December - yet another final thread!

[Loulou000]

The last one was getting too long again. There's just no stopping us!

Hi Ladies,

Thanks Eli - your comments seem to suggest the TV was hinting in the right direction - so now my whole take on PG has changed - not that I mind what bump is .

Beaker, Gloria - I am 31 and this is my second. But my SIL has just had her second and I think she is 36 and there's only 23 month between her's. Then again my mum had me at 43 - so you can tell your midwife you're not that old

Morning all- also have not packed my hospital bag and realise that car seat not ready, moses basket still in gararage and pram covered in mildew and cat hair..... grrr. need to finish work and get on with this stuff! On the plus side, the baby has a nice new cot toy.......

Had loads of BHs yesterday- probably the excitement of my birthday . I'm (now) 32 and this is my second baby- think thats roughly average-ish, possibly on the young side. Mind you my mum had us at 16 and 18, so times have definately changed!

You're all younger than me! It's not fair. I was told in my 20s when married for the first time (am on husband number 2) that I couldn't have kids. That put a HUGE strain on our relationship. I went through everything from clomid to injectibles to IVF and nothing. So I would have had kids much earlier if that had all gone to plan. So when I met dh, I was 27, newly divorced (got married way too young!) and had to tell him that I couldn't have kids. He is only a year older than me so seemed like a very big deal.

But when we got married, I came off the pill which I was on to regulate hormones and we thought if it happens it happens. Nothing for the first 3 years then I got pregnant last year but had a late miscarriage (20 weeks) and then I got pregnant again with this one. So we're very happy and I take nothing for granted. I don't assume there will be a second child but if it happened in a couple of years we'd both be happy with that.

The one good thing about being, ahem, older is that I'm well established in my career and feel more able to have the time off now.

Sorry to hear about your troubles Beaker, but how lovely that you are pg now. What will be will be IMO. My Dad (aged 65) has recently had his 3rd (I think) child and is undoubtedly a much better father this time so being "young" isn't an issue it's a state of mind/where you are in life IMO. I agree, being so old ( I am OLDER than you btw) means having slogged my guts out for so many years I have had more choices about taking time off work whilst the kiddies are young. Sometimes though, I wonder if that is a good thing ...

Oh I am way too far behind to catch up with this thread! So errr happy thoughts, tea and sympathy, chocolate and gingerbread to anyone who may have need of it since I really don't have a clue what has been going on!

Feeling like a zombie this morning, the Bump was rocketing around inside me right through the evening into the wee small hours, but after a shower, breakfast, a second shower and a gingerbread man I am about to face the day!

So now I have gone to thinking I was older to realising I am about average - thanks to you oldies (VMS ducks as several virtual objects are chucked at her) .

Well I have had 3 M/C's and feel really really lucky to have got pg for a second time and held on to it. Being an only child who's no longer got her parents around I really wanted to makesure DD always had someone from her bloddline to be there for her.

Anyone else craving Dettol?

I have just got an incredible urge to consume Dettol. But since I cant drink it I am off to the bathroom to see if we still have the bottle under the sink - if so anything I can wash with it is about to be scrubbed in a very neat solution.

Well I am a baby then, I had my first at 22 and now number two at 27.

But like beaker I was told I couldnt have children from an early age (18) and so we had a great shock 4 months after me and DH got married "g"

Ohhhh was given the link to this baby names website, its great

babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/lnv0105.html

VM - For me it is any strong chemical type smell, chlorine and bleach are top fav's, along with petrol ohh and the smell of my new doomoo pillow is great, keep sticking it over my face and inhaling....

"runs away"

WB- what a great website!!

Yes, can sympathise with antiseptic/cleaning smells, in fact ANY cleaning fluid-y smell really floats my boat at the moment. Dettol would def. be way up there on my top five list of smells at the moment, along with bleach (pine), washing powder and shampoo....mmmmhhhh. Actually, Dettol probably would take first place, having thought about it.

