The PESH deli for those who are realising there are real live baybees at the end of this.

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BESH BAYBEES
dontrythisathome, Bay Amaryllis born March 25.
Cheggers, twinz girlz, born April
FannyPriceless, boy, born June 8

UPDIFFED
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
silversky, the biggest farter, due 21 October (first baybee)
Honeymoo, no it's not fucking indigestion, due November 2 (boy)
okiecokie, self-confessed control freak, due November 6
SomethingSuitablyWitty, benelux babe, due November 14
ReginaMonologue, big pants, 5* hotels, Bridget Jones due November 20
maswera, jungle hottie - due November (???)
PollyPoo, wants to name her baybee after the dog, The New Messiah is due December 25

Silver - X post with you earlier! Sounds like it has been an awful afternoon, but sure you will get some reassurance at the hospital! Let us know how you get on!

rots - Sounds very bad

Silver I hope you get on ok at the hospital.

Bargain alert... bargain alert... Hotmilk bras from £15.... here

A brief post, been stacked up here for hours...

silver I hope all is well - do let us know how you get on, everyone is rooting for you as you'll see.

twinkle what's going on lovely? any more update on how you're doing - hope that you're ok!

muser, salty, gin - many congrats on upduffment!

swits all well here, just stupid busy with work, house renovations and ergh.. anything else that can be thrown at me! Plus side, everything here for new bathroom, baby collection growing nicely and plans for nursery coming along, I have at least now thought of a theme! 20 week scan less than 2 weeks away now too, I'm counting the days! Still pissing like a broken hosepipe though. Meh!

boxy job stresses suck and make you stressed - I suppose the budget now it's been announced isn't helping much either, rest assured though things have a habit of working themselves out for the better - I found this when I was removed made redundant from my last job, best thing that ever happened to me though the most scary at the time.

rots slackers piss me off - I am a firm advocate of boot camp for those that can't be arsed, why don't we just chain-gang them all up and get them to resurface all the roads to earn what they get, that way at least the tax payer would get value for money eh?

ski did you get your b00bs out for you big meeting, that's what I did whenever I had to impress the big bosses!

Iz back from the hozzie. Heartbeat heard all fine and dandy. BP low. Urine fine. Should be feeling at least ten movements (baby not bowel) a day before 4pm.

MW was v nice and showed me how to self test for movement and said she would have liked to have scanned me but all the sonographers had already left for the day. Did say to see how tmw goes and if concerned to call back in.

Husband called me a wally but says I am his wally, which think is man code for you silly moo making me worriedsick but I still likes you a lot.

Apparently they are seeing lots more wimminz as emergencies due to the heat so need to drink plenty, so if you think you are drinking enuff drink some more.

Moral of story : it's always worth panicking and getting advice even if whilst seeking advice they scare the living shit out of you. Plus my local hospital is the biggest pile of poo known to man! We won't even talk about theack of signage at the other hospital so we couldn't even find the freaking place we were supposed to be going!

As I type the little person has woken up. Must be all the prodding. Hope s/he is ok in there and not up to mischief as not sure I can cope.

reggie It was a conference call and I was working from home in my pyjamas. Boobs sort of idly hanging... but not likely to influence anyone. Jackapoo erupting in angry barking halfway through made me look like a pro though...

silver So glad to hear you got it all checked out and all is hunky-dory - v good news! And of COURSE it's moving now that you've dragged yourself to the 'ospital! The day mine stopped moving and I had a major panic, I dragged jailbait to the baby shop to discover that the Dutch don't sell "dopplers" - driving home in semi-tears he started twitching - so clearly just teasing his poor mum!

switty Yes, I iz bad about the cheese - but it really fucks me off - all this hysteria about what you should or should not eat. Can I sit in the garden or will I die from oxygen? Thick as fucking mince innit.

Huzzah Muser!!! Hope all the tests are fine and you can start to get excited soon.

No more cramping or bleeding here but feel distinctly not pregnant. Only symptom is a painful right nipple, which isn't much to hang on to! I rang the EPU and they said 'don't come in woman and crowd our waiting room when we can't do anything for you' (or words to that effect!). They advised me to come in at 7 weeks if nothing further had happened by then. So, until then I am pretending that life is normal and I am not pregnant so I'll lurk but not be about. Thanks for thinking of me though. I haven't really told very many people about the pregnancy and the ones I have told are all abroad so it's good to have this place.

