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 I had no idea what mine sounded like, apart from archangels and cherubim obviously (really need to get a grip on these hormones or else bottle them to sell in nightclubs). Wish I had recorded it though, great idea.

Mine alternately sounds like a horse-shaped train or a train-shaped horse...

Don't put too much faith in being able to determine sex via heartbeat sounds or speed. Depending on the position/angle/distance of the Doppler and the baybee, PlusOne sounds like both within a short time period. Same with BPM - his alternates wildly depending on time of day, what I've been eating and how much I've poked at him.

I am putting 99% of my faith into the 20 week scan for gender and that's it! I keep changing my mind about what I'm having but when I imagine baybee I imagine a pink baybee :) would be quite happy with blue though!

I imagined you with a girl Faith. Although maybe just because we have so many boys on the PESH thread.

I thought that too blonde, so many boy baybees! And the next few due to come out are boys too!

Me, too! I also think pink for Faife!

I am trying to prepare and be brave and am watching OBEM!

dor I was looking at the mutual friends with all the BESH luff going on - you have a friend Pete who is friends with someone I know from doing Christian summer camps! Small world!

I watched 3 back to back episodes of OBEM...I wept (like a baybee...)

I watched Gavin and Stacey when Nessa gives birth last night and cried! I remember watching it the day after I got my BFP and proper belly sobbing because I realised I was going to have a baybee! :) Hearing the heart beat made it seem more real too.
I actually wonder if its the song - Gravity by Embrace - that makes it so emotive!

faith which Pete - FB message me and tell me!

I am feeling really upset and emotional today. My Dad upset me over dinner tonight - he didn't really say anything too bad he just pissed me off.

So, I went and lay in the bath and cried. I think I suddenly feel really vulnerable that we are still at Mum and Dad's and have nowhere to put anything like the crib and his clothes. I feel like I should be nesting and I can't even do that.

I know I am being unreasonable but today it just feels shitty!

Oh poor dor. It just be tough not bring able to set your home up for your baybee! How are the house renovations going?

I am very snuffly today :( not great. I may inhale steam to try to clear some of it. Going to take it easy today, bs j at work tomorrow/Friday!

I know it's very stressful and upsetting for you now, Dory, but try to focus on the fact that you are setting up a wonderful home that will benefit your little family for years to come. Key your eye on the prize!

(How's that for an annoying American pep-talk?! Can you tell I'm feeling happy about the election results )

Blondie - those Aden & Anais wraps you're using and luffing - are they the bamboo ones or the cotton muslin ones?

My SkipHop Pronto 'changing station' arrived this morning. Ridiculously excited to open baybee related packages. I've decided to forgo a 'proper' baby bag in favour of throwing this mini changer into a very cool bag that I already own and that won't embarrass TOM

*keep (not 'key')

I feel a bit better today. I have just been to the house and I am feeling like it isn't insurmountable although I still know how much work there is to do.

Hormones are odd things though. The fluctuations are vile.

Glad you feel a bit better dor. I agree hormones are vile and the pregnant meltdowns come out of nowhere! As much as I hated PMS it was predictable!

I have found a yoga class that can be suitable for pregnant ladies - there's one at 2.15. Do I get the courage up to go?!

Do it!

I went! I feel good for it! Was a very basic beginners class anyway and only one pose I couldn't do due to diffment. I feel stretched out and more relaxed so I'm really glad I went :)

Glad you're feeling better Dor - and I totally agree re. the hormones. They are really more wacky and upending than I expected.

Good for you YogaFaife! Sometimes it can be such a struggle to get up and out the door towards exercise, but I always feel better for it.

Hope our two new little ESH boys (& their mummys) are doing well.

Fanks LP, I was a bit nervous but the class leader was luffly. I have recognised I will not want to leave the bat cave house after dark so I will pick classes in the day time and go to one or two a week on my days off.

How are the quieter PESHlas? Are fertility and camel lurking?

They are these ones LP.

Faif I'm glad you went to and enjoyed the yoga. Best thing I did during pgy (as I am prone to bang on about...)

fed up today. Sick of being lonely, but fed up with being the one who always has to chase up local friends. It's my phone bill and my bloody petrol all the time. I gave in and went to see my longest standing friend last week.....I last saw/spoke to her the week after my surgery. Her excuse is that she couldn't phone because she hasn't got my number....which was the exact excuse she gave me when I bumped into her in town and gave her my effing number as well as pointing out that her grown DD has both my numbers anyway.
Beginning to think there is something wrong with me....i've lived in this house 3.5 years and not one of my local friends has ever been round for coffee....

Sorry to hear you are feeling crap Queenie. It's horrible when you get the feeling you are always the one making the effort, it's the sort of thing that snowballs inside and really knots you up inside. You seem to be a lovely, friendly intelligent person but most people really are a bit crap at making the effort or end up only seeing the people they are in the habit of seeing.

Hopefully having the baby will put you in touch with some other people who you have something in common with? Even if its just a starting point and most of them turn out to be losers, there are bound to be a few new, local people to get to know and who will be a bit more give-and-take than just take.

yes....i have some amazing friends, but most of them live miles away! I have a few really good local friends too, but they have very busy lives....they keep in touch via text/phone etc and would be here in a flash if I needed help. It's just that every now and then the lack of adult interaction gets to me. I'm not so mobile now, people know that and yet still they don't bother.
I got a bit jaded about meeting new people, every time I do it takes time to let your guard down and then they let you down - when it keeps happening you start to close off to protect yourself. I started to develop a friendship with a new neighbour, she let me down badly over something and now she's settled here she's dropped me......I served my purpose I guess.....
Winter is a bad time for me socially, I just have to batten down the hatches and get on with it.

Dear God, I have just been to help my Mum put my niece and nephew to bed. They both had spectacular meltdowns, including my niece who, at one point, was lying by the front door crying 'Mummy, Mummy, Mummy'. I think my sister was worried that she might have kicked my massive belly so I held her facing outwards in a vice like grip!

The day was saved by an iPhone full of photos of cats!

Our baybees will never behave like that dor

I'm so tired after a long day and my legs have swollen up again! MSB has gone to make me cheese on toast. I luff him so much right now :)