FESH spa and creche: The Ultimate Destination for survivors of the Palace and Deli: Prologue

[CurlyCasperBaggedABairn]

Welcome weary travellers. It's been a long road, but you made it! Now, hard as it might be, leave your ESH spawn at the creche and step into the spa - where we have every treatment available to soothe your Amityville Horror undercarriage, ravaged raspberries and worn out wits. And - wait for it - we've got the bar back. And it's all-inclusive

So, what are you waiting for? Grab a glass, lower yourself into the jacuzzi and lets get chatting. We are Forever ESH!

P.S Children never cry here...

So it is going well with your mum then Ski? How long until she leaves?

Rots sorry to hear about the thrush - I suffered with that first time round, tis most unpleasant.

Have a nice time at the hairdressers Rots. funny cos I was wondering about that and whether it's possible. My end of october I will be in highlight root hell.

VAG Love the sound of SW/E London meet ups - baby or non. I can bring doglet if that helps? Ski are you ever likely to be in Londres in the nottoodistant future?

rots difficult customer has cancelled contract and refusing to hand over the hard earned readies. I feel there is trouble ahead.

I had my haircut today! Hairdresser thinks I am habit a girl, based on the fact that I can't stop eating. Not sure how reliable this theory is.

MW appt, when it happened eventually, went well. Some cheeky biatch snuck in before me. She knobbled the MW on her way to call me in I am sure. I let my fury subside and tried not to scare MW and think I carried it off. As I am 28+3 the fundal measurement should be 28 tho I am only 26.5cm. No concern at the mo. All other stats are v normale. So that's good news.

Luckily my mother will not be visiting or staying when junior is born. If she did it would be a case of murder or suicide. I can tolerate about oh 5 miliseconds of beig in same room. Clearly I need to work on this.......

silver I am the same with my mother. But for arrival of second baybee there really was no other option. We found a way to make it work. Four weeks she was here. I am very proud of myself for not having a major scene in all that time. I think it's called 'lowering of expectations' all round.

I'm keen for a chance to show off my baby meet up. Until mid Nov, I'm oop north. Then I'll be away over the ocean until New Year. And from January onwards will be living in some completely unknown location in midlands / south west. (Still in denial about this move, by the way. La la la. ).

analyticalarmadillo.blogspot.com/2010/07/bottle-feeders-please-stop-twisting-it.html

interesting blog post and I thought may be useful, in the sense that it's worth considering how bottle feeds of any milk are presented.

silver

Well I will be twiddling my fat feet all of October on leave... so we could think about a November meet peut etre? Or leave it til new year when everyone (apart from me) is slightly saner...

VAG She's going home Sat morning.

It's not that she's being overly annoying and tbf I've been very snappy and actually quite rude (for me). I used to shut up and take it all - but I've been sticking up for myself and saying "I just want everyone to go away and leave me with my baybee".

silver She caught me at a low ebb and offered to come over... I agreed through the sobs. Twat.

honey I was actually planning to be in that there location in around october or so but nothing definite yet. Good idea about the New Year though - less busy with all that xmas shit going on too of course.

Will be in Newcastle in December for the northerners.

fanny we canz do meet up before november??

ski deffo up for more Newky action in Dec too.

I am idiot. November baby will literally just be here so WTF am I talking about? October I will be fat and bored so better for me too.

Let's lightly pencil it in our filofaxes.

Being a BFer till 10 months I did wonder what all that twisting stuff was about - now I know I'm horrified! I used to go to a antenatal group meetup every week just after I had DD and they were all sat there twisting their bottles and then getting out Gaviscon. Now I know Gaviscon has a useful place in the grand scheme of things, but it stands to reason that if you make your baby consume more than it can take, it is going to have digestive problems! But hey, who am I to comment? This was the same group of women who bought me a puree recipe book because they though I was killing DD with baby-led wenaing!

As someone using bottles I don't understand the twisting thing either. Is this something they teach somewhere? Never occurred to me - I'm very (I hope!) switched on as to whether he wants it or not and take frequent breaks to let him "think" about whether he needs more or not.

cos Would love to do meet up before I have to move dahn sarf. (Is that how they say it?) Maybe H town would be a good part way venue? I go there frequently for physio appointments, and it seems to have lots of yummy mummy cafes.

fanny I would suggest getting your student/home-help girl in and getting her to pretend she's you!

fanny how far sarf are you going? I ask as a curious Midlands dweller who's jealous of the northern/southern meet-ups....

Squeaker slept 10pm to 2.45am and 4am to 6.30am! considering I used to do 10pm to 6am on work nights, I have decided this is not bad. will be better when she has ceased grunting all night, leaving me thinking she's about to scream for food every hour. then we can both enjoy the same amount of sleep.

She looks funny at the mo, with an old, receeding hairline, and a new, finer, one further forward. Plus lots of peely bits where her head suddenly outgrew its skin . and it seems like every time i wash her eyes some new, beautiful, eyelashes appear. with reflux in hand, i have returned to baby gazing...

