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!

iggy Yes, they've gone from "amusing" to "give it a rest son". Mucho violence unleashed towards poor mum when I'm putting my socks on - although perhaps when I can wake up one day without fucking fresh snow on the ground (oh yes, we had it again today) then I can consider ditching the socks & boots and breaking out the birkenstocks.

I think I'd be OK with reptiles - arachnids NO and I'm no good with rats at all, but I'd put my life on the line for a guinea pig because they are the cutest of all the small furry things. We have ~6 baybee goats at the park right now... they make me choke up just looking at them.

This is of course the park where I met the English lady a few weeks ago. We were at the stables on saturday when her daughter nicked her thumb, I said not to worry but she should give it a proper wash when she got home, "like you do after you've been to the animals in the park". "Oh we don't do that" she replied, "in our house we don't think animals are dirty"! Bless her! My kinda people!

Sorry, I'm absolutely full of gab this morning. I've been emailing hawaiian and we've been joking about the bad stuff that little boys will do, from stealing from purses, through "borrowing" the car without permission to getting girls pregnant. So actually my question is for curly and pandy and pony - how do your husbands feel about the "chastity" of their little girls? Jailbait was pretty adamant that if it'd been a girl she'd not have been allowed out without him as a chaperone until she was 40.

Hmm, not too sure on the cat shit debate. You see the doc reasoned like this: cats clean themselves with their tongues and in doing so they spread minute particles of their faeces all over their entire coat. So her message was: "évitez le contact avec les chats".

On the other hand, I have no cat, much as I do like them, so the whole thing is pleasantly academic really.

Enjoying all this talk of kicks. Still seems very faaarrr away. Can't think further than the 7 week scan at the mo...

happy friday gals.

First of well done pan with the getting in H&H! I would love to go hunting and think horse would love it, tho horse is definitely not fit enough and probably not best thing for a preggo to have a bash at.

I dont do banks. If they arent 3ft high they aint no use!

ps. So do not want to be cv work either. Colleague told me she is pregnant! V cool. Had to try hard not to start asking loads of q's as she is 14weeks!

Pps. I have my appraisal soon, my first one here, wonder if that is good time to mention diffedness! Prob not!

Ppps. Night time wee is now at 545 only! progress!

witty I know is just my opinion - but that sounds a bit OTT - the risk from cat shit is minimal anyway - therefore the risk from transferred stuff must be miniscule... Your doc sounds v. risk averse! All of the advice I've seen says its fine to keep cats and stroke them! for example here

But as you say - is academic as you don't have any!

sliver I don't do banks either - but they make them do them at camp!

Am awake again and feeling slightly more humanoid

switty i am 9 weeks just noo - only really been puking good style past 2 weeks. however on the the plus side, like ski, have massive knockers which is kinda making up for it.

Yeah,do feel thoroughly preggers now - couldn't pay me to stay awake after about 9.30pm

rots yeah i heard they could do that desensitisation thing - sounds quite interesting esp if it works but also borderline terrifying - think they have to do it somewhere with full resuscitation facilities?! friend of mine also allergic to most animals but not to her own cat - kinda like self-curing of some kind!

curlygurny i am def up there for ginger baybee potential. on both sides of family so probably inevitable!

sal sorry you iz puking - it will stop - and hopefully soon for you!

My MS went away mostly from about 10 weeks - which I know is v. lucky...

iggs fanks matey. i know will stop, also like ski and probably all preggo folk on the planet - trying to delude self that symptoms are good, sign all is progressing etc. loving the diet coke, toast and special k diet .

Banks are the tool of the devil - they make one come over all OCD.

sal I is just 9 weeks yesterday. Ms is on and off for me. Thought I had it sorted but no the other night thought I was dying. Not actually been sick and hope it stays that way. The slightest puke feeling and I eat!

Norks were huge this morning. Literally shouting come and get me! Out with some chums tonight tho i am driving so that is fine! So hard to constantly think before opening trap door! Even husband said the same. Be much easier when people know.

We may have an ickle ginger too......

Right I am really quite fucking angry with your doc wits.

There is a teeny tiny risk of toxo if you spend your time rubbing your hands all over with cat shit when you change their litter, but you?re just as likely to get it from unwashed veg. You absolutely do NOT have to avoid all contact with cats. It?s no wonder you hear stories of people rehoming their cats when they get diffed, when they get spouted shit like this by so called hcp?s.

Really, it?s going back to SGB and her woman-hating ? some people seem to think you should just avoid all contact with anything when you are preggo. Makes my blood boil.

Apparently (according to scientst friend of mine) even though TGO is ginger, I was ginger at birth, as was my dad, my grandmother was ginger, my cousin is ginger etc etc etc we only have a 25% chance of a ginger babyee.

TGO does not want a ginger boy, due to bullying, ginger girl ok apparently.

^ You know after she hit "post message" she sat back in her swivel chair and got back to the business of stroking her big fat white persian cat whilst looking down on earth from 30 miles above its crust.

