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

[skihorse]

I haz made new fred.

... she's on fecking facebook twice a day! You're right though - no pics of jailbait or the pram, and I admitted that jailbait is the size of your average Scot - no hulking 6 footer here!

According to the whattoexpect.com email this morning we should be putting on a pound a week from now on - so it's going to show, however did you see the pic of Claudia Schiffer in the papers this morning? Got to wonder why these supermodels seem to have more "heart complications" than the rest of us...

I still feel relatively relaxed about the birth (am using good drugs) - but cannot believe the size of my placenta! It's like the biggest liver you've ever seen at the butchers!

ski your parents are nobbers. they should have responded by now...

iggy They are - and as their penance they've got my evil toad of a sister living with them for all of eternity.

Back to baybees... is anyone finding it more and more difficult to bend over? I am finding that when I bend over to shave legs/put on socks he must be getting squished because when I stand up straight again he punches me in the tummy haha. And... I've finally realised why summer baybees are the best - when we really cannot bend over to put our socks on and tie laces/do zips - it'll be hot and we'll just be stuffing our fat little sausage-toed feet in to sandals and flip-flops!

I iz losing my dignity getting off sofa.

iggy Why not love your doggy? I love mine to bits and I well up just thinking about animals.

I always love him - but now especially so

Same with all of my family at the moment - am feeling v. emotional...

ski I too have sofa elegance ishoos

Bending over not good at all. It is too soon for such discomfort!

One yoga woman (35weeks-ish) is no longer using the sofa. Just sits on a big inflatable yoga ball cause it's easier to get off when you need to pee every five mins... good plan methinks.

ski I might not be feeling too many kicks, but today I really know what you mean about use of the cord as a jungle gym. Little fucker darling.

I loves my mutt too. She has been sicky this week and so has lots of hugs for mum. feeling very sorry for herself - again.

I haz been given one of those balls... when you meant to start sitting on them? Anyone know?

Whenever you want. It's healthy to use one instead of your office chair, but seeing as my work has just ordered me a fancy new chair I am not doing that.

Is good to spend some time each day on it, strengthening back etc and doing your pelvic floors. But really it's up to you. I will be taking mine in for labour to bounce/lean/sit/cry on

I'm emotional too, iggs. Watched The English Patient the other night and ended up sobbing snot into SkaterBoy's collar bawling "I - I - I - I don't want you to dieeeeee" while Kristen Scott Thomas died in the cave.

Skihorse YANBU and your parents are in the wrong

Pandora I am telling people first week of Sep so I don't get a barrage of texts on 1 Sep going "Any news?"

Rang midwife this morning who told me to stop worrying about spotting and said she sees women who basically have periods all the way through pregnancy. Seems a bit mean, surely one bonus of pregnancy is no periods, or so I thought for 33 misguided years.

My favourite weird Dutch food is the big chocolate initials you get at Christmas. Actually when SkaterBoy did the Amsterdam Marathon recently, we ended up eating lots of Indonesian food.

lol@ jungle gym curly!

I've got the nighttime pees down to a fine art - I'm managing to go 50% of the time without waking up. Jailbait will tell me that he comes in to bed and I get straight up for a pee, but I don't remember that one - I'm only remembering the 2/3am one.

What's a yoga ball? Please to provide picture?

We were being silly (as per) yesterday and so we pretended that I punched jailbait to the floor and was kicking him - big dog ignored this completely but if he so much as play slaps me back she nips his bum hahaha. Little dog sticks with me all the time I'm home and she comes to bed when I retire (last night 8pm!).

We need to think of a new fred btw.

Skater Indonesia was a Dutch colony hence the exceptional indonesian food here - can't get a decent fucking curry for love nor money though. I have also been quite "vague" about due date and have said "end of July" - although EDD is 22nd. Chocolate letters are brilliant. Good news about your spotting though - although obviously lack of periods is the only reason why any of us would've chosen to drop the butterdish in the first place. Btw, I'm very at your underhand tactics for over-taking poor VAG in the baybee stakes - pretending you weren't diffed for a month and all!

Will inflate tonight then - the ball that is - not myself - clearly...

Fred options:

PESH Deli - Where BESH grads come to gorge on virtual brie and gin

PESH Deli - Taking the B out of BESH

can't fink of any more...

How/ where is VAG anyways?

skates I got given one of those choc initials once on 5th Dec, by a dutch friend. Have memory that 5th dec was somehow significant...

Very amusing last few posts!

ski sorry your mum remains such a cow

Preggo balls - I pumped mine up last night (fnar). VERY comfy to sit on thank you very much. Did some basic exercises on it per leaflet then decided sitting was better.

Now then girls, listen VERY carefully to someone who knows what they're talking about:

Optimal Foetal Positioning.

YOU have the ability to change the course of your labour DRAMATICALLY by doing everything that you can to help your baby into a good position. The preggo balls are great for this. Sofas are bad. Do some googling about it! It's about sitting upright or slightly forward (kneeling on the floor leaning on the ball is great, sitting on the ball is great), not sitting back in a sofa position.

