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

[skihorse]

I haz made new fred.

Radiators??? Central heating???? Won't somebody think of the PLANET!!!!

only joking, but I do wish you the very best of British. On the complete contrary, we are buying a new tumble dryer especially for the occasion

cunty We also bought a clothes drier for the same reason. But we manage to avoid using as much as possible as we also have a Sheila Maid. skatey You should get one - they are brilliant and seem to dry everything magically quickly, while using NO energy! I'm sure skateyboy would approve.

Breastmilk in the eyes apparently does wonders for eye infections.

When I say radiators I mean small stove burning pear and cow dung of course....

Peat! Peat! Pear-burning stove would be fruitily ineffective.

Must learn to preview.

I prefer pear - abundant source you see instead of digging up the scarce resource of peat-boggery...

pear burning stove sounds lovely

just spoke to nice gp lady who said bleeding prob ok but if any more bleeding today or pain to call her back and she will refer to epas

huzzah

I knew there was something strange about those Lancashire folks.

Ponymum Well now that Julian is more mobile he's only making me sick twice a week or so - an once I've been sick it's all over and much better than the all-day nausea. He's graduated to using the umbilical cord as monkey bars.

I noticed Lady Tena in the supermarket last night by the baby stuff. What are they? Just super-absorbant wee pants/pads?

Cossie What did TGF say on clocking your bump or did you have to nurse him instead?

Come out sparkling clean though ski. No streaks.

I have preggo JD-brain. Hence that floral dress and other soppy non-cuntyisms

ski TGO reckons its grown. I drove home with my temporary tesco trousers undone all the way so I reckon he's right!

Am back on nausea and random gagging today though

ponygals - 24tack.com are doing Pikeur jods 50% off for 55 of your english pounds. I'd never fit in to Pikeur on a normal day so I cannot make use of this offer.

cunty I bet you've turned in to a right old softie hehe. You'll be helping lil' old ladies across the street next.

It's fecking snowing.

ponygals - 24tack.com are doing Pikeur jods 50% off for 55 of your english pounds. I'd never fit in to Pikeur on a normal day so I cannot make use of this offer.

cunty I bet you've turned in to a right old softie hehe. You'll be helping lil' old ladies across the street next.

It's fecking snowing.

scan shows i'm having a monkey-faced, beer bellied baby that might well have a scrotum/penis based on what I/SFF think we saw this morning. The truth will out tomorrow. Either way it looks like the poor bugger will have my fat cheeks and slaphead. It is lodged in my left hand side, behind the placenta which is on the front top-left my uterus, which explains why i've only felt relatively gentle movements quite low down. Nhs pix crap as expected, so v excited for tomorrow.
All appears healthy, btw.

ski did you know that dog saliva has not got the enzymes that huiman saliva has (because dogs digest their food in the stomach - they don't chew like we do and start the process in the mouth, they swallow stuff almost whole). So dog saliva is very clean.

The only thing i would say is that dogs do lick rank stuff... so that may make a differnece to the level of sanitariness (new word) of their mouths... so they would potenially have bacteria in their mouths that you might want to avoid...

I reckon it's best not to let them lick when children are young, but guess can only help with immunity as they get older?

Curly That's brilliant news! What's the scan for tomorrow? I iz confused.

Have any of you seen the collated Times/Telegraph babynames lists from 2009? Ava Kitty? Plenty more have made me howl... Yes, I realise this is a horriblethingto_do and I'm probably laughing at your friends as I type.

Yay for the scan grumps

And for dog peoples - here is some advice on dogs and babies (introducing them) Dogs and babies

ski NHS in my area don't tell you the sex at the 20-week scan. You can pay £50 at the hospital at 23 weeks, or go private. So we're paying £65 to go back to the private clinic tomorrow to find out. Actually, we get 10 per cent off because we've been before, so we're not even paying £60 - much better value than the NHS all things considered! Their machines are much better, so we should get the gender verdict and a good quality image of the monkey.

Rheumatologist is now listening to me. He thinks my flare up might have been infection related rather than general. we're going to reduce the steroids. I'll see him again in three weeks and we'll take the next steps from there. I can actually go back on two of the drugs I was originally on - just not the MTX of course. He seems to be questioning whether I should have come off all the meds in the first place (that was the stance of my old rheumy, who he has now succeeded). Anyway, I have his ear access to his assistant now so, all going well, things should improve.

sorry, me me me day! a lot of hospital waiting room time does that to you.

any news from rots?????? sal glad all seems well.

iggy havee some uncalled for BUMSEX

Hey everyone, lot to catch up on!

1. I do so hope that you ladyeez who have passed a little blood are feeling ok. I'm 20 weeks and still knicker checking and wondering whether it will actually stop once I give birth other than the 2-4 weeks of bleeding after of course (oh didn't you know that?!)

OK some replies without names as I've forgotten, so sorry.

2. Big thanks to you who suggested dresses websites. I've ordered several now and will see how I get on. I'm such a wuss when it comes to dresses. The CZJ pic just made me inadequate. Now I want a dress AND an Oscar . On the other hand I clearly can't wear that dress as it's black - to a wedding? Now my mum wore black to my wedding to ex (LOL). She knows....

