Easter is approaching, and the PESH are laying all over the place!

[maamalady]

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 - pink one arrived 12th January 2014

PESH

Frankel - EDD 4th March ANY TIME NOW
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

PESH-in-hiding
Bugs - EDD approx 21st October

I wear Bravado bras to bed. I had some proper sleep bras but just found my boobs kind of slipped out!

Ooo, is it Guess the Grid, dor? HOTB and me do that

Boobs slipping out is exactly what I was worrying about re sleeping in a bra - I napped in my underwear yesterday and was falling out of my normal bra so suspect the same would happen in a sleep bra. Crop tops sound like a good idea, sinks, but might be a PITA for night feeding? I'm a DD now, so not giant but definitely will be in need of something later on!

Oh yeah, totally useless for feeding. But invaluable during whilst a PESH (for me anyway!). The bravado bras are really soft, so would be comfy to sleep in. I have one, but I'm not sure how useful they'll be in the daytime - I'm currently a 32ff, and have medium (small is rec up to d cup I think) but the band is quite loose, and tbh, the cups only just big enough. And this is before baby's out (although my back has never gone up) and milk comes in. I suspect it'll not be supportive enough for daytime wear, so am loath to buy anymore, but think I'll need more than 1 bra!

With the Bravado bras I wear them on the tightest setting in the day and the loosest setting at night.

The Fantasy F1 over here is run as a charity event and several hundred people enter it. You have to choose 8 drivers and they are all given a cost - you get something like 80 million to fictionally spend. Then you get points for the place they come in the race and the one with the highest points wins!

It's quite fun and means that we are al much more interested. Last year The Mister came very close to winning the whole thing!

Oh I should say that I am a 40FF and you kind of get used to wearing bras that feel totally different to the ones you were wearing before you got pregnant/had a baby.

They aren't as tight I guess but much more comfortable!

Will be thinking of you Bugs.

Fingers crossed everything is fine, bugs. Try not to let worry keep you awake all night, if you can.

Yes hope you get some sleep tonight bugs. Huge massive luck for tomorrow.

Heh. I have had big knockers even before I got pregnant. It's not all great - horrendous backache being just one problem!

Good luck for tomorrow bugs. If all is fine are you going to stop menkulling for a bit?

Good luck today, bugs!

And you too, euro!!

Euro is your app today?

Yep, mw coming this morning. :) Can't wait to hear the heartbeat (and will go menkul and book an emergency scan if she can't find it).

Good luck today bugs. I'll be thinking of you.

I am ready to kill KFZK. He was supposed to book our holiday. Our last luxury break as a couple. We had it selected ages ago. He finally got around to it last night. It had gone up £1500 (!!!) since Friday, when I last checked it was still available. His procrastination drives me bonkers. I can't believe we are paying that much more and getting exactly the same holiday. Grrrrr. It's not like we wouldn't have other uses for that money. But so few holidays are available now when we want to go, we have bitten the bullet and paid it. (BTW, I couldn't go ahead and book as I used my readily available cash to pay for the mw - we agreed I would pay for that and he would pay for the holiday.)

Good luck bugs. Fingers crossed for a behaving baby and an easy to find heartbeat euro.

You have my sympathies with the procrastination. Not the same scale, but fannying around has lead us to have to pay an extra £300 for a hotel room in nov. It's a wedding, ghj's an usher, there are no feasible other hotel options (luxury estate, wilds of Scotland). We were always going to book, but not bothering on Friday led to the hike on Sunday. And then a bit of chatter about holding off for the price to drop again... Annnnndddd. Don't ask about the pre baby kitchen improvements. Or fixing our hot water supply...

Oh no euro! :( hope you hear a thumping heartbeat.

Good luck bugs. I hope this scan gives you the reassurance you need.

How are you feeling Sinky?

Love you differs!

Good luck bugs, really really hoping that today is good news for you!

I think those stretching and cramping movements are totally normal.

