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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

can't see anything to click on for pics moo...

stupid computer ate my last long post anyone know ought about dogs with swollen faces?

Chewed on a bee? Seen it twice but maybe not bee "weather" right now?

Seen lots of bees in the garden this week. Mammoth bees, as big as a house

ooh that sounds nasty. Let me check I've done it right... Ski could you see?

Pony they used to have another big grey horse and it had to be pts at 8 because it had navicular. (Do you see how Pony and I are communicating in code here ) They absolutely love big horse, and are terrified they will fall in love with him, buy him and then he will turn out to have something wrong with him too. So they would rather look for a horse that doesn't tug at their heartstrings so much . I had thought that picking up potential problems was what vetting was all about, but they don't even want to do that. They have spoken to 2 people who know my horse well, and they both gave excellent references. You just can't win sometimes.

Bees - I like bees. DD and I found a bumble bee nest in the garden last summer, and we used to go and watch them tidying the entrance to their nest. I was teaching her to wathc but don't touch. When I am middle aged I will have a beehive for honey. Yum!

Sounds like your dog could have been bee-bothering, Cas. Moo can you send a bit of your potted crab this way, please? I love potted crab. And potted shrimps too!

Today, I has mostly been buying fat people T-shirts in Next. I have lost all imagination when it comes to fat-preggo style, so I just bought one of each colour.

Pandora the potted crab was luvely (ref. G.Ramsay "Pub Food"). Somehow I felt crab has less potential to poison my baybee...As a fellow fatto preggo I made extra so I have just had a second pot on white toast after my 3 hour nap! Can you see photos of hairy moo?

kind of ruled out bees now and, believe it or now, am considering pollen or summat. She was fine when I came in from shopping, was outside for seconds (it was lashing it down) and about an hour later started scratching her eye. I cleaned that and then noticed her lips had swelled. She sneezed a lot when we went for a walk. Eye is looking better now, but lip is still a bit chunky and rubbery. But she can eat, drink, bark and generally cause trouble, so I'm not worrying too much. She certainly is feeling sorry for herself though. Keep getting these pathetic one-eye half shut pining looks

honey HUGE BUAHAHAHA I will convert you yet. But properly seriously, as ski says you've loads of time yet. If you're wanting to be sure, get yourself a library card and do some reading (or your NCT group will prob have the ideal range of books to borrow for no squids). I recommend stuff by Sheila Kitzinger for info on homebirths and unmedicalised births - not to try to persuade you to take that route, but to understand the processes involved and to explain the normality of the birth process. In the end, the key is that you have the information to make the decision which is right for you and bear in mind that even if you decide to go au naturelle and birth pool at home, you can change your mind while halfway through labour and go into the hospital and get an epidural .

But in fact you may simply decide to stick with a planned hospital birth but see how things go, with more confidence that you will probably be ok without drugs.

As long as it's right for YOU, that's what's right.

pandora I still think that's bloody nuts re big grey hoss. My mum had a BGH when she was younger and he ended up with nav too. It's heartbreaking but how STOOPID to say that you like him too much and would too worried about losing him. OK, let's get one we're not so fond of . Sounds like an excuse to me... did they really have the money do you think?

We're also a big bee fan here. LC and I made a bee house from a bundle of bamboo canes last year, and hung it in our woods but no bees have taken up residence. I do try to plant loads of bee friendly plants. I wanted to plant early nectar crocuses last year for this early spring but never got around to it . We have lots of lavender though and they adore that. My dog tries to eat them - is this what actually happened do you think, cas? I think he's completely tolerant though as he catches them and wasps a lot () and never seems to get stung.

cunty if your bees are THAT big you're obv forgetting to leave reggie's bong until birthday day.

ski One of my HB books says that the NL has something like a 40% lower maternal death rate than the US which kind of undermined the US Obgyn's argument that HB is unsafe .

OK cas X post. Hope doggie recovers soon

Certainly hasn't even been bee weather here today - pissing it down and one great big hailstorm. Mutt doesn't like getting her feet wet ... Thanks all.

Been playing with my new pocket camcorder today. I like new toys.

ski and rots The US has been condemned for its shocking maternal death rate. According to WHO it ranks 41st in the world and is the second worst of any developed country in the world. See here.

pandy That is absolute nuts. Would they rather spend that money on a horse they didn't love as much? Are they not even going to bother with a vetting?

I am going overboard on the ski-style oofing today. We now have a rule in the house that if I drop something on the floor it stays there until MrP picks it up. I have one of these pick up things somewhere and I think I'm going to have to start using it.

Moo can't see the mutt, sorry!

Rots They have the money - I took a leaf out of Ski's book and cyber-stalked them. Oh yes! Pots of cash. I'm amazed that someone can accumulate that much wonga and apparently still not be able to make a firm decision on what they like.

Thinking about blow-drying me pony tomorrow and taking DD out to Easter lead rein jumping over trotting poles on the ground. While I can still run. But there is a risk of rain. Once upon a time I would have said 'stuff the show' and sat on the sofa eating chocolate and watching a film, but if I try and watch anything on the TV these days before 7pm DD starts chanting 'Roary, Roary!' in an effort to make me put a Roary the Racing Car DVD on. It was mildly amusing when I first realised Peter Kay had done a kid's program voice-over, but now I've had enough. It might be more fun to go and stand in a field in the rain. You have all this to look forward to, first timers .

panda You can still run?

I'm not as pregant as you are Pony.

