to be utterly livid with this nurse and feel like weeping

[ClaudiaSchiffer]

I took my daughters (7 & 5) to the local docs today for a flu vac, whilst sitting in with the nurse she turned to me and asked all sweetness like, "are you their granny?" "granny or mum?" "granny?" "mum???".

I'M 44 ffs.

Ok my hair has it's own natural highlights steel grey, but really, who mistakes a FORTY FOUR year old for the kids GRANDMA. (OK I know there are 44 yr old grandmas and I salute you but REALLY!).

I am devastated.

Take no notice of the silly bint, she's probably used to seeing mothers who are just out of gym slips and not older WISER ones like you with the lovely natural hair.

I remember being in hospital when I was 10 and my mum would have been around 43, the nurse then thought she was my gran, I remember feeling awful for my mum!

Oh eck, ive got all that to come, im 42 and expecting number 2...gonna be 50 and at the school gates collecting dc 2.
Expecting it. I feel old tbh, dont just look it atm.

I am 44 and have a nearly 8 month old :)

I am sure I'll be mistaken for her granny some day.

Excuse errors, I'm on my phone.

nananaps that's very precious cargo you're carrying, I hope you're keeping well

I can't BELIEVE this is you Claudia - you is one hot mamma and I always thought your hair colour was totes Kate Moss when she was doing 'edgy ash blonde'. Get round there and chin that nurse or ask her what her name was pre-gender reassignment?!

I was 39 when my GS1 was born and people thought I was his mum. At a school event, the headteacher mistook my daughter aged 20 (childrens' auntie) for my grandson's mum which would, by the headteacher's reckoning, have made her a mother at 10.

My mums a GM at 47.

sensesworking what you said us quite offensive

*is

staceym keeping VERY well thanks chuck!
Size of a small hippo, bump busy and im still verging on lunacy and neurosis from minute to minute
But happy and still cant believe it

I think I can trump everyone for the worst best misunderstanding.

Many moons ago, I worked in a pub and I got to be really good friends with one of the other girls working there. One night, a customer (fortunately not a regular or they would have been swiftly executed) looked at me, turned to my friend and said "So your mum works here as well?"

I was 19 at the time and am 8 years younger than my friend who was also a mum of 2

nannanaps good, very glad to hear it and we're all neurotic while pg don't worry about that

I was once asked if my 7yo nephew was my son...I was 14.
And I also had a tactless nurse when in plastic surgery dept in hospital having scar tissue removed; she looked me up and down and asked if I was there for breast implants. The cheek!!!

I actually genuinely don't get why it's rude to ask someone of forty-four years of age if they're a granny. Seriously I don't. I mean, the implication of that is that there's somehow something wrong with being a granny, or getting older.

Maybe I have no pride but I actually don't give a flying feck that I'm getting older now.

I have greying hair now. My jawline and chins (yes plural) are slowly receding towards the boob area. However, thankfully there's no chance of them meeting as my boobs are descending in a southwards direction towards my knees. I use night-time face cream in the morning so that my makeup doesn't go into the crevices on my face. I wear flat and ohhhhhh so comfortable shoes to go to work - similar style in six different colours of course. I LOVE Marks and Spencers knickers - and I adore their elasticated waistband trousers.

It is so liberating to actually not give a bloody damn about insignificant stuff like this!

...and I absolutely adore my grandchildren - particularly when I'm acting younger than them!

Bliss

I'm an older Mum and have only been asked one time if I was the Gran, silly really as Dd was pulling on me shouting "Mommy I want that" when the woman asked. I just call all the women with kids the Mom unless I know them to be the Gran for sure. The kids or Mom/Gran will correct me, and the Grans like being mistaken for Moms

I had my DCs in a double buggy. DD in a babygro (4 months) and DS in ordinary clothes and shoes (nearly 2 and a half years old). Woman came up to me and asked me if they were twins!