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.

UPDIFFED
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

Hokey pokey and VAG whoopeeeeeeee. I too is sarf chelsea innit, down here in 11. I'm kind of in the bottom corner near 4 and 12 if you get my postcodal drift. We've only been here a year and a bit and already I am fast becoming a fecking nappy valley cliche - husband, dog, baby in waiting, career in meeeeedya. Next on the shopping list: serious amounts of cashmere, ballet slippers, botox and a nanny to drop off the dry cleaning.

VAG as you are not as advanced as other ladies of the deli, can I ask if you are showing yet? When can I expect to start looking preggers as opposed to a fat bird?

12 week scan next Friday... feeling a bit apprehensive and all that.

Ski I did larf at what you said about newbies going "ooh don't think I've got MS yet.." yep I was like 6 weeks on the nail. 8-10 severe sambuca hangover and now just back to mild Monday night chardonnay overindulgence. Obviously not helped by fact that puppy woke up at 3AM and barked for a BLOODY HOUR. WTF???!!! Going to change pics to public now so you can feast your eyes on my pain in the arse baby angel dog.

I meant to say 8 - 10 weeks were like a severe sambuca hangover...

moo puppy is well cute! I totally wouldn't mind if if I was kept awake by such a cute thing although my cats probably would not agree. Re your nappy valley credentials have you got the 4x4 and the Hunter wellies to walk on the common though? (because it it clearly the wilderness).

I did not feel anyting until 19 wees first time and thought it was wind. Was only sure at about 22 weeks by which time I was a neurotic mess that something was wrong with my baybee. St George's do the 20 week scan at 22 weeks so I really was a state, all of which was unfounded.

Mais bien sur! Mr Moo and I have matching hunters and regularly run over the locals on our way to starbucks/dry cleaners in our 4x4. It really is jolly handy for nipping to Waitrose.

Oh and I started to show to others until around 16/17 weeks (although I could see big difference before then) although did not get into maternity clothes until about 20/22. I am sure the others will agree there is a bit of an awkward time when normal clothes don't fit and maternity clothes are mahousive. I remember wearing normal linen trousers a lot with the button undone and baggy tops. You can always get some of those bump bands which allow you to unleash normal clothes before fitting into maternity. You can get them for about £5 from Top Shop if Top Shop is on rotty's permitted store list, here

It wasn't that long ago I had boob tubes like that... Do they attach to your buttons then - how do they stay up?

Vag I assume you will be watching Masterchef final since you are a Goddess in the kitchen. But please, can someone shoot the narrator as she is getting increasingly annoying as the series has gone on.

Moo they are just a round stetchy bit of material that you step into and pull up around your waist/trousers to hide the fact you are unzipped/unbuttoned. Yes, very similar to a boob tube but for fat birds.

Talking about annoying, watched Sophie-someone-take-me-out-the-back-and-shoot-me-Dahl on TV last night. Fk me makes Nigella look good. Her top tip was not to pour flour too quickly or you get a flour explosion. Her fishcake method also highly questionable.

yeah no way mayonnaise would keep those fish cakes together WTF?

Exactly! What a numpty.

honey I want to steal her. Lovely, soft little puppy And I went very quickly from not showing to HUGE. From 16-18 weeks I think.

Just enjoyed a one and three quarter hours bath followed by ten minutes playing with bubs while lying on the bed. Lots of jumps and kicks She's still at it now.

I refuse to watch that Sophie twat. Ever.

oh and nice to have another meeedja PESH on board.

We have Sky+'d cooking programmes coming out our ears here. We are about three episodes behind on Masterchef (so don't tell me please), trying to keep up with Aussie Masterchef, and have now started taping Great British menu too. Sophie doesn't get a look in I'm afraid. I saw a bit of the first episode and decided she was a lightweight.

One of these days I might actually do some cooking.

curls I had a two hour bath on Sunday.

honey I have some bad news I'm afraid. Something that adorable can only manifest itself in pure evil adulthood - it's the law of the dog world.

I don't understand all this cooking you lot are doing. Jailbait has totally taken over in the kitchen and takeaways do the rest. I am totally uninspired when it comes to food and quite frankly would eat weetabix 3 times a day if left to my own devices right now.

