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

cheggy Thinking about you and hoping you are now safely home and feeling better.

Please to be describing/linking to aforementioned lovely new preggo clothes VAG. (And if anyone can find me a plain black knee length skirt that doesn't cost a bomb, I will name the SkaterBabe after you. MotherCare has one on their site but its not available online yet and my local store doesn't stock it, others are £40 plus which seems silly given I will only wear it for 5 months etc etc.)

"Maybe people just think you have a whale arse"!

My coffee! My keyboard!

Skates have you tried Gap maternity? Not bad for wrap around black dresses, reckon they could do something just like that. Top Shop maternity?

Hello Ladyfolk. Emotional mess here too (well, yesterday, it's since worn off) due to OH announcing he'd forgotten about a major shareholders meeting on Thursday that he can't get out of... so out the window goes the baby scan. Booohoooo .

Now rearranged to Monday lunchtime.

Think my preggo brain is making me nuts - had a major issue with OH yesterday after the "announcement" as my mushed brain is misinterpreting everything he says to me:-

He says: I didn't get to finish my lunch today I was really busy at work.
Brain says: I couldn't be bothered to eat that lunch that you got especially early to make for me today, in fact the only thing I did eat was the cookie, not like you bothered making that though was it...

He says: I'm not sure if I like these enchiladas...
Brain says: These enchiladas are shit - why didn't you know they'd be shit when you bought them, are you completely incompetent, I'll never know why I married you...

He says: I'll be 5 minutes finishing this work, then I'll read today's entry in the pregnancy day by day book... is the bath nice that I ran for you?
Brain says: I can't be bothered to read to you what that parasite is doing today, I'm not that interested, but what is interesting is the car forum I'm reading and posting on... oh, btw, I peed in the bath before you got in...

Reading this back now actually seems comical... wtf is going on in my head!

skaes was about to go me! me! name your baby after me! until I realised lovely jersey skirt was £45. Boo. I thought this was reasonable, but then I am not a good judge of such things as I do tend to like pricier clothes ( I buy fewer of them than mates who buy cheaper but more, and mine last me many years as I am not a trendsetter)

Anyway, is lovely and is here in case you like.

Ref clothes and not spending a fortune, how is everyone else managing this? I was planning to buy a few quality basics (eg am nearly 6' and find expensive trousers fit better & are longer) and bulking out with cheapies. I'm also expecting to not shrink back to normal within a week and therefore will require them afterwards. And for subsequent pregnancies . And can flog on eBay if need be.

PMSL @ vag. Bless you

PMSL @ me being soft. Dagnabit, I Must Not Show My True Colours. I'm a hard-nosed Tory bitch who spends her life promoting fox hunting and - erm - living organically and working on community development projects in Africa and promoting animal welfare. Oh bugger.

PMSL @ baby bump in picture being "huge". But, it's in the Daily Mail so it must be true. F* me, I'm in trouble - I'm gonna be birthing a friggin adult if that's a big bump.

PMS just coz I'm preggo. And already had a baybee and my pelvic floor has gone on holiday and can't get back because of the ash cloud. Only that's been its excuse now for years .

YOB's been trying to sell our house for 3 1/2 years now. We have a viewing tonight. Fingers crossed.

But then if it does sell, let the nightmare begin...

VAG when not preggers I tend to spend more on clothes and don't buy "disposable fashion" Primark et al.. but have done so well on the sales so far snapping up maternity £40 dresses for a tenner etc that I kind of balk at paying £40 - £50 for a skirt for 5 months. Maybe I should just do it - the sooner I do it, the more wear I'd get!

I am jealous of all of you with bumps. I want a bump!!! People keep telling me ?oooh you?re not showing at all are you? and I just grump about it. I?m 22 weeks where is my bump?????????????

I have a30% off Gap voucher if anyone's interested - lasts until 2 May. (attempt at link here but fb me if it doesn't work)

skates that's kind of how I'm looking at it. The aforementioned skirt is in soft jersey so will poss do for normal wear as well, it isn't baggy on me at the moment. I also got a top from the same place that feels really tight but the nice-shop-lady said will stretch and stretch. I'm hoping it pings back to size afterwards as it is lovely and I could absolutely see mysefl wearing it "normally" (as it were). In fact this ensemble is the outfit for the wedding I'm going to this weekend.

Cossie you have have some of mine if you like. I feel quite self-conscious about it. Don't know how I managed to get it into my head that I wouldn't show till past 20 weeks.

good luck with the viewing carrots! vag I have been hitting the sales and low-price shops. And ebay! There's some great stuff on ebay and so cheap. And you'll probably be able to sell it again. I don't want to buy too much more, but my what-to-wear options are diminishing...

Damn, I meant:

PMSL @ REGGIE. Bless you

But, bless you, too vag

reggie What is going on with you? In the 13 years I've known you - I've never known you to be "emotional"! (triple vodka nights excepted). I don't see why the stupid board takes priority over your baybee. But good strong surges of hormones are good signs - look on the bright side.

OK, I hate to be the one to say this but... cossie is faking the pregnancy. When we meet her in Newcastle, carrots is going to knock her to the ground, pony's wheels will hold her down and I'm going to whip up her top to reveal a Kath Kitson CUSHION!

skater I've not spent much at all, I'm a hourglass anyway so a lot of my stuff has remained fitting (especially t-shirts/hoodies) type stuff. I am practically living in maternity jeans (love 'em!) and I will invest in a maxi dress at some point but it's still a wee bit nippy right now. I think I've spent around 250 euros plus flat grandma shoes. I've looked at the Isabella Oliver stuff and thought "g'wan g'wan g'wan, treat yourself" but I can't quite bring myself to click the "place order" button.

