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

[skihorse]

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

It's 4am, I've just got up for a puke, my throat is very sore and croaky and I've got glands the size of golf balls. I think I'm going to phone in sick to work and I've got a midwife appointment so I think I'll moan at her too.

Pregnancy symptoms - awesome stuff! Like chasing a crop of coldsores around my face for the entire month of December for example.

sorry about that ski. maybe puking will magically stop as third trimester starts (hopeful)

If it helps, today I'm mostly walking like a cowboy, because my pelvis pain has me feeling like I've been for a long, hard ride. Might be funny if it wasn't so damn uncomfortable. (actually heard my hips crunch several times overnight -nice).

Hope everyone else is feeling bright and breezy this fine (if a little frosty) morning.

Oh curly, that doesn't sound much fun either. I phoned in sick and the receptionist actually had the gall to say "You can't diagnose yourself you know". Fucksticks. My hips & joints seem to be doing a bit better but I have been known to waddle. I am currently trying to master getting off the couch by stealth... i.e., feet down first and on all fours if needs be. It requires practice! Are you working from home today then curlyone?

I go away for a day and miss loads of cake and spotty nips discussions. I had to get up at 4.30 yesterday to get to Heathrow (although seems I was probably up at Ski's yakking time). Pandy the worlds favourite airline has some very sexy sounding pilots you know which make the getting up early that little less painful.

Nips - honey I have the same spots. I am tempted to squeeze them but I am scared of what will come out. Also, I had a rather nice bump at 19 weeks and also went on hols then too and dare I say it but felt OK in a bikini. You made me laugh at your reference to "fairy cakes" from Hummingbird -I too find it hard to call them "cup cakes". I do have the book though and have made red velvets and normal vanilla ones and they turn out well, although sometimes my icing/buttercream/frosting is a bit runny - I think I sometimes need to add more icing sugar.

My cake list:

1. Fairy cakes from Hummingbird (any variety)
2. Key lime pie this recipe Very easy but very bad for you
3. Taste the Difference chocolate caramel squares from Sainsbury?s (aka millionaires? shortbread)
4. Carrot Cake - surely it must be slightly healthy
5. Any kind of Chocolate Fudge cake, ideally served warm with ice cream.

Reggie re scans I had one at 8+5 and had normal abdominal scan. Last time I held out until 10 weeks - I really can not wait until 12 weeks despite trying.

Anyone else having vivid and wonderful dreams? Last night I had a dream that I lost a government submarine in my old school swimming pool and the teacher told me off. WTF?? For me, crazy and vivid dreams are one of the best things of pregnancy.

Right, I had better do some work.

no such luck ski. In the office and working hard...BUT WANTING CAKE! You lot really are not helping my rumbly belly.

reggie I'm just back from the midwife and everything is great - she put the doppler on my tummy and once again found the heartbeat in a split second. There's so much out there in the media which suggests anyone over 8 stone is going to require a crack team of consultants and a birth of quarter of a million quid - and it really is bollocks. Not once in ALL of my check-ups, abdo scans or dildocams has anyone been able to not find what they were looking for. Like I said before jailbait was able to hear the heartbeat through a bog roll tube at around 14/15 weeks I think it was. It's a bit of flesh, it's not like you're 500lbs. Also despite having a fat tummy I can really see the baby moving - to the point it's almost embarassing - so fuck 'em all (including the wimmins on these boards who say overweight women probably can't notice they're pregnant ). Oh, and my blood pressure was 110/65 - I think us heavier girls are supposed to be 180/150 or something. Oh, and she's also very easily able to feel the position and size of the baby and jailbait can feel him moving very easily - so it's not just me "thinking" that there's no problem.

I'm not going cake crazy - I can pretty much take or leave your assorted cakes, although I am expecting a shipment of mini-Bakewells any day soon as a pal has just come back from the UK.

According to John Lewis my Moses Basket (& bits) arrived at my parents house yesterday at 1pm your time... you'd have thought they'd have let me know, non?

Yesterday I gave up and bought "preggo" shoes. I am now struggling with straps, buckles & zipped boots, the only shoes I can get on and off easily are my thermal riding boots... I've bought some padded soled slip-on walking shoes - somewhat reminiscent of what my 88 year old grandmother used to wear. Shexshy! Switty, when I moved out of Brussels I was able to indulge in heels. For those of you who've never been - Brussels has a huge amount of cobbled streets and high heels can/will become your downfall - literally! I did manage to spend the first 4 months of my pregnancy in 4" stillies though.

rots I've never had PMT woes either, so this crying is very new to me. I've just had a cry in the car because I didn't have the energy to get out.