I have two days off now and intend on spending most of it sunbathing in the garden and read the newspaper front to back without interruption - something i probably haven't done since my daughter was born 2.5 years ago! Bliss.

SALE Alert - Mothercare have 10% off All car seats which is on top of other reductions. Only til 27 June.

Thanks to everyone for the concern. Going to have to face the shame of work in the morning but I'd rather that than anything else.

I may have got some moss on me earlier from sitting on a garden chair

Oh honetly, ref goats cheese. That japhrimel must be having such an exciting pregnancy

That sort of holier than thou shite about food really squeezes my pips

twinkle it seems that "not feeling pregnant" is normal until the MS kicks in . Brilliant news about no more bleeding etc though. Have you any more STPO to reassure yourself? Enjoy the paper...

silver really pleased that they checked you over and dealt with you sympathetically. It's always a risk that they will not be nice about it and that could put people off when they really have something going wrong. SO nice to be able to just know that all is well, isn't it! And so good to get the stress out of the way.

reg what's going on in your world??

Hope the newbies are going to start posting soon

cunty MOSS? MOSS? Dear gods.

I'm just wondering whether a grape and cheddar sarnie will work or whether I need to defrost some brie.

Incidentally, feeling much better after stress earlier. He's still a tosser but I can have a drink . We picked LC up from school and went t'pub. He played in the playground and had some tea there while YOB and I enjoyed the garden and I had a little drinkie. Feel a bit sozzled TBH after one glass of wine. Bit disappointed that I've still not incurred the wrath of the waitress/bartender and I think at this stage it's SO in your face that I'm just not going to.

On a completely different note, YOB found an anti-mozzie device in Maplin (website code N28HT) which is electronic and chemical-free. Don't know if it works but we're going to get one and try it. Could be useful especially to the horsey gals.

I wish I had energy to type more, but sat at my desk wiht sore throat feel like pants. Have 2 more days of late nights. Will be half dead by weekend.

Wish I could take full on lemsip style stuff.

honey I feel your pain. Gargling with salt water helped fo' sho'.

Nesting continues as just made lunchboxes x2 for tmw now sat on sofa waiting for slave Husband to dish up dinner, then he has chores to do, compulsory ones if he wants his mates to be allowed round to watch the football.

Ps my boss called to check all is ok as be was not in the office today when I had me meltdown scare. Genuine nice boss, makes nice change from the usual bad managers I have had.

honey you can take paracetamol you know. I took Sudafed as well when I was desperate with a bad cold. I did a lot of research and it seems there was the teeniest tiny bit of a risk in the first tri, but I was well through the 2nd and even then the risk was so small I'd have probably taken it in the first tri.

Get some paracetamol down you and a hot water with honey and lemon - that may be enough.

Aahhh so glad that all was fine silver and that they were nice and understanding and helpful. You must be feeling better - though somewhat drained at the exhaustion of it all...Sounds like you also have a nice boss BTW.

I quite like the idea of the naughty jackapoo barking half way through the conf call ski...I agree that the cheese/moss/oxygen hysteria is of course way over the top and had a good snigger at your comments on that thread, but I am a leetle prone to it myself, though I NEVER EVER impose it on others who are pregnant, dashing plates of chorizo out of their hands or weeping and wringing my hands as they reach for the brie.

Reggie I can't believe that you have a 'theme' chosen for the nursery and a lot of buying done. Good God, that's impressive! I have: a little painting for the baby's room that we bought in Italy ages ago; the blanket I knitted; and a free bib that came with my maternity swimsuit. Are you telling me that this won't be enough? But seriously, I suppose we will have to get cracking at some point. I've been a bit discouraged this week actually by total failure to progress with plans : the creche located round the corner from us has no vacancies until 2012. The new apartments for sale round the corner from us start at 372000 euros (this is insania by the way - about 100 000 more than my most generous estimate)... Anyway, we are not in that market.

Poor honey hope you feel better soon!

rots glad you're feeling better. YOB sounds very supportive and sweet.

Holy fucking Moly!

It's an EPIC week in the BESH Palace and drom has won too!

