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

Aw, Cunty, bless you. That is v sweet. Now stop being ridiculous - we are all inordinately proud of the ESH babies. It's like they're ours or summat.

Does Rastus have a name yet? (Obv don't share it here!) TNB has just christened our BOC Berwhale the Avenger. I think it may stick.

Cunty - pics pics pics please. We are so happy for you and so proud of your stoicism, and we want to see pics of he whom you have produced please

Same goes for all PESH babies, innit. (I might not say the same about non-B/PESH wimminz and their offspring!)

It's what we are all here, for so would be bit mad if we weren't interested in the end result

Good x-post there Humps, since we had both deemed ourselves authorised to speak on behalf of all BESHes

Now show us those pics, PoppedRastusoutonTuesday.

WE ARE THE VOICE OF THE BESH.

twink the point of this thread is for anyone to say what they're feeling and get support for it, anytime. You had a horrible, horrible experience and of course you're worried

Early pregnancy is terrifying at the best of times, never mind when you've already experienced MC (which I never have and I found it tough).

Nothing to report BTW.

C'mon rots & ski!!!

ski update, she has had the gel on cervix to start dilation and has started getting some contractions.

please to nobody feel silly for posting worries, we have all had worries. just this morning I decided i had problem as Artie has not moved around v much recently (this in spite of hearing lovely strong hb at appointment yesterday). so i went into loo and poked bump v violently, to wake it up. I do seem to find that Artie's movement goes in phases, a few quiet days, then a few busy days. and every time I have quiet days I panic.

YES WE ARE!

Come on, Carrots and Ski-horse you beauties!

PESHs this is an antenatal thread - it's purpose it to be a platform for sharing pregnancy experiences - fear, excitement, woes, joy and amusing anecdotes*. It's about being there through thick and thin, so never feel guilty about what you write!

(*for example, my dad lifting what he thought was a tumble dryer sheet, when mum was hanging out the laundry, and sniffing it, only to be told is was the top layer of a breast pad that must have got left in by accident... )

On the photo front - I make no apologies for having loads up on FB. I know it upsets some people, but I am facing constant demands from friends and rellies across the world - so we created a FB album and have used the public sharing link for old great aunts etc who have email/internet but not (thank goodness) Facecrack. I am more than happy for anyone struggling in BESHland, or anyone else, to hide my updates until the baby activity dies down. Her dad is soooo proud, and has taken up photography/Photoshop as a hobby, so they are bound to come thick and fast. He's even planning an arty shoot. Has been googling for ideas today...

The wee girl who visited was gorgeous! Turns out her mum was very ill with various problems, including a uterine abruption. when it got v bad, docs decided to deliver asap to save them both. Mum spent three days in ITU and baby two months in SCBU. But all well and happy now. and the girl who was 2lb, is now getting quite tall and has pretty much caught up. it's amaxing what they can do!

My heartfelt good wishes to all suffering the menkulism of early pregnancy. I hope the crucial weeks pass swiftly and are followed by tears of joy all round as you see your little people on screen, happy and healthy, at 12 weeks. (because early scans don't cut it for everyone, I know).

Just been contacted on FB by an old work colleague who had been trying for eight years when I last saw her. Not FB friends, but she congratulated me on the baby. I have heard no word of her becoming a mum. That would make it 10 years I have to try to find the right, sensitive words for my reply. and I am struggling.

I know what you mean Curly - I have a friend with ovarian cancer, she is now desperately trying to conceive in a short window before they remove her reproductive organs...

I had to call her the other day and say that she mustn't come to my baby shower if she will find it hard. I can only imagine how hard it must be to slap a smile on your face and sit through another woman's baby shower in that situation

Well ski is ahead of me then as I still have no contractions at all.

Pretty resigned to what will be, will be, but getting pretty miffed about constantly wetting myself! The waters keep renewing and when they do, they floooooow. SO nice!

Incidentally, I mentioned it before, but, bed protector - saved us a fortune.

Curls I would just thank her. Sensitively, if you like, and certainly without saying too much about blessings/joy etc. It can be worse to be treated as an infertile person than to be treated as a person with infertility, if you know what I mean. She's done a lovely thing by congratulating you and is obviously a Good Human, so responding to her as you would with normal congratulations is prob the way to go.

Skates Your POOR friend. That's awful. Can she freeze eggs for after treatment at all? Or will it involve the removal of all reproductive organs? Christ, it's unbearable.

Hello chaps! Can't belive how much is going on on the fred at the mo!

rots am thinking contracty thoughts for you! Let's hope they kick off soon.

also hoping all is going well for ski

Yay for your birh story cunty you are my hero! I am v glad I have done the hypnobirthing thing... Just hoping I will get to use it all.

So. How is it that I was due first of the July babies and I am somehow already last?! Is not even my due date for nearly three weeks!

salty I don't think I've said hello, so hello! And hope you not too menkul. Although I wasn't exactly calm when I was at your stage!

twinks for the exac same reasons as you I waited till nearly 8 weeks before my early scan cos the one I had the time before meant I had 10 days of waiting before the miscarriage was confirmed... So I think is good strategy...

drom how are you? am muchly liking the name for the BOC

am on proper computer now and not just phone - so am going to try to catch up a bit...

Did I tell you all that I had a scan n Monday? I expect so.. anyway - babyee is in position - so am ready to go apparently... but I guess one of us July PESHes has got to be late - so it looks like it might need to be me

I am so comedically huge at the mo - well - just the bump - the rest (save the comedy tits) is all the same size as before... which makes me feel a bit like a human crossed with a beach ball - but am not complaining cos I feel pretty good!

skater missed your post earlier. How awful

Thanks iggy. Still nothing.

