Pregnant, 40+ and Proud: Fabulous Mummies Sign Up Here!

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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!!!

So glad to see Didoreth due before me, especially as my midwife raised her eyebrows yesterday when I said that I wanted an extra week and just laughed in that knowing 'you'll be lucky, girl' kind of way...Looking forward to hearing more from you...

Johnworf, I just couldn't get into baby changing bags (I can hardly bring myself to carry a handbag at the best of times) but I understand how some women get addicted to slings. I found the baby bjorn type slings impossible to get on with and hated how the boy hung like a little rag doll and it rubbed his legs.

I loved my Hugabub and it truly saved my sanity as my son wouldn't sleep at all unless attached to me, so i could still get up and go out - I could even wash the floor in confidence that he wouldn't fall. I used an Ergo as he got older, as i didn't like the stretch in the Hugagbub. Husband didn't fancy either, but loved the over one shoulder Slingrider type, so wasn't much use with carrying from about 8 weeks!

wonders if didoreth has had any twinges yet??

Oddly enough wahwah I bought a Baby Bjorn off a friend the other day. And even stranger, it's my DH who wants one! It's looks complicated to me..anything that starts with '10 easy steps to wearing your sling..' is not for me.

I do remember with DS#1 doing the cooking and cleaning with him in my old mothercare sling because he cried everytime I put him down...he's 19 now and thankfully grown out of it

jeanjeannie I bought some M&P Barnaby Button crib bedding the other day. I love it!

Of course when I had my other 3 children I was as poor as a church mouse so they had onion sacks and slept in an old drawer...ah the good old days!

Hope you christen your dishwasher with an '..and all who sail in her' speech.

Hey everyone, great news! Just heard by text from my friend in hospital, she's given birth to a healthy baby boy, aged 44!

Delivery was by cs, she's a first time mother and her baby was conceived naturally!

wahwah you've set me off on slings again. I just couldn't get dd into the baby bjorn...yet dp loved it. Liking the sound of Hugabub *runs off to google it.

I LOVE the M&P bedding. Someone gave me the catalogue the other day....what were they thinking? There's a recession on...I don't need encouraging...I need stopping.

Is it Eurovision this weekend? I need something cheesy to amuse me.....am I allowed a Lambrini to go with it?....what, it's alcoholic....grrrr, what about a Babychamp...can I have one of those?

WOW! 44...first time AND naturally conceived...she must be soooo thrilled.

Just read back my post...I didn't mean dp liked the baby Bjorn because he could fit in it... he's not that little

Woot msdynamo congratulations to your friend on the new arrival who is safe and well

Now has curious visions of jeanjeannies partner cuddled up in the BB sling whilst JJ carts him around Bad for your back methinks....

hands jeanjeannie a glass of Tizer in the absence of alcohol.

Can anyone tell me how they size/weight a baby at a scan? Is is something to do with head/abdomen ratio? How on earth do they find out the weight from those two things?

I'm just curious that's all

Hello all, unfortunately nothing at all happening here yet. My midwife has told me to run up and down the stairs sideways (opens out the pelvis apparently) but I haven't quite summoned the energy to try it yet.
johnworf I don't know for sure about the sizing thing, but I had presumed the computer had some complicated formula taking into account all the measurements, including abdomen circumference and femur length. Don't think its that accurate though - my sister was told to expect a 9lb-er, and my nephew turned out to be 7lb 1oz.

Hey everyone
Just wanted to pop in and say hi and to see how you are all doing? I have been knocked out for a few days with a nasty virus feeling like death warmed up but slightly more human (albeit knackered) today. How is everyone feeling? Any fun stories to tell? I threw up on my MIL a few nights ago just after she had spent half an hour telling me how I should be blooming by now (nearly 18 wks) and how she though MS was all in the mind heehee - it just came out!!!! sorry maybe TMI?

didoreth thanks for the info. I wonder how with all this technology they can still get it wrong?

babycakes wonderful that you managed to hurl on your MIL - was she impressed?

First to say good luck to everyone. I had my first when 41 - and it only took once to conceive! I agree testing and what to do 'if' are both very personal choices. We decided before I was pregnant that we would have tests and not to carry on if it wasn't good - due to a need to have 2 incomes to avoid being homeless and a complete lack of family support.

I had amnio twice on the same day at my local hospital - they used a monitor with no visible image and used local anaesthetic - it was like being stabbed!! 11 years later it still haunts me. They then referred me to St Mary's in Manchester who were lovely and did it without any pain relief completely painlessly. The midwife couldn't have been kinder and told us she would always have amnio as she had seen handicapped babies born to mothers in their 20's. The result was ok, but due to the 3 tests (the first 2 failed to obtain any usable sample) I had an irritable uterus the following week which was rather frightening - especially as if I'd lost the baby I would have been told it was my fault for having amnio

tb I hear St Marys has a good reputation but I opted for Hope this time as they achieved Best Performing 2 years running.

So far, experience has been a good one

evening all. Nothing constructive to say except hooray hooray it's nearly a bank holiday! Anyone doing everything interesting?? Weather on Sat is not looking too bad. tra la la

hedgepig This weekend I shall mostly be sitting with my feet up revising hoping the cat does not fart like he did to day and make me throw up again if he does I think he will be banned from any room I am in

Hi all, can I join in?

I'm 43 (though most of the time I don't feel that old ). Had dd at 40 with GIFT, after trying for a couple of years, then got pregnant twice in the last year, naturally. (1 mc at 12 weeks.) Now 26 weeks and going strong (with regular tipples of Gaviscon). I've added myself to the list.

