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.

Good luck Midget!!

I hope baby Midget is safely in your arms sometime soon x

Midge arrived at 7.42 pm, no bastard epidural and surgery after requiring a spinal as retained placenta! Sods fecking law. Update properly soon x

Massive congratulations Midget!!!! So glad baby M here safe and sound, and hope you are recovering ok (sounds grim). Lots of love xxx

Welcome to baby Midget!! So glad you're OK although clearly not a walk in the park! Sending you lots of love xxx
I'm knackered this morning. DP and I went out on our annual Christmas night out (we do this instead of buying presents, and obviously very early this year!). Had a lovely dinner then saw Mark Thomas. Didn't get to bed until gone 11 though (very late for me!), and bastard wind & rain seemed to keep me awake most of the night. Never mind, at least I can have a nap later.
Can't wait to hear your update Midget xx

Bravo Midget ! Hope you can now rest a little bit. Congrats. Welcome baby Midget !

Well done midget. Look forward to hearing all about it. Welcome beautiful baby midget be nice to your mummy now x

knotty did you have turkey and all the trimmings?

VQ, no, but I did get 2 dinners! Well, 2 halves. DP, who's delicate system can't handle spicy food, for some reason ordered a lamb tagine, and I had sausage & mash. Beads of sweat began to appear on his face after a few mouthfuls, by which time I'd polished off half of mine so I graciously offered to swap. Very nice it was too!

well done midget do you mean surgery, but no epidural or no epidural or surgery? I'm thinking the former.
Congratulations - you've had a really long hard slog!

I'm feeling utterly rubbish today. Moody, slightly sicky, weak to my bones - i can hardly stand up. i think i'ts ultimately physical. i cant' beleive i felt great last week. what is wrong with me? oh yes, i'm pregnant. at least i hope that's it, i hope i've not poisoned myself with egg yolk. people have been assuring me that as long as they've got the lion stamp on them they're ok. anyway never again until baby somewhere arrives.

i have been avoiding cats, soil, uncooked meat, mold-ripened cheese (apart from a baked camembert adventure - whoah that was intense - the cheese equivalent of crack!), pate, alchohol, and pacing my intake of oily fish and tuna, and caffeine. it's just the eggs where i've been naughty.

i have a cup of coffee beside me but can't drink it - too sick making.

sorry for moan.

xx

Congratulations midgetm wishing you a swift recovery and a big welcome to little midge.

Belated congratulations to firstbubba , lovely to hear from you after so long. Is everything ok?

AFM I managed to work myself into a terrible state last night, as after weeks of regular movement my LO stopped moving yesterday afternoon/night. Thank god he was kicking away this morning, plus my regular antenatal was this morning so I got to hear his heartbeat. Massive relief. Of course due to the excitement I completely forgot to ask about the wc jab.

I read midgets post as no epidural for the birth, but required surgery with spinal for retained placenta. If so then big big hugs x x big big hugs anyway x

somewhere you are pregnant. That is all. Do not worry about your egg liaison.

I have been increasingly naughty with each pregnancy. I pre-wash salad and avoid cats and soil, but have been having an inch of wine every 2 weeks or so, have caffeine when I want it, eat cheese, occasional pâté, tuna when I fancy it. I have not had any vitamins as they made me sick. I have also had sushi, always smoked so not proper raw stuff, and runny eggs, and mayo. Have not had the chance to have a steak, and usually go for medium. Pregnancy is shitty enough IMO. I am sure if I had multiple losses behind me, I would have been a bit more careful though.

yeah f---ing vitamins i'm sure they make me feel worse!

i've been 100% except for the runny eggs - partly 'egged on' by you VQ and a few sips of wine last weekend. If i was on my third like you i'd prob go the whole hog but gonna just rein back a bit after a naughty first trimester. i did eat a very old bit of camembert when i was 6 weeks my god what a beautiful memory.

xxx

ps riverside i'm glad you feel better. that stuff is worrying. i'm not quite there yet as when the baby goes quiet i can tell myself i'm not supposed to be feeling it anyway.

can you call your GP about the whooping cough jab?

xx

Right after birth, I asked my husband to bring in pate, foie gras, camembert with a good fresh baguette and oysters... A proper feast ! I missed all that sooooooo much. But since, I can't say that I enjoy food as much as before, maybe too much haste while eating, always one kid to look after, if not the big DS then little Anasasia to hold... And EBF. No wonder how I managed to be back at my pre pg weight within 10 weeks ! Not complaining though.

Mmmmm pate, runny brie, salty Roquefort........
Somewhere, I've also had the odd runny egg, I think to be honest if they're from a supermarket they're probably fine anyway. I've also had 2 shandies smacks hand and a rare steak.

yes i looked at the lion stamp on the egg website apparently a 2009 survey found salmonella in 1 in 30 of imported eggs but not in ANY of the uk eggs - we have the highest standards in the world - any egg with the lion on it means the chicken has been vaccinated against salmonella and stringent standards of handling have been followed beyond that. So feeling much better about it.

HPBP i thought i'd do that after the birth but somehow it all faded into insignificance. i got really into cakes after the birth and remained horribly fat. only just started losing weight about 5 months ago with a low-carb diet and then bish bash bosh i'm prego so it's all over.

sounds lovely though - i might line that up for myself this time - you have inspired me!

haven't been enjoying food either so much after going back to work. before going back to work cooking was my major form of creativity. now prego some hormonal thing is gripping me. i'm working my way through jamie oliver's 15 minute meals and i heartlily recommend it. they don't take 15 minutes but they are really simple and i've made things i've never made before - tagines, swedish meatballs - that are really edible.

