April 2007....bunnies lambs and babies!!!!

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Here you are girlies!!

Oooh a newby!!! How exciting!!!

Course you can join us!! We are all lovely.. like to moan and discuss rubbish other halves' and food!!!!

Where abouts are you?

forgot to say its wonderful that you have finally concieved after all that time - I bet it feels like a miracle!!!

Welcome shoeshopper and many congratulations on your pregnancy!!

SOL, I do think a good kick or nudge in the right direction works wonders. I am the same as GGF in that my DH is great most of the time but does need lots of prompting!!

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a good weekend (I too am getting teary reading about weeonion's!). We had a busy one with two family celebrations, and unfortunately seem to have brought DD back with a temperature, so she's on the sofa being very quiet today. Still, had to cancel my normal mad work/social plans and have taken the opportunity to clean the house which I haven't done for 3 weeks now, so it's put me in a good mood.

DD has been up in the night a fair bit recently and I must admit that after a few "it's your turn, if I get up, I will vomit" comments, DH is now being excellent and probably gets up to her as much, if not more than me. So hang in there and be blunt!

A big thank you to Runnyhabit - I got the Dorothy Perkins trousers, and although they'll need some serious turning up (I'm 5'2 so everything does!), look like I can wear them (a) very importantly - now (or at least, as soon as I've turned them up) (b) for work, with a white shirt or black top I got at the NCT sale, and (c) to DH's new work Christmas do, which I am already cacking myself about!! DD was of course, not the angel I'd hoped for, so Dorothy Perkins was the only clothes shop we went in, so if I hadn't had the tip-off about these trousers, I probably would have come home knackered and empty handed. As it was, I was just knackered and frazzled, and the cakes had to come from Sainsbury's on the way home (no time for Starbucks before the car park ran out!). No pink rake either sadly (or any other colour) - maybe I am looking in the wrong shops? I'm going to try a garden centre next and will keep you posted CD.

God, have waffled on for so long I can't remember what anyone else said now, so I'm going to go and mop DD's fevered brow!

Welcome Shoeshopper. Delighted to see another 40+ - there's more and more of us !

I'm 41 and due 3 days after you (12th April) and Bugmum on here is 40.

Many congrats on the pregnancy - ain't the human body and wonderful and mysterious thing?

Ooh Pesha - I think I've dropped you in it!!

Many Many congratulations shoeshopper
Weeonion..what a fab weekend and your family sound wonderful.

Shoeshopper - Welcome! There are a few of us oldies on this thread, including me; I'm not a first timer with this one (though I am 40!) but I was 38 for my first pregnacy, just turned 39 when I had him, so I was hardly a youngster. That said, mine were not the shocks yours is! How FANTASTIC

Thank you for your support ladies. I am not going to budge tonight. Have another headache and I am sure it is due to tiredness. Girls at work said I looked tired today.
Anyway, weeonion, what a lovely account of your weekend - just perfect.
Welcome to Shoeshopper, and a lovey story from you too. Good luck with the pregnancy and we look forward to getting to know you.
Need to pick dd up so will be back later.
xx

Hi everyone,
hope you all had a lovely weekend,and those of you who are having a rough time my thoughts are with you.
Had scan today everything was fine.this baby moves about non stop Im going to be so sore once the proper kicks start LOL!!!
I have been moved forward by 2 days so today im 13+6 which means bubs is due 24 april.
Anyway gotta go and get some tea on.
Take care and best wishes to all xxxx

hey shoeshopper - welcome to us lot! great name!! nice to have you on board and yr post made me really . glad it has worked out like this for you.oxoxo

thanks to all you lovely ladies for nice comments - you made me go "aaaah" and . Over the past few weeks - this thread has been so important to me. and hugs xo

great idea to meet up - shame the scottish crew (think thats liath, geordie, vio and myself) wont be part of the main meet up - we'll have to be the satelitte session!

Hello I'm new to mn but would be interested in your opinions.We moved house with our 3yrold ds and were plagued by a neighbours bullying and badly behaved child calling to our house with his mother every day ,straight after playschool.I felt like an unpaid child minder.Despite the negative behavior our ds was at first keen to play.However the odd time ds called up to them was rarely convenient.Eventually, despite desperately wanting to fit in, we politely called time on the kid (x)calling.The parents didn't like this and started to plague us by kicking ball and playing right on our doorstep despite the size of the estate and suitable green areas.We felt like prisoners.Time passed and ds played out with other kids but always came in crying after trouble with x.After the hundredth incident I asked angrily if their son could not be reigned in a bit.The husband called and we confessed how we felt.He promised to sort things out(we mentioned that other parents had similar concerns.)In fact they invited all the neighbours to a BBQ the next day and pointedly left us out.The wife ignored us and the husband said everything was our problem and we argued heatedly.since then ,although things have improved,they have done their best to make us feel ostracised and we more or less kept our son in for 3 years.ds survived he's 9 now and still tries to keep away from x but we are left with at best a very awkward situation with the parents who seem to be totally unavoidable from house to school to supermarket.We can never really move on from the day we argued.We think we messed up badly,what would you have done?

Evening!

Awwwww, your families reaction was sooooooo lovely - bless!! Glad you had such a super w/e!

SOL - GRRRRRRR! @ your DH - winge away honey!! My DH is not too bad at getting up in the night, but he's super slovenly in the house - getting stuff out and then leaving it everywhere. He just walks past stuff that needs doing and it drives me crazy - Grrrr! Sympathy here honey .....

Hi shoeshopper!! Great to have you on board - what wonderful lovely news about your PG - you and your DP / DH must be overjoyed - ooooh, tears in my eyes!!

