40+ Yummy (or not-so-yummy) Mummies, Come and Eat Cake

[ladymac]

Have taken the plunge, hope this is acceptable to everybody.

Morning all. OK, ok, this period pain is 3 days long and I'm fuming Tummy looks like a baseball!

hedgepig Norman is a fab name....is he just like Fat Boy Slim? Or more a man of conquests? BTW - I love the look of your wedding outfit in those pics - tres stylish

Well, Verity is only just 'getting' the galt ring. Iris never really did - but loves it now Verity can just sit up unaided - although she will occasionally fall to the side with a face-squashing hud! I think it's when they can start to move about a bit that it comes into its own. Otherwise - I use it for small toy storage

jw Verity watched the Obama proceedings in her Tripp trapp yesterday! She loves it - we all had dinner together and I was horrified as she snatched three bits of pasta and munched them straight down from my plate! Oh Lord the baby-Led-Weaners will be ssoooo thrilled!!!

DPs cousins have teenagers who still have their Tripp Trapp chairs. They're surprisingly portable too - fit into the Berlingo a treat! Not tried two though I think of them as a decent chair that everyone is going to use and doesn't shout 'BABY' when you see them!

Iris still a bit yukky but we're gonna brave a playgroup. Oh yes we are.

Thanks for the reccommendation JJ. Sold to the woman at the back! Just hadn't realised how pricey they were esp with the accessory kit. They're a bit like the Amby in that respect although I'm sure that also like the Amby, they keep they resale value. Great also they fit in the Berlingo. That means they'll also fit in our ice cream van (Dobbin mobile).

Glad it's not just the tiny babies that don't know what to do with the ring. Like you say, when they start to sit up on their own I'm sure they'll get a bit more use out of it. As it is, Galt dinosaur is doing a great job of 'propping'.

Is there nothing you can take for your period pain? Hot water bottles are good and so are those heat patches you can buy (Cura Heat?) My DH swears by the latter for his back aches.

JJ - you win the prize - my surname was Eatock or Eatcock as many a person has changed it to!!

Dd hates it with a passion.

I thought Michelle Obama and the girls looked lovely.

mornin all

The thing I like about Michelle is that she never felt the need to use the services of a stylist - even for yesterday and just goes out and buys what she fancies herself - doesn't go to designers scrounging freebies like the celebs do. And if she styled herself yesterday then she def styled those girls in those lovely coats/matching tights etc.

I loved Obama's swift dig at the cult of empty celebrity too in his speech.

Speaking of AF - mine has just arrived today ten days late! and no, I wasn't worried. Since it returned it has been fairly clockworkish. Is this normal does anyone know or is my fertility going into a sudden and rapid decline?

I've never suffered from period pain but have used evening primrose iol in the past on the odd occasion when I have. Don't know If that is acceptable while bfng *jj?

I like the Tripp Trapp chair - but haven't figure out how much it costs for al the additional accoutrements yet

mrsb Tripp Trapp chair is around £110 depending on the colour. The harness is £18.50. Baby Set is around £30.00 and the padded cusion is £18.50. Kiddicare are doing a bundle on chair/baby set/cushion for £157 but don't think there is a harness included in that. Not sure if you can use any harness...can you JJ?

My periods have been pretty much on time but last month I went to 43 days and I'm usually around 30-32. I knew I def wasn't pregnant. Not sure about fertility indicator. I'd have thought it was more a sign of hormonal imbalance??

Electrician showed up unexpectedly which was a big surprise! We now have the new light in the kitchen and it looks lovely. Of course while the man is here I'm giving him lots of other jobs I'd like doing....like I want the tv mounted on the wall and the wires burying which he says he can do. Just have to line up the decorator now and then they can talk to each other.

Also, as we're not going on hols this year I'm seriously looking at having a nice patio done and some landscaping. Might as well enjoy our garden - weather permitting.

Afternoon, ladies.

So I was suppose to hear about my triple test within two weeks and that was Monday...DH wants me to phone but I think I am too scared of the answer...some body tell me to phone!

Survived the playgroup!

jw according to our mate who is an environmental lawyer - she said this year is going to be a scorcher! Get that garden done - we're doing ours....you know it makes sense! Plus DSS will love it!

