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! :)

Ooh you can be redderthanblonde!

I am in my jammies. With a fetching hooded woolly cardie and pink slippers.

I might get dressed before my hospital appt later. We'll see.

Faithy you are positively obliged to be in your jammies at any conceivable opportunity when you are pregnant! I hope you're enjoying your off-time work interlude. Is it next week you go back? And your sister sounds lovely :)

blonde I do have a birthing ball -I'm not that great at remembering to bounce, but try to get a little ball-time each evening with the telly that sounded a bit dodgy

Don't tempt me! :) ah glad I am in good company with the jammies. I did manage to dress in scabby clothes and do a butting of gardening. It was actually quite nice out there, I was able to ditch the jumper. I have done one long side chopping back overgrown crap and will may do the smaller side after I've lunched. I did find a dead...something matted fluff and bones. Grossness.

Yuck! But well done on the garden. Ours is a total mess, but I've given up on it until next summer.

Oh, and I don't think I have any more purchases left at least not of the necessary kind We are technically, although far from mentally, ready and prepared for go!

I don't think anyone is ever really ready cakey. I think it's a case of hitting the ground running!

Stoopid Stoopid NHS! I've had a letter today rearranging my pre-op assessment! Despite confirming with the secretary that my op will be postponed til after my pregnancy, then me ringing pre-op assessment to explain why I didn't come to the appointment! So I've got a DNA against my name, communication is clearly crap and because I didn't see the letter til 4pm no-one is answering the phone now! They wonder why the NHS is in financial strife?! it's because they don't talk to each other! Grrr.

Ps wheelie bin is full, garden hacked back. I flung mud in my mouth so I'm off to bath now :)

I AM FINALLY ON MATERNITY LEAVE!

Just got home after longer evening than planned, my replacement is a real talker. Think we got through all the important stuff. I started having really odd pains very low down so I joked that I might be going into labour but that didn't seem to faze her. Glad to be home.

Congrats on the maternity leave blonde! Enjoy! Time to get your feet up, drink lots of tea and watch lots of nonsense telly :)

Faith that's really annoying -will you call them up today to get the DNA removed off your name? That would really bother me. I had tons of mess-ups with the infertility clinic and IVF waiting list when we were on that -they seem completely unable to communicate anything to eachother and do anything that falls outwith normal routine, making it so difficult to sort out mistakes...

Hooray for official mat leave blonder! Have the pains settled?

I have spoken to a human being (!) and explained the situation. She had taken me off the waiting list. I have already emailed to complain about the farce of the last one and also the time in April (gynae clinic) when they sent an appointment letter that arrived at 2pm for an appointment at 10.30 that morning I got a DNA then and was removed from the waiting list! I got another appointment but I checked the system and there's still a DNA against my name. I'm a good patient, I keep my appointments! So I want them removed. Humph!

Well my Dad was meant to be helping me with the garden today but its very soggy! I think I'll try to get the house clean, if he still comes over I'll task him with vacuuming, I find that hard work :)

The appts thing is so ridiculous Faith. And you can definitely do without it.

Yeah I had quite a few pains/tightenings last night. Maybe all that prodding from the mw & docs yesterday put the baby on the move. Was a bit worried and got a tiny glimpse of what things might be like in a few weeks. Hope I can hack it.

Hope you're all enjoying the beauty of Autumn, everything has taken on a lovely hue in the last couple of days. Or is that my hormones?

The thing that wound me up was I couldn't do anything about it yesterday cos no-one's there! Ah well, Tis sorted now. I'm still tempted to ring on the day and confirm my appointment is cancelled!

I do believe its the most beautiful autumn I've ever experienced! Possibly because I look forward to autumn turning into winter. Normally I hate it - summer is my favourite season (never fails to disappoint!) but this year I imagine the baybee growing in me and its exciting!

I am gradually cleaning. Kitchen is gleaming but I needed a rest before moving on to the living room! :)

Seriously?! I've now received a letter from the consultant saying I didn't turn up for my OP and they were unable to contact me! I've fricking fuming!

Call them up and give them an earful. That's completely ridiculous. It might be that these letters are just sent automatically, even though they know your situation, but it's a bit insulting really!

