All New, Sparkly Fab and 40 + : Mums, Mums to Be or TTC. Come say Hi !

[jeanjeannie]

Hello all - well, this is our third message board..so it's a popular topic.

If you're a fab forty something then please come and say Hi!

The thread lives in pregnancy as that's where it started....but it's certainly no longer confined to just being about pregnancy. It's for anyone whose a gorgeous 40 something. So get a cuppa, bring some biscuits - or cake - and have a chat x

Hello all. Gosh, ladymac it does indeed sound as though The Pox hath struck a curse upon your house. Nice bit of timing though - getting Grace's hair out the way of the sick OOooo, sick in hair...not nice.

Gorgeous weather here and loads of mums are off to play on the Rye but muggins here has to stay in and wait for shed loads of timber to turn up!

jw Verity is also non stop feeding - it's relentless. Hope MW, bloods and jabs go ok - well, as is poss to be ok.

Thanks for the sympathy. Have just managed some soup and toast (pathetic voice emot).

Thought I would paste a section from the email I received from ds after telling him about Elizabeth's possible hearing problem.

I'm glad to learn that Elizabeth is deaf, not stupid. You should get her one of those ear trumpets like old people in Victorian times used to have, it'd be hilarious!
I'll email you if anything exciting happens (like getting my f*cking visa invitation).
Love you and tell Betsy I love her too (you might want to raise your voice).

It did make me chuckle. I miss him so much and he's only been gone since August

Obviously Betsy is our pet name for Elizabeth.

ladymac take it your DS isn't applying for the Diplomatic Corps?

MW been and gone - we had a long, nice chat about everything. So, upshot is thus; weight 8lb 2oz (no wonder she's been feeding so often), bloods taken and results this afternoon. Vaccs still looming until tea time. In anticipation, I have in the cupboard a plentiful supply of Calpol, Medised and heroin in case madam is off colour. Hopefully she won't be.

Better get some work done inbetween crappy nappies and emptying milk into the ever widening abyss of K's mouth

hello, can I join in?

ladymac directed me to you all. I had an early scan today and I am now about 7.4 weeks pg.

I have a 7 and 4 year old. I also have had a mc at 9 weeks in 2006 and at 18 weeks last Dec. Hence the early scan!

Hope to chat with you all soon.

welcome cece and congrats! we are in need of some new blood around here as most of us has given birth now but can't be arsed to shift ourselves off to another thread yet

jw I take it the heroin is for yourself

I had just waved our hv off also - Darragh is ten pound one ounce - and the length of an average eight week old baby (he is four weeks tomorrow) she said he is doing amazingly well. Clearly the result of all the round the clock noshing going on here also Am feeling most pleased!

Crikey cece sorry to hear about your 2 MC's. Hopefully all was well today with your scan?

We're all 40 and over on this thread and whilst this does not preclude anyone (all are welcome) we do keep a running mental note of how knackered and old we are

Over to you cece...........

ladymac glad to see you have a good familial sense of humour - sounds like you need it at the moment!!

Forgot to add I am 41 and feeling very knackered at the moment!

Hello ladies - I am a friend of Hedgepig who has asked me to post that she has a gorgeous new arrival, little Oliver. He arrived Sunday at 10.20am weighing in at 6lb 3oz.
She is still in hospital but both are well and will fill you in with all the details when she's home.

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOh hedgepig has had her sprog!!!

Well done old girl and pass on messages of congrats from us all and tell her to stop shirking her household chores, get out of the bed and come on here and tell us all the gory details

Well done hedgepig and welcome Oliver I knew she was up to something as I've not seen her around for a while!

Fan-bloody-tastic!

mrsb obviously all that guzzling that Darragh has been doing has clearly paid off. I have no idea how long K is but she doesn't look either longer nor shorter than the average baby. In the absence of a tape measure I'm going to hazard a guess that she's a 'medium'.

The heroin is naturally for myself but I need some valium before I even get to the GPs. Both her other jabs were done on SCBU in my absence - not planned at all - so wasn't there to see the bottom lip out, the tears well and then the cry. But I will be today

By my mathemacations, Darragh will be due for his first round very soon won't he?

jw the hv brought a sort of marked mat thing that she laid him out all naked and shivering on to measure him - did your hv not subject K to the same treatment?

yep - his first lot are due in four weeks.

oooooh hedgepig congrats in absentia!! hurry back and tell us all

Hooray for hedgepig! Oliver is a lovely name and I look forward to hearing all the details of the birth.

cece so glad you found your way here. How horrible for you to have gone through the mcs, it must be very difficult for you to relax and enjoy this pregnancy. Glad you got to see your little bean today.

