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

rots I am impressed by your birth preparations but I think you may have overlooked the most important thing: aren't you supposed to be laying your baybee in a lavender field?

honey/polly I am ashamed to say that the positions are sometimes reversed in our house. I'm the one who leaves half-opened mail lying around, puts things on the bench instead of the dishwasher, etc. MrP cannot believe I'm a Virgo as we are supposed to be fussy and tidy. But my reasoning is that if I tidy then it needs a lot of time and planning as it has to be done perfectly (which it is when I actually do). Anyhoo, he's a saint and does loads of amazing stuff for me, does the dishes every night, etc. The ocassional skid mark in the loo and lack of noticing that the towels need changing is quite forgiveable in this context.

muser No (respectable) supermarket will deliver to us out here. I have written letters. Stern letters.

salty For ages I moaned that I had no symptoms therefore it wasn't real. MrP kept saying but you haven't got your period - what other symptoms do you need? Logical but not reassuring enough at that stage. I sympathise.

moo London Eye? Afternoon Tea at the Ritz? Ice vodka bar somewhere in town? Drinks at Vertigo?

Brain hurts after all that thinking.

All of a sudden I am mega grumpy and could really go for someone.

I realise I'm living with a saint. I've never hoovered here... I do the washing up once a week - and that's only been recently. I did nothing until I was about 14 weeks. He does most of the food shopping and cooking to and if he'd been unwilling to walk the dogs they'd have had a really miserable time during this pregnancy. And he stayed up 2 nights in a row to nurse little dog the other weekend and he can catch the horse! So I have to forgive him really when he walks in, grabs my hand and puts it on his cock. polly Jailbait roared with laughter at TGF's "colour blind" excuse!

cossie One of my colleagues announced on friday that he's going to cycle to Switzerland for his summer hols. You and TGO are more than welcome to leave your car at mine and do the same next year if you fancy.

fanny Have you sent your parents home yet? So glad you're back home and doing well.

muser/salty The fanny speaks da troof when she says "no droid" is a pretty good sign of being diffed. Early mornings too - I remember cossie and I slept terribly at the beginning, 4am starts a go-go!

I finished my nice chilled saturday by crying, puking and then peeing myself. I am over the glamma bit.

I'm also feeling there's far too much pressure on me. I have 3 expectant grandparents frothing at the mouth in anticipation. I don't want to become a woman whose life revolves around 9lbs of squidgey pink flesh. I want to be me again.

And I don't under any circumstances want to be one of those women who refers to herself as "Julian's mummy".

silver Given all our rants over the last few days I think the heat is not helping our rage. We're not normally fighty bastards are we?

Silver I think our hormones were in tune yesterday. Have woken today in a GOOD MOOD. Feeling better too. think we will go and see the babies for a world cup party, after all have bought wee presents and want them to fit. Might suggest nice pub lunch first to mr moo when he wakes up.

Random question of the day:

Does anyone know where to buy good and soft eye masks? You can get them in Boots etc but they are always hard plasticky ones. I've got one rat eared one left from the plane when we went on honeymoon and don't know what I'll do when it falls apart! I sleep so much better with them.

muser I felt a bit like life was on pause until 12 weeks. Tempered a bit at 7 or 8 weeks when they say beating heart (apparently v good sign and consultant I met then said 99% you will have baby when you see one) and also fact I felt shocking. Pray to feel like shit - it is a good sign!!! But even after 12 weeks I was a bit worried, cos by then the sickness had gone, I no bump and got all paranoid until it started to pop out a bit.

switty Baby 2000 are having a (non-advertised) sale in Zaventem (Leuvensesteenweg between Sint-Stevens-Woluwe and Sterrebeek) today. If you're out and about it might be worth taking a look.

x post Ski.

I've never been to Japan, can I come for mini break?

Agree on dog front. Poor mini moo gets a lot of love from the man sleeping upstairs.

Sheesh it's hot.

Have been to yard this morning earlyish doors. Husband and I have been to the tip. Had bite to eat out. Very nice.

Down side - house still looks like shite and now I am too knackered to do anything else. Rubbish.

The only must do's today are food shopping (GAH!), walk dawg and chillax.

It seems that Asda's have a maternity range online and in some stores. All at good prices. The black dress from PP has to go back as Husband proclaimed it did nothing for me at all.

Gonna hit the food shopping during the football.

At the mo am sat on my butt watching "Dallas Divas and Daughters". Plastic fantastic and Botox to go. The mothers look scary with such tight faces and surprised expressions. Only in the USA baby!

fanny so glad to hear you're ok and that boy baby is breathing better (did this continue at home?).

You are absolultely right about the lavender fields thing but after much investigation it seems the nearest ones are in Kent . However, I have been yet more organised and now have purchased:

• lavender and camomile essential oils for massage in pregnancy, so I can close my eyes and IMAGINE I'm in a lavender field. Clever, eh!

• Rescue remedy in convenient spray format

• Arnica gel, in fridge.

• 6 months' supply of toiletries that I can't get from the supermarket

• 2 x nursing bras

We are this afternoon completely covering the delivery/dining room with plastic sheets and laying everything out. YOB has put a spare mattress in there, and the pool is there and ready. Homeopathic birth kit ready to go.

Obviously I realise that all this means that I'll go 3 weeks overdue, induction, epidural, failed forceps, emergency C section followed by dramatic problems breastfeeding. Best laid plans, eh.

Any news from cas? Cute video on FB. We're getting one of those!!!

rots are you denying the existence of Yorkshire Lavender?