My periods are all over the place but this is only the second one since Verity came along. I'm just taking paracetamol as that's ok with BF. I've read that up to a year or more after the birth your hormones are all over the place - so I doubt if it's fertility linked mrsB Why? are you trying for another?

Michelle Obama could make an old sack look slick!

I noticed that dig mrsB I like the tone Obama sets; it says nothing comes for free and every one needs to chip in and build communities which in turn builds a country. It's quite an old fashioned, basic feel which I like. Nowt fancy!

PHONE tee PHONE!

I'm sure it'll be fine - and remember - even when it's not fine (ie: like my 1:2 odds)....it'll still be fine

Go on - nothing ventured and all that. Sooner you know the better.

Thanks JJ I phoned. Results are not back up. I'm to ring back tomorrow.

Go on Tee phone - we'll all cross everyhting for you

Yee tee Phone! I'm sure no news is good news...so ..go on..make it official!

JJ sorry about the period pain...I am only just getting regular again nearly 16 months down the line and like you I though the menopause must be hitting early..what is more the more regular I'm getting the more they are getting like the old, painful,heavy, miserable ones I have suffered since my 20s'....paracetamol, hotwater bottles and hot baths are the order of the day for me at such times...I hope yours stops soon.

I missed all the Obama shindig yesterday... we were at the funeral of a dear friend, taken by ovarian cancer exactly a week before her 49th birthday... I found the whole day very distressing (and somewhat frightening; "there, but for the grace of God" etc)...and I was so upset for her (adult)daughter, her husband and her poor mother and also awe struck by her siblings who got up at the end of the church service and bawled out "like a bat out of hell" kareoke style with the tears rolling down their faces...it was their family party anthem, what she wanted and she would have been proud!

Well done all of you losing weight...as I suspected 5 days of drinking honey and lemon, sucking continuously on cough drops and sat wrapped up nursing myself has undone most of last weeks good work for me as I have gained 2lb ...total loss now only 2lb...XXstone 12lb

X-postedtee ... just look how long it takes me to type! ...fingers crossed for tomorrow

yes tee good luck for tomorrow. Its horrid waiting for results like that. You want the phone to ring and you sort of don't. I was walking down the street when the clinic phoned with mine and was so relieved I nearly cried.

Floria {hugs} how brave of your friend's siblings. Ovarian cancer scares me much more than any other kind - its terrible for someone so young to die needlessly like that. As you say there but for the grace...
Ever since I turned 40 I have felt like every day that me or a loved one doesn't have something terrible like that is a blessing and I try never to be miserable about crap that doesn't matter so that if the worst ever does happen I will be able to look back and be glad that I made the most of my good fortune while I had it. Its all you can do really.

Have just walked into town for my soup ingredients and it is lovely day here; sunny cold and crisp. I know I have only lost three pounds but my back felt distinctly much less achey while walking and also my bra seems to be suffering less "overspill" which is good.

Its definitely a good time for home improvments ladies - I had a man ring me up yesterday form a home improvement company - not at all like your usual call centre cold calling - he was saying if you want anything done now in in the near future we will do it £45% the going rate. Not at all pushy but sounded desperate - poor chap. s a buyers market at the moment.

mrsb you are right. It is a buyers market at the mo which is why I'm making the most of it. Apart from Stokke stuff though which never seems to be half price or even a fraction of the price off

tee I'd look at it like this; no news is good news. If it had been bad they would have got back to you before you. That's my theory anyway

Fab news that your back is easing up mrsb.

K has really taken to her puree food now and bounces and shouts between mouthfuls. We then have a little cry when it's all gone so I'm thinking of going to 2 meals a day now. The other end of the process is vile and it really is the most awful smell when it comes out but I'm sure her guts will get used to it in time.

Meant to say floria so sorry to hear about your very sad news No age either and must be really tough on her kids even though they are grown up Keep your chin up old girl (((hug)))

Meant to say - is it me or is it a bit strange that a Russian spy has just bought the Evening Standard for a quid and no-one seems the slightest bit surprised or put out by it.

Afternoon.