Muser, if you're lurking around the door - I didn't stop checking my gusset until around 14 weeks...

rots That night I had out a few weeks ago, I'll admit I did get stared at and felt a little tipsy. The Dutch don't take kindly to preggos having a drink. However I was out with ex-forces girls - some of them from Newcastle!

honey I made my own lemsips with boiling water, paracetamol, fresh squeezed lemon and honey. Seemed very palatable - although let's be honest they're no Ibuprofen. I hope they ease off you a little at work tomorrow.

switty The writing's on the wall, you'll have to move out of the city and instead move to ASSE! We're currently thinking about dipping our toes back in to housing in the Autumn - depending on what happens with my job post-ML. There's a neighbourhood the other side of town I rather like and I've just seen a house drop to 75k - now that's my kind of "risk adverse" pricing!

really? Must go check out that there happy palais
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Erm, have had funny pains all night and now appear to be losing my mucous plug. I feel a bit sick in a nervy way. So much to do in the house before i can go near a hospital/let parents stay...

fuck, have missed loads

more wins in the palais and now lovely cassie is gonna go into labour

Oooer curly. Oh god, I put my money on cunty for a lay today and you're going to spoil my betting slip!

iggy Jailbait's mum asked how I was coping with the heat - he said "oh she just gets in and strips off in front of the fan". I'm finding it harder & harder to turn over in bed though and apparently the little fucker lay there the other night listening to me grunting & huffing & puffing!

Blimey.

Hello lovely iggy - nice to have you back, Guess you've been enjoying ML!

On proper 'puter now instead of phone. Should have chosen words better. Bloody show is what's happening (not actual plug - yet). Feels a bit like moderate period pain at the mo. Probably got days yet. 36 weeks today - and SFF won't be impressed if he misses the match this avo!

silver What you need to remember though is that 90% of "other preggos" (not PESHes) are quite fucking insane and think you'll kill your baybee if you have a slice of Cathedral on toast. So thinking you'll kill your baybee by putting a babygrow at the bottom of the wardrobe fits quite nicely in to their fucked up psyche.

curly haha - time it to ruin his sports night!

I'm gazing over at the Palace now and wondering if laurie is next up...

Thanks snowbird tis true. Besides I love Cathedral and have some in my homemade sarnies later for lunch.

Am hungry already.

box not looking for flight favours but will fb you! Oooh err that sounds wrong !

You've nested with Cathedral? But what about your baybee silver?

If it helps, I've been up since 4 your time and have had 2 weetabix and some yoghurt with raspberries & honey. I believe the greek yoghurt, raspberries AND honey are all the the deid baybee list. Am off for a coffee now.

To the 36 weekers - how are you finding the baby's movements now? I'm finding that Julian does not seem to have the physical space to twirl around, plus of course he fucked himself over when he got engaged , but when he does lash out it's really with some force - e.g., can send a handbag crashing to the floor.

I'm wondering if the Palace wins are because so far they've managed to avoid camping season?

ski wriggling only lessened a bit yesterday afternoon, now I think about it. I'm still feeling the odd poke though (just got a light kick there, probably behind the placenta), but it's less noticeable with the frequent BHs.

Just been googling, and some websites say show-labour = two days, others say can be weeks. But some say you must phone MW/hosp if it happens before 37 weeks. I am happy to just tidy away for a few hours and see what happens. Do you think I am crazy? I know if my baby was born this week she would, technically, be prem. But we already know she's a good size.

Mind you, if she is prem, I miss out on that water birth I only just won !!!!

sorry, I think I might be on here a bit while I wait for SFF to get home from night shift.

Dishes done, cereal being eaten. Next the guest bedroom...

Then finish hossie bags - which I had taken back to prepare for a water birth.

Should wash myself at some point.

Maybe I should write some instructions for the people who are taking over my house while I am confined? (keep out of my drawers, feed the dog, help yourself to the ironing...)

Think I'll consider calling MW once that list is complete. They'll probably call me in for monitoring (again!) and then send me back to wait for weeks... and weeks... and weeks... and I'll lay my baby last.

Mind you, think my breasts would explode by then, given the amount of liquid coming from them yesterday.

sorry, I am rambling. Do that when nervous.