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

I will give the horsey options some thought. Man it's all such trauma. My brain cannot cope. Being in denial won't solve a thing.

Need to win lotto.

Firstly I could do with a goods snooze. So far today I have not been very productive and i can't see it improving.

Fank you for sympathies B/PESHes - am trying to remain chilled and cheerful... I have spent the while morning gardening, which worked v well at taking my mind off stuff... Then out to lunch and now, maybe a small nap...

silver horse is complicated one innit... I have stuck mine out on loan, but with the provisonthat I can ride it up to a certain number of times over the year... I also have my sister's one that I can ride pretty much whenever I want... So I plan to get horse fix, without the worry/ cost of mine full time... But was hard decision to make because he is my baby and I saved him as a wobbly 5 yr old who had done nothing... He is now winning each weekend with his loaner... Ah well... Good luck for coming up with your perfect solution! Xx

TIME TRAVELLERS WIFE SPOILER!

I read the book ages ago Iggy and watched the film last night. Had forgotten about all the miscarriages. Weep.

Hey cho how was the scan today? Any diagnosis into the mystery pain?

Apparently the Time Traveller's Wife is for literary plebs - I fackin' LOVED it! I read it when it first came out and I'd forgotten all about the mc stuff - so glad I've not read it in the last 18 months then.

clucky/boxer I've used this osteopath before and I'm very happy with her - just wondered what the general consensus was on "quacks" and animals.

Loving your work on the cat-catching-birds thread, Ski.

Quacks for horses is fine Ski. What's good enough for me is good enough for my gee-gees. I have also been swimming twice this week, and developed an addiction to peaches and nectarines. There must be something wrong with me - at 34 weeks last time I was addicted to the sofa and Dairy Milk!

Some of you old BESHes may remember londonlottie - anyway, she says Switzerland (developing world tin-pot nation) is also more chilled re:sterilisation. www.mumsnet.com/Talk?topicid=1364&threadid=1007069&o=1279822572489#20608432

skater

box I have scoffed my own body weight in choc cornflakes, mini rolls and kettle chips. So that proves I am watching me figure. Watching it fricking disappear!

I made Nigel Slater's macaroni cheese, but could only eat half my portion.

I'm just eating fucking everything. Will be the size of a house by second trimester (as long as I get that far, inshallah) and will have to be wheeled everywhere by third. Jesus.

I can't eat as much either Medee, but I'm trying to do smaller meals more often to stop the sickness. Btw, sent the pregnacare today so you should get it tomorrow.

I was also delighted to see in my Official NHS Pregnancy Book that I am allowed to eat rare steak, as long as the outside is sealed and done properly. I did not know that was allowable, I am delighted.

drom clearly you are a PESH after my own heart. Eating loads. It's the future.

Oh thanks Muser.

In Scotland, I must cook my steak completely.

Really, the Scotland advice is different? That's a bit bizarre.

I must cook meat thoroughly, especially sausages and minced meat. But it also says "It is fine to eat steaks and other whole cuts of beef and lamb rare, as long as the outside has been properly cooked or sealed."

Yes, it was one of the things the midwife made a point of saying. Given where I live, and the quality of my local butcher, I think I might well go by the English advice instead.

LOL @ "in Scotland I must cook my steak differently" - day trip to Berwick then medee!

I know you get especially vivid dreams when you are pregnant, but the one I had last night was a variation on a dream I have had regularly for years. I am back at school (or college or uni) and have exams coming up. I can't recall when I last went to a lecture, but am sure I can blag my way through the exams somehow. Then I wake up with a start as I think "Oh shit - Maths!!!"

WTF does this say about me, maths and my school years?

Right - I have come to the following conclusion:

Monday = very quiet baby all day - movements v small, constant needing to wee (poss head fully engaged or close?) - that evening, bloody show - cramps etc... All day tues - mild cramps..

Weds = baby moving more - less weeing - almost no cramps = baby disengaged again?

So monday was some kind of practice run? But it all failed and am now nowhere... incredibly hormonal, but nowhere... so am still waiting - expect no more news from me for a while...

Iggs it says in my magazine (therefore true) that Saturday babies are more successful in life, therefore surely is just BabyIgg optimising his/her life chances?

Sounds very frustrating.

How's Choo?

I had some pains in my right side on the way to work today, felt like a stitch. Made me stop walking and a kind lady asked whether I was ok. As she was talking I felt a pummel - so not stitch but burrowing Clint. I told her and said "it's my first, have no idea if that's normal". She cheerily said "Oh yes, perfectly normal. As long as you aren't feeling faint." So I assured her I wasn't and off she went. Very kind. Then two people deliberately stood in front of me to get on the train first and proceeded to take the last two seats. Feckers. I was about to say something when someone offered me theirs. You have to wonder about some people - they def saw bump too.

Can't comment on dreams - still not sleeping (great). Hence general grumpiness and lack of postings (trying to concentrate on urgent work when so tired - am not very good under such circs). My lovely boss suggested I took sick leave instead of holiday when I thought I might use some days to take a day a week to avoid getting too tired. Bless her. And thanks for all messages re NCT, I think we'll plan to come back late on the Friday after the funeral - TSF is really keen not to miss the course and to be fair neither of us have even considered the birth yet so I suspect we do need it (TSF has a bit of hospital phobia too so suspect will mean more to him, as CK mentioned). It'll be easier now TSF is coming with me to Wales as we'll take the car rather than me try to get trains and taxis etc. He is so lovely to me, I am very lucky.

At least it's Friday!

Still no word from cho anyone? Hope that all was well at the scan!!

Vag I had that stitch pain this morning. I had been walking around quite a bit and felt it both sides of the bump. Not great. So it's normal apparently?

iggs it does all sound very frustrating. But soon my pretty soon! How clever of the baby to wait 'til saturday to get the best start in life! This baby will go places.

Friday vibes to all. Hols start tomorrow, so I have loads to do, but don't really feel like doing it...

So I guess that means your chocolate consumption is no longer considered an addiction eh Box - is that cos it counts as one of your 5-a-day???
As for your dream, would love to know how your crazy brain works - suspect Maths is a metaphor for the impending activities tho

Off to look at Ski's cat-catching-birds comments now...

Sorry been a bit AWOL, just trying to sort out stuff and work and shizzle ? one week left!!!

I have a q about (sorry) discharge. I?ve had more than normal all through being preggo, but this last week it?s just gone mental. The other day I was sure my waters had broken there was so much!! Has anyone else had similar?

Box I have a similar recurring dream. Goes something like I am standing outside the school exam hall and everyone is talking about how much revision they have done and I am thinking Fuck, I haven't done any, and didn't even know I had exams! It is a bit weird.

Cosmo I have waves of FJ. It is a bit wiffy too. Think tis normale. It is not the quantity like I have peed myself though but definitely more wet!

Ski re sterillising, after ditching BF I used to wash up all the bottles once a day in sink with hot soapy water bang them in the steriliser and then fill with boiled water all ready for the next day. So my water was in the bottles for up to 24 hrs. I would just make up the bottles when I needed them and used one of these when out and about. I also kept the bottles with water in at room temp. Not sure if this helps. It kind of became a habit/routine thing.