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BESH BABYWIN STATS

This isn't a fucking list - right?

BESH BAYBEES
dontrythisathome, Bay Amaryllis born March 25.
Cheggers, twinz girlz, born April 12

UPDIFFED
FannyPriceless, her pelvis went menkul, due June 14
CUNextTuesday, takes no shit from the Daily Mail, due June 28
IggyPiggy, The one who loves BUMSEX, due July 20
CurlyCasper, hospital botherer 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
backinthebox, she bought a racehorse, due September 6
skatergrrrl, the one that overtook the rest, September ??
VAG, lives in De Nile, due 19 September
Honeymoo, no it's not fucking indigestion, due November 2
silversky, the biggest farter, due 21 October (first baybee)
okiecokie, self-confessed control freak, due November 6
SomethingSuitablyWitty, benelux babe, due November
ReginaMonologue, must-get-the-goss-from-ski, due November 20

Yes, I didn't really mind the cluster feeding. As box says, I was on the sofa watching telly anyway, and my logic was that if she tanked up then she was more likely to sleep for longer before needing the next feed (didn't always work like that though). She would often reach a stage which I called 'milk drunk' and then I'd know she was out for the count good and proper.

okie Oh yes, and that is precisely why the MN trolls have been so determined to bring it down. Everyone's initial reaction was what a bloody cheek! The site is in violation of several intellectual property laws, and deserves to get a very hard time over being so stupid / blatantly stealing someone else's well known brand.

Oh yes, I know the "milk drunk" look, well cute! Oooh, I am getting excited again! You forget but they are only really wee for such a short time. And the scrunching up for the legs like they are still insdie and the moro reflex also well cute.

Hoss was fine. Decided to leave unclothed. Is not particularly delicate, just heading into twilight years if age.

We are off to a parteeeee later. Well BBQ can see it being bit if a wash out!!!

Racehorse went out without a rug on and went nuts! He has to toughen up at some point, but I relented just this once and went and got them in. Leading him in in the pouring rain with big horse jumping up and down too because he was worried he might be left out of the horsey stupidity was not much fun though. The Shitland just walked determinedly away from me when I went to check if she was OK.

The alternative MN was very strange when I looked at it earlier - has it got stranger?

My horse was being a spooky twit to bring in prob cos it realised then that it was wet and bit cold. Sposed to be warm and sunny tomorrow. Like you boxy after spending 7 mths or so wearing a rug constantly nice to be able to leave them starkers.

Artie has been practicing gymnastics for the last couple of days is most amusing.

We are thinking we'll not bother with baby monitor, don't think house is big enough to need one tbh. May revise that once baybee is out of our room though.

cos glad to hear Artie is keeping you amused! I woke up yesterday with a huge protrusion on one side of my belly - had to squeeze her back into a more level position!

I have inherited so many newborn clothes from my SIL - niece had loads and has just grown out of them. Added to the stuff I had bought and other gifts, I have 32 full body sleepsuits and 30 vest suits. One every day for the first month! (I know it does not work like that) And a have a few little outfits. AND a large basket full of stuff for Baby to grow into.

We BBQd despite the weather yesterday - huge shelter set up across the back patio, men out there playing with meat, women in the kitchen talking births etc. My mum had my brother, her first born, in two hours from first twinge! I arrived in six hours. I'd quite like to fall somewhere between the two. (Two hours not enough time to get SFF home from work and drive to the hospital!)

SFF leaves me for 10 days tomorrow. Not quite sure how mutley and I will cope, but we will

caspy Is the new house all organised now?

I just gave away a huge bag of baby girls' clothes on Freecycle today. I'll be seriously pissed off if the sonographer was actually wrong about the willy.

Nine days to go and I now feel like a giant, fat walrus, stranded on the rocks, helplessly flapping my little stumpy arms and unable to get up. It's a beautiful thing.

Fanny, every pregnancy and every woman is different. Here's what I will be remembering from last time round for me;

• Within 12 hours of giving birth I had knees again - not the puffy fluid filled sausages I had had for the previous 3 months.

• I will be superwoman! All that extra blood volume and lung capacity you get heaving round the extra 4 stone (in my case ) means that once I am not carrying the baby and all his baggage (like placenta, etc) I will be able to leap buildings with a single bound. Even if it turns out to be a crippling CS again.

I am sure there will be more stuff to add, but these are the things I am hanging onto this time round to get me through the walrus days. Your walrus days are nearly at an end now!

If the willy was mis-identified, the child will just have to have an identity crisis.

Not organised at all fanny. Still random boxes and piles of junk lying around. It is one of my jobs for the next few weeks, now that I'm off (even though I have some day job stuff to complete). But the list of things to do keeps growing and my hips are getting worse. Just this afternoon I was reading some very sage advice on an old thread about the best cure for SPD being to do absolutely nothing . At least the nursery looks lovely - my showpiece room!

Sorry you are feeling walrusy. But nine days! . It's not too long really. And at least you have things like ChristianMN to keep you amused - thanks for bringing it to our attention, I was loving it and the related AIBU thread during a lurking sesh last night.

boxy your talk of becoming superwomen is inspirational. Please keep up the PMA talks!

Curly how did you "squeeze" the baby back into position - I didn't know you could do that!!! Must catch up on fred properly, have been diying (well watching) and sleeping ALOT. What is going on with sleep??? can't get enough.... oh well, can't complain.

have a lovely weekend all.

casp That is very good advice. Must have been someone very wise who wrote that. It's so hard though - I have a to do list as long as my arm, but just have to accept that I'll be bringing a new baby into a rather disorganised mess. Mum arrives Friday night but she'll be straight off a 30 hour flight so I can hardly put her to work on it. (Well, not straight away.) MrP is trying to get a final book draft to the publishers before the baby arrives, so he is working all hours. I'm sure we'll muddle through somehow. I don't think the baby's going to notice.

box Luckily we've actually kept most of big sister's clothes despite the clear out, due to our attempted gender neutral policy. She survived fine wearing blue stuff with tractors on, but I just thought that dresses for her brother might be pushing the policy a bit far.

