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

[jeanjeannie]

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

duchesse, I like anchovies when they're melted into a tomato and rosemary and cream and parmesan sauce and served with pasta (DH's only River Cafe recipe and it's a good 'un) but have a problem with small fish that still look like fish when you eat them. Wish I didn't, because they're so good for you, but I spent too many years watching DH stuff fried whitebait into his gob and thinking of giants eating dolphins...

peachyfox lol @ your baby arriving on time in Germany. I hope they call you an elderly primagravida rather than primate!

Tee hope you feel better soon. I'm still nauseous all day and the only meal I enjoy is lunch, which is usually a filled, toasted bagel and some fruit. The rest of the time I feel full up and sick. Definitely worse than either of last pregnancies. Still, just over 3 months to go - less if they tie me down and try to induce me on account of my great age. (I'd really rather have a CS - knowing how powerful natural labour is I'd hate to try to induce it before my innards were good and ready).

Floria and JW I like this handover plan: I'm seeing Manchester, by the canal, dusk. Two shadowy figures meet by a bridge and, wordlessly, pass a large, strange-shaped object between them before creeping back into the shadows. A briefcase full of notes? A binbag full of drugs? No, nothing so predictable: A bumbo.

You forgot the codewords ermintrude. Floria My bumbo flies at midnight

JW And bumos across the bay.

They nod and separate...

I have to ask, what on earth is a bumbo?

its a small baby chair - like a potty only a chair - I only found out what they were called the other day. I used to call them potty chairs

ah yes, Peachy, they do look very similar. I never had them in Spain.

You guys who went blerch! need to know that these are not at all salty like tinned or jarred anchovies- just yum. And they don't have their heads on. At least if they do I haven't noticed.

lol@potty chair I don't think you're supposed to poo on it though.

These of course are a completely new phenomenon to me since having last DC 17 years ago.

Floria I'm thinking of a scene like this one when we meet to hand over the Bumbo. I'll be the one standing up with the newspaper. Code word: Trossocks

Thumbs down for anchovies I'm afraid. The smell alone makes me want to hurl (although I love whitebait).

LOL JW. Don't forget the hat and the trench coat!

It would appear that my depression is rearing its ugly head and hence my feeling like crap. And that stupid git who rang from my GP's office wants me to go off my meds? Yeah. No. I am seeing my GP on Friday in any case.

In that case I think my Grandma used to have a bumbo when she lived with us

Tee sorry you're feeling down, hope it soon passes, these are very hormonal times aren't they? I lost a friend recently, so throw in pregnancy and the fact that I've always been a weeper and it's hard to know where it comes from...

Morning all - why did I got out with two snotty, miserable DDs?? PAH!

All your Bumbo questions will be answered if you see this short film on youtube; DP and moi howled for ages when we saw it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE8QOFEJr9c

tee sorry you're bluergh.....sending feel better vibes!

peachy LOL@ at baby arriving on time in Germany

Those anchovies sound gorgeous. I love small fish although i know some people feel odd about eating heads!

jw yes, why don't we live nearer? I've got stuff to pass on too. Plus - I'm feeling a little out-of-tune with most of my 'mummy friends' They're all lovely - really they are but so emminently 'sensible' and occasionally 'nice' Home Counties. Oh Gosh I'm not putting this very well - just that, they're not very sparky, or creative, or witty. I sort of want to say ase really loudly just to do something a bit naughty. So - why can't you all live nearer - so I could have people to chat to in RL - and say ase without making people break out in uncomfortable hives

Ok moan over - I must shut up and stop feeling sorry for myself < slaps self round face and gets on with it!!>

PS> Induction is a bit like going 0-60 in a fast car without being told that's what was going to happen - and not wearing a seat belt!!!!

JJ LOL that video is great!

Well, we don't all live nearer...but maybe we could do a weekend meet up in some central location? Once my LO is born!!

And we don't say ase we say BOOBIES*!! Sheesh get it right .

ARSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JJ I know exactly what you mean about the company one keeps in RL. Lovely people but not necessarily those you'd choose to socialise with if your DC didn't go to the same nursery/school/etc. I find that occasional swearing sorts out the wheat from the chaff - go on, say Arse! and you may be pleasantly surprised at how many people warm to you, and wish they'd dared to say it first. I like saying Pissflaps! and seeing the reactions . Makes me feel like I'm presenting a much truer version of myself...

The other day I had the words 'fanny batter' in my mind and just couldn't stop thinking about saying it out loud. I resisted.

I've had drinks with one of DSS's friends mum. I was trying to be good and get on with other mums but she's just not my bag as they say. She keeps trying to set up another meeting but I keep finding excuses not to Bad me.

Maybe we should all relocate to a chosen town - I say we move to Ugly which is somewhere in Cambs (isn't it hedgepig?)

That bumbo ad is weird!

FANNIES!!!!

He he, JW I've heard that phrase on the Ed Byrnes live DVD - he says something like, "At school no girl would look twice at me, except as a shoulder to cry on, but now I'm on the telly things have changed, and for the last few years I've been deep-fried in fanny batter". We're going to see him at the Playhouse in April.

Hahahahahahah Thank-you ladies Yep - let's all up-sticks and move to Ugly!

jwLOL@ Fanny Batter tourettes

ermintrude and jw well, I'm glad it's not only me then. I think I'm just feeling sorry for myself. Operation 'pissflaps' here we come

Hi all
It's such an education reading these posts (where have I been all my life?)Bumbo? And the baby hammock/mosquito net thingy? How ever did my little ones manage? We did have a baby bouncer which was fantastic- in fact I must confess to having let a little one bounce herself to sleep .

