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

switty is ok, like most vitamins you just wee the excess out. No harm will ever come of it.

In fact you can tell you're weeing it out cos your wee will be luminous . You don't need to take it after 12 weeks as it's important for development of the spine and nervous system, etc and after 12 weeks it has developed as much as it's going to.

Thanks for the reassurance Cunty - I see you are back to your usual down to earth self!! I am like this all the time unfortunately. .

Normal service has been resumed. Too much coffee that's what caused yesterday's interruption.

Witty it will be fine, try not to worry. Go to dr if you are really stressing.

Rots your post from wednesday just made me weep. Lying in bed all snotty and catching up on thread.

curly Are you sure everything's OK? Was it definitely from internally or maybe a swelling or nick on the labia? [concerned]

Btw, my bosses neice who was born at 31 weeks via emc goes home today at a touch under 37 weeks.

Poor cunty, some lunatic broke in to her office and stole her keyboard whilst she was strolling down the corridors of power & influence issuing orders.

cunty don't you know how bad too much coffee is for your baybee? Now THAT'S something to worry about

cas please to describe the bleeding.

switty dunt worry. It's fine.

Anyone with SPD - have you been given exercises to help with hip pain? I'm going to see a physio as right hip esp is getting pretty tender. I'm not saying it's SPD, just normal preg pain, but would be interesting to know if there's anything I can do. AT is helping.

PS switty pathetic attempt at worrying - go out and have mussels a volonte or something and then come back with your cryin'.

honey and people were saying I'm soft .

Re horses - I didn't have one of me own when I caught with LC. I was riding another's but she wasn't mine. However I'd had a dog for about 5 years at the time (he's now 11) and he was my absolute baybee. We'd been together since before I got together with my ex as I'd got him after I'd split with a BF who'd refused to let me have a dog, so the first thing I did was get one! He was therefore my one to one buddy for a long time. Then ex and I got together and he didn't like dogs (YOYOY did I marry him?) so I had to keep him out of the way because ex could be quite nasty to him.

When I was preg with LC I had no choice but to do all the walks and stuff (ex's opinion was, cope or get rid ;-) but there's no doubt that loads of doggie time went out of the window. I felt absolutely terrible, but there was nothing I can do. He spent quite a while esp after LC was born with very little exercise but then as I got back on my feet we started to go out more, with me carrying LC in a front carrier thing. It was really good for all of us!

It wasn't ideal, but in the end, the animals will be just fine. They're really versatile and they don't sit there thinking, "She's neglecting me, the diffed bitch. How could she put the baby before me???".

Do what you can, don't do too much and don't feel guilty.

silver I def beleive that horses are happy if they get to go out in the field, eat and have other horses around them. The riding bit is more for us... although I do know some love going out on rides.. but I reaolly think they don't care if they are out doing stuff or not. They are just happy being horses.... Please not to feel too bad.

rots Exercises for SPD depend on whether your pelvis is in or out of alignment. Need to get this assessed first by an obstetric physio who knows about that stuff. They may try to manually realign depending on the state of it and where you are in your pg.

Then the main exercises are based on pelvic floors and variations thereof. e.g. sit on ball, draw up pf, hold arms at 90 deg in front of you and do tiny little circles (this one helps the diagonal pelvic muscles to strengthen). But tbh, the only thing that really helps hip pain at the time is staying very still and taking paracetamol / cocodamol.

silver I know others cope much better (pandy?) but I am glad I sold my horsie when I got pg. You really do sacrifice anything for a tiny baby, and I would hate to have two living creatures depending on me for their welfare. The baby would always come first and then I would feel guilty about neglecting the horse. Unless I was paying for super fab full livery, which is out of the question in my current reduced circumstances!

rots You are wrong about what dogs do/don't think about babies. Don't you remember Lady and the Tramp?

iggy I can haz question for you? I am deeply impressed by your riding a couple of weeks ago and wanted to ask you i) did you manage to get on OK? (stood on a mounting block I presume), ii) how did your position in the saddle feel? and iii) did your balance feel off or was it OK?

I really really really really want to give Ginge a whirl this weekend as the weather is going to be beautiful.

Btw silver, I totally agree with iggy's horsey assessment, your horse will NOT be in the box wishing it were in a horsebox driving 200 miles for a solitary jumping class. It'll be in the field making eyes at the most masculine gelding and eating grass thinking "hmmn, warm today" or "might go and get some water soon". They are indeed happy just being happy. Anyway, ime a season off does them the world of good in terms of attitude and mental well-being.

Rots where did your doggy sleep when LC was born? It's a recurring theme at the moment but we are going to bring him up (sleeping in crate not bed) as he is still relatively little and waking daily at 5.30 is not good for a virtually bone idle pregnant woman. Stressing about whether this is good or not. I figure it will be nice for us all to be together and he won't feel left out, although I predict Mr Moo and hairy moo will both end up in spare room leaving me and mini moo to our own devices!

ski I got on off a block and the getting on was totally fine actually - oddly didn't feel too wierd to ride - especially as I haven't been riding at all... Balance was ok too. Getting off was the problem! I forgot to swing my leg round the front and attempted a normal dismount - meaning I forgot about bump size and bounced backwards nearly landing on arse as I got off... oops!

