We may have been Bitter, but we’re no longer Barren! Get your *PESH* in here! All ready for the BESH clusterdiff of 2015 year of the *CuntCushion* (with added tea tree for those sore fanjo moments)!

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BESH Graduates having a moan about the lack of Gin whilst actually being over the fucking moon to finally have a reason to not be able to drink it! Anything goes, especially asking the wiser CRESH for their sage advice on the horrors and amazement to come when we get the the biggest WIN in history! Bring your baybees here!

Hurrah! Congratulations fab. Lovely names. X

Squee! New baybee! Congratulations fab. Sounds like it was eventful but I'm glad he's here safely. Can't wait to see photos.

Woohoo!!! So happy for you all!!

Congratulations Fablets mummy!! I'm thrilled that you are so in love. Lots of very un-esh like flowers to you

Hurrah for fablet. He's one scrummy mister :)

and no, the sand is nice and comfortable, my head is staying down here for the foreseeable future

Hey hags. fab, how are you settling in? Hope it's going well!

30 week scan today. Badblet still breech. Frank breech as well, which accounts for the weird reaching movement into my right side - her leg, apparently. Going to try acupuncture and some today positions at 34 weeks to see if it helps.

Mat leave forms submitted and approved. Can't wait - honestly could not care less about work at the moment...

Blimey Bad and Fizz - you're ticking along nicely aren't you - not long to go now! Definitely get on to that woo needles person for turning your naughty breech baby.

I've ended up with an infection in my csection wound so am on more drucks. Joy. Just had another blood test and hopefully by the end of the week we'll find out if my iron transfusion actually worked and I'm on the road to recovery. I've felt like a sack of shit since labour so here's hoping that kicks in soon. Thankfully TWH has extended his pat leave to the end of the week which will make life easier.

That said I'm totes in love with my little man. He's so swoony! And we've managed a work around his inability to sleep in the bednest so I've been able to get some night sleep in.

Sorry you're feeling shitty, fab, but good to hear that the wee one is doing well. Hopefully drucks and plenty of rest will see you right.

bad I'm kinda envious that you have a scan at 30 weeks. It's been ages since I had one! Here the standard is 12 and 20 weeks and that's yer lot. I will have one at 34 weeks but only because of low Papp-a. Is frank breech where the baby is lying horizontally? Plenty of time to turn, no? My antenatal yoga lady swears by spending much time on hands and knees, if that helps. Easy to say but less easy if, like mine, your knees suddenly feel like they belong to an 80 year old.

I am feeling about as lively as a dishcloth at the moment due to anaemia. Iron supplements start tomorrow so hopefully will feel less deathly then. Midwife appt last week, and Mode of Birth clinic next week. My attempt to be factual and calm with the midwife failed after, oooh, about 20 seconds so we shall see how we go next week. Ho hum.

drizz and any lurking PESH - how the blardy hell are you?

fab, hope your infection is clearing up. How annoying. How's life with himself? It's funny, I can't even think about the fact that a new human that we are solely responsible for keeping alive and happy will be here soon.

fizz, Frank is legs extended, up near her head. It's a bit uncomfortable for me, as she often stretches a leg down into my side, which is both painful and bizarre looking. She has very long legs (thanks Mr Badb), so it's a little harder for her to turn as a result. But woo needles lady is lined up. I only have a scan at 30 weeks because I'm paying to see my consultant privately. I have a scan at every visit, currently monthly. If I wasn't paying, I'd only have a scan at 12 and 20 as well. Some parts of the country don't even do the 20 week scan as standard, which is shocking.

Mr Badb and I are off on a jolly this weekend. I shouldn't really be taking time off work, as I'm insanely busy, but hey ho. Last jolly pre-Badblet

How was your jolly Bad? Did you have a cracking time?

I'm feeling much more human this week thankfully and have finally been able to reduce my painkillers which is great. TWH went back to work so I made sure I had visitors and considered it a win if I managed to get myself up, washed and fed before Fablet woke up. It's bloody exhausting though and some days I've fallen into
Bed at 7:30. A necessary evil in order to maintain the level of feeding the little sir needs. And my god, the fast quantity of poo. He's such a scrummy little thing though and is already looking intently and everyone who holds him.

Hi fab. Yep, we had a great jolly. The weather was dreadful but we just stayed put in the hotel and swam and ate. It was lovely.

The little fella sounds like he's settling right in! Lovely. It's so exciting. A whole new person, amazing.

We have now assembled the pram and purchased a cot. Still no sign of a turn happening. Being head butted in the ribs regularly. I've only one more week of teaching!! Sure, I'll have tonnes of marking to do before Christmas, but no. more. teaching till September. Whoop!

Anyone still here? I am failing to achieve so spending too much time on MN!

Hello driz, I'm still here! Work has gone nuts this autumn after a normal-ish summer, and now I've got handover panic too, so haven't been mnetting much. I finish at Christmas and am both relieved at the thought and apprehensive about what will happen (or not happen) in my absence.

Fun diffment symptoms this week include nosebleeds all the bloody (har har) time leading to lack of sleep, and legs like tree trunks. Any tips for swollen ankles? And a swollen fanjo? I am also making some progress on the how-to-give-birth front. My hospital won't grant a c-section but will refer me to one who will, so I effectively have to ring round every hospital in an hours radius to see what their policy on elcs is. Which sounds fine in theory though I totally bottled it today...

