Pregnant at forty and over - thread 3

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To continue support for mothers to be over 40.

Gosh, hope all is okay Blondes x

Hope everything is OK Blondes, sending hugs xx

Hope you're ok, Blondes!

Thanks for the positive words, ladies, and sorry for the delay replying. I know I'm just worrying over nothing. 20-week scan is still a couple of weeks off. I'm hoping Ill chill out a bit then!

@gizmo. We will always worry till baby in our arms

Scan shows no dvt tho leg is still swollen and painful so they assume fluid due to age and near due date but then Fluid shouldn't equal pain and hard

Chilling at home now when legs up :)

Glad to hear you are home and resting Blondes.
34 + 3 today and another scan. Weight estimated 5lb 15 and head circumference still in 97th percentile with very long legs. Head measurements worrying me as private scan came out at 77% so how can they be so different? Will raise with consultant midwife next week.
So going on a 1/2lb gain per week from now until full term I'm looking at a 9lb baby possibly. Which isn't so bad but all these different measurements are confusing!'
Everything all squashed up as well so lots of heartburn!

Blondes how're you doing today?

Hope everyone else is ok too. Feeling weary!!

Blondes, that sounds scary! Hope your leg settles down.

I'm on hols in a beautiful place but I have caught a terrible cold (again - before Xmas one was awful) and I am in bed. For some reason I am mainlining crisps - they are making me feel better, together with 1paracetamol and loads water/blackcurrant juice. Feeling a bit bad abt the crisps and feeling sorry for self due to awful headache....

Lastnight don't feel bad. Just focus on getting better ;)

Have been getting massive cravings for beefy monster munch but can't find it anywhere!! All shops (big and little) have the purple pickled onion flavour but no yellow beef. What will I do?!?!? #firstworldproblems

Awww, thanks!!! Yes will try. Feeling a bit better but can't take usual decongestant etc. Obviously. So feels worse than usual cold iyswim!
Oh monster munch - takes me back! Try chlg websites to see if any supermarkets hv them????

Hope you're feeling better blondes

I love beefy monster munch and pickled onion but they hurt my tongue :(

Get well soon lastnight

I think I have uti. Went to GP who said pee shows nothing and that the nausea and running hot (temperature hot) and (shivering) cold was just normal pregnancy related stuff for me! (Haven't been sick for 5weeks now!) She couldn't explain the cramps or cystitis but regardless sent me away feeling like I'm making stuff up. I hate my gp but can't change. I really hope the sickness isn't returning :(

Ocado sell beef monster munch. Minimum order is £40, and they are on offer, so if you don't need anything else you can score 180 packets

Glad things seem stable blondes and sorry your GP is rubbish Bloop. I haven't needed the GP yet but last time I was back and forth with thrush every other week (so nice!). I was under immense pressure at work and doing 15 hour days though, so hoping it was more to do with that and I won't be plagued again in the last 3 months.

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DJ colds are mighty sucky when you are pregnant. Not much can be done but I used some of my previous stock of Karvol capsules (now discontinued) to help and as a 'treat'. I guess Olbas oil does the same (but without reminding me of my childhood!). Feel better soon everyone.

First post. It's my 42nd bday today and just done a pregnancy test which was positive. Help. DH is 52 and our boys are 14 and nearly 12. In shock

Just 42. Welcome. I'm 43 and df is just 50

Age is only a number

I feel ok just sore swollen leg :( but they say it's not a dvt so have to believe them

Tea. Love pickled onion mm but not a lover of beef. Maybe we should swap multi packs 😁

Last. Hope cold is better

Womble. Baby seems a good weight - almost 6lbs so gueee no tiny babygros are needed and totally sympathise with heartburn. I'm getting Thro a bottle a week easily of gaviscon

Afternoon all, how is everyone? Hope your leg is a little better blondes, is there any improvement??

Last, hope your cold is improving. I definitely think any comfort food is fine when you're pregnant, that's what I'm telling myself anyway!

How are you Bloop? Is gp always rubbish? Any chance you could try a walk in centre??
Beef monster munch, yum!!! Christmas you're on my wave length with the whole order of them!!!!