On the subject of food, is it right that you can't eat chillies while BF? I may be a bit buggered as my two fave recipes (which I tend to cook in vast quantities and freeze) contain masses of chillies. Looks like I may have to go back to the drawing board/recipe book on that one...

I'm vegetarian and so the pate and rare steak misdemeanours don't apply but I am fond of a fried egg roll and just cook it the normal way. A big mug of instant coffee is part of my morning routine (and swear it kept the worst of the nausea away in the early weeks), and just like Valium, I talk about wine in inches! Some people say it's not worth bothering with alcohol for such a small amount, but I really like having a mini glass every now and then (although not sure how pleased my friends are when I grab their glass in the pub and decant a bit for myself)

My major Crime of Banned Things During Pregnancy has been the hydrotherapy pool at a local hotel spa, where I'm a member. GP told me not to use it, but seemed a bit sketchy on the reasons why. It's an outdoor one and just amazing to sit in at night as it is nice and peaceful and dark so no one can see how massive I am and there's a special ledge you can lie and stick the bump out of the water (bit like a boiled egg in a pan of water). It's not too hot and is absolute heaven for aches and pains. When I was there the other night, I was highly amused to find a couple of heavily pregnant women had snuck in there too and we were all floating around like boiled eggs!

Riverside - glad you got reassurance about the baby's movement. I've had a few moments like that myself where I have momentarily got scared. Luckily it's not happened for a while though and today I even managed to get her to 'perform' her kicking for the benefit of watching colleagues (we were having a boring day in the office)

I hope Midget and mini-Midget are doing ok. Also, should we be hearing news about OldAndCobbwebby and Exexe today?

Thanks somewhere and eagleray feeling much better today and LO has kindly been kicking almost on the hour to reassure me!

Also rang the GP appointments line and asked to be booked in for a whooping cough jab. Going to be a day of needles as the same morning I'm doing a GD test.

Fingers crossed for oldandcobwebby and exexe

ps VQ you inspired me and I had pâté earlier in the week with the most delicious grape chutney, marvellous.

Sorry riverside for leading you astray.

eagle I know it is advised not to have hot baths. Advice is something you either take or leave.

Grape chutney sounds divine!

Smoked salmon and small beer tonight. Bad mummy.

Agreed re advice VQ - have tried to use my common sense over most things (hot baths is a new one on me - the GP thought it was something to do with bubbles or bacteria or something, she never entirely made her mind up)

Anyway it seems to be only only pain relief I get from sitting in an office chair for 8 hours a day - can barely walk when I get out of the chair sometimes

Eagle, if you can't have chillies if BF, what would Indian, Asian women eat ? No way, you can still have your favourite food :) I love chillies and fish sauce and other ingredients that would make some of you throw up, with or without MS, TBH. Anastasia doesn't seem bothered whatever I eat.
I don't drink because I can't, a lack of some sort of enzyme to break down alcohol ! genetically transmitted, I had 2 hang overs in my whole life (very sad life, some would say !)

Any food you eat when feeding could potentially disagree with baby, and milk would take on taste of food, so if anything eating a wide variety of foods and flavours has surely got to be a good thing? Their taste buds are very sensitive, so they might possibly reject something, but you would adapt dependent on your child, and if they get plenty in the womb it will come as no suprise as your amniotic fluid will have taste to it, and they gulp that all the time.

Gemma/Noodles a warm welcome from the second (or third, I forget when MrOldAnd joined) newest member. Be warned they are all a bit crazy wise and funny. also none of us really know what we are doing, we just have a bank of tried and sometimes-failed-sometimes-worked ideas and coping strategies! Ditto to the wise advice on going back to work above. I would only add that I found it helpful to divide up my upset/worries, in particular to separate feelings about leaving DD (upset, very) from leaving her with CMinder (v happy). Hope that makes sense.

first and Midget, huge congrats. Will be glued to updates tomorrow for mr&MrsOldAndCobwebby and exexe . Good luck.

Somewhere so sorry you started feeling grim again. Hopefully it's more transient now. I would say the MS about 10-20pc better though still lingers most of day. I am relieved you mention headaches. I've been starting to worry about my blood pressure as they have been very bad, most days, most of the day. As I do, focus on end in sight. Last time mine wore off ten weeks after kicked in...

Talking of which, had 1st scan and booking appt on Monday. Baby actually week older than thought (I bled a Lot in week 3, so glad I didn't know :/ ). Baby Scarecrow kicked, fidgeted, wriggled and rolled for whole half hour. DD was so placid I didn't realise babies even moved yet! Now bit worried that after placid easygoing DC1 I'm in for a shock ;)

In case any grads check in, fwiw I breast fed because I could.. From my friends' babies who were only bottle and mix fed I would say there is no pattern in behaviour, sleeping (ok bottle fed babies do seem to sleep through earlier, so scrub that), or health. I am definitely in favour of mum/parents being happy and healthy and baby will thrive more on that.

Need to go to bed after first drink (beer, ahhh) for two months!
'night all

Post scan, new due date for mini-scarecrow is 22/4/13