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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.

Come on, sign up: we are 40+ and FABULOUSLY PREGNANT!!!

ok johnworf you've been found out! Lots of nice perfume and then...Instant Nurse Fancy Dress Outfit! Have you been playing dressing up games?? Ooh la la! Surely you want to take it to the hospital to wear after cs LOL

Yeah, I've been playing doctors and nurses. That's why I'm knocked up now I've been rumbled.

Actually my DH bought those (no surprise there then) but they are brand new and not used.

lmfao @ wearing after CS...

babycakes26 it's a bit like working in a choclate factory. You soon get fed up with it (after you've tested every type of product you're selling naturally!)

Hello all. Thanks for your best wishes babycakes. Hope I'll be able to be a good omen for you.

I've been fairly distracted from my anxiety today. Some friends came round this afternoon and we baked (well, they baked while I read out the ingredients from my seat) these raspberry flapjack things. We meddled with the recipe and put real raspberries as well as jam in the middle. Totally delicious. To the extend that I had two pieces and I now have the worst heartburn ever. I'm usually a healthy eater and that half-hundredweight of butter was a real shock to the system.

It's a real shame because i was hoping that between the visit and the coaching session I've just completed I'd be tired enough to sleep through my bladder screaming at me twice nightly (down from three times in first trimester but FIVE msdynamo?? I'd give up liquids!). Now I can look forward to being up with heartburn all night. Lovely.

It must be karma because while I'm a healthy eater, I'm a big eater and definitely, (lets be nice) Rubenesque (but without the boobs to balance me out). I know I shouldn't be eating flapjacks as I'm sure my weight puts me at the risk of GD, and my body is making sure I know I done wrong. I had been feeling I was restrained. We ate the flapjacks hot and they were crying out for a scoop of the vanilla Haagen Dazs in my freezer but I stood firm (ahem).

pwcbird I have craved red wine from the very beginning. If my husband has brought home decent wine on a Friday night I'll have a couple of sips from his glass. If he's brought home Great Wall wine (yes, really) you won't be surprised to hear I give it a miss.

LOL@ Instant Nurse Outfit....hahaha I reckon it's johnworf's DH that probably wears it... I like the idea of it being 'instant'.....do you just add water?!

Gawd, you've got more smellies than you can shake a stick at....how marvellous. Never worked in a choccy factory....so wouldn't know about eating too much of the stuff. But DP's dad runs a bakery and I'm sick of pitta bread...so I think I'm getting the picture And I did have a summer job in a pork pie factory once...and I got tired of those pretty darn quickly.

mrsJupiter rasberry flapjack things sound excellent...what fab friends you have.

Only got to 34 weeks with dd1....so never felt this heavy before. It's horrid. Back aches, bum aches, pelvic bones ache...and appear to have small foot under rib...grrr. Can't believe I'll last another week without bursting.

Wahwah or didoreth are you out there? How are you feeling? Any names yet? Hugs to both of you xx

eugh@ thought of DH in instant nurse outfit! He's hairier than a gorilla so he'd look like Sid James or Bernard Bresslaw in a carry on nurse film!

He did write on that description on Ebay 'woman not included' so DUH!

I have discovered a stash of pron on the laptop last night so had to have a finger wagging session with him. He says it's very old and there from before he met me but ...sounds like crap to me!

Ho hum. They're all the same.

johnworf I don't know... the thing about pron, as you put it, is that at least it's not aliens and WW2. When I go out and DH has a evening alone I always see 'go on - look up 'bigboobies.com' and enjoy yourself' (which is my phrase for 'that sort of thing') but when I get home I find he's been looking up sites about Nazis building space ships and been on some forum chatting to strange people from Idaho about the Bermuda Triangle or the like. I think I'd rather he did look up bigboobies.com as at least I'd know where I was!

Best wishes also for MrsJupiter and babycakes. Let's hope it's a fine week for us all.

Finally regarding my earlier mention of joint haircuts - it seems DS and I do indeed have now similar styles - sort of Bay City Rollers 1973. I just need to tie a tartan scarf around my neck. All I asked for was a layers and a shorter fringe and I'm a cross between Suzie Quatro and the lead singer from Sweet. Thing was - that was what I asked for with DS also. The 70's are back in aren't they?

pwcbird just be grateful you could get a haircut. I look like a yeti. Also, you might want to come out to China - here you can get an 80s hairstyle. Lots of New Romantic styled boys here.

