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

[rots]

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

drom 'tis truly wonderful news! we all do remember the menkul. A few of us were lucky enough to have the full festive season between BFP and 12 week scan, so that did help. I'm guessing the World Cup and Wimbledon won't do it for you? Hang it there, it will pass quickly and soon you will be relishing in the swollen, achy-backed, pukey glory of it all!

TMI , just for FP. Well, I have now showered, after discovering the bloodiest gloop yet in a fanjo that hasn't ever felt this wet before - not with jizz, KY or EWCM. It's just full of stretchy gunk. SFF declined to look
Despite all this, I still think I'll get to the hospital and it will have all disappeared.

Oh, and for those spotting "symptoms", I have had loose movements/diarrhea for the last two/three days, with accompanying cramps. Everything I ate was going straight through - until now. (god help MWs if I do give birth today, I know what;s in there!) Every time I woke up to pee last night I was having a fair bit of abdo pain, which I put down to the diarrhea thing. Guess it was actually wombular. Oh, and I did decided at about midnight that I should get up at 4.30am and start cleaning just in case. I never did, but that's surely a sign of nesting menkul, no?

drom Personally I had my 12 week scan at 10 weeks and spent the intermediary 6 weeks sobbing, nauseous and puking. It were reet great! And checking my gusset of course. Seriously, the ms is likely to kick in at around 6.5 weeks and then you'll no longer be able to convince yourself that it wasn't really a line. Talk to the VAG about denial. I also kept the piss-stick in the living room so I could stare at it any time I needed to.

curly I am so excited for you!

rots A friend of mine had her waters go at 34 weeks, they sent her home and brought her in at 38 for a c-section. That's longer than I would've wanted to have waited...

skater Please to arrange meeting with laurielou at Glasto this weekend to ensure her diffedness?

Wwwoooohhhhhh perfect result drom

drom I found denial helpful plus I went for a scan at 8 weeks... Am afraid the time did drag somewhat tho... I couldn't concentrate at work at all...

cas that sounds exciting to me roll on 2pm and the check!

Gosh curls that is a show for sure!

ski did they bring her in because at that stage they recognised infection? Seems a long time to wait and then do it arbitrarily but it's reassuring that they may be able to tell (I didn't know that).

De Nile? - over what?

I'M HAVING A WHAT????????

Ha - Cam I was very happily in denial of everything, even after having a 7 week scan (went private - about £100 - I could not have lasted 12 weeks). TSF got emotional att he scan, I was v calm and disbelieving.... The first 12 weeks crawl by like every hour is a whole day. Then the next 8 go past a bit quicker but not much. After that things get a bit more back to normal. I didn't have symptoms at all - I even missed sickness really, beyond feeling a bit queasy for a few weeks (from 7-11 ish I think) (think ski shouldered this burden for me - thanks matey ). It's just a waiting game now for you - but I promise you will get to the end of it and start podging out and feeling squirms and wallops!

Scorps! Yum yum!

Cas - am thinking of you - so exciting! Come on Cunty, keep up! (no pressure...)

My friend's waters started leaking at 20something weeks and she finally had a CS at 34 weeks - baby perfectly fine and perfect.

It all sounds like imminent baby arrival, Cas! Not jealous at all - I'm looking forward to 10 more weeks of swollen feet and fingers and not being able to turn over in the night

Rots they decided it was a hind water leak, and as DD was up and down in my pelvis like a really annoying yoyo they said her head and plugged it back up again. Hind water leak not quite so worrying as a main waterbag leak, apparently. I was relieved I wasn't going to have a premmie baby, and then really cross about the length of time she eventually made me wait. I filled my time eating Dairy Milk though Made me fat

Am bouncing furiously on this ball like a bad-ass

drom early scan? De Nile. Daydreaming. The time does drag, that's fo sho.

curls I am soooo excited!!!!!!! Yee haa a baybee on the way!!!!!!

iggy words cannot express how ronery I am without you to email, and skibitch is leaving me Friday too. I may resort to aktual work for the last month I'm here.

The Tesco delivery has arrived and been put away. This means the family can eat and not starve to death this week. Let contractions commence.

Oh my bloody god, I turn my back for 5 minutes....

HOW exciting is this? Well done Drom am v v chuffed for you! Enjoy the feeling and keep pissing on those sticks all weekend! I know I did... and then ended up having about 3 private scans before 12 weeks hee hee.

Curly and Cunty whoooooppeeeeee keep us posted. I am mentally busy but will keep checking in on the progress this afternoon.

Hi scorps!!!!!

I dreamt my baby was born with a ginormous chin last night. Any thoughts on that?

Did you lay with Bruce Forsyth?

ha ha ha!!! What a legend that man is.

I particularly remember thinking in my dream, never mind I still love you. HA HA!!!

I want a live labour on mumsnet this afternoon ok?

for those who haven't names their babies yet

Or Johnny Bravo?

wow. what a day. very very exciting!!!

curls, cunty good luck laydees - hope it all goes swimmingly

soz not been around much. blokey went back to work after a rather generous 2 months paternity leave last week so am back at square one learning how to deal with 2 little people all on my ownsome.

tis actually easier than when he's here tbh just very very busy!!!

ski i've got the rest of the year booked off work. it has gone so fast already though

just hoping blokey can make his million in the next 6 months so i can fuck it off entirely

ski I will rub my ripe bump on Laurie at Glasto and hope she catches pregnancy.

It's definitely contagious, 3 women in my depratment are up-duffed.

cheggers Surely with the bf'ing you have absolutely magnificent tits? Get them out and go bag yourself a millionaire - obviously to be fair on your husband you should tell him he's got a deadline, e.g., end of August? If he can't produce suitcases full of shiny new 50s then you're off. What modern man doesn't like to rise to the challenge? Btw, when you say 'easier without him' - you mean not under your feet?

Jailbait has just been to babydump to collect the maxi-cosi. I am really having a baybee. Soon. Although not as soon as cunty/curly.

honey Were there any vegetables involved? That question applies to both i) the chin and ii) the laying of Bruce-y.

Nice Ikea naming list rots

Oi! Don't take the piss skater - my babydaddy's name is the IKEA's best seller of all time!

cheggs! I oft think of you with your double dose when I am wondering how to cope with the one. Do you get some sort of achievement award if you survive the first year without being certified? Do you have any 'how to cope' tips for the rest of us?

I am also in de Nile about return to proper work. I keep day dreaming that I'll be offered a highly lucrative book deal so can just sit in the sun and happily write instead of doing a proper job. (But given that when I turn on my laptop I open Mumsnet before my manuscript, I think that's a bit unlikely. )

just texted ski cos was not sure of the rules here, but am allowed phone. Been admitted "awaiting preterm labour". Definitely having regular contractions, but not v painful. Cervix lowered so easy to access but still shut for now. In an 8 bed ward with just one other woman who sounds, ahem, rough, from behind curtain... So just have to try to keep self amused and not to kill phone battery. Might stoop so low as to go and watch footie...

just texted ski cos was not sure of the rules here, but am allowed phone. Been admitted "awaiting preterm labour". Definitely having regular contractions, but not v painful. Cervix lowered so easy to access but still shut for now. In an 8 bed ward with just one other woman who sounds, ahem, rough, from behind curtain... So just have to try to keep self amused and not to kill phone battery. Might stoop so low as to go and watch footie...

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OMG curls! You're really doing it! Glad you are feeling OK. Is SFF with you?