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PESH Deli - Taking the B out of BESH

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skihorse · 11/03/2010 09:26

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!

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Cokie · 11/03/2010 14:19

Perineum massage too! Frankly a 20% success rate is not sufficient for me to get down to rubbing olive oil into and streching my nether regions although a friend of mine swore by it. I reckon it is all a bit streched now down there anyway but something for you first timers to consider.

Ponymum · 11/03/2010 14:37

VAG It all seems a bit of a black art to me, but I think it sounds like you are engaging your abdominals too much, rather than just isolating the "down there" muscles. The physio is always telling me not to tense my tummy.

Try thinking of it this way: do the "stop yerself from do a pee" thing, think about feeling it right in your VAGina (sorry, couldn't resist), and at the same time relax your shoulders, chest and abdomin. Then try to replicate this clenched below / relaxed everywhere else feeling while breathing slowly in and out. You should be able to do this without your tummy expanding, by breathing into the sides of your rib cage rather than into your tummy. I find it easier in the pilates neutral position - flat on your back with knees* at 90 degrees.

Or should that be 'nees'? Must check with iggy*.

VoilaAnotherGimlet · 11/03/2010 14:41

Pony that makes sense - though if I don't, I don't really feel like I am doing anything. I always had that difficulty with yoga - either I couldn't do the pose or I didn't feel it doing anything.

iggypiggy · 11/03/2010 14:48

vag to bring a convo over from another fred - I did has the same thing with fetching scalp scurf - then it went away... odd... wonder if is similar and will just clear up?

pone is obv knees but I does haz penchant for spelling things alternately in general - you may have noticed...

VoilaAnotherGimlet · 11/03/2010 15:06

Hoping the 'druff is temporary iggs - but since I have got off so lightly on the ms front I feel I am bound to suffer something else - have seen preggos in the past with dreadful dry flakey skin and even one who looked like she had psorisis or excema all over her face. Felt right sorry for her. Usually my skin is mostly ok, so this seems a good penance for missing the vomitting. Don't much fancy the SPD, pre-eclampsia or any of the rest of the preggo buffet of ills.

Remind me why I am doing this again?...

iggypiggy · 11/03/2010 15:10

My skin is v. dry - am covering self head to toe in palmers cocoa butter at the mo... as I said - well sexy

skihorse · 11/03/2010 15:31

sal Our pandora is a proper pilot wiv passengers and everyfink!

Blaahdy trimmer phoned 90 minutes early so I had to down tools and race off. Couldn't find a horse-proof jacket in my mobile rubbish bin (some call it a car) so wrapped myself in her fleece blanket.

VAG At first I battled coldsores vs. eczema - eczema is finally lifting - but it's taken me a while to glow.

Got my hot milk bra today and it's fabby! It looks pretty - if not a little "sturdy". It has six sets of eyes so there's plenty of room for growth/shrinkage. The straps are good and thick and there are lots of metal clasps. Brunel engineering at its finest and I'm very impressed.

Also received maternity dress which is erm... a little low cut perhaps for office-based decency? I shall be putting a stitch in the front but overall very happy.

I too haz weed during a violent vomit session at work. Not enough to soak through to my jeans but left a patch on my knickers a bit bigger than a 2 euro coin. Got very upset and told jailbait who was really really concerned... until I got home and was greeted with "alright pissy-pants".

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givecarrotsachance · 11/03/2010 15:38

ROFL ski @ pissy-pants!!

Great news re hot milk.

pan you mean literally page 3? As in the contents page? Cute little lassie in the bottom picture? The one who is OUT WITH THE HUNT????

givecarrotsachance · 11/03/2010 15:39

iggs I often wonder whether you talk like you write?

givecarrotsachance · 11/03/2010 15:41

PS ski I may have laughed at what "him" said, but def feeling sorry for you re vomiting etc

givecarrotsachance · 11/03/2010 15:47

iggs what horse riding stuff do you teach? . I had always thought that's what I would do but then didn't, you know?

Ponymum · 11/03/2010 15:54

rots I think if you read the small print caption you'll see that lil' pandy is only 'at the meet'. And besides, it's bloodhounds. I don't think anyone has an objection to that, do they? Some poor running bloke ends up, gasp, licked by a sad-faced dog, innit?

GrumpyGasper · 11/03/2010 15:57

vag meant to say earlier, please to be careful with scalp cuts! at the start of my diffment my ultra low immune system turned a few scratches on my itchy scalp (prob from hair straightener burns) into a full on skin infection which spread and spread no matter how much cleaning I did, all over my scalp, face, neck and chest. Ended up properly diagnosed an on anti-biotics and anti-histamines for three weeks. And I have lovely scars (to add to the old acne ones).

So lots of moisturising and no scratching! Scabbiness is not a good look for a supposedly glowing preggo.

iggypiggy · 11/03/2010 15:59

rots I does speak like dis often - I may be the only one wot finds it amusing tho...

re: riding - I teach at the Pony Club (rallies & camp) and I also do some private lessons. Just in my spare time innit. i haz had to stand down from teaching at camp this year as it is in July but it would have been my 21st year at camp with that pony club - and my 16th year teaching at camp.

GrumpyGasper · 11/03/2010 16:01

ski Thankfully SFF fetched cleaning materials and fresh clothes for me last night. And assured me I should not worry because it was only him. Sweetheart. I give it less than 24 hours before being nice wears off and I get called pissy pants.

Why am I sharing this extreme embarrassment? In my defence, I did think I was about to die from coughing and lack of breath. Then I stood up and walked - BIG MISTAKE!

