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

rots my very wise friend was telling me last night about sobbing between contractions because she thought she was letting her first child down by having another, and she was terrified she was being almost unfaithful to her son for having another baby. Once the baby was out that feeling all went away, and her older child was over the moon to have a little sister.

Why, Sunshine is a charming name! So...sunny! Onto the list it goes. Troo fax: I know two babies (different sets of parents) called Wolf and Storm (both boys). Whaddya think of those?

Twinkle - huge congrats on the BFP! It is wonderful but frustrating to get it days before the missed period. It makes the first bit Extremely Long, I recall. Hope it will breeze past without any problems for you and that you are feeling fine. Hurray for new additions to the list. - things are looking lively on the BESH thread. We are all rooting for the Mass Summer Diffment Project. I shall greatly relish the chance to airily discourse on normal symptoms etc to newly diffed beshes with the accumulated wisdom of a whopping 18 weeks!

honey I have also been kind of irritated by your friend and her five day a week yoga and swimming programme. How very dare she be so effortlessly superior?! Annoying cow. Anyway, on a guilty tangent: I shall go to the pool tonight myself. So There! That'll show her. Make sure you tell her.

I'm so delighted the baby did a flip ski. You see! Clever boy was indeed enjoying the last days of having sufficient room for such gymnastics. How great that he is now in position though and all is well.

Mittens on a sleepsuit that fold-back? How ingenious, my dear fanny. That has been noted as the very business and one for the list.

So have you all been dying to hear how my scan yesterday went? Well, HAVE YOU? No? But I shall tell you nonetheless . It went just fine and everything looks good, but it also looks as though the baby is a girl! The first in three generations in boyfy's family therefore. I can't quite believe yet, and don't want to fixate on it just in case - but the discussion went like this: Doctor: "Well, I am going to take a look now to see the sex of the baby - well, there isn't much between the legs, so it looks like a little girl!" Me: "Whoooaah...What the...? Are you sure??!! Have a another look!" So, he froze the shot and showed me the "three lines" which are apparently what you look for. He also added that he was 99% certain. So pretty certain then... But I might not tell too many people until we double check in a few weeks time...

X-posts with all the weepers! Cheer up!

witty congrats on the girlie! That's one more for the balance! Our boys may not be stuck without a wife after all .

"Wolf" and "Storm" - um, no.

cunty and box Good, glad it's not just me And cunty, you're so together than hearing you're not completely so ATM means I feel not so bad!

@ 'so together'

Talk a good game me

Oh rots, I'd not watch Hotel Rwanda - apparently it's terrible - you're better off at a Travelodge. Btw, "probably your last pregnancy"? - I thought you'd tricked YOB in to agreeing to another one already? It wasn't so much the DM article itself - I agreed with that - it was the fucking comment section written by Boden-clad-cupcake-munching-4-wheel-drive-drivin'-SAHMs!

switty I know a Flemish Wolf (Irish mum) - he'd be about 8 now - from Leuven IIRC. Well done on the girl - as rots said, we thought our boys were doomed to be marrying goats.

I'm crying at crap too. Adverts. Friends. I pray to god I don't catch the tail-end of Taggart.

I've got Holby Shitty to look forward to tonight when I shall once again be crying over Patsy Kensit's acting.

Just a quickie to say:-

ski fabulous news you crazy hormonal nutter - I can say this because I know normal non-preggo ski would not have believed such jibber-jabber in the Mail, which as we all know is the Encyclopaedia Britannica of the medical world. Now you just gotta squeeze the little fidget out! As for breech babies being duff, that's just bull - my OH was breech, and the only thing wrong with him is that's he's a work-a-holic.

swits glad to hear the scan went well and you found out you have a baybee girl tucked up in there! I can't wait to find out what ours will be, but the days drag on so long when you're waiting for news....I suppose the plus is we'll know defo for sure if boy or girl and it won't be left open to sonographer interpretation... I guess that's what staring at chromosomes does....

Thoughts on overbearing parents... hmmm. I'm learning from my parents mistakes. I won't be pushing my child to do things they don't enjoy but rather encouraging them with things they like to do and show talent at. I can't stand this force-fed bullying that appears to be all to apparent these days with parents putting kids under an inordinate amount of pressure to achieve the dreams their parents never quite mustered the ability to do. Oddly, and I'm not saying this to sound posh, but to prove a point.... I know 2 millionaires, both of which left school at the age of 16 with no qualifications, and both of which have done marvellously well for themselves. My view? You get what your given and you work with it. Some kids that's academic, others it's vocational. The more I experience this world the more I realise that in fact success is a matter of circumstance above all else, you just have to be in the right place at the right time and go for it. And that's not something you can teach.

Definitely no to Hotel Rwanda! Far too much for a preggo to cope with.

I iz waiting to see consultant. Iz very boring waiting. Not to mention kids running riot in the waiting room, I just want a bayberry not an annoying brat. Nuff said.

silver ain't that the troof! Last King of Scotland is at the bottom of the pile, Muriel's Wedding at the top! I shall cry... but for South African David's beauty - not y'know, killin' & shiz.

reggie I thought I might experiment and let my children enjoy things other than maths & chess!

OK, so I'll send Hotel Rwanda back then and order Little Miss Sunshine or some other crap (well I've seen it and it WAS crap, so maybe Star Wars or something). Oooh I could have a Star Wars night!

cunty you watch Holby City? Really? Wow, I never would have put you down for such trash. Thought you would be way above that.