3. Dogs. I can give you my experience. Because I was taken in with LC I had to then bring him back, as it were. It had been suggested that bringing back a blanket which had wrapped the baby and giving it to the dog was a good intro but we didn't have time in the end. Basically, we just put LC in the carrycot on the floor and let Caspar have a sniff around him - watching him carefully - and he was really very interested but fine. Cas has since then been very protective of LC, and lets him get away with a lot, but at the same time I've never let LC be alone with him. Cas, like his namesake, has arthritis (if a different kind) - spondylosis - so a very tender spine and while he so far has always just walked away if grabbed badly, I don't want a) for him to b accidentally hurt and b) for LC to be bitten "by mistake" as it were. LC has known since he was tiny to never touch his back, and now gives very strict instructions to other people about it.

That's all a doggie personality thing. I've never bothered about the hygiene thing. Dogs have very tender stomachs and can't really cope with bacteria entering them - yet with their usual eating habits (in the wild at least and often in domesticated dogs) they need to kill nasty bugs as they eat crap, so they have VERY strong antibacterials in their saliva. Now while I owuldn't want anyone to be licked by a dog, and my dog's not licky, I'm also not concerned if it happened to my precious babe. LC is exceptionally healthy and I put this down to my being exceptionally untidy and not ever using bleach .

4. Scans. Pleased to announce mine also went well, although we need to doctor the scan photo somewhat. It looks like, how do we put this, the child will be clearly set in its career as a porn star with a willy the size of its head. I went back to the sonographer to say, "I'm sure that's NOT what it looks like, BUT" and cue extreme laughing and showing it to the other sonographer, then reassurance that actually it's a leg.

However, we have been advised (and it looked like it to us) that we are certainly in for the arrival of the blue kind. After a slight bit of disappointment about the fact that I won't have one of each and I'd have liked to be able to say, "my daughter", and LC will be miffed, and I can't pinch the cute little dresses from MAC even though I don't do dresses, and if he has babies I won't be able to be as involved as it was babies with my own girl, and if they then split up there's a chance of not seeing the grandchildren (and upon saying this to YOB he TOTALLY took the piss out of me for a) thinking ahead too much and b) being a pessimist) I got really, really excited looking at the photo of a sweet, beautiful, perfect little boy (although it seems with one too many fingers - or as YOB said, it's not a super-intelligent 9 fingered one but we're stuck with an average 10 fingered one), knowing how absolutely gorgeously loving and straightforward they are and I'm so happy!

carrots that's brilliant - and you just made SFF and I laugh lots with the porn and reasons to not want a boy. . I did stand in Next in front of all the very bright girly gear and point out to him that if it's a boy, he'll be able to miss out on all that (which kind of made me a teeny wee bit sad. There's some really nice, non pink stuff there!)

we had a conversation when the sonographer left the room briefly, about ballsacks and willies. How mature Roll on 9am tomorrow.

I had to do some doctoring to make the features of our chimp baby clearer, but there is now a scan montage on my profile here

has anyone else felt like they are losing their mind?

I only bloody lost the bread the other morning. Had it one minute. Gone the next. I eventually found it, in the fridge on the top shelf!

Am getting a pot belly. I have always had no tum and v small waist. Seems this is going to be a thing of the past!

Am still tired. Tho other eve i was awake til 1130, couldnt sleep! Paid for it the next day.

Hope you tarts are all ok! Midwife is coming to visit me at home on 25 march!
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Graspy Lovely scan photos!

Silver I put the yoghurt away in the cupboard last week. Yes, you can kiss goodbye to any semblance of a waist - on the plus side you'll be in non-maternity wear for longer if you choose to do so... I can still get in to some of my normal clothes although it's getting tougher. Sleeping patterns were all over the place... up at 2am? No problem, have some weetabix, some 70s show and back to bed at 4.

iggy Thank you for that link and the information. That will give me some reading this weekend. It's not that I will actively encourage the dogs to lick the baby, but one of them is a horror and it's going to happen sooner rather than later I fear.

carrots lol@ future woes. Nutter! Congratulations on a your successful scan - you'll just have to turn in to one of these women who fills a football team trying for a girl.

Hi peshies. One happy honeymoo this morning after the scan. Best hundred notes I've ever spent. Salander hope your spotting stopped like mine.

So the scan was ace. We saw the sack, yolk and a tiny only just forming heart beat at 5+5. Lucky we knew the conception date thanks to CBFM, or he/she would have been considered worryingly small (I ov'd v late). Apparently the sack was attached perfectly, size totally fine and even saw that the egg had come out of my left ovary. God I was like a goldfish, sobbing with wonder and relief!

I LOVE scans. Decided to have another one in a few weeks before the 12 week milestone.

Thanks for telling me to stop being a nob and worrying so much.

carrots Congrats on your little boy! Two boys will be brilliant and they will be mates and look after each other. Not like me and my brother who didn't speak until we were in our early twenties.

Loving the dog advice. Little moo dog is only a baby himself and loves children so fingers crossed. The blanket is a very good idea.

Do you get another scan before the birth or is that generally it unless there are probs?

well, PESHies, our gut instincts were right, the Gasper child is a girl! Very little doubt about it. And a cute, human one too. Today's scan was amazing. we caved and took a DVD to show the MIL (driving there now). I would have been happy either way, but seeing her in so much detail and being able to refer to "my little girl" rather than "it" has put me on cloud nine.

cunty I think that's it unless there is a prob. My SIL has recently had a growth scan at 34 weeks, but she had probs with number one so they are keeping a close eye.

honey so glad you got to see your little baby and feel reassured. Scans that show good things really are an amazing experience.

Thanks Pony. i'm going to try and get one of the new pics into the 'puter now.