I asked jailbait yesterday to give me the best and worst symptom of my pregnancy. Unsurprisingly, best = massive knockers , worst = tiredness. He feels like he's missing out on time with me because I'm usually asleep after 9pm - if I make it that far!

Ski tis true about the cobbled streets. I walk to work each day and have to reheel my relatively low-heeled footwear every few months. It just gets destroyed. Or perhaps it is my walking technique.

Actually, one of the pregancy "myths"(?) that bothers me most is the rumour that your feet can get bigger and never go back. This would be a disaster for me. I already have huge feet. Any truth in it do you think?

Curly hope the hips are feeling better. Mine actually crunch like that sometimes anyway (I know this does not augure well) and it is an awful sound.

I'm feeling tempted to go back to knitting now. I haven't since school, but I can remember how and I am charmed by the idea of busily making blankets and the like.

The dreams sound interesting okie. Very careless of you mislaying a military submarine like that. Tsk tsk. I have actually dreamed about the baby already. She was a girl and beautiful, but, bizarrely, born at a pretty advanced stage of development. I was confused that she was nothing like other newborns, but very happy. And Boyfy dreamed that he suddenly discovered he already had a child from a previous relationship, that had red hair. Didn't like that quite as much, as you can imagine...

Morning all - i haz put new bump pic on profile - so you can see that i am now hippo....

Much sympathy curly am hoping your tactics work for the muscles...

reggie I had that dandruff thing - think VAG did too - it has come and gone a bit... currently gone - but who knows for how long...

ski impressed at high heelage - I am a fucking wimp with heels and go for kitten only

Fab bump Iggy! Very neat. Not at all hippo-like. Starting to be quite impressive though!

The scan pictures are lovely too.

why fank you witty I does haz enormous comedy tits tho...

Thanks iggyloo and Happy start-of-third-trimester to you! (depends on which book you read, but NHS pregoo desktop will click over to third tri for me tomorrow, which makes it today for you!)

You is not hippo. You is lovely pregnant woman (who pays much attention to detail when capturing bump pics in same clothes and location!)

Looks like we might all be similar sizes (well the four of us due at the same time anyway) which makes we wonder why on earth my MW was so gawpy last week. Even the woman at my work who is due same week has almost caught up with me now.

Cheers swits, my hips crack a lot thanks to my arthritis, but last night was a whole new kind of crunch! One was so loud the dog even got a shock. Should get used to it really.

Not a whinge and more of a question: Does anyone else have an achy, "bruised feeling" undercarriage? The sort of feeling you get when you've had some serious, sustained, "deep" secshual relations? I have this combined with bits being generally sore to the touch. Not bothering me per se, it just feels strange. (and is it any wonder I don't want sex!)

still waiting to hear about housey. Please to cross things for me...

Acksherlly I'm not as big as you gals. Probably because I was bigger to start with, but definitely not protruding by the same percentage... Did anyone see the new fb photos of Cossie? Now there's a woman not showing - she looks fantastic!

curly My undercarriage is fine. Wrt your housey, any joy yet on getting the cash/dotted line sorted with your buyers?

switty I did put off buying ski boots because I'm not paying $500 to get them fitted if they don't fit next year. Some women have told me it's a total myth, others have said their feet did change. So who knows? Right now they're the same and I can fit in to all my normal shoes with no swelling on the feet or ankles. Ask me again in July when it's 30+.

cas all my bump pics are in same location cos is only mirror we have! I don't have achey bits... sorry!

have fingers crossed for housie!

ski I only have expanded on bump and tits - everything else is same size as before... is odd... am v. pleased to be looking like hippo tho - I likes it - is also interesting to compare with the other wimminz in fat lady yoga - we is all around same size at same time... interesting..

ski do you mean the ones my friend Dave put up? there are 2 weeks old, so am showing more now. that was my last outing in non maternty jeans, and I was very uncomfortable!

My feet swelled up when I was pregnant last time and changed shape and size. The water retention went away, but the new shape and size are here to stay. I never even knew about feet getting bigger until I suffered crippling footache when I went skiing after DD was born, even though my skiboots were custom fitted to my feet and had been comfy for years. I had to buy new ski boots, I'm afraid. Even worse is the calamitous effect this has had on my shoe expenditure. I was a size 4 and a half before, and could buy kids shoes (without VAT) for work and riding boots, but now I am a 5 and a half, taking me permanently into adult shoes sizes. Bummer. I had really bad water retention last time and swelled up like a balloon - the only shoes I could wear from about 6 months were flip flops (although I have never been able to wear heels.) Lucky I was heavily pregnant in the summer - I have arranged for the same timings this time too

Iggy you don't look like a hippo at all! (You'll look back when you are 39 weeks and wonder how you could ever have thought that ) I look like a lump, and am out of breathe half the time.

