40+ mums-to-be and those who've 'popped' - come say hi, pull up a chair and have some cake!

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Hello everyone - yet another thread. I'm expecting a call anyday soon from ITV - as I imagine we'll be prime candidates for taking over the Loose Women slot when they need a break

So, for anyone interested in joining in with us - just jump in and say Hi - we don't bite - unless you're disguised as a chocolate sponge cake

Ladies..................Take it away

Tee they probably aren't. I guess it probably just shows you how long it's been since I've had contact lenses that they seem so much more expensive now. I just don't want to commit to a monthly fee when I can just purchase a pair of glasses. Guess that makes me a bit cheap.

morning all

Have had v long lie in as Mr D woke at 7am then came into our bed and feel asleep, when he woke up OH took him down and left me in bed.

That's it - no cards or owt. Oh well mustn't grumble

Have "suggested" that OH might take me into town for lunch in a bit.

Poor old Jade...

Hope all you mummies and mummies to be are having a lovely day.

Morning all and happy mummy's day.

Triggles I still have hard gas permeable lenses and opticians call each other out to look at them in horror. I've had them for years, my eyes are in good condition and there are no nasty deposits on them so they can't tell me to change! I do sometimes use soft daily disposables for holiday but I have slight astigmatism so they're expensive. They do monthly disposables too and I guess when my prescription changes radically I'll have to get them, but I hate taking soft lenses out - I end up pawing at my eyeball which can't be good [hmmm].

Tee you sound like my sis with the bottle glass. Her eyes are so bad she gets free eye tests every year and her specs cost a fortune.

I've trumpeted the Westfield health scheme before I think - it's a non-profit making health insurance scheme - and it pays you a certain amount towards eye tests/glasses/ contacts every 2 years so I find that very handy to help with the astronomical costs. I am NOT on commission and do not know anyone who has ever worked there, I promise, I just think it;s a good thing and it started in my home town of Sheffield.

mrsb D would have liked you to have a card or a small box of Thornton's, DH must listen harder next time. You tell him . Hope you get lunch out.

JW enjoy your time with your DC today, hope they fulfil your chocolate urges.

Floria that's too much cooking in too short a time. Get some rest, woman!

Hello all. Not been around as I've been mighty rough and had to cook for friends last night - not sure how I made it.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY.....and tee you are a mum - you're mum to the lovely bump

jw sympathies. My a*se is like it's had Xenical and four curries - can't go anywhere as I can't be away from a toilet. I'm fuming. I did get nice flowers, a card and some choccies. No toothbrush though

Hope you all get a little bit of light relief and appreciation today I'm heading back to bed and maybe go for a little walk later - or maybe not Lordy - hope this clears up for the funeral tomorrow!

Poor Jade - poor boys - that'll always be Mother's day for them now.

See you all later - and flowers all round to us all.....

My eyes are most odd. I have had bad eyesight from childhood - astigmatism in both eyes. Should have worn glasses but didn't as it was never bad enough to affect my life (unlike OH who is virtually blind without lenses). Anyway a couple of years ago I spent an hour and a half in the opticians while he tried in vain to find any lens that would improve my sight. He said in the end that my eyesight is better than it "should" be and must have somehow self-corrected and stopped deteriorating over the years. He said he had never seen anything like it.

So he gave me glasses and said it was up to me whether I wore them as they wouldn't make much of a difference.I didn't bother. But since I have been pg I have noticed my sight has got much worse so I guess I will need glasses now.

Lie in?!?! what is that? it was DH who claim he need a lie in cos he is sick with man flu
i have the cold and been soldiering on as usual!
flowers? well, half wilted carnations from the corner store. card? well, apparently there is one coming.

if i sound a bit bitter, it is because i feel very disappointed.

so to compensate i just hug my boys a bit more. focus on the lovely weather.

oh btw, DH went off on a bikeride to lift up his mood. poor thing needs to get out and do his thing.

me, so far, i have done all the work, including making meals as per usual.

i think the world will pretty much go to chaos if women go on strike.

heron22 awwwww. I'll send you a ((((hug)))) As DH has reminded me several times today, I'm not his mother He's right of course, I'm not. However, K isn't old enough to take that £5 note from him yet and go and get a card and some cheap flowers.

