It's all balls, bicycles, and babies for the PESH!

[maamalady]

Antenatal fred 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
Frankel - large pink one arrived 10th March 2014
Merks - pink one landed safe and sound 21st March 2014
Sinky - Stubborn blue one arrived 26th March 2014
Driz - blue one arrived 12th June 2014
Kat - pink one arrived 21st June 2014

PESH

Draf - Expecting a late pink one EDD 19th June
Winks - EDD 26th June
Ginger - Miniginger due 13th August
Dor - A very special pink one expected 18th August
Euro - eager Centime expected to arrive a lot sooner than 28th August
Buggerlugs - Buglet due 20th October
Fankle - ESHlet expected 4th January
Cunty - Minichops expected 7th February

So the June cluster is halfway through laying, and then we're on to the July/August batch! Are we even going to have time for Wimbledon and Le Tour and the World Cup in all this excitement?!

Hurrah for more ESHlets!

Eliza Gillian Mary - born at 10.13am. My waters went at about 8am and they were still going as she was born. So much fluid. It was unbelievable!!

Got to hospital with a whole hour to spare this time! Had paracetamol and gas and air. A few stitches but hopefully not too bad.

Eliza has quite blue hands and feet and the upper park of her face (?bruising?) but is ok. Had a little feed after delivery but isn't so keen at the mo.

I am slightly in shock. Apart from Dad and sister being away the timing is good. Edward is at the childminder all day.

Congrats dor!

Looks like it might be me to carry on the PESH tradition of being late

Although I'm still 2 weeks off D-day as it is!

Congrats dor! I'm glad the timing worked out ok, although it is a shame that your dad and sister are away. They will have lovely snuggles to come back to!

I'm just back from the hospital. We had another go at bfing (not interested at all this time, but we'll try again later), and KFZK did some Daddy Roo care and she looked so sweet cuddled up against his hairy chest. :) The driving was absolutely fine. It was more comfortable to drive our car with good suspension than to be bounced around in some of the crappy mini cabs we have been in lately!

Hooray dor, congratulations! (And score one for your instincts, you did think it would be this week). Gorgeous name for a gorgeous girl.

Hooray for the driving and KangaDad euro :)

Congrats dor. Gorgeous name too xxx

Love the name choice Dor, it's one of our options for E's nickname so I heartily approve

Congratulations dor!

Excellent news, euro, glad you don't have to rely on taxis any more :)

This hospital is roasting!!!

Wonderful that you can drive ok euro.

Congratulations Dor! Doesn't surprise me that you had a speedy labour. Hope you're not too sore.

bugs I agree - help is useful but I couldn't be apart from Faithlet in the early weeks. She would cry even when I had a 10 minute bath! If you go, lay down ground rules beforehand!

Congratulations Dor, that's wonderful news!

Also great news that you're able to drive now Euro and that Centime is gaining weight. I hope they can take the cannula out soon so she'll be more comfortable.

I'm relieved I've made it to 12 weeks! Scan on Thursday but feeling more excited than nervous now. I'm starting to get quite an impressive little bump already, leading to lots of "ooh - twins" type comments .

Hope you managed to get some rest Dor, the maternity wards are always about 10 degrees hotter than everywhere else!

Thursday will be here before you know it cunty, congrats on 12 weeks!

I had a rotten night's sleep last night, E had me out of bed so many times I lost count. Going to be a long day today, but hope I might fit a nap in at some point.

Thanks for the toe hold Bugs - Hope you get some answers at your scan later.

I can't say I'm not a bit nervous, and I'm trying to convince myself that the crampy pains I'm having this morning are just due to everything stretching. Had kinda foolishly hoped that the menkul might have eased off a bit by now...

Is it true that random strangers rush up to touch the bumps of preggo ladies? Other than wearing a printed t-shirt and facial expression clearly saying 'fuck off,' is there an effective way to deter them?

12 weeks is exciting, cunty! Cramps are pretty normal as everything grows and stretches, so try not to worry (easier said than done).

No strangers ever touched my bump or even looked like they might. A few people made conversation about it, offered me seats etc, but on the whole my pregnancy was unremarked upon. I did get complimented for breastfeeding in starbucks at the weekend, though, which was nice but bizarre When we took 6-day old calf to the Tour we stopped in a cafe before coming home and a lady gave her £1, which was again lovely but very odd.

I hated the "shame it's not twins" comments, they just reminded me that I'd had two embryos transferred but had just a singleton pregnancy :(

Good luck with the scan, bugs!

Crap night here too, Frank, the calf didn't seem to know what she wanted. Sleeping on my lap now and I'm scared to move in case I wake her... HOTB has a long work day too so left early and won't be back until later than usual either, so it's feeling like a long slog already, arrgh.

Exactly, bugs, "gold for girls", she said. We're going to get the calf a premium bond with it :) The woman was probably in her late forties/early fifties, though, so hardly elderly. I think she was mostly just very kind! How awful for your grandma :( My gran had several miscarriages between having my mum and my aunt, it doesn't bear thinking about. Stillbirth is a special kind of hell, I can't imagine how dreadful it must feel, especially if the baby is taken from you.

Huge congrats Dor what a lovely name you've chosen. And what a speedy birth- well done you!

Cunty hurrah for reaching 12 weeks! Toe hold for Thursday. I was so nervous the day of my scan (luckily it was before 9am so didn't have too long to wait) I couldn't look until MG smiled and I knew it was ok. It's so nice to feel the opposite of a bad news scan it's quite inexplicable. We were just so very happy and smiley for days afterwards. I have to say, I have really noticed a huge difference in our happiness levels these past few months. Not surprising really but we had just become so bogged down and negative by infertility that most days were a battle. We were living under a black cloud for over 2 years. I hate that we have had to go through that but maybe it's made us stronger. And we are so very lucky to get a natural bfp. But I know that MG is absolutely 100% there for me in bad times. Now let the good times commence!

Euro so pleased you can drive again and avoid the expensive bumpy Minicab rides. And glad you are healing nicely and centime is getting stronger each day.

Re the kindness of old ladies, my mum is bringing me a blanket that a woman from her church has knitted for baby Fanklet! Already!! I'm only 17 weeks. It's so kind...but I'm also a bit 'isn't that tempting fate'? I'm reluctant to even think about all the necessary purchases. I reckon I'll feel differently once in 3rd trimester.

In other news, I have noticed today that I can rest a mug of tea on my wee bump

Excellent news Bugs! About the scan and about the 'old' you being back :-)