Didoreth - 30th April
Wahwha - 15 May
Shulli - ClOSE!
Christie1 - May 29
jeanjeannie- 30 May
takenoprisoners - 4 July
Disneystar - 17July
Kaz196 - 18 July
Fortified - 12 August
johnworf - 15 Sept
iapanemagirl - 16 sept
LouiseAnn - 23 Sept
Hedgepig - 4 Oct
Babycakes - 4 Oct
Rosa - 11 Nov
Pwcbird - 1 Dec

PS. Thank you johnworf and jeanjeannie for Stork Sak revelation. Must have one. Will have to tell DH I got it cheap on ebay.

Hello everyone, this is my first post. I'm 46 years old and have a little boy of 2. He was conceived naturally and was born when I was 43. He was born by emergency Caesarean as things weren't progressing quickly enough.I made a very quick recovery from that, though...

I find looking after him exhausting at my age but he is a total joy and I wouldn't have it any other way. The only downside is that I sometimes feel a need for some other mums to talk to as none of my friends have very young children as I do!

Fortified your most welcome re changing bags. However, don't let your DH see the prices on Ebay as even second hand, they cost a small fortune

Fortuna welcome dear girl. Your are indeed amongst friends here I know what you mean about the tiredness and I am a few years younger than you! We have my DSS who is 8 years old running around (and he was off school y'day due to voting) who needs constant stimulation. Add to this he's awaiting assessment for Aspergers,throw a new baby in, whizz it all up up et voila! Knackeredness

All my friends are either single/divorced (no kids) or their kids grew up with mine and are properly grown up. I'm the mad one that escaped

Just a quick note, I think that my insulin units will be increased today My readings over the past two days haven't been that great and it's already been increased this week.

I'm also going into a bit of a panic mode regarding my anomaly scan on Tuesday. I suppose this is the first time I've had to worry about what they will find. Really trying to focus on positive things but during the night it's a lot harder.

Oh, and I went to Mothercare last night and noticed they now stock the Closer to Nature dummies that are ok to use when you're BF - so they claim

I your love cat kaz1967. That is some party trick

Hi there. This is my first post too. I'm 40 and will be 18 weeks pregnant tomorrow with our first child. I'm due on October 7th.

I'm on (a personally modified form of) bed rest because I had a really bad bleed on Sunday night and had to stay in hospital for a few days. Fortunately the bleed did not come from the placenta but most probably from the cervix and the baby is fine.

Anyway, having stayed away from Mumsnet since I first registered because the discussions I read made me super-anxious, (I miscarried at 8 weeks in November and have spent most of this pregnancy on bed rest or in hospital), I saw this discussion highlighted on the email and couldn't resist!

We conceived naturally and pretty quickly, though we had quite a strange journey to it which I'll write about separately so this post isn't too long. Hopefully it will help/reassure those who are trying to conceive.

On the age thing, I haven't really had a problem since I've been pregnant. People tend to think I'm a lot younger than I am - at the hospital this weekend the doctors kept telling me "you're very young" (which was a strangely twisted reassurance in itself - kind of a, well you're young so you can try again if this goes badly), and would check my chart to see if I was telling the truth when I told them I wasn't so young. All i can say (and I've said and hoped it regularly on this difficult road) is, I hope my insides look as young as my outsides!

I actually faced a lot more curious looks and questions when I was in my late 30s. I've been an expat "trailing spouse" (don't you love it) for four years, and friends and acquaintances knew how old I was and that i'd been with my husband since I was 26. Like me they'd all had careers before "trailing" but we were the only ones in our age group without children. I could literally feel the curiousity emanating from them in waves - can't she have them? doesn't she want them? why, why why? In that environment I really felt odd. Fortunately I'm pretty robust on that level, and was quite relaxed about it and our friends just got used to it.

Hi Mrs Jupiter - Glad that after the scare all is ok must have been so frightening.Hope all goes well for the term.
Lovely day here today ( BH yesterday in Italy) so might venture out and take dd for some running on a beach as they are still pretty quiet also dh realises that he needs to take my mind of impending CVS ( both the process and results !!)
Have a nice day all hope Johnworf your sugar levels balance out.

Morning all.....get any sleep? If not I'll drink my coffee (real...I know...bad mother-to-be) and commiserate with you. DP and me in bed all night with big bump and 17 month dd teething like mad..ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

Think we need a new thread about 'what makes you throw up?'....then we could add babycakes26 hurling on her MIL and kaz1967 and her incredible farting cat!!!

HELLO & welcome fortified and fortuna Yes, fortuna I totally agree with you about it being an exhausting job - but then I see mums almost half my age and they look more tired than me! And you keep taking that Gaviscon fortified...although I've now progressed to prescription Ranitidine....hard core me!

johnworf let us know how you get on with the insulin. And try not to panic about Tues - easy to say - hard to do. Scans are a blessing and a curse....you desperately want to see the little darling....but dread anything being wrong.

Think this bank hols will blend into the rest of the week as dp is still making our kitchen and we're knee deep in sawdust! BUT I have a dishwasher.......

jeanjeannie I'm thinking only good thoughts today

Just rang the diabetes clinic and my readings are ok to stay on the same units of insulin until my clinic appointment on Tuesday, which is good news methinks Thanks Rosa. Oh, and I'm jealous you live by the sea!

On an entirely different note I am SOOOO hungry today. I can feel a pig out coming on today - but shhhhhh not a word to my dietician