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Following Ms Dynamo's wonderful news of her pregnancy and all the rest of us who are coming out of the woodwork ...a new, morale-boosting thread for those of us in our 40s currently going through pregnancy.

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Morning all.

Well, I too was salivating at the thought of a yaki Udon or a yaki Soba....BUT, when we got there, we noticed a fab Spanish restaurant had opened up (Ooo, get us with a choice!) and changed our minds. We ate ourselves stupid on tapas - I did squid, prawns...paella...Hell, I threw caution to the wind

And I met someone there I went to pregnancy yoga with who'd had her dd only 5 days before! Little sweetie was in the pram..so I coooed..A LOT.. and Mum looked amazing. I thought 'good on them' for beating the tiredness and joining in with the rest of the world.

Oh lord.....dd is naked and has just wee wee'ed in her little car - now she doesn't want to sit on the seat.....at least it wasn't poo. Did I ever mention how she pooed all over DPs VAT return and receipts...? x

I love your poo stories.

I can't believe they were out with a 5 day old. How did they manage?? I think 5 days after DS was born I was still in a state of shock of what my body had just done (ie - pushed out a giant 8lb 11oz baby). Rather sadly for us the first outing we took our newborn was Ikea when he was about 10 days old. For the life of me now I can't think why we did that. Probably because we'd only moved house 4 weeks before he was born. Think tapas sounds a lot better!
Got my 12 week scan coming up on Wed and starting to get excited but anxious too.It seems I've been waiting forever. Finally it's going to be real because until you see the scan you kind of feel maybe you're making it all up and it's some kind of phantom pregnancy. All I've seen so far is my gp for bloods. No midwife, no early scan. I just want to know it's all ok.

Ah pwcbird everything will be fine Saying that, I booked a private scan at 7 weeks a) just to make sure b) didn't really believe the HPT c) was frantic with worry as I'd had a previous MC.

But the 12 weeker is great because it's not a little kidney bean anymore...it has legs and feet and arms and....making me cry now

All this talk of food is so bad for my health. Just posted on my other (gestational diabetes) thread where talk turned to high blood sugar readings and dry bread. Think I will cover my monitor where it says yummy stuff like paella and tapas and udon ....

Can't honestly think when/where I went with my last baby - it was 17 years ago. I know I had a big silver cross pram for both the boys (as I didn't drive in those days) so it was probably to the shops - v exciting! And it most def wasn't 5 days after giving birth to him. Has the old rule of 10 days indoors finished these days?

babycakes my scan is at 10.15am so 3.15am in the UK. I hope for your sake you won't be thinking of me just at that time!

Thanks all for the reassurance that I'm not too abnormally neurotic.

I'm a huge Wagamama fan too. Even though I now live in the land of the noodle, I still make lunch at Wagamama a must-do when I come home.

I actually have both Wagamama cookbooks. The first one has all the recipes from the restaurant and they are almost all really quick and easy and healthy once you've made sure you've got a few key ingredients in your store cupboard. One exception to the quick and easy rule unfortunately is the Yaki Udon which is my favourite too.

babycakes MrsJupiter AND pwcbird...you're all scan'tastic' this week. Hugs to all - and it'll be fine...you'll be blubbing like loons once you see the little bean on the screen xxx

It's a big week here at 'JJtowers'....as it's the last midwife appointment on Thurs before DDay on 30th...eek! Then the week after it's endless appointments with hospital, blood test etc. Feeling a bit anxious now - although technically a planned c-section should be smoother than an emergency...i hope!

I know - 5 days after birth - that's hardcore. I was in special care with dd for 17 days...but we took her straight to NCT group that eve on discharge....who all looked stunned by a baby in their midst - made it all very real! I was freaked out by the outside world - been in hospital for over 2 weeks - and kept at a constant 80 degrees - in Nov -felt like a lizard that'd been plunged into the artic!

