Fantastic, fabulous 40+ Mums-to-be! Part 4

[rosiedays]

as i filled the last post on old thread it seemed only polite to start the new one. hope i've done it right

To those who have just found this thread, Welcome and congratulations on you BFP. please feel free to join this amazing supportive group of 40+ mums to be. A very nonjudgmental and friendly place to hang out and share your pregnancy.

Blundermum 40, DC2 due early May?
Lotsofcheese, 40/41, DC2 (girl) due May (DS 4y)
Onemoreforgoodmeasure, 40, DC1 due 06/06
cyclecamper, 42, DC1 due 14/06
Newchoos, 40, DC2, due early July
Blueeyes1970,42, DC1 due on 8th July
BadMissM, 45, DC2, due 22/7
Rosiedays, 43 DD3 due 23rd July(ish)
ScubaSarah, nrly 40, DC1?, due July 22-Aug 1
Iclaudius,45, due 29/07
LottieH, 44, DC5, due mid August
Sparklysapphire, 44, DC2, due 28/8
BuzzBee, 40, DC2, due Sept
Notsoold, 41,DC3 due end of October
Animol, 42, DC5 due 13th
November

Waves hello to soupmaker !!!

Rosie rememberingmypfes Also, jabs would depend where you're intending to go...would say anywhere in Europe probably OK for BF baby until has jabs....

Glad to hear you're home and everything's hunky-dory, Cyclecamper Nye is a lovely name too, unusual, but easy to use at the same time....

Glad to hear your 17 year old is coming round to the idea too xxx

Congrats to you on your DD heidipi!!

Eagleray DH now really carried away with the idea of this and wondering whether we can 'fit twins in' before it's too late...as I'll be 46 by the time LO arrives, think he may be pushing his luck!

Seeing consultant tomorrow and hopefully, finally, sorting a birth plan.....fingers crossed for a yes to my request for an ELCS!

thank you badmiss and eagleray - yes I'd forgotten about the earlier thread from when I had DD1, great that it's still going

cycle so glad your home and all going well, Nye is a lovely name. I'm glad you feel you recieved great care, it's very reasuring to hear. Hope step son carries on being helpful. maybe the change in family dynamics will do him good. (not being the youngest and focus of all attention)
remember LOL re Jabs, must be your first!
Hiedipi welcome back wonderful news congratulations. The fact you on here within HOURS of delivering!! Wow.
badmiss hope you get the birth plan sorted.
My DH too is wondering (a little too often) if we can squeeze another in after this one!!! i've just said we'll see...... AAHHH!!!!

badMiss really hope you get the birth plan you want. remember the rules say you have a legal right to an ELCS so just stand firm. Your DP so lovely and supportive hopefully the combined force of will will quickly persuade them. We are keeping a special comfy chair in the snug for you

Heidi huge congratulations. and if you are so minded please come and join us on the 'grads' thread on the parenting boards - all fabulous 40 plus mums

Welcome and congrats Heidi
Rosie yes, first time and a complete naive newbie. I've spent so long reading books about the pregnancy and birth I REALLY need to look at what happens when she arrives as I guess I won't have time for reading up on stuff then

Hello Remembering. The best bit of advice I got when I had DD was do what your instincts tell you and just use the books to get a few ideas. Wise words indeed.

I was convinced I needed books - guess I'd always managed to learn about how to do things up to now - but I quickly learned babies do not conform to your idea of what they should be doing and no amount of book reading and following advice contained within them will make them. I nearly ended up demented and then threw the books away, relaxed and just did our own thing.

There is an entire industry making vast profits on manuals to tell us how to make our babies do what we'd like! Babies have other ideas.

I'd suggest borrowing from the library and saving your cash.

Good luck.

Oh, and when in doubt consult MN!

remember i totally agree with soup My best friend drove herself demented with her first who wouldn't do what the books said he should do. She's just had her second and is compleatly different, going with the flow, both her and baby are chilled and happy. the HV will give you a record book which has all the dates for jabs etc in (i think)
I feel like i remember nothing but i'm sure it will all come back when she arrives.
been having a sort out of 'under the bed' and took all my dive stuff out OMG will i ever get in look good in my wet suit let alone a bikini again. really missing the beach life.

Yep, remember, babies do wheatever they like, learned that with DD! Just go with the flow and save yourself a mega-headache!

STILL no Birth Plan or ELCS decision. They have told me they won't decise on a 38 week ELCS until 36 weeks at least. Let's just hope I don't give birth before then. I have 5 hospital appts in three weeks, but they refuse to make a decision before then.

Also now have the joy of insulin injections for the GD.....

Hi all! I'm 42, DH's first baby, I have to teenage DD's (19 & 13 )..all very exciting really!

Thanks for the advice I won't drive myself demented but I'm thinking a vague notion of what's to come might be a plan!
BadMiss hope all is ok and injections aren't too crappy

Welcome frecklers!!! Another one with a big gap then....I have a 14 year old DD, and DH has a 19 and a 17 year old!

remember Don't drive yourself mad! Injections don't hurt, I just hate injections!

Am getting kicked as I type. He doesn't like my arm resting on him!