I've just had my whooping cough and flu jab. Both in the same arm, a bit sore now, but should be fine. Very much a last-minute thing in terms of the whooping cough, as it has to be done before 38 weeks, and I'm 37+5 today, but I think it's definitely worth it.

My practice nurse said its more about protecting baybee for the whopping cough.

I think it's the secretary's oversight rather than automatic letters asit implied they had me booked in and I didn't show up and they were 'unable to contact me'. Er I had two missed calls and no messages!
I rang to talk to his secretary, left answer phone message but I doubt she'll call back today. I talked to a luffly secretary at the GP who said it happens more often than you'd think (working for the NHS I am cynically aware!) and they will write a letter on my behalf. I will still endeavour to talk to the secretary because I feel the fault lies with her and also I need to absolutely confirm that my operation has been postponed!

Cleaning progress is slow but gradual.

Well I'm absolutely shattered and the thought of doing tea makes me want to cry (!) but it's clean. Rooms wiped/polished, kitchen cleaned and mopped (including cooker top etc), bathroom cleaned and all vacced. Pooped is the word! :)

faith i refused to speak to anyone in the NHS about appts over the phone and moved to doing it all by e-mail. That was to cover my back with proof that what was said had actually been said.

c&c I had my WC today too but having flu next week as I am just getting over a cold and thought it might floor me a bit. It all went fine and I don't seem to have any side-effects.

As I'm 35+3 but being induced at 38w I was in the same position as you as it takes 2 weeks for the antibodies to pass to the baby.

Practice Nurse was fixated on smoking, she asked me if I smoked, I said no but I'd had the occasional one in the past. It felt like she didn't believe me and I was trying to cover up this huge smoking habit. And I'm really not!

In other news TBI & I went to the Baby & Toddler event at Bluewater and got LOADS, including lots of stuff we didn't exactly need but is really nice to have. TBI got the Cuddledry towel he's been coveting. Which is quite cute.

Faith that is beyond crap about the letter. Grr.

Happy Mat Leave+1 Blondie!!!!

When do you finish lors?

So good morning PESHlas! What are we up to today? MSB is working this morning and then off to the football 'for work' this afternoon - they get turns to have the box and invite customers. I have a facial booked for 12.30pm :) I'm tempted to buy a curry kit from Tesco for tea.

Ooh is the cuddle dry towel one with a little hood?!

Morning all :) My arm is a bit sore from the jabs this morning, but nothing major.

Curry kit from Tesco sounds like an excellent idea Faith. I'm going to have a potter-around-at-home day, maybe make some stew this evening. It's quite lovely out, so might even try to go for a little waddle round the park with MrCakes if I feel up for it later :)

Yes Faithy, sort of bathtime apron that gathers up into cow print towel with hood. Completely unnecessary and overpriced but cute as anything and TBI has been obsessed ever since he first saw one.

Sore arm here too, didn't realise till I rolled over and said ow.

Your days sound lovely! Facials and curry, yum. I've been ordered to stay in bed an shift the last of my sniffles. Which is nice. TBI washing up & then going to paint nursery, makes me feel all wriggly.

We are scraping of sticky horrid wood hip wallpaper this morning. Nice to be actually doing something to the house tho!

with wood chip on the wall/ and when I came round the call/ you didn't notice me at all/and I said...
Or is it just me?! Yes I believe wood chip is a nightmare to remove.

No facial :( cock up with the booking. Going Wednesday morning instead, will be glowing when I meet queenie.

Hey has anyone heard from jewels lately?
camel are you still lurking?

every time I hear the words woodchip wallpaper i am 1/ transported to my childhood and moving into our council house and 2/ get that song stuck in my head. It was playing on the radio a little while ago actually

today has mostly been rubbish. I'm properly hormonal and teary at the moment. Not helped by the fact that I had to phone my papa yesterday as he's behaving out of character. Phone call confirmed that the stroke he had in July has done more damage than he likes to admit. He sent me an e-mail yesterday morning. When I spoke to him last night he asked if he'd sent it or not, because he feels vague and isn't sure what he has and hasn't done

Oh queenie how tough for you. Is he being monitored for the stroke?