I'd have happily gone to IKEA - a plate of meatballs (with that weird berry sauce)after hospital food...bliss

Now I want a blinkin Yaki Udon as I didn't have it last night....damm !

jeanjeannie I want every minute detail re your C Section Take a pad and pen in with you ....you'll be doing nothing, lying flat on yer back until LO is born !! I NEED to know what happens - but only good bits please as you know how I fret.

Good luck now you're on the home straight. I'm quite envious really as I'm still 17 weeks away (technically). Of course I won't go to 40 weeks so it'll be less - I'm guessing take away 3-4 from that number.

Ah yes, the hospital like a sauna. The food like crap (apparently the diabetic menu is suicidal I've heard). I always get the hog snorer in the next bed....I just know it's gonna be soooooo much fun!

Hahah johnworf you make me larf
Ok, as it's you, I'll take notes....ever the journalist...I'll stop short of drawing pictures

This diabetes malarky sounds blinkin awful..didn't realise it meant so much trouble - or an earlier baby. AND even more shit*y hospital food than usual....Oooo life's unfair.

Only thing that's getting to me is backache and very low blood pressure. I constantly feel swimmy and have had a few blackout moments. But by comparison it's bugger all. Have the heartburn under control with hard-core drugs.

Off to a kiddie b'day party this afternoon...hoards of 2 year olds...oh joy. At least they're not competitive parents...I think if it was fully themed, complete with top entertainers, holiday vouchers hidden in the pass-the-parcel layers or goody bags with tiffany lockets....then I'd shoot myself. Hey, you think I'm joking.....there are some parts round here where young boys need therapy if they've not had a Ferrai by the time they're three ..........*slaps parents and runs
x

Thanks for taking the notes for me - you journo . Imagines notes to have a headline: Bouncing Baby Blamed for Baggy Belly! read all about it.....

Yeah this GD malarky is a pain.

oh I meant to ask jeanjeannie, my latest fret is something I saw on Discovery Health channel. It was a woman having a CS and during said op, she started shaking uncontrollably. I tried to google this but backed out after I read a couple of lines Is this normal??? Can they stop it if it happens? Why does it happen?

Oh btw, have a great time at the pardee. If you win at musical chairs (imagines JJ bumping all the kids out of the way with her ginormous lump), can you pick me out either a crate of Bollinger or Mercedes convertible?

Thanks dear

Oh I LOVE the headline....well, I did start life on the Mirror...so I've probably penned something very similar

WALK AWAY from Googling scary things...
Dp is always telling me off for doing it!!

Yeah, that shaking thing...it's a bit weird. I did have it just after the spinal. I didn't feel the injection at all - just started shaking. The anaethetist (sp?) spotted it and gave me something for it...and it stopped. If anything does feel odd (I suddenly got a really bad headache half way through last time)tell the anaethestist and they've usually got something for it. Headache went literally in seconds

I got shakes again in the recovery room but didn't last long...was a bit odd but not unpleasant. Don't remember it during the op though. Heard it's quite common. It sort of feels like an adrenalin rush. It may also be to do with a drop in blood pressure...which is quite commmon. I don't think it actually cause problems - just a bit disconcerting.

I thought the actual op itself was very exciting....weirdo It's just afterwards you have to prepare yourself for...I thought getting up hurt like hell. Then again my mate thought it was a breeze.

I'm just going through bag checklist. Must remember dried apricots -to help with poo and cranberry juice as catheter gives me a bit of cystitis

I shall use bump to best effect.....Bollinger and Merc you say...consider it done. If they run out I'll go for the Moet and the Lexus... x

So the shaking thing is pretty common and they can sort it out? The poor woman I saw on Discovery, her teeth were chattering. Then the next shot she was fine!

I'm preparing myself for being immobile but I think the (wicked) nurses will get you up and about anyway - like they did when I had a broken undercarriage after last baby. Evil. . And I expect they make you wear those delightful stockings do they?

I'll make sure I pack something that makes me poo. My body isn't used to regular poos at the mo. In fact constipation was one of my first pregnancy symptoms. Sorry if TMI.