Also, the Bermuda Triangle? Nazis in space? Really? Reminds me of that episode of Friends when Chandler is staying in a hotel in Oklahoma and Monica surprises him with a visit. He's "enjoying himself" with a movie fit for the purpose and quickly changes channels to a documentary about whales. She feels much as you do and later in fear that she's not satisfying him she offers to thrash about in the bath. Classic.

jeanjeannie My friends are fab. They've been really patient with all the resting. I guess we're all in the same boat here without family or old friends. Raspberry Flapjacks. Search for Raspberry Oatmeal Cookies on allrecipes.com Double the oat/four/butter etc mixture and use fresh/frozen raspberries as well as jam in the middle. We also made it easier by melting the butter and sugar and stirring it in rather than rubbing in as suggested. Life too short to rub butter into rolled oats. The whole thing takes a matter of minutes. The heartburn takes hours. Wonder how it would taste if you stirred Gaviscon straight into the mix?

mrsjupiter let me send you the recipe for Gaviscon cocktails...you could have them on the verandah, overlooking the sunset

I'm not sure what is more disconcerting; the pron or nazi's in space. I think I can cope with big boobs bonanza. As I explained to him last night -mid finger wag - I'm not that bothered by it really. Just when you're the size of a house, wearing a tent and haven't had 'meaningful' relations for months, you do tend to feel a tad inadequate.

Still laughing at the matching 70's haircuts and humming shangalang

I do have a funny story about my DH and a dvd mix up......I might tell you all later if you're very good

I exaggerate slightly. He is normal but just has some rather geeky interests.

Funny thing is - I've been humming Shangalang ever since I had my haircut too. Ah well - hopefully it'll 'knit in' as they say

Please with your funny story johnworf. Promise to be as good as I was for Father Christmas

ok pwcbird seeing as it's you and the rest of the internet world

DH copied one of his 'adult' dvd's and put it away in a safe place..or so he thought.

Anyway, all was forgotten about it until last Christmas....

His niece who is 16 was looking through our dvd's and decides to borrow Nanny McPhee. 2 hours later his sister rings and says "you know that dvd you loaned to Nic, well it isn't Nanny McPhee. There are people having anal sex on it".

STIFLES a laugh.

Seems he mixed up the cases. Thank God that DSS didn't watch it .

And the moral of the story is...........

LOL at that story. Sounds like a post watershed sit-com moment. We're not allowed anything so simple as copied DVD's anymore. Everything has to be put on his 2gb dongle (hee hee that word always makes me laugh )and fed through wireless space via computer to xbox to TV. God, there's so much faffing about. JUST PUT IT ON A DVD I cry.

DH has just told me that my haircut looks like the bass/guitar player from Slade. You know.. the strange one with the short fringe. I am trying not to become utterly self conscious that the entire body of Glam Rocksters is being likened to my hair It WILL knit in....

evening all ! It's a busy week for scans this week I have my 20 week tomorrow as well. I'm hiding from DH who is shouting at the telly at the moment heavens knows what he is watching.
Had a good weekend doing very little, saw my Mom and Dad which as nice cos they live over the other side of the country.
LOL about the DVD mix up Johnworf was DH mortified??

Good luck hedgepig for tomorrow. DH was probably watching Eastenders.... Minty and Heather snogged. I couldn't watch.

apparently it was a TV prog about religion I think I prefer him being a comp geek!!

Ewww @ minty & heather snogging (looks for vomitting emoticon).

DH wasn't at all embarrassed by the whole episode. He thought it was rather amusing. I, of course, was cringing, now thinking that all of his family know about his sexual pecadilloes

pwcbird I dunno what you look like in RL but now I have an image in my mind of you looking like Dave Hill saying 'cuppasoup' in a brummie accent! Oh dear me....

Oooooh hedgepig are you excited for tomorrow? Good luck, not that you'll need it

Btw, I saw a shop online today called thehedgepig.co.uk that sells scandinavian childrens clothes. Any connection? I bought some lovely swedish babygroes from it

no connection to the web site, just had a look very cute babygros but (she says trying very hard not to get out the visa card) I an not buying anything I have a loft full of stuff and I will use that. Unless.......................the LO is a girl and then shopping is allowed hurrhh but I'm not going to find out this time I'm waiting for a surprise.

My name was a default really I wanted Hedgehog but it was taken so I decided on hedgepig , which I like more now.

