March 2013 IX: Cruising to Christmas with burgeoning bumps

[Sheldonella]

Thanks sarahs999 for the lovely new thread name :)

Old thread here

No 9, can you believe it

That's a lovely story Oct

I would have waited longer but didn't get the choice sadly. This will be our only baby unless someone comes up with a way to get ladies with no eggs left to be able to travel back in time. Our clinic screwed up and killed the other 4 eggs we got last cycle so I've been robbed of the chance of using what would have been 4 more little embryos. Trying not to think about that at the mo! Just enjoying the chance to even have this one

I still feel too young and it won't be quite real until he's actually here! Was glad to read that others feel similarly, very reassuring. I suppose by the thirties one has things sort of settled ish and so finally being pregnant seems like more of a shock somehow?

I'm a very young 32 anyway! (Mentally, probably not physically )

Btw just managed to sleep through the night even after sleeping all day... No pattern whatsoever! Feel like a slug now though, all limp and squishy

Hi, have only just found this thread and thought I'd say hello. Am due on 8th March, am 31 weeks. Have felt mostly OK though definitely getting more tired and can relate to the need for complicated pillow arrangements! Finishing work in 5 weeks and absolutely cannot edit. Anyway, nice to have found you all!

Cannot wait, not cannot edit!

Leni - sounds like a special baby all round. x

I feel like I will be an old Mum. I have grey hair and everything. Although more blond than grey. But life comes along at its own pace and we really wouldn't have been ready until now, and even now I suspect we are less ready than we should be. Anyway, we will find out in March...!

Stormy - I am 27 too. Its really normal in my profession to wait till late 30s to have a baby so was hard to decide to go for it so young but turns out life is kind as I must admit I don't know if I could have coped with my DD being stillborn and knowing my biological clock was ticking.

Hi shoogly welcome to the thread! Love your nickname! We have the same due date x

Morning all,

stormy me and my OH are both 21, but i can't say i feel like a young mum.

Hi shoogly Welcome aboard lovely :)

i've only just discovered Emma's Diary! I feel well stupid, so looking forward to getting another little baby pack from Argos/Boots. And more vouchers. Perfecto!

Thank you to those telling me about Old Skool Weekend! I'm currently enjoying Danger Mouse haha. Where did good old tele like this disappear too?

Anyway starting the chicken now. Chat soon.

Tramp - my hair is seriously grey now, but being dark it shows more! Lucky not to have as many wrinkles as friends

I've missed Knightmare! Damn...

leni I'm 33 and DH is 40 in about 7 weeks, and this is DC1 for us too. (I keep teasing him that LO will arrive on his birthday and steal his thunder ;-))

I have had a few 'old first time mum' comments but to be honest I can see the advantages both ways; I have friends who had children in their early twenties who had loads of energy and now are starting to get their lives back, on the other hand I was a bit of a mess myself at that age and also didn't have a clue career wise. I like to hope I am more mellow and self aware now and hopefully that will stand me in good stead with the little one!

I had more energy/was physically fitter with dd1/2 (21/22) and if xh had been sober I would have got my career sorted but I feel a better parent with dd3 though this could be experience (personal and professional) rather than age! My physical problems could be to do with age or the fact this is pregnancy number4.

I had more energy/was physically fitter with dd1/2 (21/22) and if xh had been sober I would have got my career sorted but I feel a better parent with dd3 though this could be experience (personal and professional) rather than age! My physical problems could be to do with age or the fact this is pregnancy number4.

All of you can get stuffed. I'm 42

What about dh/dps? My dh is 50....

Beating me then, Ood. Mine's only 41.

I remember when I was twenty five, suddenly realising that my mum and my sister each had their first at that age. Was a little upset to think I wouldn't manage the same. Mind you, there wasn't a lot I could do about it, bar immaculate conception!

Hello again lovely ladies! Happy New Year; what an exciting one it's going to be.
I've not read the thread for ages...have there been any more babies since confuddled? Do we know how she and the LO are doing?
It's interesting how many of us are older mums on here. I'm 39, but don't feel old to be having a baby at all (I was 37 with ds). The only time I was made to feel old with ds was when the hospital insisted I wear those horrid pressure sock things. Like many others here, I had no choice over the age of motherhood, as I wasn't married until 33 and we wanted to spend some time with just the 2 of us first. Mind you, we didn't anticipate that it would then take us a while to conceive ds. Fortunately, this one just seemed to come along without any trouble; in fact it was a bit of a surprise (albeit a lovely one).