I bought a dress from Isabella Oliver and it was rubbish but their wrap tops are great. I wore mine loads and although it was a bit expensive I certainly got my wear out of it.

I also ventured to the Isabella Oliver dark side - got a dress, trousers and a wrap top. The top is nice but the rest is going back - the dress kind of looked mumsy, and the trousers gave me a huge butt - and frankly I don't need any help there. I haven't decided whether to keep the top - it is rather a lovely colour. Think my overall strategy is to buy enough outfits for 7 days and wash and wear. Though I suspect if it's a hot summer I'll be off to Gap/Top Shop for multiple strappy tops and investing in a single pair of shorts/long skirt.

The thought of this aspect is putting me off booking a holiday in June - cost of holiday plus cost of clothes I'll poss only wear for 2 weeks. Depressing.

Am I shallow that I find clothes affect my mood? Yesterday for example, I put together an outfit consisting of leggings and a tunic top for th efirst time, thought it looked fine, got to work and found that with my boots on I looked like Dick Whittington. I was in a foul yet skulky mood all day and even dreaded getting up from my desk to walk around the office. Today I have on a new pair of mat trousers and the world is a better place. I am shallow.

ski i iz broken innit - baybee made me do it...

I saw a dress I liked on Isabella Oliver but the customer reviews seemed to say it was awful quality.

Hot Milk cheap as chips: www.nursingbra-shop.co.uk/

Reggie Well he's a bastard and in the wrong anyway (obviously) for making you miss your first scan - does he not realise just how important it is? He's going to get a lot of tears & hormones over the next few months - so he may as well get used to them all now!

ski he does know how important it was for me, and that he badly let me down, very sultry when he came home. But in honesty, it's one of those meetings that if he doesn't go to babybee will have no income to live off cos OH will get booted or something disastrous... I blame the recession and the tw@ts he works for, and you're right, to a degree him for not properly checking his work calendar before I booked the appointment! I have now firmly screwed on my Rational head about it all now however, I think what was most upsetting was the fact I have to wait another 4 whole days to see wot's the deal in the uter-arse.

I bought two tops in Asbo tonight. One looks hideous as when I got home and tried it on, Husband's eyes nearly burst out of their sockets cos it was like a cardi thing but it went round my hooters and accentuated them, not keeping them under lock and key. Clearly it will have to returned and its a size 14!!!

The other top is a keeper. Husband says I'll grow in to it.

Those of you with nags. Quick question - do you ever look at your horse and feel guilty? I put my horse first over babies for years and now we've made the change I feel bad. I don't love my horse any less at all, I just feel crap for having less energy and enthusiasm to do the things we usually love. EG last night went out for a meander. Ground too hard to do much else, but I had no desire to trot or anything. Body aches and brain won't work. Mine, not the horse.

Poor reggie

I had another glucose test today and it was all clear. Combined with the very low levels detected in the previous tests, there is now officially Nothing To Worry About. I celebrated this by eating a Mini Magnum of course.

silver Yes. I had so many plans for this year - I was going to do my first ODE. As it is I can only find shit people to ride her (FOR FREE! - what happened to desperate, enthusiastic teenagers begging for free rides? ). I go up to say hello but sometimes I've not got the energy to run a brush over her. I brought her tack home a fortnight ago and STILL haven't cleaned it. I always said I'd let her have a baby when I had a baby... still, she's getting "plenty" judging by the hoof marks on her rump! Luckily her livery is great and she's out in the field all day (getting humped) but she's going to have a quiet summer. I'm more worried about after the baby truth be told, jailbait is happy to babysit, the girls at the yard are all coo-coo'ing and they take delivery of a Shitland this week for the 2 baybees born this summer (premature?) - but what with work/study/home when will I ride?

pony that's brilliant news - you should've celebrated with a 1 lb bag of cola bottles!

reggie I know he didn't mean it - we have a big calendar in the kitchen which contains all importan appointments - "BABY DAY" is the most important of all.

Forgot to say, when jailbait came to bed last night I was already asleep, he put his hand on my tummy and said Julian was going menkul!

funny you should say that ski. I woke up when SFF came to bed last night and CasperJnr started doing a jigg - alternating taps on either side of my belly (I still think she's lying transverse). He tried to start a conversation. I politely reminded him that I had been asleep until he and his daughter disturbed me

Had a little bit of blood this morning. But have decided to dismiss it as nothing unless there is more...

Morning all. Feeling kinda stupid this morning and a bit mad with myself: but actually reserving most of the feeling mad for my doctor. When I saw him at six weeks he said to me: "are you taking any supplements?" and I said "Just the folic acid" (which he had prescribed since I had told him TTC was on the cards and I have been taking ever since). He said "that's fine, keep taking that until 12 weeks, but not beyond. I'm going to prescribe you a multivitamin". I have been taking both religiously ever since.

Well, this morning I was mulling over the stopping at 12 weeks and wondering whether I should stop the multi-vit as well or just the folic acid or what and I was suddenly struck by the thought that maybe, just maybe, the multi-vit might contain folic acid. Well, it does, of course...which means I have been double dosing on it EVERY DAY for the last 4 weeks. That's 800mg a day. I really hope this can do no possible harm. I should have read the back of the box (I am usually the kind of person who reads the little notices inside the box) but shouldn't my doc also have said it to me?! Anyway, I have been googling unhappily and found one woman who accidentally took 4000 a day for a few weeks and there were no adverse effects, which cheered me up a bit. But not that much .