The PESH Deli - The one where Cheggers Goes Pop-Pop!

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BESH BABYWIN STATS

This isn?t a fucking list ? right?

BESH BAYBEES
dontrythisathome, Bay Amaryllis born March 25.

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Cheggers, she won 2 baybees, due soon
Ponymum, the one with the worst hips, due mid June
CUNextTuesday, takes no shit from the Daily Mail, due June 28
IggyPiggy, The one who loves BUMSEX, due July 20
CurlyCasper, the ginger with the dodgy joints due July 21 (girl)
Skihorse, cradle snatching web geek, due July 22 (boy)
Carrots, organic hippy hunter, due July 25 (boy)
Cosmosis, the one that likes a good ride, due August 22
Pandora, She's got wings, due September 6
skatergrrrl, the one that overtook the rest, September ??
VAG, lives in De Nile, due 19 September
Honeymoo, puppy lover, due November 1
silversky, the biggest farter, due 21 October (first baybee)
okiecokie, self-confessed control freak, due November 6

"so your boobs work then?" said SFF a moment ago, after I discovered wet nipples for the first time. No liquid gold though, just clear for now.

Now I know why my nipple felt sore/funny, I though the left one had a split in it or something

Twitty don't get in a huff luv. You will surely be added to the next thread starting "list" of peshies. Once we have identified a nice and embarrassing descriptor of course.

Cosmos hearty backslap on your scan. I dunno how you have the self control to not want to know if ickle girl or boy, but well done. For me, I am looking forward to throwing myself into a 6 month retail fest of gender stereotyped baby paraphernalia. I've already bought the hard back book of "My Naughty Little Sister" (Favorite book and LP as a child, narrated by the wonderful Felicity Kendall).

Reggie gingernuts made me feel worse, too sweet. I crave anything salty. Preferably starting with McChicken... Well done for not damaging baby. I freaked out when I looked after my friends baby (oddly the only time she's asked me) and I accidentally put her down on the kitchen floor on her playmat and gave her head a tiny bump. She looked at me like I was hitler and then screamed for 3 hours non stop until I had the bright idea to go into a dark room at which point she fell straight to sleep shattered. I didn't even get to change her nappy. God only knows how negligent her parents thought me. And I've got to do this myself??

Hi ho Silver good luck for Thursday. You'll be fine. No more sprouts til after the scan.

curlywurly I am a huge fan of renting in the country. It was supposed to be a temporary thing for us after we sold our house and before we found the perfect country pile of our own but... here we are 3 years later. I must admit it is a bit frightening that at the moment we couldn't afford a mortgage on the sort of places we can rent, but as we are down most of my income for a while it seems like a good way to live for now. And you're right, the houses won't be sold, so you can really make them into your 'own' home and know that you can live there as long as you want to.

I have my next appt with the consultant on Thursday. As it's the 30 week mark I have now decided to tell her that I want to have another el c-s. I know my reasons for the decision but for some reason I am very nervous about this conversation.[sad and scared]

Cos wahey for scan! Noone's had a scan to excited over for a while.

Switty no girl's in OH's family either for a long time. Cue MIL tutting about us finding out DD's sex and then saying 'I'll believe it when I see it!'

Pony Don't feel scared! Just tell 'em. And if they don't like your decision, punch 'em! Btw, there is no gender neutral stuff in DD's wardrobe. She is a pink fiend through and through. Except for when she is wearing her Thomas the Tank Engine t shirts!

Anyway - onto more important stuff. Noone shout at me now, please, because this has taken some delicate re-telling to OH, who is understandably not as excited as I am, and I daren't tell anyone I actually know as they will think I am nuts. I am blaming hormones. Today I bought a racehorse. There - it's out now - all my stalkers will be able to hunt me down and know something about me even my best friend doesn't know (but only cos she's on her hols. I always buy horses when she's not there to tell me not to be so stupid.) I haven't got big horse sold yet, and I can't ride a new horse because I don't know it (I know big horse and fully understand his stupid sense of humour.) But my helper-outer-girl is just too helpful to be made to be horse-free till I pop, so we have bought a cheapy one together. I will shout at her and drive her to lessons, and she will do the hard physical graft. Then, next year either it will be tons better than it is now (couldn't really be any worse!) and be sold, or it will be my hunter for the winter. It is a nice little horse (ALL horses are smaller next to big horse!) but is so laid back I had to check for a pulse, several times. I have been told it behaves this way in all situations, even when a crowd is yelling it on because it is the favourite and doing a good impression of a horse that really can't be bothered (it either won or came last in every race of it's career. With no rhyme or reason as to why. It is a very fast lazy horse, iyswim.) So I am hopeful it will tolerate being ridden by a woman dragging a small child behind her on a pony with one hand and clutching my hipflask full of sloe gin in the other.