My older ones descended just in time for the pizzas coming out of the oven. I made nice sandwiches remembering who likes/doesn't like what. They all sat around in the kitchen, teasing each other, talking, older DD showing off her iphone etc etc. Much laughter and noise from them Reminds me of when they all lived at home. K was passed around as each of them had a hug and she was very accommodating

Anyway, they've all gone off to do their own things now so it's just myself, DH and K until later when DSS gets home. I've already told him in advance I'm not cooking today I bet I end up cooking.

I sneaked 5, yes 5, doritos from the bag and was left wanting lots more. I've not taken the tablet today although I'm still fearing for my bowels (I hear you JJ and my hearfelt sympathies are winging their way to you and your baboon botty). That was my treat for today.

JJ arm yourself with a packet of Imodium as a just in case for tomorrow. You really don't want to have an accident at a funeral, or anywhere.

As for the specs, I've now been warned that my eyes will get worse in the not too distant future. I have to have my eyes tested every year as my dad has chronic glaucoma and so did his mother. Once you're over 40 then you're also considered a candidate

mrsb at least you got a lie in. You have to take the small pleasures wherever you can find them once you have a LO in tow. I'd say a lie in was a grand luxury Unlike JJ who got the full set - apart from the toothbrush

I have to confess that I am a bit disappointed not to have even been given a card - it's just I thought OH would make a little bi of an effort as he does for birthdays etc. And its not as if he hasn't had major hints dropped his way for the past two weeks. So we were out today buying a lovely bunch if flowers for his mum and I said sod it and bought myself some roses. He said do you want me to buy them and I said don't bother I'll get them myself.

So I am with you heron useless sods!

Happy Mother's Day you lot! I had Bacon Avocado and Stilton sandwiches (on granary toast) in bed - YUM! Plus a beautiful gerber plant (which I adore - suptle hint received and understood there). Since then been for a family swim which M loved - jumping in off the side and kicking like a nutter. And now (bliss) she's having a super-long nap... and relax!

I went to the optician the other day and he said my eyes had improved! I've worn glasses for short-sightedness since I was 7 and they're finally getting a bit better. I said "oooh does this mean that I've reached the ages where they get better and better until I have perfect sight again?" The optician said "yes! If you live to be 326" (git).

thank you for the hugs jw

thank god this day is nearly over so i dont have to be disappointed

dont mean to sound like i had a horrible day, i had a lovely day with my kids. it is just i hoped very hard and dropped direct hints about special treats on mothers day...

Happy Mummy's Day all. I got a card from my Bump and it brought a tear to my eye. Aww. How soft I've become.

So you've unburied DH then, tabitha?

Yes, I dug him up. He needed a hose down, though.

heron22 best not to build yourself up to having some dream day in future as you'll only be disappointed (I think most of us on here have been there, done that). It's not worth it. When they get older they'll do all the nice things for you and you can sod the OH It's nicer when they've done it themselves anyway

You're like me mrsb. If my OH had offered to buy the roses I would have been quite adamant in my refusal. Well, if he was gonna pay for roses, why didn't he save you the walk?

Starting to panic now over the blood tests tomorrow. Taking DH with me (that's how bad I am). No idea why as all they'll do at the appointment is take the blood but I will feel like I've got a bit of moral support I believe that if they find something very bad then they'll get in touch the same day. Just have to get through tomorrow to Tuesday then.....

Have been thinking about you jw and your tests tomorrow and hoping it all goes ok. I hope they do let you know the results quickly and that it is all summat and nowt. I'm sending good vibes your way

Thanks mrsb. Mucho appreciated.

I'm having fun, fun, FUN! ....doing the washing. Where does it all come from? There's only 4 of us yet it seems there's a mountain of dirty clothes. I'll have to don my deerstalker and see if there's a hole in the wall where the rest of the street are depositing their stinky smalls.

