The PESH deli where we were so distracted we forgot to think of a new title

[FannyPriceless]

THE NOT-LIST

BESH BAYBEES
dontrythisathome, Bay Amaryllis born March 25.
Cheggers, twinz girlz, born April
FannyPriceless, boy, born June 8
CurlyCasper, girl, born June 24
CUNextTuesday, born June 29
Skihorse, boy, born 1 July

UPDIFFED
IggyPiggy, The one who loves BUMSEX, due July 20
Carrots, giving birth in a lavender field, damn it, 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 18 October (first baybee)
Honeymoo, 3 wees a night, due October 31 (boy)
okiecokie, self-confessed control freak, due November 6
SomethingSuitablyWitty, benelux babe, due November 14
ReginaMonologue, knows when all the sales are, due November 20 (boy)
maswera, jungle hottie - due November (???)
PollyPoo, wants to name her baybee after the dog, The New Messiah is due December 25

cossie I'm very glad you're OK and just busy, but OK. Just a few more days then it's feet up and time to lay a baybee for you!

igStar ooo good luck m'lady! Everything crossed except legs for you!

swits a Stokke is a brand of rather nice baby warez innit - see here. What moo is talking about is the cot/cotbed/transformer type device which is v. nice indeed! My bump is growing daily, I have now officially reached the "umfph" stage ski talked about when getting off the sofa, walking up the stairs and rolling over in bed (actually the latter is more like a 3 part manoeuvre, though have read that silk sheets help with this due to slippage... cue need to do further shopping...). No belly button poppage however, but that's probably due to me having the deepest button on the planet, every time I look at it I am reminded of journey to the centre of the earth!

All this talk of maternity bras - Maybe I'm not proud enough but really, the sanctity of being in something voluminous and supportive and cotton soft has been a blessing for me, as well as not having wires to deal with. Maybe it's cos I started out as a 40 DD and I'm just getting ever larger I'm not so worried about what the tit-scaffold looks like and more happy with what it can support! I'm more concerned about when my boobs start leaking, because y'know I've been a nekid sleeper for as long as I can remember and do not relish the idea of having to sleep in a bra with nip-pads in it. OH did suggest duct tape as a solution, maybe we'll try that on him first eh?

boxy arse on the grade 2 listed extension dilemma - listed buildings are a pain to alter in the best of times let alone when you've got a pokey neighbour butting in. I think though it'd be worth applying for anyway, since from the sounds of it you'd have a good argument and the planners would be unlikely to refuse the application based on one complaint. I'd be using the baby card if it were me quickly followed by the homelessness route or something...

BTW, has anyone mentioned the giant Mothercare sale on at the moment? It's on for another week and I got loads of summer stuff for babybee next year at really good prices... ooh. maybe that glider chair is in the sale too, must go check?

Reggie sorry to drop this into polite conversation, but I used breastpads in a bra and still ended up lying in a puddle for weeks last time. Wait till you're standing there in the shower and can spray across the bathroom! Post-baby boobs are just very leaky things. As for extension - of course we are going to just bang the application in. I can't imagine the council are going to get too influenced by a batty woman whining that she 'just doesn't like the idea of it.'

Boxy only have one thing to say. Fucking NIMBYS.

Muser don't be brave - tell someone trusted at work and make arrangements to come in late/leave early/work from home. Whatever is going to help you. Seriously if you feel that bad, you aren't going to be able to keep it up for long. There is an element of soldiering in and I had some close calls, but you need to rest... so do what you need to. Just keep eating and drinking!

Ski I keep weeing down my leg cos I can't now properly reach my undercarriage after I go. It's fucking degrading. Also I iz not a Fulhamite. I only have 3 pairs of ballet slippers and 2 cashmere jumpers from joseph.

Okie DO NOT touch ingrowing hair. Wait for it to come to surface and the squeeze and tweezer - otherwise you will be scarred in the minge.

Reggie my tummy button still has lots of room. It is the most inny inny you've ever seen. I can't imagine it popping out for ages!

FWIW I also think the Stokke pushchairs are ridiculous and look like an alien spacecraft. The cots are lovely though - really practical - mobile, small to start with and grow as your baby does. That's really the only expensive piece of kit I've bought. Luckily my m&d have coughed up for the Nappy Valley standard issue bugaboo/carseat.

muser Puking sounds horrid. I had it really bad both times too. Had to get signed off work for weeks at a time, and GP warned that if I didn't I could be on my way to hossie with hyperemesis. It really can be debilitating so be prepared for the fact that you really might need to take time off.

