99 but don't pay more than £40.

I also have a straight pregnancy pillow which I think is similar to the mothercare one and I found it too far. I preferred the shaping of the Dream Genii.

My lovely husband is on night shifts at the moment. He got into bed with me this morning, gave the bump a kiss and a stroke and then took one look at my lady garden and said 'By God, I think Winston is going to need a machete to get through that lot.' Cheeky sod.

Too fat rather than too far I mean!

dor my baby is going to need a machete too....it's very dense undergowth now!

Can't actually remember the last time my lady garden had a trim....hmm yes August on holiday IIRC

We have made baybee purchases! Some muslins, baby grows, teeny booties and a 'teddy' like DNephew has and loves - its a teddy with a soft blanket attached :) Rather exciting!

i've got a pushchair, car seat and 5 long sleeve vests!!

Little by little! I've just signed up for Boots parenting club, Emma's diary, cow and gate (though planning to try the boob) for the freebies! Where else must I sign up?

There is Bounty but be warned, they will sign you up for loads of other stuff - some of which is fine but overall it's a bit much. I have has a couple of cold calls to my mobile by companies I'm sure they've passed my details to which I was very cross about.

I also signed up to Sainsbo's little ones and Tesco. The babycentre emails are great if you don't already get them, forums are very Nethuns-y but can sometimes be useful. Avent will send you a free bottle if you join their due date club (again this happens via Bounty). If I think of any others I'll let you know.

Have had v stressful week as L lost 65g more than the NHS-approved 10% of his birthweight and then 35g more again. Today he has put on 5g so I am no longer being pressured into topping up his feed with formula. Very happy and relieved; keep up the good work, son!

I wouldn't sign up for Bounty.....DS is 7 and I still get stuff delivered to my old address that was through Bounty selling my details on. I've asked to be removed from databases etc to no avail.
If you have baby in hospital the Bounty people will sometimes try to tell you that you have to signup/take the pack to get your Child Benefit claim form but that rubbish.

Oh arse have just signed up to Bounty! But I didn't give my phone number :)

they never had my phone number thankfully. For me a lot of the annoyance came down to the fact that ethically I wasn't interested in 95% of what they sent me. I got two useful things from Bounty - a free muslin and a little pot of Sudocrem! You do get lots of money off vouchers for nappies, wash powder etc (i passed mine on to friends who would use them).

Are you super Eco-friendly then queenie? In my head you're definitely veggie, if not vegan!

Well done little man on gaining the weight and well done blonde with th fattening booby juice :)

I signed up for Bounty before I realised that I can't get most of the offers because I am in Guernsey!

i'm not as eco-friendly as I would like to be! but I use eco friendly wash powder (you got lots of vouchers for Fairy/Persil/Ariel with bounty) and i'll be using washable nappies (you get lots of vouchers for well known brand nappies), and I try not to use products with parabens/sls in etc.
I'm not veggie, but just about everyone I meet thinks I am! HOLB eats fish but not meat, so our diet is quite veggie because of that except that with this pregnancy I've been craving meat so I've been indulging that.

I'm no Eco-warrior myself but I keenly recycle (been known to fish out MSB's erroneous binning) and really want to use washable nappies :)

My life is too short to spent it picking shit out of reusable nappies.

End of conversation for me!

We are doing reusables but at the moment L is a little too tiny so he's in the free sample disposables. Can't wait to put him in the lovely soft cloth ones!

I try to be eco friendly but don't think of myself as a hippie type, however we do have a sling and a bednest, so with that and the ebf and nappies I would probably be classed as such.

Do you love your bednest Blondie? Please tell us what you think. We're converting a cot for bedside attachment, but I think we've decided to get the bednest for the first few months as it's portable and the resale value is ridiculously good! I'd love to hear an opinion from a first time mum in her early days of mumhood...please to, if you would?

Faife - re. pushchairs: we've got a Polo, too, and are getting the Uppababy Vista.

M&S have an offer of 20% off children's clothing - just ordered some little white sleepsuits and vest-suits. The sleepsuits all have those tiny fold-over hand cuffs...Love it. (TOM grinned and said I'm 'cute' when I get excited about my mummy shopping! )

I plan on using sleeveless vest-suits under sleep suits. Question - Can you lot tell me what the heck long sleeved vests are used for/good for??? (All I'm thinking about are those poor cold little legs...!)

Well LP we just used the bednest for the first time last night as we only decided to get one after I came home from hospital.

On the basis of that first night, I LUFF it.

Several times when he stirred I just held his little hand and he soothed straight away. I can see gaze at him and reach him easily, he seems happy in it and I feel much happier too. We've all slept well (although that varies day to day).

Sleeveless/short sleeve vests + sleep suits that open all down the front are definitely the way to go and fab if they have the scratch mitts too. So many cute things to buy but keep it as simple as possible. I will try and make a list of 'luxury' items that have actually been brilliant so far. Top is Aden+Anais swaddle cloths, expensive but we've used them every day.

Uppababy Vista is ace, that was on our shortlist.