The PESH deli - where the goal is to get a nice holiday/back in the saddle

[skihorse]

I haz made new fred.

at last pair of fitting jeans...

I say last fitting grumps, but these were the ones I bought at the beginning of xmas hols a size bigger than normal... and I carry my weight on my arse so I've always got tummy growth room - so it's not that dramatic!

I have also had no bleeding at all, not a whiff of implantation. But plenty of people do and apparently tehre is no such thing as a false positive, so if you've got a line, and just a bit of spotting you're most likely diffed.

Wow witty that's brilliant news! Congratulations!

I was one of the spotting crowd. ski was very supportive and lovely at the time, I remember well. It turned out to be an implantation bleed. I had it with my first (now 5 yrs) but no cramping then and this time it was with BIG periody cramps so I really thought it was game over... only then it stopped.

It also came back at about 7 or 8 weeks or so, the spotting that is, which was treated as a threatened MC but all was fine.

So no, bleeding isn't necessarily game over. Good luck and hope to see you here soon!

Morning laydeez!

Had my scan this morning - so far so good! Am actually only 11+2 now, but little one was very active (did not like being poked) and jumped around and waved. Quite surreal. Had nuchal test thingy - bloods sent off so will need to wait for results. And by then will be 12 hopefully.

Talking of food questions - I was at a work drinks thing last night and a bloke said to me - so do you find it hard not eating nuts?

I said 'not really, as I'm allowed to eat them....'

VAG excellent news! Is surprising how much they move isn't it! I really thought mine would be still but was all over the place at the 12 week scan

iggy maybe he meant your gag-reflex is currently more sensitive... BUMSEX!

Tbh nobody has said anything to my face yet about what I eat... 'cept for the lovely Eric whom I sit opposite who declared I ate a lot of fruit. Have you seen the IT Crowd? Eric is a bit like the Dutch Roy.

It was really surprising - it leapt about a few times when she was pressing on it. The pics aren't as clear as on the screen as hands and legs were all over the place.

It's still not really sunk in that what I was seeing wasn't a TV programme, or the DVD of someone else like on Glee. I feel quite light-headed now though.

Thought that may be the double choc muffin I celebrated with in Starbucks outside the hospital.....

Thought Though

X post with ski - exactly like Alien - am waiting for the bit where it bursts out of my stomach. Freaky imagination.

Our pictures were really crappy too but the arms & legs never stopped moving when we were watching - s/he's got a fine set of "jazz hands".

Well, thank you for your advice. It's a bit hard counting down the days, so fingers crossed I'll make it to fully fledged peshdom. I'll certainly let you know one way or the other .

ski maybe he did mean that

BUMSEX

That colleague mentioned food cos we just offered a canape that I declined (cos it looked vile) and he said the 'nuts' thing...

haha some of my funniest nights of my 20s occurred in that bar.

... in fact, it's entirely possible the reason it took me so long to conceive is a direct result of the sheer quantity of vodka consumed in said bar.

VAG Am so with you. Have had 2 scans and still am not at all convinced that the thing I was watching is inside me. Freakydeaky.

ski you can't do yoga with your trumpy compost bottom - it wouldn't be fair on the others.

I ain't doing a bump pic, primarily because I find uploading pics onto here to be one of the most spirit-sapping activities known to man. Rest assured it's massive and of course it's all lard baby.

Am up at my mum's. Went to wool shop in nearby village and accidentally fell into a new little shop which sold all manner of soft farmyard aminals which I then had to buy (farmyard being the theme of the nursery) and then found another pattern for another top and stripey trousers for Rastus to join the several hundred other home-knits that mum has been cracking on with.

She found a pattern for a fleece kind of sleeping bag I suppose it is (arms in but fastens like an envelope at the bottom) - she's doing it in red with a snowman on for next xmas, but they also have a pattern for one for halloween with a hat that supposed to look like a pumpkin with eyes and a green stalk coming out of the top. Much mirth. Must have.

vag excellent news!
witty well we should here from you by the end of the week then - but please to remember that I don't work Fridays = don't check online much = please POAS again Thursday, just for me.

ski I be ok but I have a MAC event either that weekend or the weekend before (date not yet confirmed) so will have to let you know closer to the time... but it's only one day anyway so I should be able to make it. hurrah!

iggy LOL @ colleague. Now if he'd said, "do you miss alcohol" that would have made more sense. NOt because of the fact that you CAN eat nuts, but because why would you want to, if given the choice between that and a nice glass of wine?

OK girls, AIBU to order (1 glass of) wine at a restaurant just to see the disapproving look on the waiter's face? Not that I like to be controversial, as you all know.

Cnut I have patterns for knitted farmyard animals if you are interested. Have totally lost interest in knitting since All This Happened - trying to persuade self back to it. Tiredness/general crankiness in evening not helping.

Rots YANBU. I went to dinner with my 8mth pg friend and she ordered a glass wine and neither she nor the waiter batted an eyelid. Though it was an Italian restaurant, maybe their attitude is akin to the enlightened French. I was impressed there was no eyebrow waggling from other patrons either.

I've totally lost my taste for wine and coffee. This comes back, doesn't it? I miss them.

Cnut is your Mum internet-literate? the Ravelry site is great for patterns/general knit-chat etc.

VAG yes it comes back I think mine came back about 12 weeks in fact. I had a gorgeous glass of rioja on Sat night infact. Pefect with the venison casserole my friend had cooked.

VAG is possible I can knit something myself you fink?

I did get taught to knit by my great aunts as a child - and I can remember how to do the basic bit... just can never remember how to cast off and do harder stuff... plus have no needles...

Igs - needles def help!

I randomly decided to take it up and bought myself a How To Knit book and learned from that (I think I had done it before but tbh none of it came back!) There are several How To Knit books but the bookshop I was in had this one I bought Mum the Debbie Bliss one but she prefers mine. I constantly refer back to it and it has really east baby hats which make a good starting point. I'm not very good or fast but as long as I pick quick projects I manage! It is relaxing...eventually!...and it's a nice way to waste an evening in front of the telly while feeling you are actually achieving something. Needles & practice wool aren't too expensive either so you can jack it in if you can't get your head round it. I'd love to crochet but I can't seem to manage that.

Cossie - phew! Red wine def appeals more than white which tastes nasty at the moment. Venison casserole - nom nom! TSF makes Ramsay's venison in red wine and choc sauce which is Very Nice Indeed.