When I had my last catheter removed I think the nurse was a bit heavy handed as it felt like she'd turned my bladder inside out. It righted itself eventually though.

I'm looking forward to the keys of my new car popping through the door! I'll expect a large slice of cake in the glove box which I'll save until I've had baby.

Hello all,
Just thought I'd bump us back up to the top again.
Haven't got anything exciting/interesting/informative/relevant to say

I am doing the housework and washing. DS is chasing the hoover around shouting at it.
Didn't sleep last night - woke at 3.45 for inevitable pee stop and then lay there feeling anxious about this week. Just don't know why. Totally illogical. Also couldn't get comfy and DH was snoring.

Going for joint DS and mummy haircuts this afternoon (!!). Let's hope they don't give us the same style

Hehe @ pwcbird with matching hair cuts

Plan to get mine cut sometime before holiday next week but no idea when as I keep putting it off.

Really busy with work today - obviously the footy on Saturday drove all the women folk of the land to come and buy from us Huzzah! Just working through all the orders.

Baby not helping. Squirming around like a bag of snakes today.

Sounds like lots of fun in your house pwcbird. OOh I like chasing the hoover, especially when DH is pushing it (he was very good y'day and did it all for me)

I've got a horrid headache today. Right at the back of my neck. Dunno if I've slept funny.

I'm still getting up for 3 wees a night. No idea why...........mebbe the GD.

Hi pwcbird, I too have been having lots of loo visits during the night. Up to five times night. Apparently it gets better after 12 weeks. How many weeks are you now?

Had to leave a party on Saturday at 10.30pm (way past my current bed time!). Because I haven't told all my friends yet about the pg, my friend who's party it was was really angry with me for leaving early. All I could say was 'I'm really tired'...It's so hard being secretive!

Can't wait till I can come out of the closet

Also have three grueling weeks of work ahead, when all I want to do is lie around and knit.

With first pregnancy I never had to get up in the night until 3rd trimester - but this time it's been right from the start. Don't know if it's weakened bladder from the birth or I don't know. Driving me nuts though.

msdynamo I was 12 weeks yesterday and having my 12 week scan on Wed this week. My due date (though obviously may change after Wed) is 1st December. So pleased to have got this far but just want this scan done and to see the little blighter and to feel a bit reassured.
I've told quite a lot of people - thing is I'm a SAHM so don't have work people to hide it from anymore. My family know as do my close friends because my view is that if something awful were to happen I wouldn't be able to hide my emotions from them anyway. There's only been one close friend I've not told as when I was about 5 weeks she had a mc and was so upset and I haven't really been able to tell her. She lives in Manchester and I was hoping to see her when I went up there and tell her face to face but she was away.
I think if I went to a party everyone would guess by the fact that there weren't several large glasses of wine in my hands

johnworf you sound super busy - what kind of beauty stuff is it?

mmmm @ wine. That's a thing from the past for me!

Beauty stuff? OH the usual...designer perfume, cosmetics, skin products; clarins, clinique, decleor et al. All the usual suspect big names and we've just had a huge order of Paul Mitchell and Tigi hair stuff.

Let me know if you're on the look out for anything

I'd post you my link but suspect I'd be told/thrown off for spamming

hello all,

Mostly saying hello as I haven't posted for a while.

I am due on 23rd September. There seem to be a few of us due around then. We had a list didn't we? Not sure how far back it is now?

We actually took DS2 to a party when he was one day old. It was quite cool, as people were amazed. It was our childminders 40th birthday party. I am not saying we will be doing anything similar this time round.

pwcbird, good luck with the scan on Weds. It must be very exciting. I'm desperate for mine!

johnworf do you have a shop on ebay? Wouldn't mind taking a peak, as I'm a beauty product addict and my bathroom resembles a cosmetics store.

Or can you tell us your seller name without being hung drawn and quartered by the mumsnet posse?