If you want someone to really be jealous about, take my sister. She has border collies and does agility with them. She was 14 days overdue, and at a dog show. She went to the loo and realised she had lost her plug, so went to the show secretary and asked if she could move her running order to earlier in the day as she thought she might be about to go into labour. (This was on a Sunday, she had been told if nothing happened by the Monday they would induce her then. She was so convinced the baby wouldn't come naturally that she would be fine to run her dogs at the show.) So she ran her dog - 42 weeks pregnant! - went home to drop the dogs off, and calmly drove to the hospital where she told them she would have come in sooner but she had to finish running her dogs!

I'll be running for a little while longer yet. This time last time round I was still showing big horse in show hunter classes.

BTW any second-timers further along than me. I know the bump appears sooner than first time, but is there more space in there or somthing? Baybee is doing some kind of disco dancing right up against my ribs already. I am sure that is too high.

panda I don't know what the norm is, but this time around I think the bump was higher up earlier on. Also my rib cage expanded more earlier and wearing bras was really uncomfortable far too early.

The foal is feeding me pieces of hot cross bun!

Pony I am a STICKLER for picking up dropped stuff from the kitchen floor which the dogs won't eat (e.g., onion skins, grape stalks) - since Tuesday I've dropped two things by the bin and thought "hmmn, feck it".

pandora That's just fucking stupid - more fool them. Can I just reiterate that I wasn't stalking you per se? I was stalking your horse but as you put him up for sale obviously your phone number was available. I'm not mad guv'nor.

Navicular is indeed a terrible disease and carrots... given your lentil-weaved saddle-cloths I'm surprised you're not yet experimenting with barefoot as a way to combat such nasties.

carrots I'm not an expert on US vs. NL healthcare, but like honey have read the UN report on maternal deaths. Perhaps hawaiian can shed some light on this whole issue, but from my understanding in many cases, poor "living" causes complications... and these are of course exactly the women who don't have comprehensive health insurance - and infant mortality is much higher because the plugs are pulled. We pretty much know that come 22-23 weeks our health authorities will do all they can to keep our baybees alive - without asking us to scan our Barclaycard.

For the newbies and anyone else who forgot, I've just been playing with this again museum.thetech.org/ugenetics/eyeCalc/eyecalculator.html - 50/50 green/blue because apparently his dad was blue - before that I was 75/25 for a green-eyed 'tant'.

I knows yous is all intellijent wimmins and everyfink - so will have no idea who I'm talking about - but there was a pic in the papers this morning of Big Brother's Chanelle who is also due end-July and she's barely showing. Yesterday out and about in town I had a terrible moment of "I just look fucking fat & lumpy and women ALL OVER Birkenhead look like this daily and I don't look pregnant". Jailbait confirmed this morning that I did look fat yesterday but today I look pregnant. He said he didn't dare tell me yesterday when I asked him with my Princess Di eyes...

dog update: face better, but puked up overnight. Guess she ate something she shouldn't have. As she was a mess and still stank of fox shit, I have bathed her and she is feeling even more sorry for herself now. Serves her right.

Just saw lovely pic of new niece and it made me want to go into labour NOW! (not really but I want to meet mine so badly )

Ski, chill about the whole stalking thing, because if you don't I will continue to wind you up about it forever It's alright to talk about things like that here - we all know you are a bit strange anyway.

When you go to antenatal classes you will discover that there are some women who look like octomum and others who are nearly ready to pop who you wouldn't stand next to in a bikini. People at the dog show I mentioned above didn't dare ask my sister about the baybee, as she looked so unpregnant they thought she had lost it.

We DID go to a show this morning. DD ran around in the lorry park shouting 'I wan' get on my Neigh-NEIGH NOOOWW!' much to everyone's amusement (and my relief. I don't want to be labelled as the pushy mother who drags her 2 year old out to a show no matter what!) Her very hnhorsey dad led her round in the collecting ring - I just know the first time she falls of it will be while in her dad's care, but fortunately she stayed on board and they let us into the ring. The show had a Lead rein poles-on-the-floor class but noone else had entered, so we went in in our own pace and did some of it in walk and some in trot. I was fooking knackered by the end! DD was excited and got to choose her first ever rosette, pony got an apple, and we were home again by noon. Even OH couldn't complain about that! Pic here - look how nimble I am for 18 weeks pregnant

Arf - stalker pandora? Following that link I've now just seen the inside of your uterus and possibly your liver! Gorgeous picture from this morning and well done little girl!

I'm just back from the yard and Ginger is doing great, the wound is nicely scabbing over so I let her run, hosed it down and put more antiseptic on it and I've brought back a load of tack for washing/soaping. Joy.

I've had horrible twingey pain today but he's been kicking like a little bastard so I hope it's just "preggo pains" and nothing untoward. I had to let jailbait pick out her feet as I couldn't bend down without pain. It's not constant, say once every 3 hours or so.

Ah, whoops! Now you know why I say don't ask about DD's birth too much!

It's noraml to just hurt for no reason at all when you are pregnant. Glad Ginger is getting better.

Ye gods, pandy! I think I prefer my c-section photos. They were taken on the right side of the curtain.

Daughter, shetland and mummy all look gorgeous.

I have over-shopped today and I've had to compensate by over-sitting on the sofa this afternoon. Ski - I hurt a lot about the time you are and I put it down to growing pains. Remember at this atge pain is 'good', not malign...

stage - too lazy to type proper