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?

OMG I need this for my baby. Please talk me out of it quick!

It will take up all the space in your house. It is pretty and possibly quite a nice bed, but I have doubts as to any superiority being enough to outweigh the crazy amount of space it will take up. Good enough argument?

You know that if you buy it, the child will refuse point blank to sleep in it! They do look cute though but surely you can only use them for a very Short time?

Ah yes, you also have a small flat, non? So too big!

Phew, yes, the space argument is the most compelling. HWCA just said 'Get it if you really want it.' Useless!

Glad to be of service

We're not having a Moses basket, bugs - we have a swinging crib in the family (it's something of an heirloom) so will use that.

Pregnancy is the world's cruellest hangover, bugs as you don't even get to get hammered first! I felt exactly the same in the early weeks. I'm starting to feel slightly better in the last couple of days (after passing the 14 week mark).

I secretly love the hammocks too winks...

Bugs, I had an NCT bednest delivered today - it's a crib that attaches to your bed and can have the side down. Costs about £300 new, but I've rented for 6 months for £90. I'll let you know how I get on withit.

Yeah.. He's looking out for you, but he needs to realised that a short period of eating crap is of no consequence, and is near essential in the first trimester. And I promise you will only get more intolerant and unreasonable as time goes on. Better he realises that now...

Can I recommend that everyone gets their other half this book. I bought it for HWHNN and he treats it like his bible I'm sure there's stuff in it about handling women with mad hormonal rages

He'll learn Bugs, and if he is daft enough to do that you can repay him by handing him a screaming baby the next morning

Might be worth you investigating some couples antenatal/baby care classes a bit further down the line, it might help him understand a bit more.

Bugs, the rage is normal. As is taking a while to get his head round the hard work and joy a baby will be. Give it time and eat crisps! I just polished off all the chocolate I could find and now feel sick. Lembie has been squashing my stomach all day.

Bugs,try to cut him a itty bit of slack, I expect these weeks are also a Hard time for him to get through and he isn't ready to think about the possibility of a real baby yet. There's time enough to worry about the newborn stage when you are in the third trimester.
The old wetting the baby's head thing goes back to the time that women got to spend a whole week in the hospital after a birth. P!entry of time then for a man to go to the pub in between visiting time. These days you are home much sooner and the idea of going out would be laughable. I am sure Mr k planned on wetting the baby's head but he never actually did it!

The NCT class I went to with a friend had quite a lot of focus on what life with a newborn would be like, targeting the partners mostly. That might help.

Having said that whenever we got a bit of babysitting, we never did the sensible thing and slept, we did invariably get shitfaced.
Am in de Nile about having to do those early months all over again. It is so nice now he sleeps through!

bugs, mine are massive and sagging.

I was always a pert C cup. Now I'm spilling out of an F cup. It's not good. I am easily the least sexy I have been in my adult life, and getting less and less so by the day.