I still start feeling a bit mental in the lead up to scans etc. I think about all the what ifs, but all I have realised now is it makes me feel sick.

Hang in there. I am sure all will be fine and if it is then you must chill out a bit!

Bloody hell euro, 1500 extra quid! And I'm faffing about a 900 quid holiday at the end of September! Best you have an amazing time :) Good luck for today. What time is your appointment?

bugs I refused to buy anything for the baby until after 20 weeks, so if you buy now you'll be braver than me! Agreed that cramps are very normal.

sinks grrr to GHJ not pulling his finger out. He needs a kick up the arse. Take it there's no news on cervix watch? merks?

Appointment is at 10, but mw has called to say that she will be late as she has just been snatching a bit of sleep after attending a birth last night! That's fine - I'd rather that than reschedule as I have been fixated on this appointment for a while.

bugs I keep telling myself I will embrace it after hitting the next milestone, but I haven't yet! I walked through to the maternity wear at the back of Mothercare on Saturday refusing to let myself look at the teeny tiny clothes, etc. My joke about sending KFZK out with a long list when I am in labour might turn into reality!

I've had loads of weird stretching pains and twinges. The only ones that give me any cause for concern are the period type cramps that come in waves. I've only had those twice - early on in my 3 week bleed when it was at its heaviest, and last week when I had a mini-menkul about them! The latter was around the time my bump really popped, so I think it was just everything shifting around.

KFZK finally apologised this morning after I had a bit of a moan about his procrastination. Apparently, it is partly my fault because I remind him of things in the morning before work, or by sending an email when we are both at work, and he is incapable of retaining that information and I need to be telling him to do things in the evenings when he has time. FFS. He is 39 and has a responsible job. Surely he can hold on to a request until he is able to fulfil it. Twonk. Still, I need to put it behind me now and just think about the totes amazeballs holiday we have booked. sinks I'm sorry that you have a costly procrastinator too.

BTW, I fully accept that we are spending a ridiculous amount on a holiday (and have never spent this much before), but we are justifying it as our last sprog-free one and wanted to make it really special. Plus, due to more procrastination and the December IVF, we missed out on a late 2013 break and ended up staycationing, so we are combining the budget for that with what we would have spent on this year's holiday. But still didn't plan on spending quite this much...

KFZK sounds a lot like HWCA. Same ages, HWCA freaked out this morning as I tried to send him to the supermarket with the instruction 'veg to go in curry.' He can't walk round the bloody veg section and think yeah, that'll do. Ffs.

When do you go away euro? I feel like I haven't had a holiday in forever. Did you get any clothes at the weekend? I am considering popping into London today to get some tops but don't think I can be arsed.

God! don't apologise for spending as much as you want on a holiday Euro, you bloody deserve it!

You're sounding very sensible/level headed bugs. Don't worry about lack of symptoms. Not long to go. Let us know.

Cervix watch is borrrrrrrring. Can't really walk. Certainly can't walk more than a mile per hour or for any distance due to the bowling ball effect and my new found need to be within 10 steps of a loo at all times. So baby is low. Fully engaged. And still horribly uncomfortable due to, I guess, practice contractions. But no progress.

Arrrrrrrgh! I will not be repeating the curry test again though. Not so much for me, but I can't bear ghj's resultant wind again

Going for a walk today with a toddler. I think she might out pace me, even with the inevitable stone/floor fluff inspection every second step.

Did somebody say Maldives? its one if my favourite places on earth
The procrastination is exactly like VVTM, either I end up doing stuff myself or I have to nag like hell and remind him all the time which makes me feel like his mum grrr
Any sign of this midwife yet?

Wotcha Hags! Just swinging by to say good luck to both Euro and Bugs for today's appointments.

We're doing ok here, feeding is still a bit of a struggle but I'm hoping to get to a breastfeeding group this week to ask for advice and support.

My parents are arriving this afternoon for a 2 day visit, so fingers crossed everyone survives

Will pop by later to see how things have gone.

Love the name change Frank