I just had a call from the hospital to let me know that the rest of the chromosome testing from the CVS was all ok and we also found out the sex. But my lips are sealed as DH and I had already decided to keep that particular news as a nice little secret between the 2 of us. Good job nobody can get me drunk as I'm terrible at letting secrets slip out after a few glasses of wine!

Yes we like a touch of gallows humour in our house mrsb. Think it keeps me sane. By the way, are you adding a drop of double cream to Darragh's bottles? That's some weight gain. My delicate little flowers used to drop down that bloody graph until they hovered pitifully somewhere below the 10th centile.

Mrsb what is this mat you speak of? I have never seen nor heard of one. I have the image in my mind of some macabre murder scene in New York where they draw around the body . I'm sure I'm way off the mark.

My HV weighs K on her portable scales, then uses ye olde fashioned measure of tape around her head. She's never done her length though. She did tell me today that she's well proportioned as her head and her weight are on the same centile line.

We're back from GP's and omg, did K cry. I took her out of her car seat, sleeping, then she had 3 jabs; 2 in one thigh and another in the other. I was almost crying myself. The poor dear. I had to keep reminding myself it was all in a good cause

I need some cake......

Sorry ladymac I meant to say hurrah that all is well with your test results Another hurdle successfully negotiated!

ooh good news ladymac - such a relief

jw yep we had the scales and the tape measure then she laid him out on a yellow plastic sheet with measurements marked on it. So yes we obviously have all the latest home visiting accoutrements here in York.

ladymac double cream? good God! what do you take me for? nothing but the finest rice pudding in his bottle for my hungry wee lad!

Mmmmm mrsb rice pudding. I developed a serious habit during my last pregnancy for Rachel's Organic rice pud. Boy is it good. And hardly any calories

I remember that measuring mat. DS got measured a lot as he was a big boy too. They kept testing him for diabetes.... but no he was just big!

Well obviously here in manchester we have no such fancy new fangled mats.

And obviously you ladies are very posh putting double cream and rice pudding in the formula. My mother swore by a farleys rusk crumbled into the bottle for the night feed. If the hole gets clogs, use a fork. I wish I was joking here but I'm not and she actually suggested this top tip for my daughter when she was a baby.

FYI I didn't try it

Hahaha The Restaurant is in Marlow (near you JJ?) DH is horrified by the 'posh' people at the reggata.

LOL once again!

hedgepig Baby, baby, baby HURRAH! and welcome young Oliver. Oh I hope they're both ok and it wasn't too traumatic.xxx

LOL@ ladymac's son's email....hilarious. I like the cut of his gib! And congrats that all the results are back and everything is fine and dandy. So - all that's left is to get you horribly drunk (Cherry B? A Snowball? Lambrini )and you shall reveal the secret!!

cece Hello - welcome - lovely to have you join our merry band. Pull up a chair and have some CAKE!! Let's see - you're preggie (tick) you've got your hands full with other little ones (tick) You're over 40 (tick) AND you feel knackered (tick) Oh - you'll fit in a treat x

johnworf WHAHAHAHA ahahahaha HAHAHAH - yes, MARLOW! It's round the corner - I'm there all the time (in Marlow - not the restaurant - which I think is in real life is a much applauded gastro pub/eaterie called the Hand & Flowers)

DP is a member of the rowing club - AND the real regatta is held at Eton's Rowing lake nearby - and each year we have a race (with lovely cup!) in Iris's name!! I've popped a pic on my profile for your delectation and hilarity But yes, there are lots of posh loons there!

Verity is howling again - I must away

jw my mum did the rusk thing also, but I have been telling her about D's constant feeding and she says oh you should do what your gran did when you were a baby and wouldn't sleep through the night for me - double up the scoops on your last bottle of the night. That fair knocked you out, sez she!

I haven't tried this one either....

omfg. Double scoops on ice cream cones YES! In bottles NOOOOOOOOOO

Btw, my mum has hinted at that one too. It's a wonder that we got this far in life isn't it mrsb?

Well, I've been busy tonight photographing nappies and wraps and plonking them on Ebay to fund my nappy habit. I've just ordered some new Motherease stay dry as I looked on Ebay for used ones and they all have huge shit stains in them....turns me off slightly

Oh and JJ like your pic. I'll have the one in the middle please Although I did have to look up close to screen and squint. Nice cup Iris!

jeanjeanie we were thinking of heading to Marlow on sat for a little outing. Anywhere nice for lunch that likes small gingers and won't cost several arms and legs?