It's not relevant until the last few weeks when the baby descends into your pelvis, but it's really important to get into the habits of it all.

ski to get off a sofa, instead of lurching up, try wriggling your bottom to the top of the seat and then standing up firmly but gently. Keep your head slightly lowered rather than looking straight ahead so you put less strain on your neck, as the normal way of looking where you're going tips the head back too much.

poo stories. Lovin' the goggles one. Classic.

emotional stuff. It only gets worse, as those with kids already well know. You will find watching the news a Very Traumatic Experience from now on. You think you love your dogs (and I understand loving dogs as my doggie was my baby for many years)? You just wait until you've had that baby a few months and then see what loving something is. I still love my dog as much, but baby lovin' is incredible.

The PESH deli - where everything softens and BESH violence turns to poo.

iggy You're right, the letters aren't actually for christmas, they're for Saint Nicholas which is more the children's christmas and is celebrated on 5th December. So the kids get their presents then.

Emotional stuff - we have "Up" just waiting to go - I have read around these parts that it'll be a definite no-no for the duration of this pregnancy. Or the following 12 years.

pix for ski

swiss ball 1

swiss ball 2

PESH Deli - Taking the B out of BESH - like that one.

Oh and I watched OBEM last night. Finally a positive brith story. The young girl with the lovely boyfriend and the paramedic mother. That was JUST how my delivery with LC was. Bloody hard work, perhaps a bit less of "I can't do it" from me (I thought it, but was rational enough to realise it was pointless), and I didn't delivery on my back (sigh), but I had a lovely supportive mum who was encouraging me just as she was, and keeping everything really calm and nice.

It's really hard to watch someone going through what is clearly a huge amount of pain. But watch also how she seemed to be "out of it" during the labour and then really with it as soon as the baby was born. That's endorphins, that is. They don't take away the pain as such (although I understand that they reduce it which is why being induced is much more painful as there's no opposite endorphin response) but they take you away from it.

Beep beep! Out of the way, VAG!

Less than a month lapsed between my positive preg test and finding out I was 12 weeks at a scan!

Yeah much mention (and spoilers) made of 'Up' in the crying preggy thread.

No curries? Poor you! How will you induce the ski-pony out? We found it hard to get Italian food in Amsterdam too, as SkaterBoy needed to carbo-load before his race. All the pizzas seemed to be leaning towards Turkish food rather than Italian food. We eventually found an fab place called YumYums that did the necessary.

Interesting article on chicken pox vaccine

I have a cute photo of LC playing in my mother's hay barn when he was off nursery with chicken pox at about a year old. If he wasn't covered in spots and calamine lotion it would be a really adorable photo!

Babies and toddlers in horse yards are great coz there's so much to explore. I have some video of him playing with the hose pipe having never seen such a thing. He must have been about 18 months, and you can see him learning the effect of cold water flowing over your hands... and into your wellies...

(Evil momma strikes again!!).

skater what kind of race?

Are you talking about the Disney Pixar film "UP"? Oh I guess the bit where they... yes I know what you mean. I saw that when we were TTC and it was really sad but actually as a film it's fantastic, moving, sweet, funny and just a little bit totally and utterly daft.

Watch it, it's brilliant. There's far more emotional films that are to be avoided from now on. UP may strike a cord but the ones that I can't cope with are films where people are hurt - especially children. I can cope with a decent thriller as long as it's got a good story and isn't relying on yucky stuff, but anything where kids suffer is really hard or impossible to watch. I don't mean nasty films that noone in their right mind would watch anyway, but regular ones where a kid may cry for about 2 seconds or something.

Despite having a strong interest in Africa with the stuff I do there, and wanting to learn more about African history, I have not yet been able to watch any of the African recent history films (like Rwanda stuff), although I have to.

ski Your parents are unreasonable. Do they know my parents by any chance? I have a remarkably similar complaint about them not responding IN ANY WAY to the email I sent a week ago after the MIL invitation debacle. Any normal person would have responded. If they are too arrogant to apologise, they could at least do their usual alternative and "explain" why they did what they did. But no, nothing at all. I have concluded that they are just not normal people.

(V sorry for big rant - please to ignore. I clearly have some ishoos with the parentals which seem to be inflamed by preggy emotions.)

Agree with rots - emotions get worse once you are a mother. It's like someone has taken a piece of your heart and it's now running around outside your body outside your control. Scary and vulnerable stuff.

Yes, I am telling people that I am due "in June". Vague enough?

Carrots he did the Amsterdam Marathon in Oct

I cant watch horrors, I am a terrible coward.

You should be, skater

Horrors I'm not talking about. I'm talking about regular films which may have a bit in which would pass most people without kids by...

Who in their right mind would watch horrors? I don't understand it. It's wrong in so many ways

so it seems licorice is now devils food for pregnant women?! Now what am i supposed to gorgeon eat?

WTF do the daily mail know? Seriously? Is licorice off the "can eat" list now then?

Husband informed me last night that the embryo is now a baybee and what happens in weeks 8 to 9. The man has been swotting up! Cute. Still not getting his hands on my melons tho!

silver I have been buying jumbo-sized bags of liquorice allsorts almost on purpose! ski has pointed out the Dutch love for this stuff, and they do not appear to have a nation of deformed babies, do they?

I like to put my foot down when something just sounds silly, otherwise all preggy women will end up guilt-ridden, terrified wrecks. (Then again, I suppose it is good preparation for becoming a guilt-ridden, terrified mother.)