The PESH Deli - The drinks might be virginal, but that's about all...

[CurlyCasper]

Come in, come in to the new haven for diffed BESHies. I think a group effort is needed here (and I'm being a lazy preggo), so please add to the deli whatever you crave/love/can stomach.

Nominations are also open for sexy fathers we can hijack to serve our mouldy cheese and cured ham

And the best mocktail recipe wins...well, bugger all to be honest

Curly We'll raise her as a boy, she'll understand when we break the news at her 18th. What could go wrong?

Skater 8pm? That's just showing off!

ski

Ok, so this fluttering thing, it seems to be happening when I type. Maybe my child is going to be a literary genuis? Or just addicted to social networking like its mother?

Then again, it could be pissed off with the keyboard banging and wanting some peace.

Or, I might need a big fart. But this did feel different...

skater see, you need to do what I did and give up the social life long before conception. Then noone bats an eyelid. Keep partying - or tell them.

Are any of the newer PESHes planning early scans? Or are you waiting till 12 weeks?

Ooh. I'd love an earlier scan - assume you have to pay for it though?

Have booked expensive "last holiday before baby" holiday and credit card is hurting.

yes, you have to pay (unless it's because you've had a panic and your at the EPU). Mine was £75. well worth it though!

Going anywhere nice on your hols skates?

Curly That's very exciting! Have you tried poking it? rots said she felt movement I think when she poked it.

skater I didn't have an early scan and my regular one came at 10 weeks so I didn't have to wait that long. Truth be told I felt quite confident that everything was fine because I felt so damned rough!

Where are you going on your hols? Clubbing in Hat Rin? Hiking to Macchu Piccu? Overland safari through somewhere 1000 miles away from a hospital? Naice hotel in the lakes?

Rastus moves when Hom pokes it

Well we went to the babydump place which is like some sort of cult. It's full of shifty looking couples not making eye contact with anyone else. You can hear gasps of horror as people read the prices. The only thing we absolutely agreed on was that there was a lot of "guilt" stuff being sold. I think we've found the pram/combo we like but will go back at a later date.

There was only ONE straight moses basket in the entire place and it was 240 euros. [choke]

I did manage to buy myself a fucking enormous bra and 3 new pairs of Simon Cowell pants. Jailbait laughed at the bra and thought it way too big - what little they know.

Your baybee is a rastafarian cunty? This doesn't surprise me tbh - I know you're a fan of diversity.

lol, not to my knowledge, and I think I'd remember... no,all unborn babies in our family are called Rastus - not sure why, is a generic foetus name

cunty - Because they are rat babies?

ski Still cannot believe that place is called Babydump. In how many ways is that inappropriate branding? (Where you dump unwanted babies? What a baby does in its nappy? etc)

Funny you should say that ponymum because we were looking at carseats and for some reason there were some parked on the ground you had to walk around... with inhabitants in them?

ski have tried baiting the child, but it flutters of its own accord. cunty glad Hom can get involved now - bet that got a better reaction that your text last week!

Been a bit sore and miserable today so amused myself while lying in bed by concentrating on the flutters (so hard that I just fell asleep for an hour)

I need some advice please ladies. How advisable would it be to have a long weekend, 3 1/2 hours flight away, staying in a hotel (for a wedding), when baby is six weeks old (and that's if it comes by EDD)?

Would it be really stupid and knackering? Especially as we want to visit Scotland (and maybe Leeds for our meet-up) during the same 12-day period?

Personally I wouldn't but then I'm bone idle. If you generally have bags of expendable energy you could probably make the best of it!

Also I think it would depend on what sort of a routine you were in, if at all. For me I'm not sure I would want to stray too far away (unless to my mum's which is different) until I had got to grips with what was going on and felt like things were settling down.

All for an easy life me

Curly On its own I'd give it a whirl, but I think that's an awful lot to do in 12 days, over 24 days maybe.

Speaking of controversy, I've just phoned social services and asked for Mylene Klass's kids to be taken away from her as she said she couldn't promise she wouldn't machete to death someone who came in her house. I've always found her music replusive and now she's admitted to being a murderer.

I am soooooo bored. Seriously, what do people without horses do on a sunday?

