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

Cossie well I just got a good tip off for a nursery which we wanted to use from Feb - although I was told it might be "touch & go" getting a place "so late".

Have since found out that my promo has been blocked here so I will more than likely be moving to the Hague by February... but because I don't know where I'll be moving to - I can't find a fucking nursery.

Frekkin nurseries - I've not even thought that far down the line, but hopefully if the working from home thing carries on I'll not need one. More concerned about primary school places, perhaps I should apply now!?

At the moment I'm trying to work out a definitive list of all the money I can claw out of the government, what with "one off" payments and child benefit and that sort of thing... anyone else done anything similar for UK resident preggos?

cossie I have already put name down for work nursery... starting Sept 2011... scary innit...

pandy I too feel the dubarry love - they are my dog walking/ riding/ horse task boots... but i also have blue hunter wellies

Am all tearful... annuva fred I am on is so sad at the mo... The worstest thing ever to happen... someone on there has had MCs then conceived again (discovered she was updiffed just after he mum suddenly died) - then discovered at a scan (and after more tests) that baby has v. severe chromosomal abnormalities and will not survive. So has had to be induced and give birth as was too late in pregnancy for D&C, so she just delivered her baby this morning am so so sad for her...

oh iggs that is awful. Poor love

reggie I was discussing with the ski lady just earlier abou trying to work out if you can claim tax credits when on mat leave - our combined normal salaries are too high, but assuming we can claim when am on smp?

cossie/reggie I believe the site you're looking for is www.entitledto.com - now, normally when visiting such a site you'd explode with rage at just how much the doleys can pinch, however, this isn't good for your blood pressure. So take a deep breath and a Cammomile tea and log on.

Just started looking at that calculator - nightmare . It makes sense that while only one wage is coming in, credits should be paid, but they have to know every detail about your salary last year, all the SMP payments and so on. With the amount I'd get paid dropping every few weeks I have no idea where to start!

Childcare situation also a nightmare. Great to have my husband home four days a week. Not great that those days are never consistent. Think I'll find out where we'll be living first, before looking into it any further...

I'm hoping that because jailbait finishes work at 10 and I can work flexi/home we don't actually need childcare. However, we feel it's important from the pov of socialising with other people, other kids, getting used to Dutch and to stop daddy becoming a bit "The shining".

I haz cot bed! I haz won Mamas and papas on one ebay! yay

I put little man's name down for nursery when I was 12 weeks pregnant and was only offered a place at that nursery 6 weeks before I returned to work and 2 weeks before the start date I had requested with them! I did not end up taking the place at that nurersy as I found one I liked better. What I likes is that they didn't just add names and more names to the wating list, they only allow people to view the nursery if they felt they would be in a position to offer a place, which they did and that is where he goes. Most nurserys want to take your £40-50 deposit without any confirmation of a place.

Iggy that is shitty - some people really have a shit time.

cossie Please to tell which one?

Cokes it is isn't it

Yikes, I'd better get looking then!

iggs I don't kmow which one, but I haz picture I will email you.

I am liking pandy's Manolos of the boot world.

Iggs that really is awful. I feel for her.

pandy The boots are great and all, but I am surrounded by Dubarry wearing wimminz on a daily basis, to the extent that it has made me a bit anti "just because". If I was to get some now, people would say I was just trying to fit in. So I wear silly wellies and stand out like a freak instead

I have a chick! One out, 13 (I hope) to go.

Hurray for the first PESH chick!

Hurray!! Did it hatch in the bath with a mask and snorkle on?

Ooh I like chikkies!

pokey any good nurseries youwould recommend? Am stressing about that... Going to investigated nightingales nr clap south...

Nurseries! Good God. That's the next thing of course... Well I shall be royally handicapped by the fact that we are planning to move from our small flat and buy something finally. But where? Yes where? I don't know and presumably future nurseries will need to be nearby.

