With disbelief and minimal drama, the PESH are ambling into springtime diffedness!

[SinkyMalinks]

Antenatal fred fun for BESH graduates

CRESH

Faith - pinky faithlet arrived 14th April 2013
Pinkr - suitably pinky one arrived 25th August 2013
Jethro - blue one arrived 23rd September 2013
Noks - a surprisingly breechy pink one arrived 12th January 2014

PESH

Frankel - EDD 4th March
Sinky - EDD 18th March
Merks - EDD 21st March
Driz - EDD 7th June
Draf - EDD 19th June
Kat - EDD 20th June
Winks - EDD 26th June
Dor - EDD 18th August
Ginger - 20th August
Euro - 28th August

Pleasantly busy here, isn't it?

Unfortunately very few shops seem to stock their maternity wear in store, the majority is online only.

Mamas and Papas have some quite nice stuff too. I bought a pair of underbump trousers from them and had to give them up as a bad job, I was terrified they would fall down. Love the jeans I got there though.

Yeah. Jojo, if you have a shop locally seems good. M&p, I have 3 stores near me, 2 massive, but the mat wear instore is dismal. Small range, mainly sale (therefore out of season). Mothercare, a little better, but I have a massive, retail park effort near me, so might not be representative.

I think you might need to embrace Internet shopping euro..

I have a 15% off code with free delivery and returns for IO if you want it? It may be freely available, but I got it posted

Agree with winks though, m&p jeans have been the best I've found. Unless you want the uber skinny IO ones which I lust over, but can't justify and, more importantly, wouldn't suit my pear shape even prior to preggo lardiness.

I wish I'd bothered getting decent mat wear at the start. I like clothes, and yet I've spent the last 5-6 months in a combination of leggings, meh jeans, Lycra t-shirts and cardigans.

I want to be Gwen stefani.

I'm bored. I will be running off the lard ASAP (cross fit here I come!). My inordinately large arse will not know what's hit it.

In the mean while, promise me you'll buy some lovely mat wear euro? And anyone else with more than a few weeks to go. For me. And my arse.

I have nice jeans, and a decent pair of work trousers, but I could do with a dress or two and a couple of tops, so I promise I'll shop come payday. Just for you sinks :)

I have dropped my parents at the airport, and the friend I was supposed to meet for dinner has cancelled on me. I am sitting on my sofa listening only to the sound of the washing machine, with nothing to do all evening except strip the bedding. After the busy few days I've had, this is the definition of bliss.

I haven't bought anything nice yet, but I have sisters-who-ve-been-diffed before. So I have a ridiculously large mat wardrobe. I invested in some leggings, some jeans that fitted early on (and now fall down, as are below bump and my hips seem to have shrunk) and two fresh tops, and two bras. I want some more nice stuff, but want to wait til it's spring/summer clothes. Go, euro, buy for all of us.

We had a baby-purchase over the weekend . SB bought a book about babies first year clearly we need that more than all the essentials that will be lacking til mat leave at this rate

Heh, sorry, sinks, but I am far, far from being a fashionista. My mat wear is restricted to the basics, I'm afraid. Although the jeans I bought in a fit of enthusiasm six weeks ago may well fit now. I shall have to test them again...

Good purchase, driz! I have a huge heap of baby books given/lent to me by a friend. I really should read them...

Also, ironing SEVEN pillowcases for one bed takes longer than you'd think! Ridiculous.

You iron pillowcases Draf?! I'm afraid I'm one of those slat terns that doesn't believe in ironing. If you get it straight out of the machine to dry and that fold/hang it neatly you can get away with not ironing most things

I've just done a stock take of the baby clothes we have and we are short on a few things, so I shall be hitting the shops tomorrow - still probably won't be buying the dead pony suit though Draf and Winks

Oh, I'm not a mad iron-everything person, by any stretch. But I have a very small house, limited space for drying, and no tumble dryer, so ironing gives them half a chance of being dry by bedtime! Come summer everything will be on the line and the iron won't see use unless it rains :)

Aww, poor neglected Turnip gets no dead pony suit :(

Ironing pillowcases?!?

My cleaner irons clothes (reluctantly) but I am not willing to pay her for an extra hour to iron bedding. It's a step too far. (And I'm obviously not willing to do it myself). She's off this week and it will be the first time in ages that I will have to do my own housework. I'll have to remember how the iron works...

They do other things in "dead pony" range too (scroll down page)

I almost ironed some bedding for my parents' visit. Then I remembered that the only thing I iron is work uniform shirts.

Wow frank! An entire Dead Pony selection! Amazing.

Ironing any other part of bedding (especially duvet covers) is madness, but I genuinely find it helps reduce total drying time required if I iron pillowcases. Given that at the minute I could only get into bed by climbing over HOTB's side as my side is taken up with two airers, radiator with airers on, dehumidifier, and pyjamas hanging from the curtain rail, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make! If/when we get a tumbler again, I will not bother.

Wow, so many dead ponies! It's slightly sinister that they're all tacked up but have no riders, too - I can only assume the rider is dead in a ditch and the pony is expiring in the adjoining field...

Do you have regular airers or heated ones draf? DSis swears by her heated one for drying things fast.

I finished too soon... I don't have any outside space to hang clothes etc so I will definitely be getting a heated one before the baby is born, so vests and nappies if I use disposables stand a chance of drying.

Just one tesco value one, nothing fancy! I have a thing that I can hang clothes in hangers on too, so that's okay for a bedsheet. The dehumidifier is brilliant though, as things dry faster and you don't end up with condensation everywhere. A heated airer sounds fancy!

This is it, apparently its amazing. I will get one soon I think.

I have just had delivered some Next maternity jeans. I wish I'd bothered to buy some new ones last time that didn't fall down all the time. Currently the over the bump bit goes up to my armpits!

You'll look like Simon Cowell Dor

Any other mat wear recommendations? I'll start with bottoms initially as I don't have enough in the way of a bump to fill tops, and it is doing up waistbands that I am struggling with.

I've lived in H&M over bump mat jeans despite being a serious clothes/jeans snob pre pregnancy. Comfy, stretchy, a few different colours and available in store to try on. Cheap enough to replace if/when you need to go up a size too