Fantastic 40+ Mum to be - part 2

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Let's keep on chatting !
Awaiting to hear from you all.
Midget, how are you feeling after the sweep ?
Exexe, are you happy with the new kitchen ? Very glad to see you back on here.
Warm welcome to the only Dad we have on the thread, sorry I could not remember your name as I write this.
Have a lovely Monday. Pouring rain in Paris today.

Just wanted to say have a lovely Christmas, and I hope you all don't get too uncomfortable and that you get some sleep! Scarecrow lovely post . Eagle, so sorry to hear about your dad, grief can really bite you on the bum sometimes, can't it? Hi to everyone else, sorry it's brief, had a small large sherry, and have quickly come on MN whilst DP & DS play DS's new Xbox game, and Rosa is napping xx

Hurrah!! Got Jamie's 15 min Dinners for Christmas. What do you guys recommend?

They're all amazing - whatever takes your fancy. Hopefully the tv show will be back up in full on 40d and you can have the full experience - the uplifting sounds of neneh cherry and Jamie's fanatical voice ringing in your head as you cook. It doesn't get any better xxx

Morning all....hoping you all had a lovely Christmas day and Santa left all you wanted.
Still a worrying lack of symptoms here for me at nearly 6 weeks ...but its been so long since my last pregnancy that I cant really remember how I felt in the early days.
We have taken the plunge and booked an early scan for a week on Friday. If I can see a heartbeat I will feel reassured.

Calibee crossed posts good luck for your
Scan hon. Happy boxing day all. I had a small
Bucks fizz and a small snowball on Xmas day. Damn
Nice i wish i could every day. We also went to the storage locker
As we're helping mil move house. And we watched
Homeland. Now that's what I call Xmas.
Xxx

Bloody iPhone that looks like an attempt
At free
Verse

I survived. But only just....

I feel very stupid asking this question, but with Jamie's 15 min dinners, how many people does each recipe cater for?

Four, hon

(smile)

In his wedding speech DH said that together we were discovering new things in life together: in his case one if them was that it is actually possible to burn a pan of boiling water. Which I still manage to prove true once a year

I do make pretty good chocolate brownies though. Possibly why he's stuck with me ;)

scarecrow. I'm OK on the cooking front, but nothing else that involves practical stuff or common sense. DP is a private landlord and I tried to impress him early on in our relationship by offering to help put some flat pack furniture together for one of his houses and I ended up screwing the drawer to the floor. I also carried a hoover downstairs whilst walking behind DP but held it by the release handle and dropped said hoover on DP's head . Thankfully he decided such behaviour was amusing and "cute" and decided to stay with me!

Christmas was...interesting. Dh's sister (who has special needs and diabetes) decided she really didn't want to be at our house from the minute she got here, and drove everyoneher motherme all of us mad from beginning to end by refusing to move, do anything, participate, then she kept everyone awake all night 'being ill' which wouldn't have been so bad oif it were true. All because she didn't want to share a bedroom for one night.... arrgh.

Then DH's kids compared my Christmas dinner with their mother's constantly (she earns 4 x as much as us and still takes maintenance from DH...). So their Mummy had organic this, and free-range that, and we had ordinary everything... and again, they brought gifts for DH, MIL, DH's sister but nothing for me/DD. Arrrrrrrggh!

Every time DH tried to broach subject of baby they changed the subject....

My family still wouldn't talk to me on the phone even...

I managed to set the oven on fire (goose fat + bottom-heating electric oven)...

Apart from that have home visit from MW tomorrow, then am at FMC for Harmony Test on 31st....

Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and less fraught than mine!

somewhere MIL talked all the way through Dr Who, and anything else we watched....

calibee good luck for your scan!

knotty Sleep? Hahaha!

scarecrow Ooh, are the 15 Minute Dinners good? DH doesn't like Jamie Oliver, so looks contemptuously on it whilst hardly ever cooking himself... They sound like a good idea to me!

I keep thinking that motherhood will turn me into a domestic goddess, hope it happens this time! Would love to be serene being cooking, creating and dispensing wisdom!

knicky Didn't even get my glass of white Bordeaux. MS hit me before first sip....!

LNOTTY/SCARECROW lolz my DP and I are evenly incompetent.

BADMISSM i guess they are just kids but that isn't good - they are
Being guided by an adult who must have very wrong ideas. Well done you for getting through it

Xx

somewhere Demanded lots of forced grins...it's their mother who is still bent on 'revenge'. They aren't that little, 16 and 18, old enough I would have thought to think for themselves.... Also hard for my DD to sit by and watch me put up with it....

Ooh cooked Jamie's chicken cacciatore tonight and was totally yummy. Agree never poss in 15 mins, but with practice in 30 mins maybe. Worth it though. Did a dead simple tarte Tatin too which went down v well. We had to eat at 6-6.30 because FiL claims he gets indigestion eating later, so DD joined us (w PiLs and my DParents), and she adored both, though poss the icecream more than both

We did a bastardisation of his carbonara last night too which equally fantastic and prob was poss in 15m.
This was a great recommendation whoever started it. Thank you, from the top of my weigh scales ;)
List of items PiLs can't eat v long so sadly prob nothing else we can make before they leave on Sat. But am SOOO looking forward to trying some of the more eastern dishes. Yummy dreams :)

BadMiss and knotty you both made me LoL. Much needed between long list of said foods and DD being fed snacks against my express wishes on multiple occasions. In defence of feeding her brioche before her porridge this morning MiL said "and she did love it". No shit: brioche is basically cake.... Excuse language but no other expression quite fitted bill!