Don't know if would have felt more strange if had ridden for longer? I literally got on - walked, then had little trot and canter and then walked again and got off... really not much...

haha thank you iggy, I hadn't even thought about a dismount. It's a blahddy long way down from this one, I wonder if I can teach her to get down like a camel? I wasn't thinking of doing anything mad, pretty much like you I just fancy a "go" and maybe a wee trot/canter. About time I cleaned my bloody bridle then.

pony thanks for that. I don't think it's SPD for a moment. I'm getting relatively bad pain esp in one hip but it feels like a dodgy ligament so I'm guessing it's just coz they're soft. I'll try the ball thing, thanks. It's not at the lie-still-don't-move stage by any means (thank goodness).

I think Lady liked the baby didn't she? It was the cats she didn't like. (We are Siamese if you please, We are Siamese if you don't please ).

honey I would think iggs is better to ask this. I'm guessing you have a pup? Mine is an adult of course so doesn't need to be let out at night at all or anything. Although I had my dog on the bed when I was single, all other times he's slept downstairs. Personally I prefer having my dog sleep in his own place, away from us, and he's never really been allowed upstairs other than when I first got him and he sleep on the bed. I guess it depends on the breed but mine is mixed with working dog breeds, and gets easily stressed/nervous, so we work hard on ensuring he's never considering himself to be "top dog" which would just stress him out. This works well for us.

I don't worry about him feeling as though he's not involved or part of the family as I honestly don't think dogs think like this (although many seem to!). He's very much a part of "our pack" and our challenge at the moment is to teach him that LC is actually higher ranking than him. It's quite funny, as LC stands there shouting, "SIT Caspar, SIT!" and totally gets ignored. "MUMMY!!! Caspar won't SIIIIIIT". Whereas he's totally responsive to me and YOB.

I know that iggs' theories have moved on from the Top Dog/Pack thing so I'm sure that she'll have something more useful to say.

Thanks for concern ladies. was a bit of red streaked discharge. But only a little. will keep an eye on it.

Just had my first hunger shakes/hot and cold flushes in ages. Probably because I usually graze so much but was in a meeting until now. Currently stuffing sandwiches in, and wondering what I'll do for lunch...

Rib/side/lower back pain has finally faded after getting really bad yesterday evening. Yeay!

rotty wasn't given any exercises for SPD - just advice on keeping hips aligned etc. sorry you are having the pain.

moo. If your dog has whiney/separation issues I think bringing him (her?) closer might only make the situation worse. When we rescued ours we had to wean her away from us and now she sleep downstairs in her crate and never makes a peep unless she genuinely needs out (sickness/urgent poo etc). In the training phase, I would go to her in the night, but only to let her out in the garden and straight back to bed (very quickly if it was clear she did not need). That we she learned she would not get cuddles/attention as a result of whining.

18 months on she can take it or leave it. She sometimes sleeps in my bed when SFF is on nights, but that will be stopping when we move. we have agreed that everyone will have transfer to her space during the day rather than lounge around in bed, with her banned from the room. Not fair on her.

Thanks Curly and Rots. He is actually totally fine at going to bed and staying asleep throughout the night in his crate. He just wakes up bloody early and it's doing my nut in listening to him bark for even 10 minutes. We tried leaving him and "doing it on our terms" - i.e. we get up at 7am. But he insists on waking up at that time. However, as soon as mr moo goes down he is back asleep at his feet or sometimes at the weekend we let him sleep on the bed from 6am so we can have more sleep. He is also pretty good at crate time in the day and so far we've probably got him up to 2-3 hours twice a day after a nice big walk. So I don't think he has physical sympoms separation anxiety, he just wants to be with us. I'm a soft touch and would rather have an easy life with him sleeping in longer up here in the crate, but we;ve been debating it for a month or 2, so I guess we know he's better off downstairs and once he comes up it will be difficult to get him back down. Any other ideas? Sorry I know I should prob post elsewhere on this.

You could still try putting him out when he wakes (no fussing) and whisking him straight back to bed. However (unfortunately) dogs and babies are not conducive to lie-ins, and if he's sleeping through the rest of the night it suggests he needs to get up when he is waking, for toilets and mental/physical stimulation. Just as we would not expect a child to go back to bed, I don't think we can with a puppy either - sorry!

Ours gets up with me and usually goes back to bed with SFF (when he is off) when I leave for work. This is one of the things that will be stopping soon. If SFF wants to sleep, he can head to couch. However, he will have a baby to look after, so the dog will have to have been walked by then anyway

I'm jealous that 6am is early is your house. It's normal for me!

I know you're right!!! I'd happily bring him up here and have him in bed (he goes straight to sleep when we do that) but I suppose that might make it worse?

I guess I'm trying to make the most of shut eye now as 6am will be a lie in come 6 months time!!

This morning was 5.30 btw. poor mr moo.

Ours is a lazy git and if we stay until 10am, he'll be fine (obv fairly rare!). We go to let him out and he just looks at us and says, "oh so NOW you want me to go out. Well bugger that for a bunch of soldiers, I'm quite comfy here, thank you".