PESH Deli - Taking the B out of BESH

[skihorse]

A new thread for the gabbers.

Hopefully we will find out during the course of this thread whether dear cheggers has laid a baybee or two yet!

Still chortling at cat bum mouth. I have 2 cats so know exactly what you mean cunty

I have also just worked out that you lot have all met up in real life.

cokie Not all of us have, some of us have - some have crossed meets.

The first meeting was iggy + curly - that resulted in cosmic forces being unleashed and 4 of us became diffed in the same week!

There was a further London meet, a Brizzle meet and then there are those of us who are fecking miles away from anyone else. There will be a Newcastle meet in May. I've run across Pandora on another completely un-preggo related forum.

I've only met my lovely lezzer crush iggy. Twice.

cokie I met up wiv culy at a work do - oddly - cos we do the same job in differnt organisations... anyway - i haz had 4 scans so far - first one at 7 + 6 I fink... I decided to have that one - cos I had one at 7 + 3 when I had babyfail and if I hadn't had the scan I would have just had an MC with no warning at 9 weeks - and I like to be prepared y'know...

Ski am thinking of captions for Kitteh

oh yes - early scans = very good thing.

I've had 7+5, 12, 20+2 and 20+3 (yes, two scans in two days...) I loves scans I do.

Me and iggy are leaving a big black hole in our sector from this summer. It will, undoubtedly, collapse without us...

BTW iggs see the magazine in question tomoz - I've done it again! (supposed to be a secret at the mo) But will be missing out on the Lahndan fun this time thanks to baby leave.

iggs congrats on your scan, it looks amazing woo woo!

honey i iz also feeling slightly less nauseated today and consequently totally fucking paranoid that this is a bad thing
however also still mahoosive norks, crying at neighbours and knackered beyond belief so hoping everything still present and correct

mmmmmmmm camenbert mmmmmm

will read all later and post more work chaos

Bollocks casp that means we are not on shortlist... but congrats.

cos is all scan-tastic too innit.

Fanks sal the paranoia is normal y'know...

my mother will not be anywhere near me whilst I am in labour. We have a bad relationship at best of times so bonding over birth aint going to happen!

In fact, maybe we could have a sweepstake for the voted worst or most inappropriate comment from the (grand)mother post-partum? Is this why we've left it so late to breed I wonder? So as not to repeat the mistakes of the past? (apologies for seriousness there). My dad tried to compete last year with his "you're a bit young aren't you?" and "it's a big responsibility for you" when I announced my pg - nice try dad, but I feel like you didn't really put your back in to that.

I must book a scan then. Slightly scared to do so in case all is not as it should be but guess it is best to know. I seem to have heard of and know quite a few people that have MC'd so I suppose I am burying head in sand a bit. I should take a glass half full approach really and I must try think of all the successful pregnancies - as clearly there are more successful than not.

Paranoia, despite not been a pyhiscal symtom is still is a universal symton of pregnancy huh? I certainly suffer from it daily.

sal I also feel less sick today, tho last night we had such a late dinner that I thought I was going to vom. Sad thing was that dinner was lush but it was so late i did not enjoy. Arse.

Paranoia normal here. Am 13+3 and have started telling people, but am seriously considering not telling anyone else till after my 16 week checkup (booked for 15+3 due to change of dates...) so that I can know there's still a heartbeat. Though that may become problematic as my tummy has a definite shape to it now that wasn't there before (anc can only partly be explained by recent face-filling marathons)

indaba welcome - stick around!

cunty ROFL @ cat's bum mouth. There was me, in the middle of actually pushing a frigging 8 Lb 12 1/2 oz baby from my nether regions, and my mother had the audacity to say, "don't swear". I am not sure if I SAID it but I THOUGHT and I THINK I said, "I'll fucking swear all I like". Or I may have just said, "shut up mum". Or, I may have just said, "Aooorreeaaaaggghhhhh".

my stand on mums and dhs.
I think there's too much pressure on OHs to be in the delivery room TBH. While it's been terribly important for the changes to be made so that men can choose to be with their wives/GFs, there's now too much expectation.

There's nothing worse than seeing your partner in pain and many people - as we can see on OBEM - simply can't cope with it. Mum said that the worst men were those who gave up - their wives (I'm going to stop being PC and just write wives for speed) were doing fine but the men didn't understand that what they were going through was normal and ok, and they insisted on the MW interfering, or "demanded a PROPER doctor get in here RIGHT NOW, can't you SEE SHE'S IN PAIN?????". The best were those who just did as they were told by mum and the other MWs, kept calm and focused on supporting their wives and what SHE wanted - whether it was totally intervention free or straight into epidural/CS.

I'm having my mother with me but as a midwife she's an obvious doula (she can't legally deliver me). She was wonderful when I had LC, and she gave my ex the confidence to do what I needed him to do, and she just got between the hospital and me (the one I was in is well known for intervening too quickly). In the end, thanks to her, I had a straightforward, natural, no pain relief (only TENS) labour and delivery as opposed to the forceps (and episiotomy and associated damage), drip and CS that I was threatened with. None of that was necessary, I just needed more time, but it was better for them to get me in and out as it was busy... usual story (and plenty of other parts to it of course).

This time I'm planning a homebirth and hopefully all will be well for that. I'll have mum there and also the HB midwives, and my husband.

morning sickness mine stopped at 10 weeks, just like that pretty much overnight. Since then I've had the odd episode when I've got too hungry, especially in the morning, which is a good excuse to get toast in bed during a lie-in . Babe is fine.

pandora I meant Facebook by t'other place. Fantastic story re piloting. Do you fly light aircraft? Ever done any gliding? I'd quite like a go at a biiiig plane and there's a place near me which has a simulator which is supposed to be good, but it's more expensive than regular lessons! With our convo I remembered I've got to book a microlighting lesson which my parents bought me a few months back but I'm a bit nervous about it - they seem pretty dangerous to me! YOB disagrees (he owns a part share in one (hark at me, I must be right wing LOL)) but I never trusted them. But it will be something new!