Strange, moi?

Oh, not a names website! We can't even agree on names other than the middle name if we have a girl!

Not into Dettol - you lot are weird !!!

I'm 37 Beaker and having my first. I feel a bit on the wrinkly side, but am glad I didn't have kids earlier when I really wasn't ready or in an ideal relationship!

Do we need another new thread? If so, what shall it be called? We've had so many final threads already.

OMG, an age discussion?! I'm off I'm in SW London, one of those who make Castles feel young in the playground...didnt' even meet dh till we were both 34, then was ill and not allowed to ttc until I was 39, then had lots of miscarriages and IF issues: dd was my first at 43 and I am so grateful - we were just on the verge of giving up. Now I'm doing a Cherie Blair, got pregnant for the last time (I promise) at 45, am now 46. Or an Iman, perhaps - far more glamorous.

Its funny though, seems to me the people who worry about age are often the younger ones...perhaps us older ones have got used to it...

It also helps having a 99 year old granny (fully present and correct in mind) and two bouncy parents in the late 70s, who travel all over the place and are more active than I am...oh, and a 42 year old brother who is thinking about having a third child, and whose other two are good friends with my dd.

OK, thats the last time I talk age on this thread! Dettol now...that IS weird...

dh and I are going back to the OB tonight, we managed to get an appointment so we can talk some more about whether to go ahead on Friday or not - peace of mind is worth a lot, I want to go into this one happy and with no regrets.

Meantime, taking dd out for pizza after nursery, to celebrate her first night with NO nappy....[proud mother emoticon]

I've sure we've had this conversation before Eli, where are you? I'm in TW10. Maybe we are neighbours???? How funny. Good luck tonight with the OB. I loved reading some of the posts on your other thread btw, people are so lovely, I am sure they helped. I've found out so much from being on MN - far more than speaking to health pros in RL. Congrats on your potty-trained DD. Mine is still in pull-ups. MIL said she will probably regress post-baby so I haven't pursued it. Any excuse as far as I'm concerned

Funny about the Dettol fettish - last night I just had this massive urge to scrub the bath out with the stuff. Yikes, better watch myself.

Surely any new thread needs an Xmas theme given our December babies? Like December 2006 - Ready for our Christmas Crackers or something equally cheesey, non?

Dettol fettishes/cravings/impuleses must be resisted!

And I'm glad to hear that I'm not the oldest! I might be by the time we get around to having number 2 if we do!

At the moment I can't even imagine embarking on a number 2!

Must stop loafing around on the internet and go and begin to pack hospital bag.

What happens once all LOs are here? Will there be a Post-December Baby thread??

Well me neither, Loulou, but hypothetically speaking!

Surely we must have a post natal group for Dec 06 that'll be formed?

And I am in TW18...

Will definitely have to try and have a mini get-together once we feel up to it!

louloo and beaker it took me almost 5 years to have number 2

There will be 4years and 10months between them...

Oooh where's TW18 Weirdbird? Must be near me. But hang on, aren't you a young-un, in which case will only be able to meet somewhere very dark

I like the Xmas Crackers final thread idea and deffo must have a post natal thread

I am a young un, sorry

How about if I promise to look hagard?1?

TW18 is Staines

Definitely like the idea of us all being Xmas Crackers "LOL"

I doubt any of us will have a hard time looking haggard in a few weeks' time, if dd's first six months are anything to go by! I was at a b'day party yesterday for a 3yr old, and all the Mums were being lovely and saying how well I looked. I thought 'yup, I do - plumped up with hormonal overdrive: wait till you see me three months from now, no sleep, b'feeding, trying to cope with a regressed 3 yr old and a newborn '

Optimistic, aren't I?

Castles, I'm in SW13 - yes, think we might have had this conversation, but my memory is not at its best these days! Hopefully a temporary state and not to do with senile dementia....

BTW, big yes to a final (ha) thread, and a postnatal one. Whatever the titles...

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