And you're right. I'm going to feel strong and invincible in no time!

curly haha I do the same with Julian. honeymoo Sometimes he sticks his head/foot/elbow in a place which is quite uncomfortable e.g., low down in the pubic region or up by my ribs. I give him a good poke and he'll shuffle around. Actually it's my new game, I chase him around my uterus!

curly A two hour "labour" from sneeze to shawl wrapped baybee sounds very nice!

I am awake at 3am because it's my first day back at work tomorrow - and even though I'm working from home I always, always worry before going back. I just want my maternity to start now. I've not had a proper project to get my teeth in to for months but I just sodding know that when I read my inbox later this morning I'm going to find an emergency one issued which needs to be completed in more hours than I have. Working from home = 4D scan at 11:15, visit from nurse/midwife's assistant/cleaning lady at 2:30.

I know that feeling ski - We had two big projects with a deadline of next week. I broke the back of the work and then handed it over (just checks and tweaks now really). Cue much relief. THEN we get a complicated, time-consuming inquiry on Thursday at 5pm - so guess what I spent my last day at work doing!(which is one reason why I have brought some mundane tasks home to complete at my leisure, hopefully this week). Good luck for your first day back.

honey when this baby pokes out, it seems to be more than a hand or foot. I think it's a full bum, or shoulder - enough to get two hands around and push gently anyway! She has a tendency to sit as far forward as possible - despite there being so much depth to the uterus - making my bump seem solid (a feel of the lumps and bump tells me it's baby rather than contractions). So I give her a gentle manipulation to relieve the pressure and return the front of my bump to soft mush

of the scan today ski. I wish my next one was sooner (two weeks). The results will give us a clearer indication of what sort of birth I can have. I'm such a control freak, I'd like to have even a rough idea!

BTW, the two-hour birth thing was actually quite a shock to the system. It's a wee bit quick for most women to handle. Nonetheless, my wish list, if following mum's experience, is a 37-week baby, just over 6 lbs, born in just a few hours, with very little pain/stress. Please?!.

Fanny can I ask what your man is writing? TG is an aspiring author. He is working on his second draft at mo and researching agents/publishers etc.

pollypoo MrP is one of those brainy academics who write v complicated academic books read by only a few hundred other brainy specialists at other universities. His publisher is Oxford University Press and they only deal with that sort of thing.

However, I am also an aspiring 'normal' writer currently working on my second book but no deal yet. I can thoroughly recommend that TG gets a copy of The Writers' and Artists' Yearbook if he hasn't already got one. It has a complete list of all the agents and publishers, what sort of work they will consider, and how to best approach them.

boxy I am liking your confidence in the prospect of walking out of the hospital 4 stone lighter than you go in. Because that's exactly how it works, right?

How exciting Fanny! What kind of genre do you write? Funnily enough I have just bought TG that book. I hoped he'd be really chuffed but instead found it an unwelcome reminder of just how many books are written and go unpublished, and how difficult it is to get a deal. He is still ploughing ahead though, doing his best tortured soul impression

polly Well it depends if he is writing in order to get rich. You can tell him I went through that phase and came to the conclusion that it probably isn't going to happen! It would still be great to get published, nonetheless. Can't really say genre on here and I'm not in t'other place. Just something to entertain me and keep my nieces amused.

Man has just departed. I managed not to cry. Here's hoping this child does not seek an early entry to the world during the next 10 days!

of anyone actually doing anything about their book writing. I have a few pages of a children's book written and plenty of ideas for the rest of the series. I want to do the artwork myself too, but have never got round to sitting down and really focussing on it. Ridiculous really since I'm hardly talking novels - just something with lots of colour, description and onomatopoeia to keep little ones amused. The first is based on true but hard-to-believe facts. Maybe motherhood will be my muse. (Can I type/draw while breatfeeding?)

curls You will soon learn the fine art of NAK-ing*. Very widely used on Mumsnet.

*Nursing At Keyboard

I'm just back from the 4D scan place. Despite me having loads of amniotic fluid and him normally doing an irish jig from dawn to dusk - today he pressed his face up against my uterine wall and slept through the ENTIRE proceedings. We are to go back on saturday (free of charge) and I've been told to eat sugar/caffeine an hour before going in! Little sodlet! But of course it was lovely to see him anyway and we got to see his cock & balls in 3D. They WERE apparently moving.

fanny Whilst going through Julian's wardrobe at the weekend I found some babygrows I'd bought before we'd found out the gender... some definitely have a pink bias.

She did however say his due date was 17th July rather than 22nd. This corresponds with the growth scan 3 weeks ago which said 16th July... please let it be true!

PS curly I think you're very brave with TSF going away for 10 days. I'm not sure I'd want to be on my own right now and I know that's pathetic for a woman of my age.

PPS I am actually having a fo real fur-baby as the hair on the back of his head is already a shocking 2cm long! Liz Jones eat yer heart out!

ski How did you just win a whole 5 days? If you were any sort of friend you would sign them over to me right now.

fanny Well there's no bloody guaranteee - but I'm sticking to this gut feeling I have that he's going to be a bit early. Anyway, I was just thinking about you this morning and wondering if you couldn't beg for it all to be brought forward a week for your physical/mental health? I know your parents aren't there yet - but perhaps for the best given your history?