The PESH are waddling their way to Christmas & trying not to freak out!

[FrankelInFoal]

The ante-natal fred for BESH graduates.

Recent Grads (aka CRESH)

blonderthanred, boy, born 26th October 2012
FriendofDorothy, boy, born 14th December 2012
QueenRollo, boy, born 21st January 2013
LazyMachine (38) boy EDD 9/2/13 - need an actual arrival date!
CamelKnees (34) EDD 22/04/2013 - need actual arrival date!
HaveALittleFaith (31), Faithlet arrived 14th April 2013
fertilityFTW (34) arrival date needed!
pinkr, (33), girl born 25th August 2013
Jethro (36) boy born 23rd September 2013

Waiting to lay:
Noks - EDD 28/12/2013
Frankel - EDD 4/3/2014
Sinky - EDD 18/3/2014
Ginfox - EDD end April 2014
Kat - EDD needed
Drizz - EDD 7/6/2014
Draf - EDD 19/6/2014
Winks - EDD 29/6/2014

Apologies for any misinformation or omissions!

Hooray driz! Lembie must be due an upgrade now surely - Loetus? Lembaby? :)

I guess I am diffed . Will finally be telling "my other work" on Wed. And yeah, lembie can become something more exciting. But Loetus I don't like too much . It looked a lot different from the blast we picked up about 10 weeks ago...

The impossible, but very excited sister actually gave us a little outfit yesterday, and maybe now I can start imagining taking a baby home in it.

BOOM driz is having a baybee. Really pleased everything is as it should be. Time to enjoy it drizzlewizzle

Hooray, driz! Excellent news

Hope your scan is equally encouraging, winks :)

It's HOTB's birthday; we've had ILs here all day. Now finally have peace and quiet! The ILs are over very generous with gift-giving though, I suspect if/when this baby arrives we are going to have to have some difficult conversations about appropriate presents...

Yup, everything crossed here for Winks.

I'm officially an old gimmer now - at lunchtime I bought some thermal vests in M&S .

Happy birthday to HOTB

Good luck winks. What time are you up?

Keeping stuff crossed for you, winks!!

Happy birthday to HOTB! Tell us about inappropriate presents, draf!

Perfect little tadpole, heard a heartbeat, then it waved at us and did a little jump! Squeeee! Very very happy right now :) :)

Hurrah Winks So pleased that the PESH are getting great scan results.

Would it be wrong of me to consider eating crumpets plastered in Nutella? Opinions?

Squeeeeeeeee! Well done Winkywoo!

Frank I fed crumpets with peanut butter to Faithlet for breakfast. I say go for it.

Frank I bought nutella last week precisely so I could have crumpets and nutella. Alas HWCA had finished the crumpets. Bastard. Do it for me!

Great news winks so pleased it went well. You iz havin a baybee!!

Looks like it kat! Eek, scary!

Hurrah Winks! What wonderful news, how far along is little tadpole? And when do you get to see it again?

Anything with nutella is good, I reckon that is my one pregnancy vice so far...

Verdict on Crumpets with Nutella -

Though I think I prefer Cadbury Philadelphia

The best thing about crumpets is that the topping squidges out the bottom, so you get it on both sides, as opposed to toast which is very one sided. I may have to buy chocolate philly and compare.

driz measuring 9+1, which is perfect from the last scan. I've got my hospital scan on the 18th of December, so will have to be patient until then. Patience isn't my strong point!

At Christmas I'm going to have to tell my 8yo nephew. He is the absolute love of my life and he adores me. Hopefully he'll be happy but he may be a little put out. I'm going to buy him a tiny Christmas present 'from the baby'.

Happy birthday HOTB!

BOOM twonks is also having a baybee. Brilliant news honkytwonk. I am so so so pleased for you.

S'like baybee central round here

Am I allowed to just Squeee a little bit more? I can't really believe this is happening, it seemed like we'd never win a baybee and TTCing so very nearly broke us.I feel ludicrously lucky. Yay for all of us.

Squee all you like Winks, it's farking fantastic news

SQUEE for the entire pregnancy if you like Winks! It's so luffly to see this thread so active :) dusty in here, innit?!

Allergies faif, we've all got terrible allergies :) It's brilliant seeing this fred so busy, it used to be a bit of a ghost town.

Night everyone.

It is so lovely to see so many people on here :)

Congrats Winks :)

Hooray, winks! Excellent news

HOTB says thank you for birthday wishes :)

Driz, it's not that my ILs do bad presents, but they are extremely generous. The number and monetary value of the presents they give is vastly more than my family do even for landmark birthdays, so it always makes me feel uncomfortable (and a little inadequate). I have a horrible feeling that they will be even more over the top for grandchildren, and I'm not comfortable with the thought even now. Not least because they will outstrip my parents and HOTB and I... Not that it's a competition, and I'm very grateful for their generosity, but it feels awkward. I suppose I should be pleased that I have so few things to complain about really though, but still can't help but feel and at present times...

Winks, we told my nephews and niece, who is the Apple of SB's eye and knows and loves it, this weekend. Her brothers were not too bothered, but when SB asked whether she liked our news, we got a NO from the bottom of her heart... It was actually quite funny!

YAY for measuring spot on and for sqeeing all you want!

That is a difficult one, draf. Can you discuss it with HOTB and maybe they can come up with a plan. Perhaps saving for uni or something?