Ooooh, I feel better for having got that out. The sellers are kindly going to hide the horse for us up at Lambourn till big horse is definitely gone!

pandy Do you mean an ex-racehorse. It's not actually in training at the moment is it? I don't think that's too mad. But as you say, you really should have sold big horse first...

pone as long as it's the right thing for you then sock it to them. These are good reasons you have, and your health and getting this little scrap out safely is the no. 1 priority. Go girlfriend.

Pony it will be an ex-racehorse by the time I get hold of it It raced only 4 weeks ago (came last. Again. Hence why it's for sale.) But today, when it came blatting up the gallops in Lambourn with a jockey on it's back with short stirrups, it definitely looked a bit like a racehorse. I could take it to the races tomorrow if I wanted to come last I think I'm a bit outside of it's regular handicap atm though. It is in a racing yard, and still being ridden out with the string daily, but they were a bit more focussed on selling it than racing it after it's recent outing. It only had a proper saddle on it for the first time today (it has been used to racing saddles all it's life) and can only go in a straight line. Good job I don't like dressage, ey?

I know you are right about one in, one out, but what is the point in having a tiny house so you can afford the stables and paddocks, and being all hormonal, if you are not going to exploit it to it's fullest potential? Besides, I have already cut back on the horsey habit this year - I no longer have the nutter-cob. OH has been weirdly supportive of my actions - maybe he is just happy to see me getting on with being pregnant and not being as pissed of with it all as last time? Who knows!

Did someone say Lambourn? ...

pandora I think it's great you've done something for you during being preggo - a lot of the time I feel everything I'm doing is for everyone else and forgetting I do have say in what I do and don't do. Future Mums shouldn't be forgotten!

Had a shocking night. Got up at 3.47 am and by 4 am was eating cheese and lard covered crackers smothered in branston pickle. Did I mention the 3 times I had to pee between 4.30 am and 7 am? Urgh. Knackered now so have firmly dedicated this afternoon to sofa slouching.

honeymoo quite proud I didn't break the baby - still I know what you mean when you say about having to do it yourself... I do find myself pondering what the first day will be like back home on our own with the baby. Hubby usually deals with problems by either rebooting or reading manual, boy, we're gonna struggle!

reggie Congratulations on not killing the baybee, yes I've heard about those willy-cap things and they are a priority on my "buy before it arrives" list. Also wrt to morning sickness, I love it when the newbies roll up and say "you know I haven't had any morning sickness yet" and you can virtually set your watch to 6-6.5 weeks. If it's any consolation I'm 24+6 and still puking, huzzah! Wrt ginger biscuits , by about 7 weeks having ginger in my mouth made me wretch and it's perfectly acceptable behaviour to punch anyone who says "have you ever thought about eating ginger?" as though they hold the holy fucking grail. They are cunts. In fact there is an anti-ginger movement on the pregnancy boards - they swoop down on people prescribing ginger to long-term ms-sufferers. As honeymoo suggest, McDonalds is the way to go and ponymum and I are both fans of the Burger King drive-thru experience, I figure after avoiding the stuff with a passion for 20 years I can have a wee binge now. Baybee still alive.

pony If you wants your cut & shut, haves it - and tell them to fuck off too. I totally agree about renting in the country and I think (generally) owners in the country prefer a longer no hassle tenant.

pandora Lunatic. Was this as a result of the thread in the tack room?

silver I just don't understand how you got lumbered with a reputation for parping - 'tis a mystery to me!

regina Ah, I see you've discovered the third pregnancy food group (McDonalds, Burger King) - which is cheese & crackers. In the first 8 weeks I was up at 3:30 a LOT for food, I just couldn't make it until morning. Erm, wrt fixing the baybee, do you mean your hubby is going to attempt to shove it back up in case of failure?