'tis true cossie, we are a rare breed. But it does look like the PESH babies will have a good level of gingerness. And i agree that ginger is better for a girl than a boy. Unfortunately.

lol, you knowz it ski. My poor furry baybees. sob.

and i WANT a ginger baybee.

My sister is a bit gingery, but alas there is no hint of such in TSF's family - I really like the colouring too.

Though I have always assumed I would have brown-eyed babies as I have very brown eyes and a slim grasp on genetics. It has recently dawned that it might come out blue-eyed (sister has blue-eyed babies, TSF and family are blue or green eyed). I have stated it's going right back if it isn't brown-eyed....but I suspect this may seem less of a good idea on D-Day itself....

When I was born I had huge dark-brown eyes, and brown hair growing out of my ears. Apparently I looked like some sort of mutant hairy frog. I do not have high expectations of beauty....

I have more of a preference on eye colour than gender - wonder if this is not quite normal.

Also it would be nice if girl-frog-baby had hair like TSF (virtually no body hair) or boy-frog-baby like mine (nice and manly down etc).

But apart from that, I'm not fussy.....

Pretty much all babies come out blue eyed don't they? and colour changes a couple of months later? Or have I imagined that?

I was in a rare flap yesterday with the lads who sit opposite me in the office, stressing that my baby was going to be a minger with an elongated head. Dilemma is this: all babies are squashed and sock-puppet looking. But by the time they grow into their face at 2-3 months, it's too late to swap hospital bracelets with a newborn which has more potential.

Hom has put a blanket ban on having a kid that looks anything like the ones Cow and Gate chose for that 'do I look like I'm hungry,blah, blah' laughing babies advert(you know, one looks like Warren Clarke, one looks like Stan Laurel). I don't know what to do!

On the plus side, the heartburn has started. I think Rastus has turned round so that he's upside down - getting very strange feelings underneath my diaphragm...

My parents swear blind mine were brown...but I suppose they could have been very very dark....

Cos, that's what I thought too.

I'm going to stay out of the cat debate. I had murderous thoughts last year when I was picking my lovingly grown lettuce and dicovered that next door's cats had been using my veggie plot as a toilet. I mean - we live in 9000 acres of forest, and the only house within screaming distance of here is the neighbour, and even then they are not on our doorstep. There is vast tracts of unexplored forest-y potential litter tray out there, and they have to come and crap in my food! Why?

Anyway. I went to toddler group this morning, and the skinny Italian woman who goes there too asked how far along I was, and when I said 15 weeks, she went 'I have an announcement - I am 16 weeks on Monday.' Now I can kind of see where she is coming from - all the other women are all cooing over me and won't let me lift the boxes of toys out (even though I have confessed I am still hoiking 25kg sacks of horse and chicken feed round at home,) and she's a bit further along and feels that she ought to get some of the cooing too. Fair enough. But what is entirely unreasonable is that she is about 6 days ahead of me and is still the skinniest woman at the group, and I look like a heifer. One of the other women said to me 'oh, but you pop out sooner when it's not your first.' Right. The skinny woman is at TODDLER GROUP! Which means unless she is some kind of weirdo and we haven't noticed, she has at least one child already too. It shouldn't be allowed. You shouldn't be allowed to tell people in RL you are pregnant until you are fatter than everyone else and waddling, so as not to upset any fat and waddling other women.

Rant over!

Yes, most babies born with blue eyes. The foal's were the most amazing dark inky blue (which I greatly coveted) but are now deep dark brown just like Daddy's. I have some ginger tendencies (frizzle to skin cancer levels if I see the sun for 2 mins, etc) but the foal was born with jet black hair!

ski Mucho discussion here about chastity of daughter. In MrP's words: 'She's not allowed anywhere near boys. I know what 18 year old boys are like. I was one.'

We have agreed a strategy as follows: Distract her with pony-madness for as long as possible through her teenage years. If this fails try a convent/boarding school/lock her in the attic until 25.

pandy I agree wholeheartedly. Should we start one those Mumsnet campaign thingies?

I agree with Cokie, liquorice mings like Chinese pottery.

Why is MissPandora69 in H&H? < Stalks Googles to see if there's an online version>

I am going to New Look in Oxford Circus tomorrow so will report back on their maternity collection.

"ponymum and the black mambo strap-on?"

Um Ski I think you are confused between a black mamba and a mambo

I am definitely having a ginger baby, lots of red heads on both sides.

Ski, OH is very uninterested in ponies, but feels if DD loves her pony she might not be interested in boys so much. It hasn't occured to him that he managed to distract my attention away from ponies at the age of 16 and did the kind of things in the hay barn to me he would kill over if any male even had thoughts like that about DD! I think I may be the kind of dad who will sit behind the front door with a shotgun and woe betide any boy who brings her home late.

Silver, pop the baby out and then get out hunting! The social scene is very good (I had champers at the manor house the other night ) Deffo not a good idea pregnant - it's not your own horse or riding you have to worry about, it's the other numpties. Although I do know lots of women who have, but they are too menkul even for here!

Skates she was being licked by a hound in a very cute way, and they like to have a page of cute or interesting photos - on page 3