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Gordon Brown's wife is pregnant again at 42. hurrah!

45 replies

mommie · 16/01/2006 11:19

After the terrible loss of their first child, i feel really happy about this. (also, as a new mum over 40!)Good for them. A sibling for their little boy John.

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milward · 16/01/2006 11:21

Lovely news - wish them well.

RTKangaMummy · 16/01/2006 11:32

DEFFO BRILL

JonesTheSteam · 16/01/2006 11:34

What good news - good luck to them both!!!!!!!

Janh · 16/01/2006 11:36

Due in July so I guess she's just passed 13 weeks.

Lovely Hope it all goes well again with this one.

PiccadillyCircus · 16/01/2006 11:37

Really glad to hear that

Aloha · 16/01/2006 11:38

oh, i am pleased! did wonder if they'd have another.

CountessDracula · 16/01/2006 11:39

Good for them

Lonelymum · 16/01/2006 11:40

I am pleased for them on a personal level and will be even more pleased if this would mean that GB would relinguish any idea of becoming PM.

hotmama · 16/01/2006 11:41

I think this is fabs news - especially as she is an older mum.

PrincessPeaHead · 16/01/2006 11:42

oh good. hope she has it in london rather than hiking up to the wilds of scotland at the last minute to make a point (which can't have helped things for the first one, sadly)

motherinferior · 16/01/2006 11:54

How lovely.

TheDullWitch · 16/01/2006 12:15

PPH > since her firstborn had a grave congenital problem that no amount of care would have reversed, Scotland can't be blamed for that!

expatinscotland · 16/01/2006 12:20

Better her than me!

tortoiseshell · 16/01/2006 12:21

I'll always remember GB's face after Jennifer Jane was born, he was SO proud of his daughter.

tabitha · 16/01/2006 12:23

Wouldn't exactly call Kirkcaldy (where baby Jennifer was born) the 'wilds' of Scotland.
Also, from what I've heard on mumsnet, maternity care in London is always the greatest.

expatinscotland · 16/01/2006 12:25

Just thinking, at 42, my kids will be 10 and 8. Hmm, perhaps dh and I might even be able to do a weekend away whilst the grandparents babysit.

Ah, bliss! MUCH looking forward to the 40s.

PrincessPeaHead · 16/01/2006 12:28

I don't blame scotland, I blame running off to the middle of nowhere for political reasons and making the complex decisions to caesar early in a hospital with no neo natal facilities.

she didn't have a congenital problem, she was failing to grow in the womb (according to the cottage hospital in the middle of nowhere - so who really knows) so they caesared her 7 weeks early there despite not having adequate facilities. then ambulanced the 2lb baby 2 hrs away to a decent hospital.

can't help thinking that if they had stayed put in london (or even edinburgh or aberdeen or wherever) and got proper advice somewhere that could properly cope with the situation it wouldn't have happened. but that is politics for you.

Normsnockers · 16/01/2006 12:37

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fairyjay · 16/01/2006 12:40

Normsnockers - Congrats!!! Oh, and to the Browns.

Fimbo · 16/01/2006 12:40

Forth Park Hospital is not a cottage hospital!!!
here

Janh · 16/01/2006 12:48

Oh yes, congratulations, Normsnockers (whoever you are! )

TheDullWitch · 16/01/2006 12:51

That is such bollocks PPH. The baby would have failed to thrive in the womb whatever she did or whoever saw her. It was a congenital problem. But if it suits your politics to take that view...

Redtartanlass · 16/01/2006 13:20

Kirkaldy wilds of Scotland

PPH assume you're from London

Good luck to the Brown!

donnie · 16/01/2006 13:27

lovely news. Hope it's a girl this time for obvious reasons....btw pph are you really saying the death of that tiny baby girl was because of politics ????? wonder what the Browns would say to that idea...

cathyspam · 16/01/2006 13:32

Congratulations to the Browns and normsnockers!