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!

Who elses oh was soppy enough to buy them a mothers day card then??

Happy mothers' day almost-mums!

Had massive maternity shopping FAIL yesterday so sorry ski, I cant report back on New Look.

Walked from Oxford Circus to Marble Arch - the big Next near Bond Steet is closed till May for a refurb. The small Next by Marble Arch doesnt stock maternity clothes. New Look in Oxford Street had no maternity section at all. Other places I looked (eg Debenhams) had small maternity departments with nothing I liked.

Has confirmed my suspicion that Oxford St is rubbish and from now on my clothes shopping will be done from the sofa, in my pajamas, via this laptop.

cos not mine. I am totally cool about it as still early days.

MIL came over for Muvvers Day brekkie and beforehand we had to quickly check the house for any pregnancy literature laid out for all to see.

Am watching FEI world cup sj. Better than the usual sunday night rubbish. Am so tired again. Not long til the 4 day w'end which I need!

I got a card From "YOB, LC and CS" and then another from LC that he'd made a school It had a piccie on the front which I assumed was me, but then he said it may be him, but he couldn't remember . Very cute. LC had also chosen a candle thing from the school. The PTA asked for gifts to be donated which would go into a room and the children would be able to choose a gift for their mums from the room. He was so proud of choosing something for me .

I love being a mum Kids are fab. I think I'll have some more

honey maybe your friend(s) are jealous. If they are all on baby nuber two I assume they have experienced the NHS and may be deep down they would have preferred private. I had #1 via NHS and to be honest I can not really complain as when the shit hit the fan all the stops were pulled out however I was still in a hospital that deals with 6000 births a year despite only been equipped to deal with 3000 (they was even some poor woman in labour on the post natal ward as there were no beds in the delivery suite...)

Cunty I did not do NHS classes but have friends that did and got to take the piss out of the 1970's video they got to watch on giving birth - maybe it is worth it just for that?! And time off work of course as they tend to be during the day unlike NCT which are evenings and weekends.

Today I have put two flat pack bits of furniture together and have been to the tip which was very quiet for a Sunday...!

" I think I'll have some more"

Bit late to change your mind, now though, isn't it?

LOL pan!! I meant more after this one . Just got to persuade my hubby though .

Just a happy mommy coz I got my baybee back this afternoon. I missed him so much but he came home armed with party bags and a gift and card for me, hugs, kisses, smiles and lots of "I love you mummy" s.

There's nothing nicer than snuggling up in bed with a clean little boy, fresh from the bath, reading a book together and then tucking him into his crisp sheets and kissing him goodnight. I've spent all evening with a grin on my face just knowing he's back upstairs cuddling his teddy and sleeping like an angel.

Did I mention I was feeling hormonal recently?

Would you like to borrow my DD for a bit, Rots, if you are feeling extra broody? I had great fun today hiking up a hill carrying her and all of my camera equipment (not!) Would she walk? No! And I had to feed her chocolate in a weak parent kind of way because I was fed up with the continual screeching noises she was making about staying in the car.

Aww chocolate? You terrible, dreadful parent! What were you thinking?

(Rots ignores fact that LC has had cake and a curly wurly from his party bag tonight )

Believe me, there's times when I could happily provide him with another mummy and daddy - but then his other daddy takes him away for the weekend and I realise what I'm missing.

Before I left my ex and I was doing it all on my own, it was Very Much Harder and the times I had to myself were like gold dust. Ironically, when I was literally on my own after leaving ex and before getting together with YOB, life was much easier as I only had one baby to deal with...

Before I skip off to bed, I wanted to ask if anyone had considered whether or not to have a managed 3rd stage?

I'm really torn. I don't want interventions of any kind but mum advocates it and it seems that it may be a good idea. Totally .

Right. I thought the cockerels were bing particularly quiet this morning. When I went out to feed everything they had managed to get in woth each other again and been at each other's throats. They are called Mummy's Boy and Bobby Charlton, and they have lived next door to each other for a year without trouble (Mummy's boy actually lives very happily with my third boy, Mick Jagger, in the same run as him,) but in the last month have decided they need to kill each other. Last time Bobby came off worse and I thought he was going to die. This time Mummy's Boy is looking worse off. And they trampled on a hen in the meantime. They are scaring the hens and they keep on trying to get out of the runs to get away from them, and last week one did manage to escape and she was eaten by a fox that day (we are crawling with foxes here.) I should add the chickens are all kept in separate runs with 6ft high fences. They keep jumping over though.

AAArgh. Monday mornings - don'cha just love'em?

