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Older mums ??? 40 plus???

62 replies

MamaHulk · 14/05/2007 15:55

Hi
I know this thread was a long time ago but is anyone still around? Born in 65(difficult to remember age sometimes!!) with two boys (3&4ish)and definately PK. Live & work in Norfolk and wondered is anyone was up for a chat?

OP posts:
evenhope · 18/05/2007 15:15

Born in 63, DD21, DSs 19, 17, 15 and DD 9 weeks

There are other oldies on the March 2007 postnatal thread.

matilda57 · 18/05/2007 22:50

Born in 57 (big one coming UP)
two kids - dd 19, ds 16

2shoes · 18/05/2007 23:38

stepfordwife beat you by 2yrs i am 46

katelyle · 19/05/2007 06:33

Matilda - when's your birthday? Mine's July 23 - which one of us gets there first?

sibble · 19/05/2007 06:36

'65 - was a good year. Have 2 DS's 7 and 2 but live in NZ now so miss alot of the online banter

matilda57 · 19/05/2007 09:33

You did Kate - mine's 16 Sept, so you were the year above me (bow and scrape)!

RGPargy · 19/05/2007 14:18

Blimey, this thread makes me feel really young!!!

I was born in 68, so not 40 until January 08.

I've got DS 16 and one on the way

suejonezwillsoonbeKewcumber · 19/05/2007 19:41

bugger off you're not over 40! Young whipper snapper.

RedLorryYellowLorry · 19/05/2007 19:55

I was born in late 1965 and have a dd of 6.6 yo and a ds of 4.6 yo. Would love another but ovaries on strike or retired . Anyway I live in Essex.

Shoshable · 19/05/2007 19:56

Born feb 1959, Son born April 1979, Grandaughter born April 1996, was i the first Granny of us all?

eemie · 19/05/2007 20:35

RustyBear, another 56er here. Dd is 8 and I'll soon be 51. Feel I can't really post on MN for advice about coming off HRT! (Is there a Gransnet or similar?)

akaJamiesMum · 19/05/2007 20:45

I'm 41 - ds is 4.5 so was what they call an elderly first timer.

sal13 · 20/05/2007 11:49

rattleskuttle, which do you think is the best time to have them? Like you my eldest is 20, and my youngest is 5 mnths. With my older children, I definately had more energy, but not as much patience; now I have the patience, but not so much energy anyone else?

rattleskuttle · 20/05/2007 17:32

sal, personally speaking i think i'm better with my dcs as an older parent. sadly i didn't trust to my own instincts when i was young and would too readily take people's advice. (which was often bad)
but i do find now that i just can't get enthusiastic about children's games, etc. also, i think it can be harder to muster general enthusiasm when you also have older dcs/teenagers because you no longer have the idealism of thinking your baby will become prime minister/ a saint/ whatever/ be your best friend/ lol.

Kewcumber · 21/05/2007 13:25

I think I have neither patience nor energy

sal13 · 21/05/2007 13:34

I understand what you are saying, and you are so right. I did worry so much about doing things 'correctly' in everyone else's eyes, back then. Now I'm much more laid back about things! and I can laugh at Kewcumbers' remark too i have my days where patience is difficult to find!

Kewcumber · 21/05/2007 13:58

but I am he only mum DS has so I will have to do

stepfordwife · 21/05/2007 16:34

won't it be a right LARF when dcs are teenagers and we're menopausal....hormone rage

Kewcumber · 21/05/2007 19:29

I shall just turn my hearing aid down when the noise gets too much.

matilda57 · 21/05/2007 22:47

arf arf it's bloody hilarious here stepfordwife re: won't it be a right LARF when dcs are teenagers and we're menopausal....hormone rage

NOT! (god help us)

stepfordwife · 22/05/2007 14:44

let's hope HRT is a wonderful thing. failing that, alcohol...

stepfordwife · 22/05/2007 14:44

..for us, that is, not the lairy teenage yoofs

hermia · 23/05/2007 22:42

What about long generation gaps.. we are making them now but can anyone match my line of old mums..? I was 37 when I had ds, My Mum was 38 when she had me and her Mum was 46 when she had my Mum. In 1927 with a 20 and 19 yr old she thought she had cancer and wouldn't go to the docs! She lived to 86... Does that make sense? It's late and I'm past it..

hermia · 23/05/2007 22:46

What about long generation gaps.. we are making them now but can anyone match my line of old mums..? I was 37 when I had ds, My Mum was 38 when she had me and her Mum was 46 when she had my Mum. In 1927 with a 20 and 19 yr old she thought she had cancer and wouldn't go to the docs! She lived to 86... Does that make sense? It's late and I'm past it..
As for hormones I've been there - menopause verses teenage years - and still have the scars to prove it LOL.

hermia · 23/05/2007 22:47

OOPS said I was past it...