You are, of course, free to wallop anyone who kindly says 'try peppermint tea / ginger biscuits' if yours gets really bad too. But a few suggestions I found for getting through the working day were:

• keep some food beside your bed and eat it the moment you wake up, so it kicks in before you get out of bed
• eat, eat, eat whenever you feel queasy
• eat whatever you think you can stomach, no matter how weird or bad it seems
• allow extra time to get to meetings so you don't arrive in a rush which can make you feel queasy, but take a few minutes to sit somewhere cool and eat something to settle your tummy before the meeting starts
• work from home as much as poss, and don't get dressed unless you need to
• set up meetings for the afternoon if you can
• go to bed at 8pm and sleep as much as you can.

Really hope you can keep a lid on it.

okie In grown hair? I feel your pain. One day when I'm brave I may venture to share the shocking tale of my bikini line preparation the night before the c-section. It involved MrP with a caving head lamp on.

box you're not mental re the house, but def are re the hunt sub. Btw, I really like the fact that you are building a 'box' room, har har!

muser I was only 7 weeks when I told my manager, whom despite being a 48 year old lesbian Besh, was really supportive. I had 2 weeks hol at xmas to sleep (weeks 10-12), week 17 off sick. Weeks 28-30 hols.

Poor honey.

boxy just remember that NIMBYism cannot be used as a valid reason for planning refusal. She'd have to find some pretty specific criteria that your app contravenes to stop you. Sounds like you have taken planning department advice on it, so you should be ok. (I have sat through way too many planning inquiries for my liking!)

reg Nice to see you back. I quite liked my sticky out squishy belly button in the end. It felt so soft, I played with it a lot. (sad) All back in now though. If only the stretch marks disappeared as easily...

Gah honey and reggie you are confirming my fears re: the bellybutton and my suspected very large bump. I too had a deep inny and a few weeks ago, I started noticing it looked a bit different and now it is about two thirds of the way out there. The inside feels all weird as well by the way - incredibly soft. Anyway, I worry a lot that I am piling on weight at a terrible rate. I know I shouldn't worry, but it gets me down a bit.

Thanks for enlightening me about stokkes. I have no idea how to even begin to go about choosing brands...

Box, maybe it is a good thing to have to build at the part of the house that is dodgy? Would it not be good to just deal with it once and for all?

muser and honey sympathies on the puking and the peeing. Sounds awful...

okie if you really want a good laugh, remind me to tell you about the time I decided to do a DIY home waxing kit without trimming at university (oh the naivete). Needless to say I ended up at the doctors.

Woohoo! Mucho happiness - I have finally ordered the cot, changing table and mattress! I decided against getting the wardrobe and chest of drawers from John Lewis and shall instead be opting for an Ikea alternative that will match nicely and probably save me the best part of 600 quid.

Note to self, still need to order sheets and shit. Though I do like this free delivery on everything ordered over 30 quid at JL - mainly because it really doesn't take that long to spend 30 quid in there .

boxy hmmm so my idealised view of a slow trickle of milk like a babbling brook winding it's way down a hillside is off the mark eh? I wonder if Hozelock do a suitable solution...

curls hello! tis nice to be back and I'm hoping things will quieten down a bit now giving me more time to procrastinate on here . As for stretch marks - already got um from pre-preggo gluttony - maybe they'll just flesh out a bit?

moo and swits I really don't know what will happen with my belly button cos it's probably a bit different from yours. I have a mega scar under it from a flopped keyhole surgery attempt to remove my gallbladder which subsequently got a nasty infection in it - I've no idea how that will affect things cos the wound was pretty freckin deep and took 8 weeks of daily packing to heal from the bottom up. Eeek! I'll probably end up with 10 belly buttons at this rate!

muser I'm with fanny on her sickness advice, pretty much all I did listed there but keeping eating and drinking even if I didn't want it really helped. I got around it psychologically by telling myself I didn't actually feel sick, it was the hormones, so just to keep on troughing.

Reggie, Ski could probably supply you with shit for free right now, if you don't mind yellow and runny?

Ooh bellybutton chat - mine is really deep too, but lots of it has now come outside and is so downy soft. If I wriggle my tummy it looks like a little mouth talking and pouting. This has TSF and I in stitches (we don't get out much). It is definitely far more shallow so I will keep you posted. Today the "upper lip" is sticking out a bit through my clothes.

vag I seem to remember comparing "upper outies" with iggy at about your stage. you describe it perfectly!

