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

[skihorse]

I haz made new fred.

cossie shall i share with everyone the advice I got on drinking the other day?!

I haz still gone off tea and coffee (including all herbal teas) - I did go off chocolate - but that came back and now am slightly over enthusiastic on the choc front...

I iz 20 weeks today - dat is milestone innit! Halfway!

Oh yeah that was most helpful advice iggs

yay for 20 weeks!

I got this email:

technically, just one drink is noticable...that's one drink in the whole nine months...and some doctors can tell.

Oh and don't forget your HR telling you about cutting down on coffee

cos we're all too fick to work these things out on our own / make our own minds up about things innit.

I have vaguely got my taste for alcohol back, but I only ever want a thimble full and usually just don't feel like it. For the first 12 or 15 weeks it was simply disgusting! I remember I tried to have a glass of wine on Christmas Day but spat it back out.

I am today, as my parents have messed with our plans. We have very reluctantly invited them to come over here to help us out when the baby is born, to look after the foal, cook some meals, etc. I already know that it is not going to be easy having them around, but they have really messed up already. They invited MrP's mum to come too without even talking to us!

MrP got a really confused email from her, and he was furious! She is of course all offended that they are lording it over her, and that the invitation didn't coming from us. We are furious as dealing with my parents will be bad enough, let alone MIL as well. So it's been damage control all around to soothe her and put her off. I am now even more worried that my parents simply don't get it. They have no idea about reading situations or understanding emotional needs. When the foal was born my emotions went haywire, so I am dreading what is going to happen with them being all tactless in the middle of it.

I've sent them a big telling off email, and I am now determined to write them some very strict guidelines about what they can / can't do while they are here. Nightmare!

Oh, and to all of you with lovely mums who just, like, help.

Huzzah - won the quiz and a bottle of whisky! My only damning moment "True or false: Are x, y and frottage examples of French art?" I confidently announced to my colleagues " FALSE! Frottage is something Japanese men do on the metro". Oh. The shame.

Ponymum I'm sorry your parents are so shit, I really am - but I do get it. When I was very ill in hospital a couple of years ago they were upsetting me with all this "are you sure you should be having a blood transfusion, what about AIDS?", my mother told me my sister was simply "misunderstood" and after arriving back home to find I'd bled through my clothes I asked them to get me enough food in so I didn't have to think about getting to the shops for a while. My dad came back with the smallest pack of mince you've ever seen in your life and one tin of tomatoes. Crap. I've also and I'm not sure why... told them that I'm going to be in Newcastle in May and they've booked a hotel there. Now they might be nice, but will probably be horrid. My mum will comment on the size of my arse. My dad will comment on the fact that I don't have 2 year's wages in the bank for a "rainy day". My mum will comment on jailbait's accent. My dad will comment on the fact I'm too irresponsible to be a parent...

ski did you down the whisky in one?? did ya??

Pone that sounds like a bit of a mare! I can't believe your parents asked his mum without telling you, that's well cheeky.

Pony that is dreadful. Hope they get the message. I do have a helpful set of parents but I have huge concerns about the inter grandparent jealousies that are going to arise - but that's an issue for later down the road!

Ski well done on the whisky, it's helpful to have something in the house to help the baby sleep....

Have I mentioned on here the fact that my step brother and his wife are expecting a baby 4 days after my due date?

That's inter grandparental rivalry for you - except it will be between my dad and stepmum! She is desperate for a girl (step borther has 2 boys already) so if one of us has a girl and one has a boy it could get interesting....

Poor you pone tht sounds like extra stress you didn't need.

I has put bump pic up. It's not great - but what can I do...

lovely bump, igs.

My tummy has popped out a bit! Argh - I am only 11+3, does this mean I will have to be lifted by crane in a few weeks?

It could of course be my imagination/biscuits. I just wasn't expecting this to happen for another few weeks at least. Freaking me out a bit....but I guess you lot are used to things freaking me out these days.....

VAGGY you gonna put your scan pic up? I would like to see? Or you can email if not

aww I hadn't thought of that! The scanner is in quite a public part of the office so haven't managed to work out how to do this subtly given I can't get my arse out of bed early these days. I shall give it some thought. (Suggested to TSF that his parents may like to see pic (think I might see mine this weekend to show them) and he didn't think they'd be bothered.....I can't tell whether this is true or whether he is just being rubbish at anticipating what they'd like. The pics aren't that clear anyway, I suppose.)

I'm hungry. Again.

Just take a pic of the scan pic with your phone - dat is wot I did

I am always hungry at the mo

pony I am totally . That's outrageous. ski you too. So for you both. I'm the on with the lovely parents (although I don't always appreciate that as I work with them!). I'm the lucky one - my mum's going to be there for the birth because I want her to be there as I know she'll be the one who a) knows what to do and b) focuses totally on me and c) will do whatever I want, when I want, (at least then - not normally!) without being offended and while totally understanding that while in labour and afterwards it's ALL about me, YOB and the baby.

vag At your stage it's mostly farts I think.

Wow! great pic iggy!

I haz thrown all my toys out of the pram about food today. I wanted pasta for lunch, jailbait has given me chicken, tatties & brocolli. Yes, I do know IABU.

iggs contragulations! That's fantastic. I'm officially 20 weeks on Friday (to LMP) but Sunday to my dates.

"I got this email:

technically, just one drink is noticable...that's one drink in the whole nine months...and some doctors can tell. "

Who said that and why????

cos I agree in the sense that often one's body is really good at saying what it needs and doesn't - but only inasmuch as it needs to be remembered that in early pregnancy your body can make you throw up anything other than McDonalds. So don't read TOO much into it - while obviously as coffee and alcohol are good to avoid, you may as well if your body is saying NOOOOO.

I Heart iggy's bump! (and I think we've both grown since we met last Tues)

I have cough/sore throat/and bloody (literally) sneezes. Nice.

p.s 20 weeks today!

rots a friend of mine - it was part of a longer conversation, but i am just showing you that one line cos it made me laugh

grumps agree - I fink we has both grown! Yours looks neater than mine tho and also yay for 20 weeks!

YABU ski BUMSEX

re unreasonable food (I agree with you ski, by the way). If I had to pull the pizza cutter from dishwasher, still dirty, to use it last night, does this mean I am eating too much pizza?

Yoga was good. lots of info, little exercise. Everyone else was much further along than me though. She kindly pointed out that the space between anus and urethtra is actually quite large, despite the small size of knicker gussets

And I finally have an appointment with the rheumatologist. It's this Friday, so I'll be at the same hospital morning and afternoon. (first time is for scan). Good job I'm actually having the day off work.

Speaking of which, must crack on...

rots hahaha I pretty much did throw up everything which didn't come in waxed paper from our American cousins.

I am 20 weeks tomorrow and can hardly believe it... I'm halfway cooked. I also looked at the life-sized 20 week pic in my book last night and it didn't scare the shit out of me - instead I felt excited and amazed it's so big.

I don't think I'm showing as much as you two but I realise I'm probably deluding myself and will upload a pic tonight. I did have a somewhat undignified moment at IKEA on monday though... I sat down in one of those all-in-one ergonomic chairs and found it difficult to haul myself back out.

KNow what you mean re the throwing up rots - I did however just listen to what my body wanted in the first 10 weeks or so, if that was licorice allsorts, that is what i gave it!

I am jelus of the bumps, I still just haz the fat.

cossie give it a couple more weeks

I haz just doen thing in photoshop showing pics from 16-20 weeks ... is def big surge from 19 to 20 weeks in bump size!

Guess who's just announced they're due end of July and will def be laying it in iggy's hospital of choice?