Oh I did neurobiology too Cognitive Science so NB, AI, Neural Networks etc (which is far more ski's thing than mine - I'm a bio girl, not a puter girl). I loved the biology. Didn't do any pain stuff though - that would be fascinating. LOL @ Moss Side with drugs

rots Microlights are the devil's aircraft (apols to YOB). Not only are they ridiculously dangerous, but imo generally piloted by people with little or no knowledge of air traffic rules. We have on several ocassions had microlights fly right through the drop zone air space while the target was out and obv clearly visible! Thanks idiots, how many skydivers would you like to kill today?

Oh feck MS back with a vengeance. Had scary moment in a hot room just now. Saved by an overripe banana which I normally hate. Desperate measures...

I wanna do lundun meet up!! Do you have to have a pony to do this? cokie will no doubt bump into you on my 14th scan this month. Roll on Friday for more blubbing of the hopefully happy variety.

Another thing on men in the delivery room, although I know the original question was about mums/sisters etc.

I've told this on the BESH thread but it's timely to repeat, and quite funny.

When my Grandmother had my aunt, she had her at home and after the birth the MW sat on the bed with her wearing a starched cap and smoking a cigarette, and they were discussing the new fangled thing of men being allowed into the birthing room. The MW was totally disapproving of this, because, as she put it, "we're not nice down there at the best of times"...

How things have changed!

Innapropriate comments from family...

My Gran, after LC was born, "Well, he DOES have (ex)'s mouth doesn't he! It's a good job, as noone will think you've gone with another man"... Bless her.

Sadly I no longer have either Grandmother so my anecdotes are getting repeated - apologies. I have to try and think what she'd say. My Grandmothers were cousins so knew each other well. I think Gran may have said, "ANOTHER husband? Well, if you carry on like this you'll catch up with your other Gran" (she was married 3 times - first to my mum's dad who was a pwoper abusive shit whom she bravely left with nothing, not even my mum and aunt's toys (how sad is that), and who then wanted nothing to do with his girls, the second a wonderful, wonderful step-dad and grandfather who died young from a heart attack, and the third a really lovely guy who she married when my mum was an adult, who she also lost to a heart attack. Hardly her fault...!

But my other Gran was well known for her mis-timed comments, but they were never meant nastily - quite the opposite. She was just a nutter, but an adored one.

honey

pony crikes, YOB has had that but with a glider. They were grounded for a whole afternoon because some stupid eejit decided that there was a lovely thermal over - an airfield??? WTF??? And no radio...

Obviously that does't make gliders unsafe - just a stupid pilot - but ML as I understand it are cheaper coz of fewer restrictions/rules/regulations.

Ahh well, if you can't have a bit of danger in your life! Can't be as dangerous as the sailing we did in Mozambique in crocodile infeted waters - on a hobie cat! Wind dropped at one point as we drifted towardss a huge bugger on a rock. Fortunately we had a paddle to save ourselves with .

Anyone else think that the "confused" emoticon is really covering more bases than just "confused"???

honey we can always do london meet

Would have to entice VAG and cunty out too

= terrified of being eaten by a crocodile???

What is it about Grans that make them so quick witted? Mine was very quick and had some classic sayings. I often think "what would my Gran say" and it always makes me snigger.

My dad went for a very long walk while my mum was in labour with me. MrC however was with me the whole way through my labour and did an amazing job although he slept a bit too much for my liking and ate in front of me when I was "nil by mouth" but apart from that he was fab. He didn't venture down the business end too much though. I too would have my mother in with me but she will have to stay home and look after mini cokie.

Honey I have cats and you have a dog so maybe we can manage despite lack of a horse between us.

carrots - I think translates quite well to [meep].

I love jailbait very much and I know he loves me - but I know he's going to struggle with my being in labour because he can't bear to see me in any sort of pain. We've talked about it already and it's a topic which will have to be re-iterated. It might be better that he goes to the gym for an hour or two and lets rip at a punchbag.

iggy I was thinking something along the lines of extreme ironing.

VAG Just admit it - you're having a baybee! You mad right-wing bastard. You could of course wait until you're in labour to admit it to yourself. You do realise that you're just one POAS away from one of those who goes to hospital after taking 4 Rennie doesn't take her indigestion away...

pony you'll know the story of the two SDs who fell through the cockpit of a light aircraft? Don't know whose fault it was but the SDivers climbed out of the hole and landed safely (albeit with broken stuff) and the two pilots crashed and died. Which is why YOB is convinced that sky diving is safer than flying!

LOL cokie the MW turned up for my first planned HB, then Ex went to Tesco (I'm embarassed to admit but at the time it was the only nearby supermarket) and bought stuff for sarnies etc, while mum and I took the dog for a long walk. She was a bit shocked about being left on her own. I'd have felt sorry for her but she was an incapable cow who should have retired years ago.

rots There's some oft quoted spurious statistic that more people are killed through landing in a light aircraft than through jumping out of one before it lands!

The foal has been playing with her racing cars this morning, and ran them over the bump! I'd like to think it was her attempt to play with her little brother, but in reality she's just fascinated by Mummy's huge belly.

ski What is [meep]? In my head it is the sound made by Beaker from the Muppets. Is this wrong?