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

Oh I'm not in bold any more

I'm still bold (or stupid. That's not up for debate, btw )

Ah - that worked! It would seem that if it all appears in bold, you need to post something to get rid of it. Whoever did that - what a cunning way to make us look popular

Mornings. Had our 20 week scan this morning and all good. Baby very shy, hands over face and looking away from us!

V scary though - she spent ages and ages looking at the heart in total silence, and then getting me to move, then said she needed to get a colleague to look - so we were panicking! but it was just that she couldn't get one last picture she needed because of the angle, so I was sent away to walk the corridors and then when we came back it was ok. Relief!!

Good news on the scan cosmopolitan despite having a moment of panic.

Had my parents to stay over the weekend. We finally told them I was up the stick. I think I have done remarkably well not to spill the beans before now but I really wanted to do it face to face this time. They are delighted to be getting a 5th grandchild, my Dad reckons he will soon have enough grandchildren for a rugby team!

I have a day off today. Little man is ill though so instead of doing the nice things that I had planned we are house bound.

I have no idea what lion stamped eggs are but they sound lovely! Or actually no, they might sound a bit vile after all. I think that might be another of my aversions kicking in. I keep discovering new ones. Like that the very thought of Italian food makes me want to hurl ever since we got back from Italy. How ironic

Great news on the scan Cos though it sounds like it was completely nerve-wracking! It must have been lovely to get a good look at the baby, though he/she was being a bit of a diva, with the whole hands over the face thing.

Okie I was interested to hear you have broken the news! I also want to tell the ouders (great Dutch word) in person, but living in another country means I won't actually see them until I am 12 weeks. But well, we'll wait. In the meantime, we haven't told anyone. Well, I have told you guys of course, but I guess that doesn't count, seeing as I am not on the list.

No I haven't got over it yet.

No switty, the reason telling us doesn't count is because none of us are real. Well, I mean, I suppose I am real but my name's really Nigel and I'm a plasterer.

Nigel is a naff name - it will ever be associated with the curly haired on from 'Stenders.

switty You're a cloggie?

Cossie I am so thrilled for you - did you get a look at the flavour or is it all still a mystery? Well done for holding it together, I think I'd have fallen apart under the circumstances.

Also want to say fantastic news cos . Really chuffed. Heart thing sounded traumatic... I tend to just immediately ask what's wrong. Did you just wait in silence? Poor things.... horrible. Still, all is good . Also putting in request for flavour please.

Oh well done cos - yours in clearly not as exhibitionist as some of the others around here

And for the record I don't want to know what flavour it is, I shall avert my eyes if you do tell, because I like surprises

I was reading an article in the Gn magazine at the weekend (ostensibly about gender selection) that indicated these days you are considered a FREAK if you don't find out the gender of your child before its born. For what reason I know not. In other words, just because you can, most people do.

And I know you lot have all found out and I haven't, which makes me the FREAK in our midst, but I just cannot understand why - I mean my brain won't process why - one would want to when one will find out eventually anyway. And it won't matter how many time you tell me it's so you don't have to call him/her 'it', or you can prepare yourself, or it's nice to know, or whatever. I still will Never Understand

No, we asked if there was anything wrong and she said no it was just this one angle she needed to get, but you never know if they're just saying that until they get a second opinion!

We didn't find out flavour, we don't want to know. I think it's probably either a boy or a girl though. Maybe.

Yey! Two FREAKS together

But did it have any...um... artichoke characteristics?

Congrats cossie!

After the anomaly scan I though mine was a monkey, so it was nice to know

I confess, I found out simply because I am a control freak. I'm still being very selective fussy about who gets to know. General rule is if I see them in the flesh, they'll hear me refer to her as "she". If I'm on FB or whatever, I strive to dodge any giveways. Will fail at some point I'm sure.

I don't see cos and cunty as freaks (well, not for that reason anyway )

Just went to drive past house we are viewing tomorrow night. It's huge, on a plot cut out of the corner of a field, and generally to-good-to-be-true for the rent being charged. Probably something to do with farmers' dodgy clever book-keeping. I don't care, I just want to live in it for the next year or so, pleeeeeeaaaaasssee!

(if we get it, BabyFest 2010 will be taking place chez nous. Space on the huge lawn for tent-based accommodations and everyfink)

cunty no artichoke characteristics left, they must all go by 12 weeks....