Oh floria how awful -- ((hugs)). No age is a good age - but that's one thing about the 40+ time - it makes you feel less invicible. Having said that I went to through a phase in my 20s where fit, strong friends of the same age died and it was a terrible few years.

mrsB good to hear the back is holding up. I've just done a mile walk into town and back - felt really good, eased the period pain too

jw yep, Stokke never seem to discount! On the other hand Halfords are selling the fixed car seats with a discount at the moment. We got one and it's the same as Iris has - only £40 cheaper than we paid 18 mnths ago!

Am so hoping work doesn't dry up for DP. Having said that we're getting loads of enquiries about conservatories and extensions. Seems people are adding onto homes rather than move unless they have to. So fingers crossed.

Yep - spys at the standard....most odd. Is it the Standard he's bought or Associated News - which means the Daily Mail too? Mmmm, I shall check. A £1 you say - we could have all chipped in.

Verity is wailing and clinging onto Bob - best go

So sorry you had to go through that floria. Must have been horrid.

Just the standard I think jj

no stokke chair for us I fear - in fact, to go to the oposite end of the market so to speak, I got a leaflet in the door saying that Asda are doing a baby/toddler thing next week and are selling a nice enough looking Graco high chair for £25 quid. Might get that - it can always be relegated to grnadma's later - like the Galt ring. Thay are also doing a sweet enough looking baby gym for £15.

Desperate times call for desperate measures and all that. Might tootle on over there next weekend.

mrsb I saw that ASDA were having a baby feature but didn't see any details. Any other goodies in there?

I got K the Tiny Love gymini and after 5 minutes she's had enough. Again, maybe she'll grow to like this?

Btw JJ I had a look at Halfords and although they say there's half price chairs I can't see them Mebbe it's just me being a dozy moo.

hmm... a door bouncer for £15 - another 5 mins and "waaah let me out now" job! a Hauk sport buggy for £25 -that was about the most interesting stuff - they are doing packs of body suits and babygrows in blue or pink or yellow/green seven in a pack for four quid.

I think the cat punctured the Galt ring but its too big anyway and ends up getting used as a toybox/laundry basket/catbed. I might get the flat baby gym just to give him something pretty to exercise on - rather than a rug or a changing mattress. I know he will only last 5 mins on it -he is at the point now where he gets bored of everything after 5 minutes and wants to be bounced on your knee 24 hrs a day.

Caught myself thinking today that it might not be such a hardship to have someone else entertain him for several hours a day a couple of days a week. The maternal instincts are clearly withering on the vine!

Hahahahah mrsB you've got to that stage! Oh how you love and adore them - but boy, oh boy it can be dull I mean really dull!!

Why do you think so many mums go to these playgroups and clubs which are clearly useless for the kids? It's something to do, that's not just drinking coffee!! I think it's also part of the reason mums sometimes become sooooo competitive - they've turned it all into a work-style job to keep them focused!! Personally I'm expecting to buck the trend this year and recieve a MASSIVE bonus for the work i've done with Iris, especially the growth we've seen in this last quarter...

Oh, not sure what's going on at Halfords - we ordered online last week and collected in store.

They are all so funny with the stuff you buy. Iris loved her playgym but Verity not so keen, yet adores the ring. Unfortunately Bob the cat likes it too.

Best thing I ever bought for them - which they both love - is the vibrating rocker plus Iris can still use as it's like a kids' chair too.

haha yes jj I know, I know

oh yes D loves his vibrating rocker too - loves to fall asleep in it. But he keeps trying to sit fully upright in it and in his buggy so I'm thinking he might like sitting in a high chair surveying his little kingdom.

Overall the best thing we bought is the Amby - the last few nights when he's been sick and grumpy I've taken him into bed with us after the 4am feed to get him off quietly - but lo and behold each time he has woken after and hour thrashing and whinging - I put him back in the Amby and straight off he goes without a peep. He knows its for going to sleep in and seems to find it very easy to drop off in. I will be sorry when he gets too big for it.

Oh I can see me getting to 'that' stage at some point but what to do? I can't send her to nursery until she's 3 as before then she's still open to chest infections. So, I have 3 years of entertaining. At least! In winter there won't be any mother and toddler group either for the same reason.

K hasn't got a best thing yet. She views everything she has with the same derision. We're reaching the first awkward phase which goes on...........forever

hmm... you'll have to hire a governess for K jw she can come in several hours a day to entertain madame while mummy reclines on a chaise longue eating grapes and soothing her nerves