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

[ladymac]

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

lmfao mrsb.

Coward!

Going to pick up the Wii from DD#1 this afternoon but she hasn't got Wii Fit so looking around for somewhere that has it in stock...Blimey. It'd be easier getting a date with the Pope

hen's teeth jw

Afternoon all. Welome Bonzodoodah and congrats on No2....you're postively a spring chicken in these parts! Slummy mummy is good - and much applauded here....pull up and have some cake. Make that cyber cake as it appears we're all going on real diets in this cyber-world!

JW, mrsB, hedgepig....Who is going to call the 'weigh in - or weight off'???

Hi Floria wow. sounds like your mate's hubby is a good bloke to know.....unless you wanna shift the pounds!!

jw we just saw some of CBB and didn't know who half of them were

right! I have just ordered the Davina workout dvd from Amazon.

/flexes muscles

/eats three more Thorton's winter collection choccies

That's right mrsB you get limbering up now. Don't dive in too quickly and make sure ALL the choccy is gone before it arrives

Well, I'll tell you ladies one thing...I'll definitely be joining the weight off once this baby is outta here! Just got on the scale...so much for not gaining weight. 2nd Trimester weight gain appears to be right on schedule.

Yip and may I add eee. At least its for a good cause!

OMG JUST TELL US ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But I do think DM is wrong. Based on the clues so far.

(I'm talking about the next Doctor, in case you have no idea what I am talking about!)

hmmm.. well never heard of Matt Smith but he looks the part alright....

A little young...but very cute...and has the hair!

'ere jw and any other of you ladies with older kids (born between 1986 and 2003 to be exact). Apparently, those of us with kids born within those years and who were working during 2002/2003 may be entitled to a small tax windfall from Her Maj's Govt. This is because there was a precursor to the tax credits system which they didn't tell anyone about. Have a look on the entitlement Agency's website for further info. I myself think that I may fall into this happy category of people and might be in line for £500 which is, I think, miles better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

That's the second Very Interesting Thing I discovered n the interwebs this weekend

Hello just saw this tread and am adding myself as a proud expectent mum. Im 42 and 6 weeks pregnant with my 5th child. Was'nt planned but im thrilled. My other children are 24, 21, 19 and 13 so its a huge gap. Most people have responded positively when i told them, a couple including my sister have said im too old and its selfish to have a baby at my age, but i dont agree this baby will be very much loved by everyone in the family and im really excited.

Welcome loganberry and congratulations! You'll fit right in around here!

mrsb what was the first very interesting thing? I'm dying to know!

err.. well I was reading about research into pre-eclampsia tee and as we know they don't really know what it is or why it happens but research apparently links it to a mother's unfavourable immune response to the father's DNA which is present in the foetus and the placenta. Anyway this research has apparently shown that the more mummy is exposed to daddy's semen the more she can tolerate his DNA and the less likely she is to develop PE (because her immune system system no longer reacts so strongly to him and because semen contains dozens of chemicals which help to regulate the mother's immune system as implantation takes place).

Said research also claims that oral ingestion of semen is the best way of getting the mother acclimatised to the paternal DNA (but this could be because women who do more oral sex just tend to have more sex). They say that a woman who hasn't been living with her partner for very long and who has used barrier methods of contraception is more likely to get PE than a woman who has been with her partner for years. Also, second pregnancies are less likely to result in PE for similar reasons.

I found it very interesting but of course it could all just be an elaborate plot by men to get more nookie

welcome LOGANBERRY12 and congratulations - how could it be selfish to have a late baby? what rot! what difference does it make how old you are? ignore the silly sods who said that!

You are by no means the oldest on here and there are lots of massive age gaps too!

Evening loganberry CONGRATS! And 'PAH' to 'being selfish and too old' to have a baby Never heard such stuff and nonsence! You'll fit in just fine here as many on this thread have much older ones too. Plus - you're not even the oldest! I'm 43 and only started at 41 and, 2 years later have two DDs - the youngest being 7 months! How are you feeling? Has the dreaded MS kicked in yet?

Mmmmm, not sure about the new Dr Who. I'll reserve judgement till I see him up there on the sparkly silver screen.

In a bid to join in with everyone losing the weight...as from the 5th I think?....I'm demolishing Pringles. Got to get rid of them. Then there is only the Thorntons toffees to eat and I've a sweetie-free home

OOooo, mrsB Dp found an article in New Scientist all about that, just as I got preggie with Iris. Poor me! He was cock-a-hoop that it included oral-sex

Awful thing was - he remembered all about it second time around with Verity......WHAH....BUT, I never had pre-eclampsia.......

Hmm, interesting mrsB. Now...do I tell DH?

haha yes, tee I was reading it out to my OH who was rubbing his hands in glee - my pointing out that we are probably ok on that front was met with much resistance

He will remember if we ever go again!

