Summer holidays are over, the PESH are bringing their bumps and baybees back to school

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Pack your giant pants in your satchel and maternity pads in your pencil case, it's the antenatal thread 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
draf - pink calf on 1st July 2014
winks - a pink one dragged out kicking and screaming on 4th July 2014
euro - a pink one in a hurry to see the world, born on 17th July 2014
dor - a pink one born at speed on 28th July 2014
ginge - completing the ESH Summer of Pink on 23rd August 2014

PESH
Buggerlugs - Buglet due 20th October
Fankle - ESHlet expected 4th January
Cunty - Minichops expected 7th February

Remind me, why are you going for induction?

sinks please do carry on posting here. There might be the odd unmumsnetty hug, but we all know and "get" one another. I'm sorry to hear that GHJ is still struggling. It's early days though, and he is dealing with a lot physically and emotionally. Time does marvellous things in terms of healing, so I am sure that things will get better day by day.

draf but of course.

bugs so many things about pregnancy are not fun, but you don't have long to go now. And you look fab. Don't worry about the post-pg weightloss. My view is that if you prioritise it, you will lose it. I'm 8 weeks pp, and a stone over my pre-preg weight. The rest (another stone and a half) came off without me doing anything at all, and remember I only had a 3lb baby and a small placenta, so not much of it was down to that. It somehow just melted away in the first 2-3 weeks. I'm ok with the last stone coming off slowly. I started going for brisk walks last week once I was signed off by the consultant to exercise after my CS and am going to ramp up to more exercise soon. My goal is to be back in my tailored work stuff when I go back in the New Year. Until then I'm going to keep stuffing the cake so loads of calories make their way through to centime, and just try to tone up what is there through exercise.

Echoing the others about the weight. Granted I was fat to start with, but I'm back in my pre-pregnancy jeans comfortably now and I've been eating like a pig :) I've just started weight watchers now to start shifting the last of it (and MiniWink is only 10 weeks) and have really only been fit for long walks the last 2 weeks so I'm hoping to shift about a stone and a half by Christmas.

I haven't woken feeling refreshed since stimming. The trigger shot hcg always gives me insomnia and it only got worse since then!

Ginge it seems like we have followed almost identical patterns weight-wise. How are you feeling?

I'm not too bad. Healing nicely and just about getting over the birth now. How are you recovering from the c-section?

Glad to hear it. I'm healing pretty well. The scar is neat and the pain from the internal stitches is fading. I can't bear to touch the scar though. It feels really odd.

For those of you struggling with sleep, I've recently been drinking this tea and am certainly feeling more rested when I wake up in the mornings. I'm not sure about it's use with breastfeeding/ pregnancy though, but I feel it's been helping me.

Bugs can you get a Drs appointment for your boil? Pregnant ladies/women who have recently given birth are supposed to be treated as high priority so you should be able to ask for a same day appointment.

I get mine in Tesco and I think Holland And Barrett sell them too. For me the nighttime tea doesn't work immediately, it takes a few days to build up in the system, IFYSWIM.

Poor you Bugs. Can't say I'm looking forward to the last few weeks myself but it means you are that much closer to meeting buglet.

My left nipple leaked in the night! I woke up to a wet stain on my top which had gone crusty . Isn't this a bit early at 24 weeks? I took my bra out of the washing basket to have a look at the cups and yep, it was in there too! What to do hags??

bugs despite the whole newborn screaming for attention thing I honestly slept better after I had Faithlet! I loved lying back on my right side! You're so close now. Just keep focusing on the baby coming.

Sinks I'm thinking of you. I agree you should off load here because we know you, the ins and outs, better than Non-MNetty hugging folks. Let us know if there's anything practical we can do.

frank am I supposed to put the tea in c's bottle to stop the little terror waking me up every hour?

fankle I didn't leak at all before birth, but lots of my August AN group did, so it seems it is very common. Now, however, I am like a dripping tap...

I didn't leak either, but if E pulls off due to my overactive let down she gets sprayed in the face by my boob fountain. Almost every time.

Worth a try euro

I didn't leak whilst pregnant, though I did manage to get a bit if colostrum out by giving my boobs a squeeze in the shower. After the birth was a different matter, I leaked all the time. It was more than a bit gross at times, nipples dripping while I tried to dry myself after a shower, soaking through countless breast pads every day.

I woke The Mister up the other day when The Little Miss pulled off the boob and he was showered in warm boob juice. Lovely.

I have to have a bra ready with pads already in place for after a shower or I cover my clean self in sticky milk. In the first weeks after the birth I also had knickers with a maternity pad lined up and had to race to get it all on before I leaked everywhere. Post partum life is pretty grim.

Hey all! I've been AWOL for AGES. Hope bumps and baybees are all well. Will have a scroll back and a catch up as best as poss

Congrats for baybees born in my absence...euro I think on last lurk you had just laid so glad to hear all is well
Sinks I'm so sorry to hear of your shitty shitty shitty news

Grrrr. My friend has a new baby who hasn't regained her birthweight, and bf'ing is really painful. Her doctor had diagnosed her baby's tongue tie but told her they don't snip them and it wasn't even a problem!