I'm very proud of myself - I didn't have to get up for a pee last night.

My mouth is watering at the thought of those crackers: cheese-lard-pickle-yummy... I have just had a big breakfast of course.

Honey I have been giggling at the thought of you giving the baby's head a tiny bump. Poor you. The first time I was minding kids on my own, one of them fell off a slide. God it was awful. She wasn't hurt though. So you see, I am very experienced and have nothing to worry about.

pandora congrats on the new arrival! But to be honest (not being very horsey) I have been way more intrigued by the news of you having a girl in a family where there were none. This gives me hope. I choose to take it as a "sign".

pony I think /hope that the whole el cs conversation is one that might go a lot better than you expect it to. After all, it is your choice, made for good reasons.

I know it's no consolation ski but I'm still getting the daily sicky burps at 25 weeks. I'm kind of used to it now. But I'm sure it will be like a literal breath of fresh air when they have gone.

Nice to see so many supporters of countryside rental. I have a feeling that if we get this place we'll end up staying longer than the year we've planned for. Fine by me as it will allow more time to save a bigger deposit for when we finally buy. Might even get fit seeing as it's such a long walk to the pub... (Might even try walking to work come summer 2011 - on the days when SFF is at home with the sprog)

My left nipple is in agony. I'm definitely having the left-sided pregnancy I suspected at the start. Placenta is on the left, baby likes to hide behind it, left breast is bigger, left hip is worst and now the left nipple acheage. Maybe someone should smack me around the right hand side? Just miss the arm/hand please - I'm right-handed

Rastus and me are off to Ragdale Hall today for some pampering and preening. Rastus likes a massage (I do him with a nice smelling scrub when I'm in the shower - gets rid of his dead cells) and I can't wait for my scalp massage(s).

Needless to say the government have intervened in even this most inocuous corner of my life, and I'm 'not allowed' certain treatments which usually I adore. However Hom has bought me a load of treatments for my birthday so when I come back with a realigned aura I swear you will not recognise me. I shall be serene and benevolent and full of largesse.

28 week AN appt this morning though. Got to discuss birth plan and other shiz. Then go and buy a maternity swimming cossie

mmmm regina cheese and crackers mmmm nom, nom nom

Again well done for not breaking the baby. I'm a little bit scared of when I meet my new niece in a few weeks in case I reveal my utter ineptness around small beings. Haven't held one since my nephew was born four and a half years ago, and even then I was sitting down and he was placed in my lap. I'm hoping I'll be able to sweep in and confidently scoop the month-old into my arms, but I'll probably just get The Fear. I suspect it's worse when it's someone else's child you risk breaking and i'll be entirely relaxed with my own

ooh panda a new hoss! As I know nothing of these things I will look on in awe and picture you winning the National

cunty. Have a great day! I had planned a spa/girly weekend in June but then a therapist told me how few treatments I could have etc and I changed my mind. I'm not sitting around watching everyone else get the good stuff. Might change my mind again though if you have good things to report after today.

I have also refused to buy a maternity cossie because SPD wimminz are not allowed to do breast stroke and without that I will sink, and because preggos are not allowed in the jacuzzi, so bugger it. MIL said I didn't need a special cossie anyway - just wear a bikini

Hope MW app goes ok.

Staying for 3 days cas They do special preggo packages which are worth every penny by the looks of tings. Definitely worth investing in, especially as you get bigger and more 'cumbersome' - I wouldn't have looked forward to it as much earlier on I reckon.

Just going to float in the pool I reckon. And jacuzzi schmoozi. It's not that hot - no hotter than an average bath and I intend to stay away from any direct jets onto Rastus's head (as I would to my own) so the risk is negligible as far as I am concerned.

don't see the risk myself but I would expect there to be some spa nazis to kick us lot out

Three days - even better and even more
Are you going to cut yourself off from the outside world to get the full benefit?

Don't see the risk curly? What if she gets BUBBLES or JETS of BOILING water up her FOOFOO? Won't somebody think of the dying baybees?