Welcome Just, I'm 42 as well although this will be our first because of various issues. Try not to panic, my consultant says 42 really isn't that old!!!

It was funeral today, still feel totally adrift at the moment, in a surreal bubble almost. No idea how to get to normal or if the old normal still exists. Very weird feelings.

Hello to anyone I missed!

Cake that must have been a difficult day . Be kind to yourself but maybe don't eat all 180 packets of monster munch pickled onion are better anyway

Just had a visit from a friend I haven't seen fir a while and who didn't know I was pregnant. I was rather alarmed that she didn't notice until I told her after about 30 mins - I have a massive bump! She must have just thought I was proper fat

Sorry, pressed post too soon. Before I could add !!!

And welcome to 42. I turned 42 last week, it's not so old. Though admittedly if you have older kids and thought you were 'done' I bet was a bit of a shock! How do you feel about it?

Welcome 42 and congratulations!

Thanks all for the welcome. Hubby and I shocked but will go with the flow and if everything goes well (hopefully) we'll look forward to a new little blessing xx

Hi Just - 42 is a great age ;)

Seacow & Blondes - pickled onion?!?!? Bleurgh! That must be your baby brains talking!!

Hiya Cake. Sending love! And if you want to split that beefy MM order...?

Bloop - GP sounds awful! Why can't you change?

Not long home from work and enjoying sitting in the snug watching our pet fox in the garden. OH a bit worried re bump and fox after that story from A few years back, but I'm still not convinced that wasn't the dog!

Hi again - been hvg trouble posting on this thread, hence delay in replying. Thanks for sympathy - cold still here - never realised how good decongestants are til I couldn't use them!

teaspoon there are no other surgeries in the catchment area. They won't accept me outwith the catchment. It's pretty crap

The nausea has returned :( I thought I'd escaped at 15 weeks with the sickness but it's coming back. Booooo

Bloop if you are really unhappy with your GP and strongly want to move, I'd suggest writing a complaint to your local Clinical Commissioning Group. You should have other options, see this link:

www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/AboutNHSservices/doctors/Pages/patient-choice-GP-practices.aspx

The other practices don't have to take out of area patients but they can. And the nhs commissioners would, I believe, expect you to have a choice and would not be very happy if all the other local GPs refuse!

I'd write and say that you understand that you should have a choice of GP practice but you are finding that you can only register with the one GP practice where you are 'in area' and that all other local practices that you are interested in have declined you (you should probably cite their names, and ideally have tried to register with 2 or 3 alternatives, if geographically feasible. Therefore for where you live, you do not in practice have any choice and can only register with the one practice. That you have been registered with them for x years, not happy are unable to move. While accepting out of area patients is discretionary, do the commissioners have a view on your predicament, and any ability to request or require practices to accept out-of-area patients where they otherwise have no choice?

Address the letter to the lead commissioner for primary care (address for the CCG will be available up on google for your area).

I would be very surprised if they dibg expect gps to be reasonably flexible and would put pressure on. Worth a letter anyway, if you are really fed up. You've got years of taking baby to the GP for all manner of childhood ailments, it's a massive pain if you don't like your practice!

Thabks christmas but I'm in Scotland (no cycle here) and reasonable rural so no surgery nearby to move to (within 15 or so miles anyway). We're hoping to move house soon so it shouldn't be an issue and I'm going to get the consultant to write to the gp about painkillers.

Ah, bloop, that's a pain that you can't change GPs - horrible to feel trapped

Welcome, just42. Same age here! I'm only on my first, though.

Waves to everyone else.

Damn that shoud've been ccg not cycle.

Anyway what do you do when you're too small for maternity clothes but too fat for normal clothes? I have maternity leggings that are huge on and my belly has shrunk to virtually non existent so nothing. To hold them up. My standard leggings are too tight on my belly. I'm not really wanting to buy size up as they'd be too large everywhere else. I thought being my second I'd have more to show for 21 weeks than I've got. It's still a podgy B belly and just looks like fat. :(