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

I know Dive Urge, beautiful dive centre and right next to
El derado (sp) yum yum.

Question for any wize old heads out there, my LO is going crazy today... i mean really crazy... hasn't stopped all day and really BIG movements. much more than usual.... should i be worried?? I've called MW and left message on machine but it's gone 5 now and she's not got back to me.... should i ring labour ward? feel fine in myself, have had quite a few mild BH along side her outbursts.... just not sure what to think.

I've just realised that I haven't updated on here! Babycycle and I finally made it home on Sunday. He's finally gaining weight, although the Health Visitor who came today nearly wrote 2225 on his notes instead of 2250 which would have gained us some careful scrutiny! He's feeding well, which makes all the stress and trauma of expressing in hospital worthwhile! The Health Visitor was very firm about me resting and concentrating on the baby, so I'm trying to do as I'm told!

Thank you for all your good wishes

Cycle....excellent news about baby cycle....
Rest and relax....xxx

Hello all,

I have been reading the thread from time to time but found it hard to keep up. 33 weeks now and 3 weeks left at work. I am tired but plodding on... DS finally in his bed and on the whole sleeping through. Feeling abit sad he won't be our 'only' anymore (does that sound weird?)
Baby is breech, scan at 36 weeks, would be having induction/c section for GD at 38 weeks away. Want a section even if baby turns but not sure if I will need to fight my corner. At 32 week scan baby was measuring fine for dates.
cycle pleased to hear you are home and baby is feeding well.
rosie sorry to hear your mother is being so difficult.

Sorry not to name check everyone. Will try harder!

cycle thats great news, i was worried when we didn't here from you for so long. well done for sticking with the BF. that must have been hard work. so glad all is going well. please pop in and give us an update from time to time.
welcome newchoos glad to have another poster. Re Section, i believe you have the right to have elective section. (seen it on here lots) i'd say arm yourself with the facts and stand your ground.

well i ended up in assessment unit last night as LO was still going crazy (feels like fits!) and the tightenings were getting worse and more frequent. the monitor showed HB ok and tightenings going from 20 to 45. I have UTI and thrush!! cervex still tightly closed thankfully so sent home.
bump aparently mesuring small for dates so back in this morning for growth scan and have a look see what she is up too!

Hi, I'd like to join the group too please , I was 46 in January, have 4 boys already and found out a month ago I was already 22 weeks pregnant with another little boy! According to the scan all is well - nothing short of a miracle considering I was on the pill and had a huge bleed in March which I assumed was a miscarriage. My due date is 2 September and consultant has already told me I won't be allowed to go over! Hoping for a nice quick birth, DS4 was 4 hours start to finish. My other boys are 19 and 14 from my first marriage, and 6 and 4 with my new hubby. Just when I thought I would have some free time with my 4 year old starting school in September it will be all change, but I wouldn't want to change any of it.

Great news cycle - enjoy!!!
Hello new and 4boys - oh wow how could you not notice til 22 weeks?! Friends of ours have got 5 boys - so cute to see them all running round playing cowboys and indians etc :)
Only slept about 2 hours last night - no idea why - feeling pretty rough today - although a bit better now that DH has taken all the kids out for the afternoon :)

OMG just hit me.... I'm not just having a baby but becoming a MUM again. ... its 22 years since I last looked after a baby for more than a few hours! !!
All good at scan. She is transverse and weighing approx 4lb

Ah pposting from phone.
Spent all afternoon picking up everything I've dropped in the past few days.... I will turn her.

Cycle, great news that babycycle is back home, and you can enjoy having him with you again.

Rosie, great that all is good with your LO at the scan and you got a bonus peek at her. I'm a bit worried about having a baby after 5 years, so can't imagine what 22 years feels like. I'm sure it'll be fine for both of us though.

Hi to 4boys, you must have had quite a surprise with number 5! My due date is 28/8 and I've been told I won't be going over due either, so I'm a bit apprehensive about having a late August baby for schooling, but of course it may be completely out of my control anyway.