Second time round you know what's coming, and I'm a bit depressed I'm only half way - with the worst half to go! I really don't like being pregnant. I was chatting to my cousin last night - she didn't know I was pregnant. (I think the novelty must have worn off for my dad, as last time she called me to congratulate me within an hour of telling my dad - even though I had told him to tell noone.) When I told her I was due in Sept she was really pleased and siad 'that's not long to go!' which I thought was mad, but she was trying to convince me it would rush past. She's got 3 kids.

Cas it's the extra blood supply there. I called it foof-padding on a horsey thread which got Ski all flummoxed. I am reminded whenever I get on my horse (not often atm) that I have extra foof padding there already.

As for what to do when it is roasting hot this summer - we have got one of those inflatable garden pools. I think I will get in it on the first hot day and stay there for about 3 months

PS a friend had a tattoo done on her foot - a big one - and went skiing 2 days later. She insists her feet were fine. I reckon her boots must be too big.

pandy that is my plan for summer too, sit like a whale in a paddling pool

cossie That's the ones - you looked very slim and glam.

Summer plans? Paddling pool/beer combo?

iggy I've put on 22 lbs and I think it's "mostly" bump & tits. I've not noticed any huge difference in flap size a la pandy! I thought for a week or so that I'd packed on some around my kidneys but maybe the puking over the last 10 days has put pay to that.

I guess our feet are going to swell and we've simply got away with it so far due to cool temps.

At my midwife appointment today I felt very relaxed and calm - I think it's because I known now that everything is absolutely fine - rewind a few months and I wasn't able to sleep the night before. Is anyone else finding this?

Oh help. Pandora it sounds like you have endearingly small and cute feet. (I'm not a foot fetishist btw.) Not me though. I'm tall, so I guess they are fairly proportional, but if I went up a whole shoe size, that would take me right out of women's shoes and into men's.

Gah! Something new to worry about.

ski fab news on the MW appointment, and thanks for sharing - I've been in a super strop most of this morning so reading your update when I got back made me smile, I shall maintain the "f*ck the lot of them" attitude for the rest of the day, so thanks for the pointer .

iggy glad I'm not alone in the wonderful world of dandruff, I shall by purchasing bandannas and suitable summer head wear to disguise the problem and see if I can manage it. Do they do catering size bottles of Head & Shoulders? I shall have to keep an eye for a break in the flaky proceedings and then get a hair dressers appointment, otherwise I'll look like cousin IT by the time I'm due.

rots the last time I was this irrational and erratic was when I was on the wrong kinda contraceptive pill for me and it sent me loop de loop! OH was very happy to see me come off those, but this time he's gonna have to wait . I suppose the plus side is that he's already had a taster of hormonally induced temporary insanity, so its not nothing new to him!

switty another odd thing last night, eating away at my salad and for some reason it tasted of licorice.. now wtf is that about? Now gone off lettuce completely!

Glad MW app was good ski.

I;m sitting here getting annoyed. Estate Agent was supposed to deliver verdict on whether or not landowner wants us as tenants this morning. still waiting.

On the sale side, I am assured by all parties that it's going ahead, just waiting for paperwork, as per usual. Just wish I could get something signed!

Any news from other house sellers/movers?

very kind of you to say so ski, I certainly don't feel slim and glam!

Poor Ski puking last night. I hope you are making the most of your day and looking after yourself.

Iggloo I will be looking at your bump later on this evening. My colleagues may think me a little odd to gazing at the bumps of pregnant women whilst eating my lunch.

Okie can't believe you've actually baked your very own Red Velvet fairy cakes! (yes cupcake is so desperate housewives. That is amazing. I nearly had them for my wedding, but my mum threw a strop and insisted we had a "proper cake". Now 7 months on, 2 layers of the "proper cake" are sitting in my freezer waiting for children to be born.

Now don't laugh but went to see a nursery this morning, and oh my god you couldn't get me out of there quickly enough. It smacked of romanian orphanage frankly. Grubby, old stuff and a complete tip. The sinks looked like they could do with a major clean. The sink cloths were old and dirty. The office room there was in total disarray. If people are going to be looking after my children I want them to be organised, clean freaks. OBviously I am excluded from that...

I literally couldn't believe it. I know I am judging on cosmetic appearance but it really put me off. Added to which one of my good friends sent me a letter of notice she's just handed in to her nusery (a well known chain) and the catalogue of events is just shocking. How these places can be underreourced with the money they charge is criminal. Christ I need a payrise or a cheap nanny.

Landlord say yes! Hurray!