The sequel - Fab, Sparkly & often Moany 40 + : Preggie or New Mums - come say Hi!

[jeanjeannie]

We've now filled up the last thread - and the two before that! Seems that there are a lot of us old girls out there getting ourselves into trouble

So - if you've just found yourself to be with child or have a LO and you've hit (or about to hit - we'll let you sneak in just under the radar!)the big 4 0, then come say Hi!

There is always a spare comfy chair - plenty of cake and many old ladies to listen to your moans! Think of the lovely ladies knitting shreddies - only we're not sporting a blue rinse, but wearing cashmere and kitten heels

Hello regular ladies. I avoided putting FAT, F*cked or Knackered in the title - tempting as it was

Jeanjeannie - I think I fit in with the second helpings category - or is it fourth helpings? My eldest is 16, then 14 then the 2yr old accident and now expecting his planned playmate. Haven't told the biggies yet - have that planned for tomorrow evening when everyone is home.

The end is indeed nigh mrsb!

Yeah, we like to catch them young in here tartetatin Mine's 4 years younger than me. But I'm small fry to mrsb and her 12 years?

Btw, telling your older ones can go either one way or the other. Mine think I'm barking mad but love their little sister to bits (although no one has yet offered to babysit ) Think you're youngest one will be best pleased/most jealous

I keep going back to that bedlinen and almost ordering...then stopping myself...honestly, he'll go mad if I buy any more gear for her

acchh men can be such spoilsports

did you click back to the main offers page jw? there's an even nicer more girly set on there

there is a third type of reaction - condescension! my son said to me - "oh isn't it good you can still manage it" when I told him I was pg!

Guys, there is a blob. With a heartbeat! Everything is fine and I'm measuring at 7 +6. So two days more than I thought, 8 weeks tomorrow!

I'm gonna be a momma!

Yay, Tee, good news indeed! So pleased for you, have been thinking about your today. What a relief! Now you can celebrate with a glass of ...erm...milk!

yay congrats tee

only seven short months 'til that wee blob is a little ahem darling keeping you up all night

lol@mrsb. Yep...then you can age 10 years instantly!

Well done Tee so pleased that everything is ok. Only another 7 months of worry....and then a lifetime!

mrsb are you trying to corrupt me with cheap bedlinen? If so, it's working

congratulations TEE that is indeed fabby news, I think a slice of cake is needed to celebrate
hi tartetatin you are most welcome, I'm 42 and just had a baby 5 weeks ago and also have a 5 yr old. No toy boys at hedgepig towers DH is 4 yrs older than me
Oliver has put on loads of weight and is now 6lb14oz he is pretty much following the bottom centile line and the HV was happy with that.

Tee Wow - BRILLIANT news - so, so pleased for you Hahah - echo the sentiments of both jw and mrsB only 7 more months old stress, the birth and then the sleepless nights. Worth every minute of it....and some more. Well done you!

hedgepig Good news on Oliver's weight....you watch that lad swoop up those charts.

tartetatin I'm afraid I'm one of those toy boy girls....DP is 7 years younger than me which makes me about middle ranking in the craddle snatcher stakes
Enjoy the breaking of the news tomorrow!

hello ladies glad to see that you are all srill around sorry that I am not on much but ds now 5wks old and doing fab still bf and just so busy as have also gone back to the gym as it has a fab creche and i know them all really well.

Welcome to the newbies and just for them I am 46yrs and my eldest son is 28yrs and I have toyboy four years younger.

take care everyone and even when I do not post i am thinking of you all .

big waves rosebury Oliver is 5 weeks too and doing well now he is on the bottle . I am so impressed you have been to the gym, the most I can manage is walking to the school bus stop to get DS
from school.

rosebury how lovely to hear from you!!

Wow - 5 wks old - BF AND going to the gym You go girl!! Sounds like you've got this baby thing licked....you should write a book! Glad all is going well xx

MW visit today and we're trying K off her O2 and see how she goes. Hopefully we'll get an hour out of her

Can't believe how upsetting the details of this poor child that was left to it's horrid parents by social workers. I really don't understand how anyone can hurt a LO.

Oh lordy, has anyone seen the line up for I'm a celeb? I don't watch it if I can help it but it's on DH's tv list (along with all the other dross he watches). It's obviously been a line up to cause as much entertainment (?) as possible. The celebs putting the Celebrity in the title include; Carly Zucker (who?) Martina Navratilova (why?) Danny Behr (done nothing for about 15 years), Joe Swash (thick Eastenders reject) and the piece de resistence, Robert Fake Tan-Silk. Gets worse every year imho. Still, there's a page 3 model in there along with the rest of the eye candy so it'll keep the men folk watching. Sighs.