I finished my OU assignment and now have to attempt to learn the entire course in just under 2 weeks for the exam as I feel I haven't taken any of it in. Then I can start to think about baby stuff properly. We spent a few days at my mother-in-law's, where most of the baby equipment & clothes have been stored in her loft. We've located the basics - car seat, carrycot, 1st clothes etc, but I had absolutely no idea there was so much stuff there, boxes & boxes of clothes DD has grown out of, which we'll be getting rid of when we've finished with them this time (or sooner if it's a boy).

And I don't have gestational diabetes, which is a relief, or at least not at the moment but I suppose it could develop later.

I hope everyone's doing ok, have a lovely weekend.

Rosie the becoming a Mum thug is terrifying me completely. I had a pretty poor role model so I'm hoping I can do a better job...
I'm sure it'll all come flooding back to you, even after all this time

Hi rosie days,
I had my dating scan today and due 31st dec 2013
44years unplanned. Is this all you need to be added to the list x

Congratulations Chez

Eagle are you back from your hols yet? Hope you had a great time!!

Rosie I've just booked flights for me, DH and bub to head to Dahab for first 2 weeks of Nov. Can't WAIT

Sparkly Well done with assignment!

Congrats ChezNic

Rosie I thought a 14 year gap was bad enough!

4boys Congrats, and what a surprise!!!

Me...33+2 today, hanging on in there, absolutely knackered. Have a humungous bump, and at 32 week scan told me he was measuring 35 weeks. Still no decision on the ELCS, just hoping I don't give birth first!

Hi Remembering yes back from hols a couple of weeks now I think. It was great, although not terribly relaxing. The good thing is that DP and I were never good at relaxing hols anyway

We are contemplating long haul in the next few weeks - bit of a last minute trip which may or may not go ahead (accompanying DP on a business trip but he's v ill at the moment so we may have to abandon it). Feel quite relaxed about doing it last minute though as we are reasonably well-versed with travel now.

That's lovely that you've got some winter sun to look forward to, and 3mo is a great time to go away.

Wow Badmiss how did you get so close to your due date?? I seem to have lost track of time, and it seems like only yesterday you were on the train to London for the tests. Hope you get good news re your ELCS

Congratulations Cheznic - and what an exciting due date!

morning everyone,
loving the sunshine, fingers crossed this is the start of a great summer.
I will update due date thread with all our lovely new BFP's in a seperate post... if i miss anyone please let me know (baby brain in overdrive here)

I'm having some really strange thoughs (like day dreams!) the pure panic the other day about being a Mum again started when i realised i needed an ironing board??? I've not owned one for YEARS!!! had a flash back to ironing school uniforms.
I can't believe how much 'stuff' we have. I'd been traveling for so long where everything i owned i could carry (my life weighed 27kgs including dive equipment) now i would need a truck to move! since moving into our lovely new flat we have had to buy so much (bed, wardrope, washing mashine, hoover bla bla bla) add baby stuff on top and it's crazy. having this baby has changed my life so much, still struggeling some days to get my head round it. I know i was very lucky to live the lifestyle i did, footloose and fancy free, traveling the world with 2 grown up daughters, and i know deep down i'll make a great life for this little princess too.... but some days i just can't see how. it feels like we've become part of the system... DH goes to work, comes home, we pay the bills and watch TV!!! AAHHHHHHHHH my worst nightmare.

sparkly congrats on finishing assignment i'm sure you remember more than you think you do. can i ask what course you did? you have got me thinking maybe i could look at doing an OU. would love to do Marine Biology or something similar... MMMMM

Remembering wow booking filghts and adding 'infant' must have been strange.... (nice strange) did you get a good deal? we might be in Dahab at the same time!! I'm holding off booking as DD1 is due 23 october and really really wants me with her when she has her baby, HOW i'm going to do that with a 3MO and she lives a 4 hour drive away i just don't know, she is still resentful of this baby and not very good at not getting her own way. If i was to be 'away' when her baby comes it would cause her a lot of issues, I really want to get My little one to Egypt ASAP as it's DMIL's first GC and she is so excited, DH has also not been home for nearly 2 years and were both missing the beach so much. feeling very pulled in oposite directions.

So.....
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
Its getting close ladies..... wonder who will be first??