I have a scan date - 13th August. It's not bad that I'm going to be scanned on Friday 13th, is it?

Also, have put on about a stone in two weeks because of having to eat constantly to stave off sickness. I won't have any clothes that fit soon, and I'm not even showing. Help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

drommy The problem is, to start with you really just look fat, not pregnant. You want to tell people 'I'm not fat! Honest!' but you can't. (The upside is, preggy clothes are comfy.)

And that lasts for ages. I didn't feel outwardly preggers until gone 4-5 months. Now I just look ginormous. To be honest, I've weighed myself twice and at that point I had put on a stone. What's the point after that?? Torture? Guilt? It's not like I'm about to join Weight Watchers, although the fuckers keep emailing me with membership deals. Come back after Christmas.

My maternity jeans which are quite trendy and were fairly £££ are bloody comfy and actually make my legs look better than normal jeans. What's not to like? I'll be wearing them for some time to come I suspect. Personally my theory has been to invest in trousers that you love and will last and get cheap tops.

Heellooo...any sign of Igz?

Humpelina don't start getting all superstitious on us just coz of baby/tumtum interface....your scan will be fiiiine

Well I have had a shitty day today, and some slightly scary poky pains on the wimbledon common, but I will put them down to a bit of normal stretching. Said goodbye to some not very pleasant members of staff who are leaving work today...this is one of the reasons I have been waiting until the end of the week to announce the diffment...I did not really want to make an announcement to a coven of vile bitches. Sorry to be so blunt, but that's just how I am rolling today! of course I know that I will regret posting this later on, but I just need to get it off my chest...yippee! Now I shall say no more

"Coven of vile bitches..." , cho u funny!

Hooray for the exit of vile bitches. I have weird belly button pulling sensation again today.

Drom I have not gained weight, but I do bloat like a whale now after eating. I'm already a porker and can look 6 months gone after a meal. Worrying.

I'm hungry all the time (and often queasy) but as soon as I put food in my mouth I am instantly full.

Alright tarts!

Today I have mostly felt my stomach expanding. Seriously I am sure I came out of work larger than when I pitched up this morning.

I am finding maternity dresses the most comfy fo' sho'.

Welcome back all ya strangers ye have been missed!

casp Him Indoors' cuz reco'd the Dr Browns. However being the bargain hunter I am I have gone for in the sale TT.

box next door neighbour clearly may have cash but no fecking sense. Selfish mare. Just proves being neighbourly don't always pay orf. Well done on the hunting subs. I am not having much luck finding a sharer. Him Indoors was horrified when I suggested short term loan. We'll see how it goes. Times like this I wish I had the dollars for full or part livery. But I don't so I will have to suck it up and crack on. < wonders if practical to ride with baybee in sling - pros areots of fresh air for sproggy >.

iggs hope you are ok and not in too much discomfort. Hurrah that iggyjunior is a-coming!!!!!!!

Anyone else got lots of good intentions with doing chores when you get home but find ya ass parked on the sofa all night?

I sleep on my left and wake up on my back. If Him Indoors comes to bed and finds me on my back he decides to wake me up and instructs me to get on my side!! If I try and lie on my right it's really not nice. Feels really odd and very heavy. So that is a no go, which has put a stop to my fave past time of spooning! I did read that if baybee is not happy (say if you are lying a certain way) then it will move loads until you do move into a better position that the baybee likes ! Genius! I also favour the lying on my side at an angle so belly is facing down and slightly forwards which is comfy tho this morning at 5am after my early morning whizz it was like acrobatics in my tum til I moved.

Oh and my belly button is totally flat. Doesn't poke out. It's as though i don't have one and instead I have a drawing there instead. It's been like this since about 16wks I think. Perhaps I should donate to medical science?

Cat has either pooed or puked on the carpet. I texted MrM, who is not due back until later, to complain about it. He immediately phoned me and told me under no circumstances to touch it as it was in a place that could be ignored and he would deal with it when he comes home. I told him I'd wear rubber gloves and he insisted again, saying he didn't want me breathing in nasty cleaning stuff fumes either.

I like this bit of the pregnancy lark. No gross cat clean up duties for me!

i had text from iggy earlier, she's chillin, nothing going on just now.

silver mine went flat for a while too. It's out and proud now though!!