Hello! What a very lovely thread. Can I join in please?
I'm 42, have one DS who's 5 and a DSS who's 19 and off to uni soon.
Our DD is due early August. Much wished for and very exciting after 2 MCs last year.
I'm feeling really good at the moment - feel like I have more energy this pregnancy compared to my younger days (though may be kidding myself). But really feel like I'm ageing super quickly...what am i going to look like when all those sleepless nights kick in?! Am trying No7 serum, to no avail thus far....think i'll have to have Botox before i return to work!
Anyhow...it really is fabulous to be pregnant at 42, and lovely to have stumbled upon this thread.

(oh and hello I Claudius, hope you're good!)

Hi frecklers and oxfordto ....!!!
Welcome to the thread! I also have a dd18 and a ds 13..!!!

Hi freckles & Oxford
(Oxford* enjoy your bloom :) I.'m finding pregnant at 43 a lot easier than I thought it would be. Sleeplessness nights worry me to.
Another long weekend here, back to home town again (for the last time before baby lhope) 4 hour drivers are hard work. B. H all the way up m4 yesterday. :(
Bough dh a lawn mower yesterday and now have a beautiful garden to sit in. Have travel system in pieces giving it a good clean and scratching head as to how it works!

Waves to all enjoy the sun x

Lost you all for ages when thread moved to No 4 - duh!
Bit down here had NT scan on Sat & although nuchal fold & bloods good have x2 'soft markers' which make result high :-(
Having a CVS tmrw - feel rubbish....

Hi Blueburry glad you found us. re results. be kind to yourself. hope all goes ok tomorrow. xx

Hi blueberry, welcome back. Sorry about your screening results, crossing my fingers and hoping CVS comes back clear.

Cycle, I hope you're all continuing to adjust to having babycycle home and you DSS's are still behaving!

MissM, why won't they decide on an ELCS til 36 weeks? It seems ridiculous and you must be finding it stressful. I don't know many people who've had an ELCS, but those who did, had it sorted out well in advance. I hope you're coping with the insulin injections ok. I have my GTT on Friday, I'm really hoping it'll all be fine and I don't have GD.

Rosie, I hope your home town trip wasn't too stressful & you've recovered from the journey.

Welcome remembering, oxford, frecklers & soup, this is a lovely thread to be on.

Your holiday stories are encouraging, DH now says he'd like to go on hols at October half term when LO'll be about 8 weeks old, and I'm wondering if this is too little. We took DD to Europe at 4 months, but there's a big difference between 2 and 4 months, so any thoughts appreciated.

I was midway through writing a post on Friday night when DH came home so I had to abandon it. I am going to ban myself from MN until I have completed my Open University assignment next week, as it's just too distracting because I have no self-discipline and am hoping to avoid a late night essay crisis next Monday!

Hi to everyone, hope you are all doing ok.

Ooh hello again and thank you for the congrats . Been mainly searching for sore nipple solutions on the feeding threads since last week but hopefully coming out the other side now.

Yes I'll look up the grads thread

....and will prob press Send too soon on some posts over there too!

Hope everyone is well and blooming.

Blueberry fx for clear results tomorrow. It's stressful this pregnancy lark isn't it!

Well, I've completed my Hypnobirthing and Ante-natal classes and still feel like a complete clueless newb... Everyone tells me instincts will kick in - I really hope so!

Hello to all the new people .

We've had a bit of a wobble . We're back in hospital after baby cycle was poorly last week. A week to the hour after he was born here, we were in a and e and he was being admitted to neonatal intensive care with jaundice well into the levels of requiring a blood transfusion . Even the a and e Dr said he was shocked because he didn't seem that bad. Fortunately whilst they were sorting out the blood transfusion his levels fell enough under the lamps that they decided to carry on with them. Because the levels were so high, he had to have lots of tests including a lumbar puncture. He responded well to the treatment and so far all the tests have been negative. He's still on antibiotics and beginning to breast feed again and just being topped up with the tube feed. He has to stay in until he's feeding properly and finished the antibiotics. Today is hard because I have been staying so I could feed and express here but they needed the room I was in, so I've got to go home. It feels like a set back just as he was beginning to feed again. [Sad].

Hello to all the new people .

We've had a bit of a wobble . We're back in hospital after baby cycle was poorly last week. A week to the hour after he was born here, we were in a and e and he was being admitted to neonatal intensive care with jaundice well into the levels of requiring a blood transfusion . Even the a and e Dr said he was shocked because he didn't seem that bad. Fortunately whilst they were sorting out the blood transfusion his levels fell enough under the lamps that they decided to carry on with them. Because the levels were so high, he had to have lots of tests including a lumbar puncture. He responded well to the treatment and so far all the tests have been negative. He's still on antibiotics and beginning to breast feed again and just being topped up with the tube feed. He has to stay in until he's feeding properly and finished the antibiotics. Today is hard because I have been staying so I could feed and express here but they needed the room I was in, so I've got to go home. It feels like a set back just as he was beginning to feed again. [Sad].

:( just wrote long post and lost it. .. bloody phone!
Oh cycle what a little trouper you've got. Sounds like he's on the mend. Try to get some sleep tonight. Feeling really sad for you. :( well done for sticking with the bf. Xxx
Will post again in the morning. X