Eagle glad you had a great hol and are thinking about long haul now. DH has a race meet in Thailand in April and we're discussing if we're mental or if it would be ok... Oh, and thanks for bringing the sunshine back with you

Rosie - It did feel a bit odd, also surreal booking a flight for "Infant tbc" as we don't want to jinx anything by 100% deciding on the name yet...
It would be great for meet for a Sakara if you are there at the same time

The list update can replace:
ScubaSarah, nrly 40, DC1?, due July 22-Aug 1
with
RememberingMyPFE's, 40, DD1/DC1, due 30/07

32 weeks today

Enjoy the sunshine everyone

Hello - can i join?
i'm 8 weeks with 2nd pg... aged 43. DS1 is 6. Told BF of last few years that of course i'd love to try for a baby with him, thinking it would never happen or would at least take years and money... 3 weeks later, up the duff.
So we're currently trying to quickly buy a house together and feel like a family before the new addition comes in Jan 14.
If i'm honest i feel really ambivalent about it... i'm basically shitting myself at the thought of going back to baby days, i found it so hard last time. And it's such a shock, i really didn't think it would really happen (i know I sound like a stupid teenager!) and now that it has, i feel a bit trapped!
i'm sure I will get excited once it feels more real and actually like a baby, not just a pregnancy IYSWIM.
BF is not dad to my DS, and this will be his first baby. He is waaaaay more excited than me, which i'm actually finding annoying (thanks to my hormones making me even more irritable than i usually am). This is all assuming i carry through - aren't we oldies more likely to miscarry before 12 weeks?
is anyone else struggling with the idea of it?
i feel like a cold-hearted cow.
Pint (not any more!)

Eagle I know, it's just crept up on me all of a sudden...only seems yesterday that I was looking at all the grads thinking 'Oh, I have ages yet'!!!

Rosie I'll actually be 46 before LO is born...my birthday is 24 June!

Goodness knows who'll actually be first though!

RememberingmyPFEs and people think we're mad taking the LO to France and Belgium.....

PintandChips I have a 14 year gap....took a bit of getting my head round too!

Me...33+2 today. Just so tired, have to keep stopping every two minutes.....

Waves to everyone... back after absence...
Pint - you're not alone in many ways. I was partially thrilled, partially ambivalent and completely terrified when I first had the "result" last November. Thought we would be TTC for ages but happened quickly. Then terrified of miscarriage, chromasome problems etc. Then psychotic hormonal anger at DH for not making enough effort/indulging me. Then guilt at not being excited enough. Finally at 18 weeks, decided to relax, enjoy, celebrate and see the glass as 98% full. Now 35 weeks. 10 more days of work to go (9 days straight from tomorrow) and looking forward to DC1 with excitement and trepidation in equal measures. Best of luck with pregnancy. Lucky you that BF is excited from day1 (DH now is).

OOOOhhh, blueeyes and BadMissM, that's great to hear, feel much encouraged.

Have also decided to pay for an early scan on Monday so i can be sure I'm actually growing a creature in there, so that i can start relating to it as such, instead of simply seeing it as an annoying thing coming between me and a decent G&T

Hi pint welcome to the OH ST club! My bfp was huge surprise! 33 weeks now and the roller coaster goes on. Spent last 6 months focusing on the practical stuff. Just beginning to except that after pregnancy and birth bit there will be a baby needing a life time of love. Don't thinkit will really sink in till she arrives:)
Just spent an hour in garden listening to hypnobirthing app dreaming of a g&t!!! Enjoy your scan.

Hi everyone else. ..sorry not updated due dates yet, willdo as ssome as I get back on laptop.

Rosie wish you hadn't mentioned that G & T...

Pint I had the Harmony Test too, as well as early scans, really put
my mind at rest....

Me...knackered. Keep trying to do things, then have to sit down.....

Just popping in quickly to say that my 20 weeks scan went well and we are having a baby boy!!!
So happy!!!

badmiss I'm so with you on the tired thing. I've lost the will to be bothered doing anything. :( hope this passes. I want my bloom back! !!
Congratulations notsoold glad scan went well