A girl wit, great news. I am secretly hoping for one of those but today it feels like a boy. Paranoid me drove myself to hospital today and asked them to find the heart beat. Totally irrational but a bit too much stress lately for my liking (work related office closures, restructuring and probably redundancies) and I have not felt baybee yet but of course all is fine. Ski, see we all have irrational moments! I was convinced there was something seriously wrong while waiting in the waiting room this morning.

I trekked all the way to Frankfurt yesterday, forgot a book and was subjected to the Daily Mail as the free paper on the plane (it was that or something in German - which probably would have been better!). The trip was a waste of time, but there is clearly something in the air! I am hoping for redundancy, a nice pay off (as I is diffed and I think they are not sure what to do with me) and the summer off!

I am now eating a doughnut - a proper one, not a virtual one and it is well nice.

Must tell you second timers about my friend who gave birth at the weekend to a 9lb+ baybee (2nd baybee). She laboured mainly at home and eventually went to hospital at 12pm, demanded drucks (but did not get as was too far along), delivered 2 hrs later and was back home at 5.30pm in time for tea! Talk about sneezing delicately..

Hello all. I had my 12 week scan yesterday and there is a proper RL baybee in there, woo hoo! She measured the nuchal fold and said it was v small, so that is good and if I haven't had a phonecall by Thurs evening then I am to assume I am not high risk and should get a letter in about 10 days time. I haz put scan pic on MN for you to admire see it's tefal head, but will hold off on any FB announcement until Thursday night. I am going outside now to sand down my garden furniture to distract me from waiting for phones to ring (even though tis too early - does the menkul never end?)

As you were!

Cunty have you laid a baybee yet?

Curls I'm pleased to hear all was well at consultants appt, although as to why they won't give you straight answers.

Congrats on baybee girl Switty!

Congratulations polly! Scan pic is proper alien - but with too many personal details on it. Remove that photo - crop the incriminating evidence and re-post.

okie You has been on continent and not gathered euro-chicks? I can haz see Germany on a daily basis.

Hah, thanks for the tip Ski!

Haven't seen Hotel Rwanda, but I imagine it would be a bad film to watch full of hormones. I have seen Last King of Scotland - gruesome! They filmed it at our work hotel - I has swum in that round pool .

About rocket scientists - have you seen the [ Mitchell and Webb]] sketch about the brain surgeon at a party? Ver' ver' funny!

I don't need to be competitive on DD's behalf - she's decided she's a winner all for herself. They gently introduced the concept of Sports Day at preschool yesterday, and as soon as OH got home she had him sitting there repeating starter's orders over and over so she could practice her speedy getaways! She's also been demanding that I take her to a horse show so she can win more neigh-neigh rosettes - she's 2, ffs!

Sorry, here; Mitchell and Webb

boxer Hotel Rwanda is just awful - you think it's going to be Club Tropicana but nothing could be further from the truth!

My NATO friends returned home from school sport's day the other week absolutely disgusted that NOBODY was allowed to win a race - wtf? But everyone got a prize for "participating". What a big bunch of wank! What I find strangest is that of course a large proportion of the kids would've been American and I thought they were mega-competitive!

My mum always said she wasn't competitive on my behalf... so why is it I have memories of being sent back in the ring "until you go clear".

box, luvin' it! Competitive children, just the way I likes 'em .

polly ~phew~ big relief. I mean, I know you've not got the final results but all sounds good! Excellent.

Ski I was in that Germany for all of about erm 5 hrs. Had to get up at 5.30am and everyfink, such a bleedin' waste.

poo you are truly updiffed and I reckon the menkulism is just a prevalent 2nd time round! Funny though as my scan pics look very similar to yours!

ski I ordered it as I am so interested in African history, politics and current stuff, with the work I do. Although these things are horrendous to watch, and clearly not "entertainment", I feel that it's part of the ways that one can get more of an understanding of such a complicated continent. But obviously I've not felt up to it which is why it's been sitting there!!!

NATO thing - utterly disgraceful. Just posted an amusing American newspaper front page on a similar, but quite different, vein, on FB.

Yeah, well I had a crazy hormonal moment the other night when I was convinced Artie was severely handicapped because I decided he was ?moving about funnily? cos I?m qualified to assess that and all

What a neurotic bunch we are! ski That's brilliant news about Julian going properly arse over tit, and getting stuck in the process! Maybe bets should now be on you popping first...

BabyG is very much head down, but there was no mention of engagement or the like. And I'm no longer panicking about early birth - so I guess that was grounded in the IUGR thing where they whip them out early if they are not growing. And TBH, given her current state of nourishment, I don't think it would be a huge problem is she decided to break free now. (which might be likely given the fact that I have yet another suspected urine infection. Suspected yesterday based on sample being sent off for further testing. Confirmed today with the agony in the pee tubes )

polly Delighted to hear that the Messiah is indeed alive and well in your uterus. Pic is great Hope you feel more secure about the whole thing now. How has your littlePoo taken the news of a new brother/sister?

swits congrats as well on the girl! Finally someone to share everything with - from experiences to clothes etc (If you want).

Have seen HotelR and have been considering watching Constant Gardener on free films service - perhaps this is not such a good idea?

I might just stick to playing with I Tunes and sipping Rasp Leaf Tea in a bid to tone up the old Wimbledon Common

BTW, I really liked Little Miss Sunshine

(another paranoid offering)

I've been convinced that CS has been transverse for a couple of weeks, despite the quite obvious feet sticking in my ribs and skull in my crotch.

I was also convinced that he was Downs because he wasn't moving enough. Even though I have a front loaded placenta. And cas has been saying how much hers has been moving.

Moral of the story: we're all nutz.