Kids sound easier panda. Hope your feathery boys are ok though.

We've decided to go to the local NHS classes and see what we get from them. Not paying for NCT, but might join for the social side. I'm learning a fair bit at my yoga classes, and our NHS physio runs a series of relaxation/breathing classes, which I also plan to attend (she's the one I see for my SPD anyway).

Managed third stage? Must read more...

I did get one Mother's Day gift, but more something for the baby and it didnn't come from SFF.

Three comments on my bleeding obvious bump already today

skater Thank you for trying lovely! I have seen some nice stuff on the mothercare website, asos and next have a few summer things in - I'm really after maxi dresses but I don't know what next were thinking with that green monstrosity. I will give New Look a whirl if I can be bothered, or just wait until I'm in Newcastle.

Cossie I didn't get a muvver's day card as it wasn't muvver's day here. Also am not arsed about it.

honey I think I'd use the NHS in certain places, inner city London/Birmingham/Glasgow would be a no. Unless I'd put something in the water which stopped everyone else having a baybee on my day.

I have had a comedy morning - only one cock though. We've figured out that Julian strongly objects/loves mum having an orgasm, this morning he just about kicked jailbait's hand off my tum. Then my sick hormones kicked in and I had to leg it to the bathroom where it was a comedy of excretions, I barfed, parped, barfed, a drop of wee ran down my leg, I barfed, cried, parped, etc. Jailbait was torn between rubbing my back in a caring manner and clutching on to the door frame in hysterics.

Small world: On saturday at the rugby club I met a woman who served (navy) with one of the girls I'm meeting up in Newcastle with. Funny coincidences these.

ski I have yet to find a New Look branch that stocks maternity wear. Might be that online is the way forward. I might start a regular maxi dress search on ebay. One of the surk/skatery shops had a beautiful (but expensive) maxi dress in stock at Xmas. Wish I had just bought it then...

I emailed New Look and they swear blind that a their branch in a tiny Belgian town just over the border does it... I'm torn with the maternity stuff, whilst I want to be wearing nice clothes I don't feel I can justify an entire new wardrobe for what hopefully won't need to be worn after september or so.

I know what you mean. I now have five pairs of over bump trousers (two jeans, one black linen, one combats and one trackies) costing £75 in total thanks to cheaper shops and ebay, and £30 of that was in Xmas gift vouchers, and refuse to buy anymore. And only a couple of proper maternity tops/dresses. Everything else is normal stuff but in bigger sizes, that I hope to get some use out of afterwards.

I have said goodbye forever to all my old tight/skinny stuff. But then, I was pushing it with those items before I got diffed

too many ands

I tried on a suede (pre-diff) skirt on friday - it wouldn't "quite" zip up... but the biggest problem did not appear to be my tummy but in fact my arse! I am most mithered. Bring on the maxi-dress/birkenstock movement!

Btw, giggled at your babyname's thread - there are a couple of people arguing about how to spell my middle name. So there you go - even the Scots can't agree on spelling/pronounciation!

On the maternity clothes, I'm going for combo nursing and maternity tops with the idea that I'll be able to wear them for months afterwards. Obviously this may not be relevant to those who can't or chose not to BF but if you want to, it's an option.

Bear in mind that for 1-2 months after birth you'll be about the size of your 20 week pregnancy (until the uterus contracts) so you have an extra time to wear your maternity stuff anyway.

Maternity clothes sell pretty well on ebay, too, so you should get back about 1/3 of what you paid.

Finally if there's an NCT group near you contact them urgently to find out when their next Nearly New Sale is (it will be just passed or this weekend or in the next couple of weekends). They often have really cheap maternity clothes for sale, as well as squillions of fab nearly new baby things. Essential shopping, seriously.

Sorry you had bad sex ski

I've had a bad cough... been wearing my Gran's "pads" which she "left me".

Must Do More Kegels.

"for months" (or years - I'm not planning to stop at 6 months and I fully intend to have plenty of people say, "are you STILL breastfeeding?")

And of course I will have a tongue-tied baby, mastitus, thrush and something wrong with my let down and be bottle feeding at 3 days.

rots hahah the sex was FINE! Very good. Hence Julian's fury! It's just once we were done he decided to throw a tantrum and twist his cord until I puked. I'm just happy we're still having sex but his reaction is just prize-worthy. The parp/puke/pee thing was funny granted... albeit not my most dignified moment.

Ok I'm glad you had good sex but sorry you had a undignified time afterwards!

I need to start having sex... it's been drifting back but not enough.

pan sorry about your birdies