Sweep and mop the kitchen floor, put washing on, take done washing upstairs and hang on clothes horse, awaiting Hom to ready himself for a trip to B&Q to buy a shower screen, a sheet of perspex nd a new mop head. That's what

curly An expedition to the shops was a scary proposition for me at 6 weeks old last time. But you know, some woman rode around Aintree 12 days after haaving her baby or something, so obv I am a total wimp. I would say, be prepared to not get cross when you go to all that trouble to get to the wedding then end up spending the entire reception in your hotel room cluster feeding a screaming baby.

God I am pessimistic, aren't I? Ignore me - I think I am just trying to condition myself to expect a couple of months of upside down life, not knowing what is day or night, etc (in the hope that it won't actually be that bad when it happens).

ski Sleep in because MrP snored for most of the night (not his fault, he has nasty sinus cold atm), watch tennis, eat croissants, read stories to the foal, order maternity jeans, make cheese and carrot sandwiches and feed the foal, plan meals for next week, read Observer Food Monthly, browse pony porn websites, go for a walk when the foal wakes up.

casps I thnk that sounds a bit much for 6 weeks tbh - especially as it could be only 4 weeks?

We have a wedding dahn sarf on 15th Aug - I'm guessing that'll be a no (due date currently 24th Aug).

Figured it out in the end - went out for lunch and bought a couple of baby things. Teddy bear and teddy thingy which hangs from car seat. So no real purchases. As you were.

Snooze on the couch now I think.

Thanks all - thought that might be the response. Gutted cause the people involved made such an effort to get to my wedding, but I'm sure they'll understand. It would be a family thing, so perhaps best not to expose my new baby to mass attention from aunties and cousins

Panic on realising I've slept till 9am and dog has been alone since 10.30pm , breakfast, plan to do housework, get told by SFF that he'll do it tomorrow and I should relax, watch last night's SYTYCD, eat. Watch more trash. Shower. Watch a film. Prepare two parcels to be posted tomorrow, sit on laptop catching up on PESH action. Wish for the new, unexpected snow, to fuck the fuck off.

That's been my lard-arse Sunday

GAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH I WANNA BE IN SCHLADMING!!! LOOK AT THAT CUNTING SNOW WITH MY NAME ON IT!!!!

cas my sis dragged herself to a wedding 5 weeks after my niece was born. she looked fine on the photos - but i will ask her if it was complete madness!!

and i vote London for the besh/pesh meet up.

is easier for me.

not that i have any aversion to t'Leeds. was me old uni stomping ground

i bought carrycots and carseats this weekend. romping ahead with the tick list!

although with all the double stuff the flat is starting to look like noahs ark now

Hi cheggs well done on the purchases. I was going to ask you, where did you buy your Twinner twist? I had another look at the Phil & Ted yesterday and still not 100% happy, so I want to look at some other double options but can't find anywhere that sells that one you mentioned. Is there a website?

cheggers I haz been looking a lot at baby stuff this weekend and am now fully in denial. Be thankful you're not having triplets, I could only see one triplet buggy. 1450 euros.

cunty I vote we ditch the men next january and hit up british columbia. Are you in?

Curly I'd skip the wedding with a 6 week old.

Final fling as non-parents is planned for the Caribbean. Though now panicking as realise we have to sell thw spare bed, buy a crib, buy a sofa bed for guests, buy nappies etc.

Have decided to go with private scan before telling the folks... gagging to tell my sisters but am going to give it another couple of weeks. Cant be too careful at my age!

Also, if I have a baby girl NO WAY am I dressing her in pink. She will get a set of dungarees and a toy science kit on her first birthday.

www.pinkstinks.co.uk/

oh skater you have ages yet. enjoy your caribbean blow out!

i can't fly without eye bleeding amounts of red wine and valium so we didn't get to have that pleasure.

huzzah for the science kits for girls!! my chemistry set was the best thing i ever had as a kid

ski i only got snapped out of denial after reading about twinnies arriving as early as 24 weeks. which would've been, well, a few weeks ago. what you are witnessing now is freaked out panic buying

hope they stay put. i am not ready! mentally or otherwise.

take me to BC with ya too!!! although i'll be on a board as well. don't know whether you'll lower yourself to play out with us plebs

pone i don't think it's for sale in UK but there was one place in Ireland that sell it www.meandmybaby.ie. you could try there. although looks a bit more expensive.