Peachyfox yes I know all about German efficiency- how do you think I got twins?

Lots of rude words I'm learning too

Anchovies bleurg- whitebait-yay

ps I'm not posting up my scan pics till after the nuchal next week- don't want to tempt fate.

LOL ermintrude at being deep fried in fanny batter. What man wouldn't want to be?

Love Ed Byrne. His voice does it for me.

neddie you must have led a sheltered life if we're teaching you naughty words. Don't tell your mum though as she won't let you play out with us anymore

Not sure if it's something to do with being catholic but everytime I'm in church, I always want to shout something very rude out (in the bit where the priest says lets have a moment to pray for others). I imagine one day I'll stand up when everyone else is kneeling and shout 'fuckity bollocks!!!' or something of that ilk. Then I'll be thrown out of church like in a western when the cowboy comes flying through the saloon doors

I'm obviously far too repressed.

JW if people did that in church I might be tempted to return to the fold . You'd love the episode of 'Curb your Enthusiasm' when Larry David and friends have opened a new restaurant without realising their chef has Tourette's. All is going swimmingly until a lull in the restaurant buzz, at which point the chef shouts 'fucking cocksucker arsehole shit'. There's a terrible silence and then Larry David decides the best thing to do is join in, supportively. So he shouts 'Bastard shithole wankfuck' or something, and then his wife joins in, and eventually everybody in the place is ptsl and shouting out the worst and maddest swearies they can think of. It was obviously done unrehearsed and they're all genuinely in fits of giggles, made me and DH weep with laughter

isn't that a bit like when you are standing on a cliff edge and you get the urge to jump off jw? its your brain wanting to do the worst thing possible just to get it over with, it reckon. I don't think that will make sense to anyone but me...

It has been an education on here to me as well - but for this thread I would not have discovered lots of fab things like the use of Metamian which has given my little man a lovely perfect skinned bottom and we are still on the first tube after 6 months!

Just been for a nice walk to the museum gardens where I was accosted by an old man eating a pasty with his mouth open who told me that D was lovely. I said thank you very much and scuttled off before I saw too much of what was going on inside his mouth

Hi all, sorry have been AWOL the last few days. I've not been giving birth it's just life keeping me busy. Having a sit with my feet up at the mo catching up as ma-in-law is here and bless her, she's doing the ironing. I love her!

Don't know if you'll see this eulalia but I was so sad to hear your news. I'm sure that you are getting lots of love and support from your family and friends. Will be thinking of you.

Have been chuckling at some of your posts, most recently peachyfox's granny having a bumbo and johnworf's missionary position wallpaper

I've got 4 weeks to go now and am getting quite vast. Really struggling to get my shoes and socks on. Living in my Gap jeans with the over the bump stretchy waistband and my Converse. Going out tonight for a friend's birthday to a Thai restaurant and wondering whether I can dress up said jeans and Converse to look a bit smarter. I did wash the white pair yesterday, do you think that counts? BTW, that's the white shoes, not white jeans. Who do you think I am, Liz Hurley?

At my hospital the policy with women over 40 is to monitor you 3 times a week from week 38 to check placental function, baby's heart rate, amniotic fluid levels etc. I went into labour spontaneously at 39 weeks with Elizabeth so not sure what would have happened if I'd gone over. I got the impression that as long as all was okay with the monitoring and you kept having it then going over was not too problematic. Am seeing the consultant next week so will ask her about their policy though I'm hoping I'll pop around 39 weeks again.

How brilliant to hear from mrsjupiter just after jw had mentioned her. And how wonderful to hear how well Eva is doing. Would love to hear more about Eva and your life in China if you get time.

jw Katherine is so gorgeous, she really is the little girl with the little curl, isn't she? Glad you're able to get out more with her now (even if it is just to the dry cleaners!), you must be very proud showing her off.

Am going to try and have 40 winks while I've got the chance. Try not to fill up another thread while I'm sleeping

ladymac can't believe your imminent birthing day has come around so soon. Blimey, seems like only yesterday.............(old age emoticon). Just laughing at your trying to find an outfit to go out in Katherine has got a mightly big curl on her forehead. I had one as well when I was little. It's a family curl duntchaknow?

The monitoring seems about right from what I remember when I was preggie with K. If you're ok i.e. your placenta is ok, then they'll let you carry on regardless.

mrsb the mental imagery of the man with said pastie going around his mouth like a washing machine has set my very fertile imagination off, and now I have a scene a la Sir Digby Chicken Caesar from Mitchell & Webb in my head, chasing you and D down the street like Benny Hill. I need to get out more.

ermintrude I've never seen Curb Your Enthusiasm but fancied it from the trailers I've seen. Shall look out for a good deal on Play.com and make hasty purchase when offered at a bargain price

mrsb I hope it was a Gregg's pasty.

ladymac slap on a nice necklace and a bit of lipstick and everyone will think you've pushed the boat out at this stage in proceedings! Thai, yum, have a good night.

JW CYE is superb, but I can't watch more than 2 episodes at a time because it's painful, just waiting to see how he's going to balls things up. Beautifully done, with really great characters, but sometimes too awful to bear

mrsb Is Metamium sore bum cream? I discovered Bepanthan and never looked back