I am nearly through the Thornton's now jj

What, we actually have to swallow now, in order to avoid pre-eclampsia? I also hear that the more a woman says 'no really, I've never seen a bigger one' the less likely she is to contract pregnancy diabetes too. Same scientist, I think... .

To more serious matters, the new Dr looks like an old Etonian, all that floppy hair and mockney lingo. I will give him a chance, but only one.

Welcome and congratulations to loganberry, and thanks to mrsb for the tax credits thing. I thought I started getting them in that year so didn't read up about this, but seems that's not the case, so will get onto the hmrc website pronto!

evening, Mrs B very interesting about the PE. It would fit with what my mw friend was telling me, if they have a lady with PE second time around but not 1st they tend not to ask to many questions about who the father is IYSWIM.

So for the weigh of I think we need to pick a day (not Monday too depressing) and post the "scores on the door"

Loganberry pleased you found us, what a bag your sis is I bet she will be 1st in the queue for baby cuddles..

yes ermintrude and in order to avoid obstetric choliaswhassname you have to do ana.. no! wait! that research is ongoing..

I don't think I got these unnamed credits either as I'm sure they were called tax credits when I started claiming them...

it did say hedgepig that the incidence is much reduced where a change of paternity occurs between first and second pregnancies

it also said there are what is called "dangerous males" who do not have the factors in their semen which regulate the female's immune response and pregnancies involving these chaps tend to result in PE and miscarriages.

Morning all. Another full nights sleep Yee haa. Just as well, as we have Mad FIL coming round - where one day I will turn into Margaret Rutherford just after dinner and it will all become an Ealing comedy

And then it's off to see DPs Brother and his (we now think high maintenance) girlfriend! But they DO have a Wii Fit...tee hee...I'm so going to beg for a go

ermintrude I totally see what you mean about the young Etonian look. We have loads of that kind of boy round here who go to the posh Grammar at the top of our road. We call them the 'Fat-lipped Boys of Marlow'! One chance here too. Like they say on the set of a porn film...."we want a 'show'er, not a grow'er'

I'm off to Asda.........will the fun never end?

Morning!

Oh yeah, JJ big fun planned around here as well. Going through the closet again to move the stuff that no longer fits into my growing bump! At least I have lots of lovely things to replace them with!

Morning all. Glad to hear that Verity has got the hang of the 'all nighter' routine

Can we do weigh lists on Tuesday/Wednesdays as I'm getting officially weighed on the Tuesday evening at WW's? (and my home scales are broken - not by my weight I hasten to add!)

DH and DSS are downstairs arguing whilst playing Wii Sports. I thought these kind of things brought families together?

Have tried to source a Wii Fit but to no avail so far. They seem to have all gone. Why don't Nintendo just make more? Or is it keep the supply down and keep the demand up?

I have no plans today apart from trip back to Sainsbogs to return some vests I bought for K thinking they were long sleeved but they're not. I'm such a dizzy moo. As soon as I enter a supermarket these days my memory just goes. Even when I have a list! I'm doing laps around the place aimlessly wandering and looking like a gawp

No sunday lunch today as I did a roast on NYD and not having two in a week...oh no sirree.

Going back to sleeping routines, I have the opposite problem to a baby that doesn't sleep in that one that always seem to be tired. She reminds me of Dylan from the Magic Roundabout. Now had she been a normal term baby and I didn't have a house full of medical equipment I'd be worried. But I've checked her O2 levels (normal), her Hb taken 2 weeks ago was perfect and better than mine, and she had an ECG and heart scan on Monday last so I know that there's nothing much wrong. She went to bed at 10.30 last night, woke me at 6am for a feed. Straight back to sleep in her cot until 9.30. Fed and changed and flat out again in her cot again at 10.30! I actually rang the MW last week just to check there was nothing else I should be looking at and she said she was fine just a sleepy baby. I think it's more worrying than when they won't sleep (although not as tiring and frustrating obviously).

Another thing I wanted to ask was has anyone elses baby at 4 months started crying at people that aren't mum or dad My DD#1 came over last night and asked if she could hold K and I said yep. Whilst on her knee, K eyed her up then started to wail. As soon as she was back on my knee all smiles again for her big sister. She also burst into tears in her bouncy chair when my SiL came round couple of weeks ago (although she does have that effect on me as well!) I thought this was something that happened a few months further down the line but I'm probably wrong.

JJ have fun with your FiL (James Robertson Justice)

tee enjoy getting yourself a new wardrobe. Any excuse is a good excuse with me Just hope you're not like me and can't fit in the pre-bump clothes when you've delivered

Got some books from library for baby first foods y'day so off to get lots of lovely veg for puree dishes for freezing. Saw the baby led weaning book on Amazon and was curious enough to read the synopsis. Still not convinced