Bum to your DD being ill Bramshott honey - hope she feels better soon! Hopefully picking your mug up tomorrow!! to mad shopping trip and to not finding the pink rake - do you have a Steamer Trading Shop near you?? They often sell mad stuff like that...

Brennan - Think you might want to try a different thread to post on - perhaps Chat or Relationships???

Gosh I'm tired! ......

Hello everyone, am too tired to say much but welcome to Shoeshopper and congratulations!!! and hello to everyone else, hope you're all OK xxx

Oohh, and I'd call this orange, but if you half close your eyes...
have just noticed "colours may vary"
and at that price we'll all have one!

obviously there is a very good reason for me putting the actual link in the next post

pink rake - well orange if you want to be pedantic

Think Bramshott was looking for a sort of long handled rake so her DD could help rake up the leaves. I've had a wee search online and could oly find short handled pink ones ..... mmmmmmmm .... I'll look in Steamer tomorrow for you, if you like??

If you get a nice wholesome "mini" rake with a wooden handle and metal prongs, can't you just lightly sand, then paint the prongs with a nice violent pink gloss???

Welcome Shoeshopper! Lovely to have you join us.

Good for you, standing your ground, SOL - hope the DH reforms himself and gives you the break you deserve.

WCL - glad all is okay but what a terrible time at Tesco.

Weeonion - thanks for sharing your story!

PJ - hope you got some attention from your GP/midwife and you are now 'in the system' and being cared for.

Zaza, how are things with your friend who had the failed IVF treatments? Sounds like you are being a wonderful support to her. We have good friends who have tried for years and are now considering adoption. Knowing something of the ups and downs they have been through, makes us feel doubly blessed/lucky/fortunate.

I've been battling a terrible cold so haven't been on MN for about a week but enjoyed a huge read to catch up.

I am 15.5 weeks and haven't really gained any weight or started showing.....until 2 days ago! (yes - this is a first pregnancy). Suddenly I am bloated, thick waisted, and can actually feel a real bump that isn't just tummy fat!

Hi Isabella!! Good to see you honey!! Glad you are getting over your cold - AND getting big and fat like the rest of us!!

GGF's idea of sand and painting the rake is a possiblity Bramshott - I found this one, which looks like the sort of thing you are after - perhaps it could be sanded?

Mmmmmmm ..... rakes ........

DD's are off to nursery so I've got the morning to catch on loads of annoying stuff I need to do before work. Have done the ironing already -

Morning! Have a day off work due to 1/2 term and since I am at my most productive in the mornings thought I would neglect the housework and tackle Mumsnet!

Welcome Shoeshopper!

Loved your story Weeonion. Families are funny aren't they.

IssabellaMoi - my friends who have had IVF are doing OK. It is if a big weight has been lifted off them now that they have decided to stop any more treatments. They are also now looking at adoption which they feel is actually doing something that is positive - as IVF seemed so negative in a way. Like you I so feel for them and are so grateful for how lucky I have been with regard to having babies. Being in my late thirties I unfortunately have a few friends who for various reasons have not been able to have kids and I find it a bit of a balancing act between my joy for my own pregnancy and being sensitive to how they feel. Wish I could wave a wand and give them all the babies they so deserve.

On a side note anyone else getting the 'gosh blimely look at you looking pregnant already' comments! I had forgotten how everyone loves to comment on your bump and compare you to them or their best friend's cousin! I love my bump, it is meant to be there and it is unique to me and my body shape and it doesn't mean that you can tell at only 16 weeks I am going to have a big baby - thanks!!!!!!!!

Why am I the only person who cant do links??

cgi.ebay.co.uk/PINK-kitchen-garden-TOOLS-2-trowels-rake-SHABBY-CHIC_W0QQitemZ290042021405QQihZ019QQcategoryZ122907QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

pink rakey type thing??

Every sympathy zazas - if my current bump (13 + 5) is anything to go by then my baby is going to be 15lbs!!

Morning all

Hello to all the newbies

Weeonion - lovely story from your weekend x

Bramshott - glad you got trousers. They are very comfy, and wash nice as well

CD - methinks I'm going to be joining you with the 15lb baby. Looked at some photos when I was 6mths pregnant with ds - I'm the same size now (16wks today) as I was then!

Feeling sorry for myself this morning. Been for my 16 wk blood tests and my arm is like a pincushion. Bought myself some jaffacake minis to make myself feel better, but they don't seem to be working. In work at the mo (only work monrings) and boss is out, hence me on mn

The only real advice I can give about dh/dp is to withdraw "priviledges" (iyswim) until they get their act together. Works with dp

Better book in for our elective C-Sections now then RH. Awwww. I was so hoping for a homebirth.

Awww - thanks so much for all the rake suggestions girls. I will let DD know that she's started the great Mumsnet April club pink rake hunt!! It is for the leaves, so I'm going to try the local garden centre first, and then if not, may well order that wooden one CD. To be honest, I think she'd be happy if I wrapped a pink florists ribbon round the handle!

DD is a bit better today - no temperature, although her cough is making her sick now. I can tell she's on the mend though, as instead of sitting quietly on the sofa, she is demanding that we "get the farm out and play Ice Age with it"!! So I may have to go and attempt to disguise a cow as a mammoth!

Having spent 3 months bemoaning how fat I was getting, I seem to have slowed down a bit now, and sort of wish I was bigger. Please remind me that this is mad, and that as soon as I have a proper bump, I will also have a horrendous backache! I just sort of want people to know - not friends, who mostly do, but people I meet through work and mums at the pre-school, who are all probably just thinking "ooh, she's getting a bit porky". I haven't yet found a good way of dropping it into the conversation!