Iggy is also a freak btw, not just you and me. Although most people finding out makes it a bugger finding neutral nursery bedding and stuff, it's mostly pink / blue.

actually you speak the truth. The shops are stiff with pink and blue, both of which I loathe with a passion usually reserved for Jeffery Archer

and sprouts

Grass is greener I think - I might know mine's a girl, but I'm still drawn to the neutral stuff. I think it's nicer than a lot of the pink dry-heave inducing merchandise out there. Perhaps a new line in neutral artichoke and sprout themed nursery accessories is required?

Nah Ski not a cloggie. I have been motivated by lluuurrrve to learn boyfy's language (will also come in handy so that he doesn't have a secret language in which to talk to the baby which I would not understand.) Ouder is just a Dutch word I like. BUT I think my favourite Dutch word of all is still (drumroll): "de arsopening". I kinda think piggy will like that one too.

cunty I read that article too and thought hmmm... I actually know a fair few people that wanted to keep it as a surprise. But not me! This is because I know for sure by all laws of probability I'll be having a boy (no girls in boyfy's family for two generations) but have always kinda wanted a girl, so I'd prefer to just have my suspicions confirmed asap so I can move on from that. But don't me wrong, I don't by any means mind enough to suffer from the "EGD" defined in the article. Madness, madness...

I too read the Grauniad, in fact have even written for them, but am definitely not a sab!

We didn't find out gender first time around. We have this time though. Now I can clear out the pink baby things which somehow crept into the foal's theoretically gender neutral wardrobe.

cos / cunty I try so hard to avoid the gender stereotyped clothing. Small baby stuff is a bit easier as they seem to do lots in white. Also for some reason Next seems to be OK on the neutral but vaguely interesting stuff, e.g. sleepsuits with stars on them. I actually more often buy supposedly 'Boy' clothes for the foal. e.g. I bought some grey/green trousers for her the other day, and some green 'Boys' shoes. I get funny looks when I buy it but I think she looks great - she dresses better than me these days actually...

cas We also did a drive by today! I spotted a place on t'interweb last night so we went and checked it out from the outside. 4 big bedrooms, 3 massive receptions, huge garden, some wild woods, and surrounded by farmland (including ponies and cross country jumps over the back fence). MrP loves it. I think we'd be crazy to move but the extra space and huge garden is so tempting...

Right, back to the plastering.

sounds great pony! (actually sounds like what we're after, but we don't get the fourth bedroom or woods). Go for it. My only worry is that, as we'll be renting, it's going to be a massive step down when we come to buy again when I'm back at work. No way we could afford the mortgage on such a place (not that it would be sold, I expect, as it's part of the farm's estate). Amazing what you can get here for the same rent as a pokey flat in the big city!

Oh I do likes dreaming property spotting in the countryside...

cunty Please don't let yourself think you're a freak over the sex of the baybee... I can think of another 5 things just off the top of my head!

switty I see, iggy is also a massive fan of "poepjeneuken"!

Boy, that was a weekend to remember. Got left with temporary baby for 4 hours during which I had to master 60 different forms of entertainment each lasting no longer than 4 minutes each varying from the inspired (cue baby mobile suspended on a mop handle straddled across the tv stand and the coffee table with a nice heavy book on each end to stop baby destroying said improvised scaffolding as it did chin ups) to the desperate (poke the dog, he loves it!). Intermingle that with having to change the baby, baby peeing like a fountain dangerously close to husbands prized plasma TV, baby peeing all over his self, his romper suit, and his bedding, baby thinking world was going to end when having new romper suit put on and letting the entire street know and finally screeching like a banshee because I put him outside in his cot for his sleep and forgot the dummy (oh, I mean baby crack!).

Kudos to me though, I managed - which is better than I thought I was going to do, which was to run for the hills. Quite surprised how you can tune out the crying and just concentrate on what it is you need to achieve to make baby happy.

Other news, MS has kicked in, spent most of yesterday in limbo land between "am I going to throw up" and "it's quite possible I will throw up". Have bulk bought ginger nuts to assist.

A note on the boy pee thing, did you know you can get a willy cap to stem the flow? The things people think of.

Bloody hell, who mentioned sprouts?!

I had them for lunch yesterday (not just sprouts but with roast lamb), WHAT A MISTAKE!

You know its bad when you the smell of your own parps make your own eyes water. I said to Husband, he's lucky we were in the lounge and not in bed as he may not have made it out alive.

More important news - scan is on THURSDAY. Shit, bugger, balls, so excited, so bricking it. Mamma Mia please let everything be hunky fucking dory.

Would someone be good enough to post the post the link about finding out the gender again please?