Btw curly I am trying not to think about your nipple. That's my latest worry I think... that any day now, things will start happening. You know, like cheggers once described.

Ou est le cheggers anyway? She is going POP-POP this week!

cunty I've got a preggo tankini which is really comfy and the top pulls down loads, not sure how much swimming I'll be doing, just sort of floating and "beaching" mostly I think.

Is rots OK? She's gone very quiet on us. i.e., is probably off knitting pink clothes for her gender-bender baybee.

I'm working from home and have just had an email re: the not-enough-seats fiasco asking which days I'd like to be at home. AIBU for responding "mon-fri"?

No YANBU...

I'm going to get in jacuzzi and woe betide, I mean WOE BETIDE anyone who tries to say otherwise

yanbu at all!

So I doesn't exactly have leaky nips but there have been whiteish/yellow crusty deposits found on them....

I haz found gorgeous farm animal bedding wot we is going to buy, sheepses and ducks and shiz. lovely. cunty was it you who said you was having a farmyard? although not actually speaking to you atm due to 3-day spa jealousy.

Cunty You DON'T need to tell us every detail when you get back because we might just all have to kill you in a fit of jealousy.

Switty Yes - the good news about being the first girl is that you have absolutely no chance at all of being handed down clothes you don't like, but can still make use of everyone else's useful stuff like bouncing cradles and old prams (essential when you are a serial pram trasher like me!) OH's older brother and sister both had 2 boys, and younger brother had a boy before we had DD. In his generation, his sister was the only girl amongst about 9 male cousins.

Ski I haven't seen the tack room thread (scoots over to look.) But I am still in a state of shock. I have to ring the vet next to get them to go and confirm that it does indeed have 4 legs and a head, and isn't likely to die in the next 12 months. And check it has a pulse.

Btw, I don't want to rub it in, but I never had morning sickness in either pregnancy. I did have 'the Hunger' though. Take the snacks to bed, is what I say!

Reggie - east or west of Lambourn These things could be improtant for future sharing of gin. Lambourn is vvvV close to me, too.

pandy hoss sounds fab. Last one I was riding (well last two come to think of it) were ex-racers TB, and absolutely wonderful. We'd started some intensive schooling with them and they responded really well, and even started to jump nicely.

Ski I'm here, thanks for asking . I'm ok, just horribly busy at work and finding I'm too knackered after work to do anything. Also getting bad pelvic pains so have been spending all evening sitting on or leaning over preggo ball (luverly) so will speak to MW on Friday about it. I think it's a sort of SPD type pain but really mild, meaning the pain is caused by the same ligaments playing up as in SPD, but not actually all going horribly wrong, I just need to be careful. Turns out that running a race with LC on Saturday followed by swimming, followed by V long walk on Sunday, followed by kids party on Monday, walk to the fair, walk around the fair, walk home, was all too much for this preggo laydee. So I'm doing gentle walking and some swimming, and being really careful about posture and sleeping positions and it's all feeling MUCH better. I'm wearing a two-piece cossie, not a bikini () but separates with a long top which covers my belly even now. Prob not forever but it's a private swimming pool (remember I'm a Northern Tory, just in case it gets forgotten).

nips I didn't stop lactating (just a bit, not exactly enough for a cup of tea ) until I caught again with this little one. I'm just starting to get little bits now, like you're all describing. TBH I love it. I absolutely loved breastfeeding, really loved it, and missed it terribly when he stopped so I'm really excited about it all working again. I felt so proud of my body, this sort of seperate thing to me yet who I was, who had created this beautiful little creature all by itself (well other than the obvious!) and I was the only person in the world specifically designed to ensure the survival of the little creature. It was magical.

TGO and I are kind of in awe of the nips at the moment it has to be said!

Oh fook, I'm not wearing a two-piece cossie RIGHT NOW as above post implied.

I took a 4 year old racehorse to pony club camp when I was 14! To say I stood out amongst the Thelwells is an understatement! He was very chilled and very well mannered - I did fall off on top of the mountain though when we took a hedge - he was slightly more "enthusiastic" than I'd previously been used to.

rots are you sleeping with a preggo pillow? Are you waking in the night to find that said item has been commandeered from you and YOB is wrapped all around it with a contented smile upon his face?