I finally got around to looking at the tax system last night wrt baybee... this breeding business looks very "lucrative". I may send back the 125 euro Quinny and order a Stokki in every colour!

cheggers WHERE ARE YOU? I have horrible visions of her stuck upside down in the bath and her husband trying to tube feed her down the snorkel.

ski is right *honey. she's too cute for her own good!

"working from home" this morning. But feeling sick and far from motivated.

moo that is one v. cute puppy... with my current level of broodiness I will be nipping a smidgeon to the west and stealing him from you

Am liking this sarf lundun massive... although I expect I am the only loser that was actually born and brought up here too...

My bumband worked very well with skirts, but there was a very nearly very unfortunate "incident" with a pair of unbuttoned Levis and my ankles.

Can any of you internet-addicted clever ladies point me in the direction of an online Moses basket that I can get sent to my parents (UK) so they can give it to me in Newcastle. It's going to save me at LEAST 50 quid to buy it in the UK.

It's bloody miserable here VAG although jailbait had a few hours on the golf course yesterday and came back with some colour as it was 20 degrees and sunny. I really want some sunshine this weekend for the beach. I had another classic differ moment yesterday. I picked up the suntan lotion, put it back, picked it up again, put it back, picked it up, put it back, walked away, walked back etc., etc. Sometimes such decisions seem very complicated.

lovely day vag. Washing is on the line and I've just been watering my seedlings. My French beans have surfaced and the thyme is emerging too. Makes me happy

Off to see another house this morning. Hoping we'll at least get to this one!

bumband? bumpband of course.

VAG What is non-socialist about walking in the country? What about the Kinder Scout mass trespass?

My differ moment appears to be losing MrP's car key. He left if for me yesterday as he took my car. Very unreassonable behaviour on his part. I mean, who has only one key for their car? And who, having only one key, entrusts it to a pregnant woman?

pony I think only Tory bastards [tm] are allowed to walk in the country as they own it. One must also be sure to shoot/hunt fluffy animals whilst walking. Fill yer poacher's pockets.

CHICK WATCH! I am very excited! I have eggs in the incubator, and after an evening spent last night surfing t'net about what happens on hatch day, I have been paranoid all night I may have drowned my babies in their shells. But this mornign I have 2 eggs with little cracks in them and one which is peeping and rocking like mad. I've never watched them hatch before - I used to have two fab broody hens but OH left them out one night while I was at work, and they were eaten by the fox . So I am checking the eggs every, ooh, 3 seconds or so to see if progress is being made. I am terrified they will all die on the way out.

Boots. I love boots, and have Hunters, but haven't worn them since I discovered Dubarry's. I buy them, wear them and trash them, but strangely, good quality footwear is one of OH's compulsions and he has no problem with me spending that much money to make my feet comfy. Also I don't ever wear anything else at home, and they double up as riding boots, mucking out boots and also going to the pub boots! I LUUUURVE my Dubarry's!

Moo Yay, can see the puppy now! Very cute, and very soft looking. He will probably make a very good preggo pillow!

Cheggers what if she has got wedged? I got wedged in the hospital bath last time and screamed the place down far louder than any other noise I made in labour. It could be serious! At least she has her snorkel.

Ski, Tesco, Argos, Boots and Mothercare all have cheap moses baskets in. They any good? If not I'll have another skeg for you while avoiding work this afternoon.

I'll just finish with a little OH related rant. I am ill. DD is ill. OH is NOT ill, or we would all know about it. The last couple of nights DD has been waking up crying due to having a completely stuffed up nose, but she can be got off back to sleep with a bit of milk. I know at 2 years old this is retrograde step, but I am knackered and just want her to go back to sleep. OH lays there and tells me to ignore her. But he fails to understand that millions of years of evolution mean that I am unable to ignore my sick child when she is chanting 'Mummmy, mummy, mummy etc.' He says he doesn't want her to get into the idea she can have milk when she wants it during the night because he has to go to work. Well, fuck me, I have to work today, in a job I don't understand because I have been lifted out of the job I know and love, and I have to do it while looking after poorly DD, while I am poorly too, and I am fucking pregnant! And I have to do this on top of sleep deprivation because he has set views on child care that he wants to dictate to me but not actually have anything to do with. AAAARRGHH! Bloody men. I know I love him but I'd like to smack him round the head right now and see how he likes that. It's about how I feel right now.

Has anyone put in anythought to childcare when they return to work yet? a friend freaked me out by telling me they had to put their name down for nursery at 12 weeks pg, in spite of her not going back to work for a year!