Afternoon all, just diving in quickly - been having a very busy but rather fab horsey week by proxy (obviously would have been even better still if it had been me riding big horse to victory in the show ring and then discovering the fabulousness that is the racehorse cross-country. Instead I am now knackered and have toes like sausages.)

Anyway - am off to relax on a beach for a few days, and would just like to make sure tha Cunty had better have had a baybee by the time I get back!

Just got to add this for the horsey gals - they've just shwon Tina Fletcher on Sky (watching the Hickstead Derby) and she's walking along with her little boy beside her having an ice lolly, groom is bringing her horse along for the walk on the other side of her - she's waiting to she if the last rider will challenge her for the winning place. How fab! Hope for us all yet.

rots if your lick is anything like ours then all the best laid plans means it will all go ass up. Wish you the very best and if your mother is free in October can I have a lend as my birthing partner?

Is anyone struggling in general ? Eg have hit the supermarket and i was even finding it a real task to push the bloody trolley! Felt like it was putting pressure on my sides. I went round the shop so slowly and then the tossed checkout chap literally threw the stuff at me, which makes me pack even slower cos I enjoy the fact that it posses them off with it all getting backed up and they either have to wait or they decide to help. Stupid git asked if I needed help packing ?! Div.

Then earlier I spied a section mgr phone his colleague to tell him to watch out for the chick in hotpants and heels heading his way ! (fear not was not me! Course I iz still waiting for my Hooters tshirt delivery!). Bloody pervy man. If I had the energy I would have complained. Instead I came home and dropped yoghurts on the floor which split. Just quality.

So I am now doing nowt. Will stretch legs later with doodledog when much cooler. Till then you can find me on the sofa.

Ps is Lauren Laverne (presenting Glasto on BBC now) preggos? I like her dress! Would do for wedding??? Subject to boobage generosity.

Lick should be luck! Can't even frigging get that right!!

boxybird me needs groom. Tis now clear!

silver Supermarket shopping is one of the things I had to give up quite early on. Mostly because pushing trollies is v bad for SPD, but also because of general exhaustion. I went all dizzy and nearly collapsed in Sainsbo's one day, and was only saved by finding a seat near the pharmacy where I could take a breather. Watch yourself. By order of Fanny.

silver Was trying to work out the lick thing . Thanks though

Yes, I'm struggling, mostly with very-engaged baybee making walking most uncomfortable and he's pressing on my cervix a lot of the time which does hurt. But back at your stage I went through a stage of hip/pelvis problems which amazingly didn't deteriorate and in face just fixed themselves (unlike poor fanny and cassie) but I still have since then found the supermarket tough. Which variety were you at?? Sounds like a complete bunch of idiots!

fanny gosh darn it, yes I had forgotten them. I think there's another a bit further west as well. However we have our very own lavender walk in the garden (how posh are we) so I'll maybe just have a wander there. Seriously - the recent house viewer called it a lavender walk . It's aktulee a sort of metal arch (well two of them about 3 metres apart with horizontal bars with climbing stuff) with about 8 lavender plants planted underneath. It takes about 3/4 second to do the "lavender walk" which is about perfect for being in labour, IMO.

Speaking of labour, we've not heard from cunty recently have we? Hope all is well.

I've been getting quite a few BH today. YOB and LC went strawberry picking and LC and I spent the afternoon making strawberry loaf and strawberry jellies... is this nesting????

My SIL has been in labour since 2am. I should have a new niece or nephew sometime today. Hope for her sake it doesn't take longer than that!

In other news, I appear to have turned into irrational emotional woman. MrM took my glass of water away while tidying up and I did a total 3 year old wail of "I was drinking that" and burst into tears.

He was taking it away to refill it for me, not that I knew that.

I'm fine. Things are so uneventful that I have nothing to say

I have some lavender growing in a pot outside. Can I birth into that?

Hey muse good luck to your SIL - sounds like a marathon

No need to talk to any of us about irrational emotional outbursts.... how long have you got

Best wishes to your SIL muser cunty glad you're ok. How are you feeling? I feel like he's ready to come and it seems incomprehensible that it could be another 6 weeks maybe. Do you feel physically like R's ready? Does that make any sense?

PS at lavender pot. That's pretty much like our "lavender walk". But, if the house viewer liked to call it that, who am I to tell him he's a prat.

Oh yes he definitely feels ready - he hardly has room to move. I think he is just idle.

More importantly, I feel ready. Bring it on...

glad to hear you are ok fanny. Seems to be a one out one in run for PESHs and hospitals as LittleCurls and I were readmitted today after visiting midwife discovered she had lost too great a percentage of her body weight. She's has blood tests, all clear, and we are working on her ability to feed. She's just too small and sleepy. I am lactating really well, milk came in overnight, but madam seems determined to sleep rather than eat from the nipple or cup. She was getting some - but then i saw the volume expressed on elec vacuum pump and really knew all was not right.Sff was here helping out, but he has got very stressed and that's not helping me. I am a but emotional, but sure we will get here there and after a few feast-like feeds she'll be a milk demon.
Sorry did not mean to go on in another me, me, me post from phine.

Had hoped to do some serious laptop MNing tonight. Plans buggered.
Hope you are all well and cunty gets going soon!

Good to hear from you CaspianSea. Hope little Casp is feeding like a demon right now and putting all that weight on.

me me me? This is what we want - lots of info! Sounds like she's getting all the best attention to sort it ahhhhhht. Lets hope she can combine good feeding with good sleeping and it'll be a match made in heaven!!

Hope you ok. You got yourself a little cracker