DH has been in bed since tea time last night with another migraine. I think he's going to need to go back and see the neuro surgeon again. Meanwhile back at the ranch I'm remembering what it's like to be a single parent! K was having her usual evening suck n blow session (gorge yourself then puke) so we had a few dress changes last night and by the time bedtime rolled round, I was knackered.

Still, I feel much better now that I've seen that Miss Katona apparently lives on a diet of coke and sugar puffs. Shame that there's no cake though

Sugar puffs make my wee smell funny.

JW I was in tears watching the news last night when they were reporting on the little boy, it is beyond comprehension how you could do that to a baby.

ermintrude do you often smell your wee??

when i've eaten sugar puffs i can't help but smell it, it's a weird, sweet, musty kind of odour, like an old lady's handbag in which a boiled sweet is slowly rotting away. i thought that was normal? anyway, i generally steer clear of sugar puffs.

I can't bear the texture of them ...like sugared cardboard
how are you feeling?

It is, literally, beyond comprehension. What horrifies me is that there seems to have been an element of them covering up not so much to avoid getting into trouble but more so that they could carry on abusing him. The mother lied and plotted in order that the boyfriend could continue to have access to him. Did you see that they covered his injuries on his hands and face with chocolate once when the social worker came round so that she couldn't see what they had done to him? How could any mother let that happen?

I can not understand it at all. I think people like this just do not have the same values boundaries as decent people do.
how is D does he have the cold yet? my HV said there isn't much you can do other than saline nose drops to clear their nose before a feed and raise the head end of the cot (but your amby is raised already I think). Any worries to go to the drs

thanks hedgepig well he doesn't seem to have it - he was sneezing and coughing a wee bit yesterday which is what made me think he was getting it - but he seems fine - absolutely full of smiles.

Yep his Amby is slightly raised as is the rocker that he insists on going to sleep in.

Like I said yesterday its well over a week now since OH brought it into the house and so he has been exposed to it for a long time now. Despite our best efforts at hand sterilisation etc you are never going to prevent exposure if you spend all your time in the same room and with feeding etc so his immune system has withstood it this far. You would think a non bf baby wouldn't have been able to resist it this long...

Methinks that there is indeed a huge cover up going on with these social workers. And I see from the news (although I may be wrong) it's the same local authority that (mis)handled the Victoria Climbie case

Not sure what kind of old ladies you come into contact with ermintrude but from the sounds of it I wouldn't want them near to me

I'll never look at Sugar Puffs in the same way again.

what I don't understand is how any health professional who had seen a battered baby and knew it was a repeated occurrence could bring themselves to hand it back to the parents. you would think that if you saw a little boy in that state who you knew hadn't been in a car crash or something you would just make as huge fuss 'til someone helped him.

A friend of mine is an nhs child psychologist who sees disturbed children and she once went to a house where the kids were being abused and she felt were in danger, but the local authority wouldn't listen to her so she went round one night to see them, wasn't happy at whatever was going on, and took them out of the house and down to the police station and insisted that something was done. it worked.

I've been trying to avoid talking about the child abuse case in the news because it's so appalling I can't bear to listen to the details. Not shutting my ears and going lalala but not feeling strong and calm enough to hear it. Impossible to understand the people who did it, and the huge number of social and health workers who didn't follow through suspicions. Someone on the Today prog said that social workers have too much admin to do - that may be true, but delayed paperwork isn't what killed that child.

Back to more mundane subject, though not as mundane as my Sugar Puff reaction, I'm still nauseous and throwing up but have eaten so much this morning I haven't had time to puke. I fear this policy may backfire... But thank you for asking hedgepig! Had my booking appt yesterday and the MW has left both arms bruised and sore. I think my b/p decreases when I'm pg because usually I give blood like a stuck pig whereas she really had to work at it. ouch.

Glad to hear your dc hasn't succumbed to the cold mrsb. I think bf babies get the benefit of all those immunities later in life - they're building it up for the first six months or so, and mine got most of the yukky things doing the rounds in nursery, but neither has missed a day of school due to illness, so I'm taking the credit for that. Sounds like your babe already has a strong constitution, good for him!

Good Morning Ladies!

Had a horrible night sleepwise, you would think the successful scan would have eased my mind, but apparently not!

BTW if one more person asks me if we are going to find out the sex of the baby? I will scream! I don't know yet! DH and I are debating about it! Just like we are debating whether to use disposable or reusable and whether or not to use a paci!