August 2014 - summer beans and springtime dreams

[flymo79]

new thread here ladies, hope this works!!

I'm just eating everything in front of me! I get hungry so quickly. :-/

Hi all, please could I be added to the list? (I'm on my phone and don't know how to c&p). Polkadot 39 EDD 10th August (although I reckon it's maybe a few days later- will see what 12 week scan shows. Expecting number 2.
Hope everyones well. I only have the chance to come on every couple of days due to busy work/ home- so apologies if missed folks scans etc x
My nausea is still here with a vengeance at 10+4. Last time I felt better by 9 weeks. Also looking salty stuff, and certain foods make me wretch, as does I hanging DS's poo-ey nappy and cleaning my teeth! Not been actually sick though so can't moan. Had a few wretches in the loos at work, and a couple of people make jokey comments about pregnancy, but I think it's because they reckon sometime in 2014 I'll be pregnant (as know we want a number 2) rather than because they suspect anything...hopefully! I finish tomorrow lunchtime for 10 days, scan is on 28th, hopefully the blood test only takes a few days, so not much longer to keep it all secret. Lucky as my work trousers are getting a bit snug... I'm sure it looks like I've been eating too many pies....

Hi ladies, mind if I join you? This is my first ever pregnancy at 37, due 31 August so 7+5 today. Main symptom so far is that I'm sick as a parrot. I couldn't keep a thing down (not even water or sips of homemade ginger tea!) until about 4 today. Have since gorged on two chicken breasts and a few raw carrots and am still ravenous - can't decide whether to eat more while the nausea's gone or whether eating more risks sending me straight back to the bathroom! Ah the joys of pregnancy sickness

Hi Jess!
Yay, another "older" first timer! Thought I was the only one....

oooh, porridge! great idea, it's on the shopping list, along with popcorn (in moderation - thanks ruggle!!) I have a new "worst thing to throw up" though, spicy tomato juice! urrrrrrrrrrgh

My worst thing was my entire dinner...undigested chilli. Oh, and undigested mushrooms!

I have found apples have have stopped the sick feeling for a while. I put on a lot of weight with dd so just refusing to allow myself to snack to get rid of sickness. I does make it worse sometimes but allow myself apples and an extra snack in between tea and bed to stop sickness at night. It's definitely working as I had put on a lot more weight by now than I had first time round and hoping that way appetite won't have increased to much by second trimester

Hi Jess! Congratulations on your pregnancy. I was 36 when I had my first, now pregnant with dc2 aged 38. I remember feeling quite shocked to hear I was an 'elderly primagravida'! God knows what they'll call me this time round!

I think it's interesting to see everyone's ages. I wouldn't call myself a 'young mum' and didn't with dd (had her at 22) but it seems the majority of ladies on this thread are older (than me not just generally!! ). I don't think I could have waited until into my 30's it's funny how everyone's broodiness is different, I suppose circumstances is a major thing also!!

Another bad thing is milk, if it's just gone down. It comes up looking like something that's been sat in the fridge for several months.

Oh...and Quavers. So acidic it burned!!!

Hi Hungry

Nope, don't mind in the slightest. Am 32 (will be 33 when the Bean arrives). :)

I sometimes wish I'd had my first earlier... but then I wouldn't have done all the things I've done. Odd when I think about being 34, it seems like I could just as easily be 24... But with the broodiness, when it hits you, it hits you hard!

I've been broody since 18, but had a run of brief crap relationships, interjected with long periods of being single....and only met the person I wanted to have kids with 18 months ago. I'm thinking most people I know will say it's "too soon", but we're both turning 40 at the end of this year....so it's now or never.

I've been broody since I was 18!! Been with DH since I was 17, married 3 years so am more than ready now! It's funny because if when we bought our first house we had a baby instead do deciding on waiting and getting a puppy we would have a nearly 8 year old child! As my pooch is 8 this year! 26 still seems young I guess, but I'm definitely more than ready

feelingfatty yes, I think there's been a big shift in recent years - when I was growing up if someone's parents were older it was unusual enough to be noticeable. But among my peers and also people I met through nct and play groups I don't stand out as being unusual.

You're right about circumstances too, I met dh when I was 33 and there was never anyone before him who came close to being the right one for me.

But then again I never had massively broody feelings. I always thought it would be lovely to have a child if I met the right person, but I never felt a clock ticking so to speak. And dd was a lovely surprise!

Of deciding, not do deciding ^

I was 36 with DD and I'm 37 with this one. I didn't want to leave it any later.

I only met my DH when I was 31 and we got married when I was almost 36 (2 days after finding out I was pregnant). I wanted to be married before having kids and only decided I wanted children after we got engaged.

I've never really been exceptionally broody, not in an overwhelming sense, it has to be said.

I wasn't referred to as 'elderly' at all last time though. Don't think I am this time either. Bloody feel it some days though. :-(

ruggle I think if you meet the right person 18 months is enough time to know it! It would be great to meet the right person young and have lots of time together before starting a family. But for me, if I had met dh when I was younger I don't think it would have worked - we needed to be who we were when we met - does that make sense? I wouldn't change a thing about our ages or when we had dd, because it was and is perfect for us.

Glad you didn't have that hungryhorace - it wasn't very nice! Hopefully with different midwife this time it won't be mentioned. My midwife is very young this time! Last time every midwife I saw was in her fifties, so it took me aback a bit to meet this lady. She seems very nice and was extremely efficient.

I guess there's no way of predicting when you're going to meet someone that you feel like having kids with who feels the same. I was 32 when I met my now husband, we got married when I was 35 and then we had two years of trying. I'm so happy to have finally got that BFP I don't think I'll care what they call me, so long as I get a healthy baby at the end!

Absolutely, jess, . How did you tell your dh? I told mine while he was stuffing cornflakes into his mouth and I just remember him staring at me open mouthed with his spoon halfway. I felt quite calm but he was so shocked!

Secretlypregnant, I think I said something profoundly romantic along the lines of "do you think there's a second line there?" The first test (day AF was due) was so faint I don't think either of us dared to believe it until the next day brought a stronger line!

Looks like I'm the oldest one on here! 40 tomorrow!!

DH told me this morning that he's arranged a babysitter for tomorrow evening and he's meeting me after work as he's got a surprise evening planned but won't tell me what....I'm intrigued!

Met DH when I was 19 and he was 24. We've had a wonderful 12 years of travelling and adventuring, so good we thought a lot about whether we'd really left it too late to change things so entirely. But now I'm 32 and he's 37 and we figured now was the time to try, especially as we knew it could take years and we want a couple of children. Didn't expect it to take 2 months! But it still feels right : ) still - I'm the oldest child and oldest grandchild in my family, and the last one to have kids. I think most people had given up on us so there's going to be a few surprised faces'