ROTS iggy does speak proper n that, y'know.

iggypiggy · 11/03/2010 16:02

gasps I did speak proper for you innit. It's only the poor bloke and my work colleagues that have to put up with the inane speak

Am liking the piss stained theme to this fred

givecarrotsachance · 11/03/2010 16:16

iggs I can hear you speak when you write. I find it amusing. Although "innit" would probably drive me nuts IRL!!

Wow re ponyclub etc. One of those what keeps it all running then. Makes me feel very ashamed not to have done stuff like that . I guess I need to kick LC up on a horse. Mind you, he had his first ride at 10 days old... not too bad... (and photo to prove it). Admitedly he wasn't holding the reins and "kicking on" but he WAS on an oss. All 16.2 of him.

ponymum Um, at the risk of getting myself into trouble, I'm not objecting. At all . Although with the recent stuff about dogs running up to people I'm wondering whether actually the bloodhounds should be included in the dangerous dogs act?

'scuse me while I pop off and vote Labour and go ome to me battery chicken's coz they're cheap and I've a RIGHT to cheap food n stuff.

PS SKIIIIIIII HELLLLPP MEEEEEEE

iggypiggy · 11/03/2010 16:22

We say innit as a joke - cos i live in south london and it is what all da kids say. I couldn't bring myself to use it unless I was joking. I am very childish tho...

We were always taught that in pony club you should give back what you got out of it and teach when you leave - I knew I didn't want a career in horses (cos I wanted to afford my own) but I sort of did at the same time (obsessed horsey child) - so this way i get both.

LC is the age that I taught 5 boys the year before last - you should def have him on a pony (not a shitland tho - soz pandy!).

I already have my baby's first pony picked out and reserved - ha ha...

givecarrotsachance · 11/03/2010 16:43

iggs I have to at the idea of a grown woman saying "innit". I share your amusement, is what I mean

Yes, I totally understand the giving back thing and of course stuff like the PC would only survive with people like you doing that stuff. I guess I've been doing that for organisations I've been involved with over the past few years such as the NCT.

But I must get him riding. Mum wants to buy him a little pony and carriage - she prefers the idea of getting him driving .

skihorse · 11/03/2010 16:43

I am repulsed by your Pony Club stories.

I have very fond memories of Pony Club camp... e.g., getting off the red-eye from Toronto, driving up to mid-wales and being handed a 16.3hh with a reputation for bucking who's just been hacked 30 miles to take the fizz out of him (unbeknown to me)! Year after I was given a 4 year old racehorse! Happy daze.

Can someone please scan & send mini-pand pic because I am repulsed by the fact I can't get H&H for love nor money - or is the pic online yet?

rots what do I need to save you from?

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CUNextTuesday · 11/03/2010 16:45

I have started to go 'ooof' as I sit down = latest symptom

GrumpyGasper · 11/03/2010 16:49

cunty according to my yoga teacher grunting/sighing is good. You are releasing properly. Let it all out, I say.

I find I have discovered a range of new moans, many a bit Kevin and Perry-esque.

I don't have a pony . But having discovered that SFF has only been on a hoss once in his life, I an vowing to get us on trekking sometime in the future, when my pelvic floor and hips have recovered.

pandora69 · 11/03/2010 19:02

Yes, mini-me is the one at the bottom of pg3. With 'owndz, as she calls them here you go Ski. The hound was wanting to lick chocolate dribble off her face, as I'd had to bribe her to sit still. (D'ya like my parenting skills ) Before that she had been on the pony, off the pony, on the pony, etc, and to be honest it was getting in the way of me gassing with me mates. So 'choccy, and SIT STILL!' it was.

I'd love to do Pony Club teaching. When I was pregnant with DD I did some PC show jumping judging, and it was brilliant! And I like the way Pony Club teaches Discipline, in a no-pussyfooting around kind of way you know, 'feed your horse or it will die!' sort of thing, as well as the very traditional 'it didn't hurt that much, now get back on' philosophy.

Btw Iggs it's OK by me for you not to have a Shitland. I'm already dreaming of the day I can get DD something that's 'not a Shitland' but she was free, and never look a gift horse and all that!

Ski I was thinking about some Hot Milk bras this time round. They sound nice! Sturdy is good in a nursing bra. But sturdy and pretty is better!

Sal, here you go, but this'll be gone tomorrow cos I have weird skiing cyberstalkers who'd love to know who I am! Btw DD was still breastfeeding here - not a cool look to have a baybee headbutting you in front of passengers, but sometimes you give OH something simple to do, like 'don't let her catch sight of me while I'm working,' and he can't even do that .

GrumpyGasper · 11/03/2010 19:23

pandy Gorgeous in both cases! your DD reminds me a lot of me as a child. Hope it's ok to say that

So are you grounded now? What do pilots do when they are pregnant?

pandora69 · 11/03/2010 19:28

Gas were you a curly ginger bonkers child too?

I have a crappy job that I have to do from home (so not quite as bad as it could have been.) But I need a laptop and secure email access for it, and it is like getting blood out of a stone trying to get these things sorted out. I just want to have my laptop and a bit of work and retreat to my own little world of slowly plodding through commenting on safety reports at my own speed, rather than having some manager breathing down my neck because I have been grounded since Jan and don't actually appear to have done anything yet. Last time I had a fab job scaring other pilots in the simulator. My job was to be their worst nightmare. It was brilliant! I only managed to make 2 of them crash it though.

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