So I saw the midwife at their practice last night. Boyfy came along for the ride. It is an independent practice (though covered by healthcare system, hurrah!) and it was just so nice seeing someone who has loads of time to explore everything with you and give you all the advice you didn't know where to go about getting. The appointments are scheduled for up to an hour, so there is plenty of time for chit chat. She took all my medical history and explained everything about what they do and how they work. She then gave me a whole pile of brochures with all the info you really need about how to legally recognise the baby, get into the social security system etc. It was so great.

They are very pro home birth and she was inclined to scoff at my scandalised whispers of 'but what about the neighbours'. Neighbours shmeighbours. Apparently. Very pro breast-feeding too with lots of follow-up support and everything. It sounds great.

So it's all good. My symptoms are not too severe at the moment. Apart from "verstopping" - evocative Dutch word again - bet you can guess what it means. Anyway, I try not to worry about the lack of symptoms as there is Just No Point.

Iggy that experience from the other thread is just plain horrendous. It's just so sad. And unfair. And puts some perspective on things.

Ski you are so right. Hairy moo is the most angelic butter wouldn't melt in my mouth looking puppy, but my god does he let us know when he's not happy. It can be a bit of a battle of wills at times... I do wub him though.

In a grump with mr moo tonight. He has come home half cut, wouldn't talk to me about anything and now fked off to bed. Feel like YELLING REALLY LOUDLY.

In fact everyone and everything is really fking me off at the moment. I am a very angry person. Could dis be da hormones I wonder?

switty I'm very pleased to hear that all went well with the midwife and the whole homebirth thing, the Belgians (in my experience) are very quick to whip them in to hospital, feet in stirrup and l.a.b.o.u.r!

I've been up since 3 my time feeling very anxious about the whole "bomb" thing which went off at work yesterday. Spent all afternoon worrying whether I should take voluntary redundancy and move back to the UK. It seems daft to take VR now before ML, but the option is open until end 2011, so perhaps it's something I could do after. Also, feel this is really, really, really unbelievably bad time to return to the UK. Also perhaps getting more upset about it than I should because I didn't actually want the job at that location, but felt very mithered that the option had been removed from me due to "gossip". It's a small town and it's very much who you went to school with and who your brother married...

Anyway, I need to get a shift on, shower, make a picnic and head north as I'm off to the seaside.

ski Is this the horsey trip to the seaside? Sorry about your work stuff. I am all too acquainted with the horrendous bad timing which seems to draw trouble to work stability as soon as one is pregnant - usually after decades of trouble free working away watching everyone else taking sick leave, mat leave, etc. Then as soon as I finally need to use my fairly earned work benefits the job goes up the swanee!

Anyhoo... I survived the big appointment with the consultant yesterday. Except I didn't see the scary consultant as she was away, so saw a nice registrar instead. I think I got the c-section thing sorted. I had an appointment with the physio first and her first question was 'how are you having this baby?' So I launched into all the politically correct stuff and she interrupted me and said, 'I'm afraid I'm goling to have to write in your notes that I'm very reluctant to see you go through a vaginal delivery.' Basically she wanted to insist on it but can't actually tell the consultant what to do so wrote something about her recommendation for c-s.

Then I saw the registrar and he said, yes I can't see that anyone would disagree with that at all, but let's confirm in 4 weeks. He was going to leave the decision hanging but MrP piped up and said that at this stage last time we pencilled in a tentative date. So they said, oh OK and booked me in!!

I can't describe how relived I am! I actually can see the end now and I know what's ahead of me. I no longer have to think about the terrifying scenarios. I didn't even have to describe my reasoning as the registrar and midwife used exactly the same logic when telling me what was likely to happen if we attempted a vaginal birth. It really confirmed that I'm thinking straight on this. It's so nice to know it's not just menkulness.

Right, back to work (in my blue Hunter wellies).

Yay, so plesaed you got what you want pones.

Are you having it in the hosp in the town just north of me?

cossie yep, that's the one.

Is that where the foal was born too? We could go there if we want, I have heard quite good reports of it.