Morning all. Had a very annoying conversation last night with BF where he said that we have to have second hand clothes for the baby. He's suddenly revealing his true colours ie meanness. I don't mind some stuff second hand but all of it? I'll have to buy it secretly and remove the tags. This is the only prob with being financially dependent. Having never done it before in my life- ie rely on a man for money, I am now seeing the drawbacks. My motto has always been spend, spend, spend! Might have to go back to work sooner than I thought

Ahh msdynamo I understand completely. After 39 years of being an independant woman I gave up work when had DS and almost the worst thing is to give up the financial independance. I had been hoping to do the odd bit of freelance work to keep some money coming in for me but sadly it didn't really work out that way. The thing is too that obviously your income decreases with just one wage and if your BF is like my DH who looks at the bank account about 5 times a day you have no chance. You just have to be canny... buy stuff from supermarkets and M&S and it's on the food bill - and for children/babies where they grow so fast and are out of babygros and stuff in a few months the clothes aren't bad. H&M are good/trendy and cheap. I'm lucky because my sister lives in N.York and so I get her to send me stuff from Gap and places like that. Yes - remove tags - they'll never know. DH keeps saying to me that we'll have to dress the new baby in DS's clothes regardless of whether it's a boy or girl. Grrr...

by the way johnworf love your reference to Dave Hill from Reeves and Mortimer. DH and I practically fell in love over our mutual admiration for the Smell of R&M. Ahh.. blissful days
ps - have just washed hair and about to dry... hoping to look more 2008 today

I like the cut of your jib pwcbird on the removing tags front. However, my DH carries a household inventory in his pocket and knows a)where everything is and b) whats new. He can sniff out shop receipts in a trice. I've bought quite a lot of first sizes from ebay. Its hardly worn as babies grow out of them so quickly anyway. Got nice Next, Baby Gap, Katvig, Baby Maman, No Added Sugar etc. all relatively cheaply and will probably sell them on afterwards.

I'll be buying new after 3 months when the weight/growth seems to seems to slow down.

When I had my DS's, we were very poor indeed and I saved all the babygroes from my daughter! Both boys wore a lot of pink And when the babygros for the last child got too small, I cut off the feet so he looked a bit like Robinson Crusoe!

Not so this time around for this princess in my tum

Just think in 22 years time you can be like me. DD just got back from the states and brought me a lovely present last night. A full bin bag of dirty washing. She's informed me she'll be collecting this afternoon, which I think is only right and proper of her

My sister is 46 and when she came over last year to visit and stayed with my mum she brought a bag of dirty washing with her. Even though she lives in N.York - married with 2 children not a singleton who sends her washing out to Chinese launders or anything - she still brought clothes for my mum to wash. It seems it will never change. I have to say I always gave my mum my sheets until we moved into our house 2 years ago. We were in a flat before then and how can you dry sheets in a flat??? (well that's what I told my mum anyway) . I think you're going to be doing DD's washing for some time to come....

Greetings,I found this thread as i search the web having just found out I'm pregnant and 42, only just though by my dates I make Jan 10th my due date. We have been ttc since i got married at 37 and have a dd aged 16 months. Since her birth it got so we had almost given up on sex as it was a mine field of emotions as it had been so much a timed chore for so long.Once a month was the new average if even that often ...bingo !.Delighted scared daunted.Trying to decide if I will push for a 8 week scan or take my chances and wait for 12 weeks. Never feel old except the way I am made feel by being a 40+ mum.Great thread thanks

Johnworf you are a lovely mummy. When I left home at 18 (many moons ago) I was told very clearly that they loved me very much but only ever bring 1 weeks washing home. My brother on the other hand was allowed to bring all his washing home from Uni, then moved back in an has been molly coddled ever since. He finally bought a house last year but has been doing up ever since and so hasn't left home yet (he's 28 now) and is paying my pensioner parents reduced keep cos he is paying the mortgage on a house he doesn't even live in
working from home today whilst waiting to go to hosp for my 20 week scan at 11:45, I'm starting to worry a bit now

Ooooo...hedgepig 11.45 today - let us know how you get on

HELLO joireland glad you found us - and well done on pregnancy. I've got a 18month old...isn't it hard work....being preggie and chasing after a small munchkin!

Gosh - Laptop out of action for a few hours and I've had loads of threads to read. Right - I think it's johnworf with the hairy DP....SNAP! My DP would have been a HUGE hit in the 70s...boy could he nestle a medalion in that chest hair. DD likes to tug it...you
can hear him shriek for miles He'd definately give the nurses outfit a try though

Lol@haircut pwcbird hope you're more into the 21 century today. Had mine cut last week and the fringe is too short...in the sort of way that your mum used to cut it...above your eyebrows Then again I've never been at one with my hair!

I found the NCT sales fab for newborn stuff. Went to one in 'posh' area and there were rich pickings to be had! Amazing how well kept and almost never-worn some of the stuff was. There was baby Dior..Rocha..Pumpkin Patch....we went round with our bag, hoovering it all up like a plague of locusts.

Sympathise with the one wage malarky. I've done a bit of freelance but being a SAHM is a full time job....just one you don't get paid for