My DD#1 bought me one of those signs for the back windscreen which reads 'world's best mum on board'. DH thinks this is hilarious on so many levels We already have a 'baby on board' sign which he hates! Not only does he hate it on our car, but in anyones. I think they're useful if you had a crash then I'm sure they'd know to look for a baby in the mangled wreck. I doubt whether the new sign will make it into the car though as I'm not sure that firemen will see the sign of 'world's best mum' and think they'd best start digging for her

DSS has come back from his mothers house in a shell suit. Oh god. It's worse than the Elvis t-shirt she keeps sending him back in. This woman has no taste. No. I take that back. She does but it's extremely bad. Anyway, he said he didn't have a good weekend. No details just that it wasn't good. He won't say a bad word against her and with his Asperger's, there's no point pushing it as he just clams up. He'd make a great spy

I've worked on DH once again for the iphone. Didn't help that I shouted DD#1 in to show DH just how utterly brilliant hers was and she puts a pic of a gun on her screen, flicks the phone and it rings out a gunshot sound. DH in fits of laughter say 'oooh we simply must have one if it does that'. Scuppered by my oldest child. I kept saying to him 'oh it does loads more than that' but by then he'd lost what little interest he had.

Bugger!

good luck on the tests tomorrow johnworf

we have our 20wk scan tomorrow, and I'm a little nervous about it due to those DS results of 1:12. Fingers crossed that there are no soft markers, and we'll breathe a little easier.

Good luck to you too Triggles for tomorrow.

I know people don't like those baby on board things but I'm sure that they re useful in case of a bad crash.

jw you are absolutely right, better for my boys to do it themselves when they are old enough. sod the OH!

good luck with your test tomorrow. pls let us know how you get on.

Good luck tomorrow JW.

You too, Triggles

A friend of mine (Hedgewitch here on MN if you know her) just gave birth to her daughter. Posted that she was headed to the hospital around 1pm. Daughter born at 2:01pm. I can only hope!!!!

Blimey tee I'd say that was the exception and not the rule! Although you can live in hope that'll be your labour too

Thanks for the good wishes. I've now swung into 'I'll be fine' mode. From one extreme to the other.

triggles will be thinking of you tomorrow with your scan. As I'm fab at doling out positive advice to all and sundry just not taking it myself, I'm sure that LO will be 100% perfick

JJ are you out there in the bewilderness? Hope you're not stuck on the loo

Just waiting for my highlight of the week - Antiques Roadshow. I should be on it Get nowt for me though.

Been very naughty and had 2 Thorntons chocolates. If it comes back to haunt me in an hour, so be it. Desperate times call for desperate measures.

yeah, I kinda figured that JW

JW If you can use your trip to the doctor's to keep up the i-phone pressure on DH it might take your mind off the tests. Hope it goes fine for you.

I saw Ben Elton live about a hundred yrs ago - before he sold out - and he did a v funny routine about how Baby on Board stickers irked him because he believed their message to any cars behind was: 'I know that you'll be psycopathically careless and aggressive in your driving if you didn't know this car was carrying a small child, so back off, you violent loser.' Which made him want to follow those cars home, right up the drive, and bump into them.

My sister's DSD comes back from her mother's dressed in bizarre clothes, and the ones my sis buys her are never seen again, so she's taken to keeping everything she buys at their flat to make sure it gets worn. Nasty to use the child to make a point, but saying that her mother does seem to be coming round, slowly (she and my sis's BF got pregnant on their second date and got married straight away, which was a bad idea).

Can't believe these OHs who do absolutely b-all for Mother's Day. If only to get the DC into the swing of it ready for the day they can take over. I hope you disappointed girls a) don't mind too much because your DC would give you card if they were capable, regardless of their dads' inefficiency and b) make sure you don't mark Father's Day in June

JJ hope you're not stuck on the loo and are feeling better.

Triggles hope the scan goes brilliantly!

ermintrude my DH is of the same school of thought re the Baby on Board signs as Ben Elton it seems. I'm not sure that they're specifically designed to tell people behind you to take extra special care and not accidentally bump you as you have a small child in the car........which is also what he thinks.

I'd say that the men folk who are proactive on occasions such as Mother's Day are in the minority. Most of them can't be arsed. When I challenged DH y'day as to why he wouldn't be doing anything he said (apart from the 'you're not my mother') he couldn't be arsed with any made up commercial money grabbing day that card makers had thought of This includes birthdays too. The prospect of him not receiving anything on Father's Day would be very pleasing to him as that would be a few more pennies saved. Yes, I do live with The Grinch.

After a row regarding clothes that DSS's mother instigated (she threw ours out or gave them away, not sure) we send him back to hers in what he comes home in. None of our stuff goes up there. Saves hassle in the long run. I can empathise with your sister as I've been there myself. Lordy, second date? Had 'doomed' running through it like a stick of rock eh?