How are you other hags? Driz how far along are you now - must be in 12 week scan territory?

Keep those legs up whenever possible Fizz and that should help you. Swollen fanjo I'm afraid there not much you can do about that one apart from look forward to post birth times!
I'm pretty sure we've just come out the other side of Fablet's first leap. He's been crotchety and clingy for the past week or so and sleep has been a real challenge but last night he fed well, went to sleep well and has let me venture more than a foot away from him without screaming blue murder. This is brilliant!! He's currently having milk dreams and looking like butter wouldn't melt. It's totally worth it for those dreamy times

Driz, yes when is 12 week scannage??

Merry 1st December Hags! It's very quiet around these parts these days. ....

Fizz I had the same work stress, no one to hand over to and I basically disappeared overnight just to add to the pressure. I think they're surviving but I feel for the girl they got to stand in as she was new to the organisation, not just the job.

Hi Lemon! How are you getting on?

Glad you enjoyed your break bad...I don't think a weekend away would be the same after baby arrives as they'll either be with you or we'd be worrying about them wherever they were.

I am feeling insanely Christmas-y this year, our first in 7 where I'll be crying happy tears, nor despair at it not being the way we planned it. Trying not to go too bonkers on presents for the Lil man but it's very hard! We are also in discussions about when he moves into his own room. He's become a bit of a light sleeper and I shuffle a lot so I wake him then he wakes me. However, I just don't feel ready for that move, not yet :/ I am knackered though as once he wakes at 3am for his dummy I tend not to go back to sleep and it's starting to take its toll. I find it hard to nap in the day too so all in all I feel like I'm in zombie mode!

Any other Besh/Pesh lurking?

Hurrah for a good Christmas feeling, Nige! Buying stuff is so much fun (and it gets better :) when they actually pick it up and play with it again and again!)

Slowly removing my head from the sand, as this one makes it presence known already, which is nice (and odd at 16 weeks - but quite normal with seconds according to the midwife). We're in for a crazy Christmas with four kids - mostly not ours - staying for much of the week between Christmas and NYE. I have to admit, I am not really looking forward to that...

How are the PESH ready to drop? And how are the newly CRESHed?

Hello, hello. It's December, y'all. Madness. Good to see you emerge from the sand, lemondriz - 16 weeks, wow. Time flies. How are you feeling? How are you doing, fizz? How's the little fella, fab? First Christmas with your little fella, nige? So exciting. Hope the sleep thing settles down. Sleep deprivation is the worst.

Well, I'm nearly 34 weeks, hags. What the hell? Badblet appears to be still stubbornly breech, and just loves sticking her (big) head into my ribs, and scraping her (long) leg along my side. Ouch. I have a scan on Monday, but I'm pretty sure there's been no change. My consultant reckons I may have a wonky uterus, which would not be surprising. I also have woo needles booked for Monday, and that might help with the turning. Part of me is a bit unsure about trying to get her to turn - sort of thinking, let her do what she wants to do, just in case. But I think the needles can't do any harm. I wouldn't do the ECV, but consultant won't do it anyway because she's frank breech and they are least likely to turn via ECV apparently.

I'm just had my last class till SEPTEMBER. I can't tell you how happy this makes me. Now, tonnes of admin and marking to do before Christmas, but that's manageable.

Hello hags. Lawks, time has run away recently. 35 and a bit weeks! Much time in the last few weeks has been taken up with trying and failing to get over my fear of giving birth. At one point I thought it might be possible, but having cried at two midwives, three consultants and a perinatal psychiatrist we have all agreed that it would be better to have an ELCS. Hurrah! I feel like a weight has been lifted. Just wish it could have been agreed sooner. Don't have a date yet but likely to be at 39 weeks. Ironically minifizz is still transverse so elcs might have been inevitable any way...

How's everyone else? Have you finished work for Christmas or plugging on to the bitter end?

Hallooooo?

Hello! Haven't been on the boards for a bit so spoke for lack of chat and Happy New Year to all!

Hey fizz and bad you're nearly there! Fizz is your ELCS booked in? They are supposed to be lovely calm experiences so that should help with your fear. Do try some hypnobirthing classes too if you can as that will also help with keeping you nice and calm.

Bad, have you managed to turn that stubborn baby yet?

Happy new year, fab! How are you all getting on?

I'm hugely relieved about the c section and beginning to get excited about it! Hopefully will get the date when I see the consultant on Tuesday. Hope so anyway, as I'll be 38 weeks by then!

Happy New Year, hags! Hope you all had a lovely Christmas. Mine was pretty quiet.

No sign of Badblet turning, so...I'm booked in for a section on Thursday. Now I'm not sure I'm quite ready...

Yikes how exciting! Did Badblet not move at all then??

No movement at all, she's still head and legs up. I'm so nervous. I can't actually imagine having a baby. I don't know what I've been doing for the last 38 weeks.

It's very weird when you've been trying for so long. It stays weird for a while too so don't be surprised. Just make sure you're organised for home life post c section and when your partner returns to work as it's pretty challenging no lifting anything heavier than your baby.

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