Wow LouiseAnn I think you beat everyone at 1 day. I think at one day I still had my hands stuck to my face a la 'The Scream' at what had just transpired (I had a labour over 30 hours etcetc and was just a bit... err... shocked). You are too cool for school!

I don't know what everyone thinks on the subject of alcohol. So many people say that you go off it when pregnant and I think that's true but I don't seem to go off the idea of it. When it was hot a week ago I made myself a shandy from one of DH's beers and really fancied it and then just didn't like it when I tasted it. I think that and 1 spritzer is all I've had during this pregnancy so far and both times I never finished them. I guess it's just the habit of being used to a nice glass of s.blanc of an evening.

Feeling a bit depressed about being a bit of a fatty. Was supposed to lose weight before getting pregnant but of course didn't (no-one told me to I just wanted to) and already feel huge at 12 weeks and just so cross with myself I didn't make the effort at the time. No-one's weighed me yet and hoping I'm not going to get told off by my midwife or pursed lips looks. I'm not 30 stone or anything - size 16-18 but I'm little (5' 3") so looking v. dumpy. I think I'm just having all these silly illogical fears. There's nothing I can do about it now and just have to be healthy bird.

Sorry - was that a self-pitying winge just then?

louiseAnne you are a party animal...one day old? Perhaps you were high on drugs of some sort I was crashed out on morphine all the next day - having my own private party. I thought I could see Ringo Starr's face moving around in the patterned curtains surrounding my bed................?!

To all you night time pee'ers out there....I'm with you. Since the moment I knew I was preggers I've been at least a 3 times a night girl. It's shocking getting out of bed at the moment....like rolling a beetle off it's back. And last night I'd not realised the cat was on me and it was still clinging to the douvet as I sort of slung it to the floor frightened the life out of me.

johnworf you sound like a woman with an enviable stash of stuff...have visions of rooms full of yummy nice things...MMmmmmm.
Oh - about that goody bag with the Merc and Bolly...........Ooops. Well, they were nice people who rejected the affluence of their surroundings....so I can offer you a sherbet lolly, 2 glitter pens and a squeaker

Hello all you lovely ladies
Hope you had a relaxing weekend - where did the sun go?
pwcbird I know how you feel about the weight - I have put on 7lbs so far in this pregancy at 20 weeks but my appetite has really stepped up in recent weeks and I feel I will be waddling my way around very soon - I tried to lose some weight before getting pregnant but only managed half a stone (largely thanks to Davina and her DVD) before I found myself pregnant so I started this pregnancy heavier than I had wanted to (following my last mc I seemed to comfort eat myself to a stone heavier!). I had been managing to squeeze into my size 14 jeans until a week or so ago but no chance now - in my comfy maternity jeans .

It looks like it's a big week for scans amongst us! Good luck pwcbird for Wednesday everything crossed for you honey - I have my anomaly scan on Wed too at 11.15am - not that I'm counting down the minutes of course!! Managing to stay reasonably calm at the moment although I can sense a rising wave of anxiety growing in the background of my mind - I just hope I can manage to stay calm for the next few days - I usually get so stressed the day before my scans (and I have had quite a few this time around!!). Johnworf you'll have to send me your link so that I can spend some money online to take my mind off things

MrsJupiter thinking about you for tomorrow - everything crossed - let us know how you get on.

...and as for peeing I'm with you all on that one being a three times a night girl....it must be all this water I am force feeding myself all day long!

ok...i'll run the risk of being told off.

on ebay shop is called tonnesofstuff4u

on t'internet webby thing search interstellar perfume.

Latest stock is on ebay though as not had time to update my site.

LouiseAnn you went out the day after? I'll be eating my own weight in chocolate on that day Not moving anywhere tho as I'll be in hospital after my CS still - unless I tie the sheets together and leg it down a drain pipe!

oooh Johnworf wouldn't mind a one minute grab all you can in your garage!!!! Hormones and credit cards are a bad combination I am finding.....