Another Jamie fan here - managed 3 of the recipes before Rosa arrived and they were all lovely, plan to get back into it soon... And I feel your pain re MIL scarecrow. Mine has such gems as "but all babies NEED sugar", and when we were dealing with some bad behaviour from DS when he was a toddler, she criticised us for "talking to him too much, mine always just did as they were told straight away". Yes, that's probably because your husband would beat 7 kinds of crap out of them (and you) if they didn't. Thankfully, she lives abroad and we only see her once a year. And sorry you've had so much rubbish to deal with BadMissM, your DH's ex sounds like a right charmer.

scarecrow in a way lucky my parents aren't speaking to me, as had continual rows about them feeding DD sugary crap stuff when we came back to England. They have basically heavily contributed to ongoing weight issues and yet are the first to blame it all on me (because was single mother for a while so must be useless..).

Her French grandmother did once come out with a classic, that I would 'explode her brain' by exposing her to three languages....! Mind you, she also tried to hit her with a martinet (kind of paddle thing with knotted string whips) till I threatened to stuff it up her bum do the same back. Luckily she doesn't see her now...

Am going to have to try Jamie methinks...

knotty Is DH's ex's fault my parents and brother haven't spoken to me for three years, she told them a pack of lies....she has also dished me to anyone on the internet, and possibly probably contributed to all the stuff with ex-employers. She has new partner, but still hell-bent on some kind of pathetic 'revenge'. We live in a small town, so pretty difficult...

If I had listened to my parents on the subject of sugar/behaviour DD would have been awful to live with. Apparently according to them smacking was great and the naughty corner was 'barbaric'. Am very glad I ignored them.... had a terrible year with DD after living with them for a few months when marriage 1 broke up, because they let her do anything she liked then gave her sweets....grrrrrr!

Waiting for stupid midwife. Think she has got date wrong. Said 28th, but then said was a Saturday morning....didn't have diary with me. Think she must have meant tomorrow then. So got up at stupid o'clock and tidied house so she didn't think was a pretzel-munching slob so she would be impressed for nothing!

Oh I was just touching the tip of the iceberg of irritation there. I actually stopped myself doing a full on rant earlier in the day. I try so hard not to be a cliche DiL but it is hard. Actually MiL mostly v v sweet and am v find of her. FiL is really what winds me up. Some classics so far include when discussing if I had right to take some boots with a broken zip back (they are not new): "well [sister in law] would do it" and the one that actually raises my blood pressure every time I think about it is a ref to his daughter's daughter, who I'll call DN1: "if mini-Scarecrow is half as clever as DN1 you'll be very lucky"????!!!!!!*##%%????!!!
I can't even work out why I'm so cross about it. Oh and every single time he sees DD he says "gosh: she's filled out a lot since I last saw her": presumably either implying she is fat (which she is not), or that she was somehow malnourished and wan before (which she was not). From birth to 13mo she was 50th percentile weight and 90th height: to my untrained eye she is at least 90th and 50-70th now, which is surely just right?
Grrrr. Now I'm started!!
Best bit about being PG is fab excuse to "rest" come and grump on MN after lunch :)

To be clear DD now 90th+ height and 50-70th weight ;)
Oh and I'm very fond of MiL!

scarecrow My DD was always top of centile...literally 90+ for both. By 2 she was over half my dwarfy small height. She is now at 13 about four inches taller than me. I had all the implying she was freakishly tall/big from ex-MIL. Had last laugh though as she obviously inherited my brains and not those of her dipsh*t football playing French father is amazingly intelligent.

MIL sweet and kind to all of us, but she fusses about tiny details...and most of all she can wind DH up perfectly, even from a distance! FIL died before DH and I got together (is second time round for both of us...). Think I got the better end of the deal though, my mother is a cow difficult.

I know, 'resting' moaning on MN what's keeping me vaguely sane!

Eagle. Sorry to hear you lost your dad so recently honey. Thoughts and hugs
Naughty hubby go on line this instant and find something you like order it and enjoy. You defo deserve it. Especially as u have finished work and on the final month. So not long till u come over to the poo wee and sleep thread us oldies have. U know where we are x

Still no s*dding midwife. No sleep, then got up at stupid o'clock and she's not here.....

(she said 9.00, just rang (at 9.20), and she's still in her office (in the next town)...which means she won't be here until about 10.30..... so I could have stayed in bed!

Hi all, and welcome to the newbies! I've been lurking in the background, but I just wanted to pop in and say hello again - and share my story of my own little Christmas miracle.

Thank you all so much for your kind thoughts and words - I had a very rough time before Christmas. The bleeding kept going after I had the scan on the 18th, when they saw the empty sac. And to add to it all, my blood tests gave a strange result - within the 48h between the 2 tests, my hCG levels had gone up instead of down. The EPU didn't seem overly worried, apparently the sac can still keep growing in spite of being empty, which can result in increasing hormone levels. But it meant that they insisted I had another scan a week after the first, to check what was going on on (and if any further intervention was needed). Which meant we had to cancel all our travel plans to go to Germany for Christmas sad Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse.

So we cancelled our flights and arranged to go to DH's parents, where all of his family was going for Christmas Day, all 16 of them . Can't say I was too enthusiastic.

So we went back to the EPU on the morning of the 24th for the scan. The sonographer was lovely and explained it all again before she started. And then - within about 5 seconds after she started scanning - she said 'There it is'. Followed by 'There is the heartbeat'!!!!!

And I kept going 'What? What? What?' like some idiot. I just couldn't grasp what she was saying!

So I am still pregnant Best Christmas present ever! So so happy and hoping that this bean will keep being a sticky one!