I'm 30, and on second marriage, first husband and I got married when I was just 20 and we were seriously considering trying for a baby then, a friend persuaded me that we had lots of time. Well, things didn't work out, so good she did. DH turns 32 next month, so we are about average I think on age.

Nursery is now painted and gungho husband is doing the furniture, I am 29 weeks and it feels too early, but it won't stop anything bad happening or make anything bad happen and I have a 99% chance of bringing home a baby, so silly not to get on whilst we are able! I probably did too much, but very glad I did it, quite proud.

Busy work week ahead, 8 weeks of work to go!!

Sarah - absolutely!

Hey you have kids when you have kids. Maybe if I'd met MrM when I was in my twenties babies would've come earlier, but I doubt it and I didn't. Life happens as it happens.

leni we are I think EDD buddies (26th March?) and I this will be DC1 for me. I am 33 but should be 34 by the time LO arrives. DH is 44 and is hoping for an early delivery to ensure (a) he's only 44 not 45 and (b) it's a pisces like us .

Never felt like I'd left it too late, although had some comments to that effect, and a friend who is younger than me took 3.5 years of TTC her first which kind of made me think I needed to see what happened. (Turned out not to be a problem shall we say! ). Happy news, though think DH fancied more 'practice'!.

Rather expecting there only to be the one Mini-Pudtat, as don't have a big family and never imagined one. Also not sure my career could stand it, and I am the main breadwinner in the house, hence only 6 months mat leave. Mind you, really pleased we can transfer the remainder to DH. Will help a bit.

Pillow mountain growing here - 3 at head end and a Genii... sort of helps, but fighting off a cold so stuffy sinuses not helping the overall situation.

Mind you, exciting day today as builders start. Give it 2 weeks and we should be able to start decorating the nursery. Starting to feel real...

haven't joined in before. Will be 42 next week (!) wit first baby due 11/3. Dh is 55. What can I say , we are late starters!

Morning all!
Feeling much better today, actually slept all night with only one coughing fit and two toilet trips! Not 100% but a million times better than recently, the infection appears to be clearing, temperature is almost normal, hooray!! Made me realise how much bad sleep affects you!

Welcome to new joiners sammi and I know there was someone else but I can't remember who now, sorry!

To join in on the age discussion, I am 33, nearly 34 and DH is a year younger. We only met 3.5 years ago. I was aware of likely declining fertility and although would of liked a bit more time just us before TTC thought we'd better get trying. Like you pudcat no problem there and DH is a little miffed at the lack of practice, especially as the logistics are now becoming somewhat more difficult!

I suspect that this may be the only DC for us, pregnancy has not been wonderful for me and for various reasons we think one may just be the right thing for us as a couple. I was an only child and there is such a big age gap between DH and his two siblings that in effect he was an only. I think there are just as many positives to being an only child as having siblings, I fear the pressure from society will be difficult however! I will never say never at this point, but financially, personally and career wise one may be the best for us...watch this space!

new washing machine arrived last night and I had forgotten that it has a baby and toddler wash function on it...que little excited squeaks from me and indulgent grin from DH! I have noticed that the majority of my excitement nowadays is baby related...brain is definitely zoning in now! I used to get excited by shoes and handbags, now it's baby grows! yesterday I bought some lovely new pram accessories in the mamas and papas sale...(in purple!!!) v excited about that arriving! It is lovely being so lucky and having virtually everything donated by fabbo family, but was so nice to actually buy my little girl something!

Lots of love xxx

Morning all, and welcome to the newbies :) To join in the age discussion - DH & I are both 31 and have been together since we were 20! We decided to TTC at 30 and fortunately didn't have any trouble. Sadly the first attempt ended in mc but we were soon successful again. I would like to this we will have more than one but we will see how we cope with this one first

Morning all. Just to announce that there's a potential London meet up next Saturday, prob in the morning but depends on everyone's schedule. Been discussing on Facebook. If morning, prob national gallery cafe which is nice and central and always strangely quiet on a sat morning. Who's coming?!

Hi, I thought I'd pop over and introduce myself. I'm actually due February 27th, but that's as good as being due in march, right? and the February thread is a ghost town!

I'm 26 years old, dp is 27. We had hoped to be arranging a wedding by now but fell pregnant rather too, err, easily, so those plans are on hold until after our little boy arrives. (I want to be able to drink at my own wedding, dammit!) so I'm 32+5 and already on maternity leave - working in a management position in a very busy wine shop at Christmas, with manual handling and lots of stress....well it made me a bit poorly so to my shame I jumped ship. Now I'm focussing all my energy on getting the house immaculate! It looks like some of you ladies are rather more prepared than me, oops!

I intend to sit down with a big mug of tea first though and look back through this thread