Current plan is, have a nap now, MW coming around 5ish. AFter that will get the little carrot from school, bring him home for tea and then take him over to Granny's for the night in case things kick off overnight. She will take him to school tomorrow and ex should be picking him up from school on Friday for the weekend so we're completely covered, child care wise, as the most they would want to wait is 48 hours for induction so I'll certainly have a baby by the end of the weekend!

Have just been for a nice walk again. Rained a bit but was refreshing. Most enjoyable. Did gardening before (weeded lavender "walk" in honour of you lot!) and found some bindweed in the garden! Nightmare...

Had another big water leak which MW said was good! We will see.

TBH I'm pretty resigned to what will happen will happen. With LC it was all such a shock - fighting all morning with the MW, taken in for no good reason against my wishes, all very wham-bham and upsetting and for no purpose other than their convenience (harsh I know - it's not the MW's fault they're short staffed and I don't blame them at all).

This time it's clearly for the safety of the little fella if I need to go in. I've got 48 hours - so up until Saturday morning - anyway - and if I need to go in, well, there we go. As long as he's safe, I'm not being railroaded and I'm prepared, I'm ok with it. Obviously it's not my plan but in the end I don't mind that as long as the choices are mine, for the best reasons, not for making life easier for the health service.

rots you sound v. pragmatic about it - I have high hopes that things will kick off for you v. soon and that you will be able to follow your plan.

I know this might sound silly - but am so relived to read cunty's birth info... from the snippets we had before it had inexplicably made me scared again - and I was v. calm so am now trrying to spend lots of time relaxing and doing the hypnosis - which is helping alot.. I think I am slightly insane...

Swear to god iggs the time spent doing the hypnobirthing was so so valuable. Those first 13 hours passed in no time because you really can get yourself in the zone. Not saying the pain doesn't register at all, but it is very very manageable, and combined with good strong out-breaths and some low humming you really do practically hypnotise yourself. I was completely unaware of my surroundings - loads of stuff happened/was said and done that I am only being told about now . I strongly recommend it for all of you that are hoping to do it the drug-free way.

I mean I went into it knowing that that the circumstances were v favourable for a straightforward birth and that HB, water and G&A if necessary would Get Me Through. It was just bad luck at the 2nd stage, but que sera. I know that if the cervix had opened properly (and to be fair I made the MW do her progress check in the bath cos I wouldn't get out for her so I forgive her for missing what was essentially a tiny flap - she said she could feel his head and that was good enough for me!) I would have done the second stage without any problem too.

You have nothing to fear. Be calm and you give yourself the best possible chance.

Finally I get a chance to post! Go rots and ski! I cannot believe all the impatient babies!

It's my parents' last day here today. They have finally popped back to their cottage for 20 mins after hanging around chatting all day when all I wanted to do was catch up on the important PESH news. They'll be back shortly with DD for a final play and bath time (and some photos if she's in a mood that will tolerate that). Then I'm theoretically cooking a farewell dinner for them. I'm thinking the laptop will be on the kitchen bench so I don't miss the PESHbaby updates.

Won't box be annoyed she chose this week to away? Next time we need some baby action we'll make her go away again.

Did I mention how excited I am?

fanny I am excited too! Keep checking back for updates

cunts v. pleasing to hear that, I have been doing loads of it, and will carry on. I don't know why I had a sudden lapse of calm, but am feeling good about it all again. Now, tell us what it's like to have a real live baybee at home with you?!

Bewildering

Hi everyone. Nothing to update so I'm updating that. Also to my friend who I've linked our deli to so she can keep up with things as I'm not updating elsewhere.

Well I suppose my only news is that I've had the odd twinge and very vague contraction. Nothing established and nothing painful, but it's a progression. I'm still leaking like a friggin sieve which is MOST horrible and wet, and I'm soon going to have no maternity towels left for after the event (had a bag of 48 this morning ).

Labour ward have told me to go in at 7am tomorrow if nothing is happening (7AM? WTF??) just to have CS monitored and check to see what's going on. I am on the understanding that I'm not going to be kept in and will go home unless something is wrong - ie they find infection or he's not happy. MW has suggested nipple stimulation and of course I'm remembering cos's recommendation of "consumption by mouth" at which point YOB turned bright red and embarassed. Can't think why .

We've dropped LC off at Granny's, he's had a swim and has stayed happily with the promise of the top bunk bed and a swim again in the morning! If CS comes overnight I'm going to have him take the morning off school and spend it with us as he's off to ex's after school for the weekend. Otherwise he will go to school as normal and I'll get hium back Sunday night by which time it will all be over, one way or another.

BTW I've posted a short vid of my bro's wedding on FB. It's nice to watch to see the amazing way they went about it and to see the location. I know it's odd looking at a wedding vid of someone you don't know but I think it's worth a peek

I'm the fat bird in the single colour purple dress. You can see the mountain we walked up after the wedding!

Any updates on ski? I txted her at 5ish but had no reply so assume things are really moving on.

hello all

twinkle please do join in the menkul (I am 7 weeks at about same time as you)

I believe that Muserama requested a slap earlier so here you go SLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAPPPPP

Am more chilled today due to extreme sickness. How weird is THAT?

p.s. Cuntathon you deserve some sort of award. You are amazing.

rots I have had no word from ski since gel update above, but have been texting a bit to keep her spirits up if she can read them.