Squeaks is 5 weeks. met a 15-week-old yesterday and he was huge! will put pic on fb.

body starting to fail . hip gave up last night and still hurts. a lot of shoulder and elbow pain. still resisting drucks though. please to tell me i'm not the only one who hurts just from cuddling/feeding?

AIBU to consider creating a private FB group for Squeaker updates? grannies etc are loving all the pics but i fear others see me turning into "one of those" FB mums. (There is too much interest in photography in this house. Poor kid does not stand a chance, but the dog is enjoying a break from being our muse). A private group would give an opt-in, but save me needing an extra email address as I would to create an actual FB profile for Squeaks. Or should I continue to shamelessly plaster her mug all over my pages? WWYD?

sorry that was a bit me, me, me. I have been trapped under the Ninky Nonk and had lots brewing

H town would indeed be the perfect venue. don't worry, I can teach you the dahn sarf lingo ;)

and also don't worry re the glam, I will have baybee in two, there will be no glam.

casp I don't even know my geography of the area very well. I think it's kind of the southern bit of west midlands. Basically when we have been looking at maps of where to live it looks like somewhere around Warwickshire, Gloucestershire or Oxfordshire would do. Is that anywhere near you? We need to spend some time there to figure out where is nice / affordable so will probably stay in temporary accommodation to start with.

cos H it is! When do you want to aim for? October?

H town? Am I being fick? I can do October. Earlier better...

fan i'm in Shropshire, in-laws in Gloucestershire Cotswolds. definitely within "meet up for lunch" distance of the area you've roughly described.

in a bid to get my tv back, i have downloaded In the Night Garden album from itunes. she's only interested in the noises, so now they are on my her ipod.

apologies over lack of caps. can't be arsed while typing one handed

casp Har har! You're starting young on INTG! Wait until you have a toddler who, whenever she is upset, wails 'Daisy! Daaaiiisssyy!!' in loud melodramatic sobs. Like Upsy Daisy turning up would make everything all right.
(Though I do have a Dressy Upsy Daisy doll stashed in my wardrobe ready for her birthday, so perhaps she will.)

honey It's in North Yorkshire.

ski yay to december in newcastle!

cassie personally i would keep posting them. family and friends will want to see pics and if not they can ignore them (but i love to see the pics from my friends and their little ones). personally. i do understand thd concern about being one of those mums but why not be proud of your gorgeous daughter? you have every right to be.

exhausted again today. tok dog to vet fcor vaccinations and had to take comma too. dog got v stressed, jumped up at me with c in sling and has clawed his head just on soft spot - terrified me although he seems fine. got v upset about it when i got home - not doing that again, will be more organised about cas's medication and send yob on his own.

sorry no caps and 4 typos

fanny yes, early oct? could do earlier depending on Artie's arrival!

ps in two above obv meant in tow.

Cossie I would love to see you and rots again - and of course if fanny is still lingering in the vicinity it would be good. Who knows? Perhaps another PESH from the north will join us?

How did you get on today Cossie? Do try and get more than just Monday as your ML pls!

curly How long are you going to try and go without meds? It sounds awful.

rots That sounds very stressful although I'm glad to hear Comma is OK. Stoopid mutt!

Well I've had a lovely day - mum came over in the morning and we walked the dogs. Then left her in charge whilst I shot out to get new baby bouncer ordered in and do the supermarket. She then went off to do her thing and came back at 3 to take over again. Jailbait and I went in to town (3 minute stroll) and sat in the town square drinking beer. Nom nom. Quite tipsy! There's a bike race on this weekend with 50,000 people in town to watch - phewey! So it will be too crowded this weekend to take Bear in to town. Granny loved her Bear time and changed two nappies - got herself weed on innit as is not used to doing boys haha. She has now left the building and is returning to England tomorrow. I survived! And managed to remember to buy tonic water to top up gin bought one week before BFP last year...

update on PESH ski babe, was emotional

I am hoping for at least a weeks ML, please Artie? not actually engaged yet anyway, so think I may be in for a long wait. September baybee anyone?

cossie Earlier the better for me. As soon as you are hatched is fine.

ski Beer? And gin? Won't someone think of the children????

fanny / ski I was thinking more of the tonic water. Naaaasty stuff

Off to the GP AGAIN today armed with more thrush info. Wanting to get more fluconazole, plus some more topical stuff. fanny I've ordered some grapefruit seed extract (couldn't get it from Holland and Barrett) which has just this second arrived so I'm starting that regime too. Did you use gentian violet? Anyway, I feel that the fluconazole is improving matters as I think the pain is reducing (or I'm just getting used to it!!).

cos so what's up? you ok?

ski you relax now and enjoy time just to yourselves!

cassie I had a dream that you were standing outside a house in the town next to my village and displaying the squeaky one to the passing cars . I'm so sorry about the RA pain

Anyone else's baby snoring louder than their bloke? Comma is a right ol' mutterer, sigher and snorer. I've taken to burying my head under the duvet to stop him keeping me awake. I feel so sorry for his future wife!