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

HEY! jw that's NOT going to be bad news....promise! Bet it's something like a few too many white cells which I think translates as 'run down' or slightly aenemic. I've always had to see doc after a blood test - just to talk through the results good or bad because there is usually a good reason for why you were there in the first place. It's our surgery's rule that you must have appointment after a blood test. Anyway - they'll probaby want to squeeze the lump out like a HUGE blackhead Awww, I'm only teasing....I'm just pleased it's classified 'non-urgent' Can I have a bit of celebratory cake? Can I? Can I?........**runs off to cupboard and finds nowt but rice cakes....

mum41 Oh - how awful Christmas AND twice TWICE?! OMG - that's rubbish

Cheers for the info everyone. Mmmm, I was thinking that it's probably lurking. I will also take time out to inspect bottoms.... hedgepig we've spent time last week with infected little monsters....so I suppose it could be brewing.

Righty ho - calamine lotion on standby me thinks!

good news jw clearly something fairly low key then

just been out for walk to town - was wondering why the buggy seemed to be a little off kilter - OH reckons it has a puncture. It's not all good with these modern new buggies.

Ehm sterilising plates and spoons? ooh err ahem. Never even thought of it but if you are not s'posed to wean until 6 months then why would there be any need?

Oh bugger he is awake - back soon.

jw - that's good news on the blood results! If it was at all bad they'd have you in the surgery tomorrow.

Tee What an absolute witch that woman is! I thought Peachy's idea was a good one. Not write about her depression on your blog but write about how someone keeps asking you about why you are ill and then have a rant about how it is private and really insensitive to keep asking you...
SO glad your boss said the decent thing though. If all this fails can you not pull her aside and say in a chatty way that you'd heard her talking to someone else about you being off sick and you are a bit upset as it's a private matter and you don't want to talk about it?

I'm getting excited - off to see CirqueDuSoleil tomorrow at the MEN arena. Wanted to see the show for aaages and then it's come to Manchester (woo!). Have to go to the Matinee to afford it though - but it's still the same show so brill .... have the toffee popcorn lined up.

thanks for the advice or not on sterilising, will have a huge chunk of worktop space back now I can do away with the big Milton filled tub just a few more months till the avent bottle steriliser and the 2 bottle warmers can go then will pretty much have my kitchen back
lounge became a baby free zone a few weeks back when we were able to do away with the downstairs changing table only to be replaced now with the babyden as no room for it in the conservatory as thats where they have thier jungle bouncers and no room in the study as thats a temporary home for the double buggy after school runs, I don't think we have any babyfree zones in a five bedroom, three bathroom, three story house, not even our bedroom
my they take over

jj if you need it calamine cream is a lot easier to apply and much less messy

bonzo they are just amazing!

so when can the bottle sterilising be dispensed with?

oh and mum42 what's a jungle bouncer?

I mean mum41

Personally? I won't be sterilizing at all. It isn't done in the US and I think its a bit of a waste of time, since my kitchen isn't sterile, so how sterile is the bottle once it comes out of the sterilizer?

But that's just me.

MrsB you need to sterilise the bottles for ages because of the milk. It is more susceptible to growing nasties due to it being liquid sugar (albeit a natural one). This link says bottles for milk up to one year.

I don't think I did sterilise food plates and spoons for M. The food going onto them wasn't sterile and she was exclusively BF until gone 6 months so I figured her immune system was getting working. If I'd started weaning a bit earlier on mush and stuff maybe I'd have sterilised more.

I thought it was basically for as long as you fed them formula bonzo- due to the pathogens that can build up from the milk. So yeah, a year sounds right. Wondered if that, like most other things had changed. Can't wait to get rid of that hulking great steriliser off my worktop. Will have to wait a while longer...

Ooooh the apprentice starts tonight...have red that two of the candidates are shagging already and one left before filming began as he bottled it.

mrsb I'm formula feeding and it's 1 year, not sure for BF.
have put a pic on profile of one of the jungle bouncers, I think its 3rd pic down, anyway I'm sure you'll guess which one

ahh yes mum41 thought so

oooh your wedding dress

I'm sterilising K's bottles until 12 months old. I'd sterilise her if I could squeeze her in and get the lid down I still sterilise her spoon and her bowl but probably won't for much longer seeing how she likes to put toys that have fallen in dog hair into her mouth

DH loves The Apprentice. It's all a bit pantomine for me now. Keep expecting Sralan to be dressed up as Widow Twanky and Biggins popping up next to him instead of Nick or Margaret.

Thanks girls for listening to me whitter about my results. Hopefully all will be well when I see GP.

Is the Jungle Bouncer made by Fisher Price? It costs an arm and a leg. I bought K one of the activity stations. I took it back the next day as all the noises on the activities frightened the life outta her. It was sad her stood there in it bawling her eyes out. Ah well.

Pic of K today in her Bumbo especially for FloriaTosca. Thanks hunny xxx

Great pic jw.

aww jw beautiful! did you artfully arrange that curl or is it always like that? she looks so much like you.

D has a baby Einstein thing - not a bouncer but similar - he cried once when I made a loud noise spinning some rollers but he loves it now - will happily spend half an hur totally engrossed in hammering and bashing things. Its great

mrsb all her hair is concentrated into that curl. And no, I don't do anything with it. It's just like that

Now have images of me putting a roller in the front at bedtime

Think I've lost the plot.

mrsb the thing I took back was very similar to the one in your link but not the same make. She totally freaked. She was still crying when I'd packed it away in the box. The box alone scared her it seemed

She's sticking with the safe King Frog (in the pic). He's nice and quiet

omg Tee you wonderful person you!!! When DH insisted on sterilising DS's bottles, I was quite thrown, as it's just not a big issue in the US. He was horrified when I said "what's wrong with just washing it in hot soapy water, just like everything else??" I have dutifully purchased a cold water steriliser, although how often I use it will be another story!

I'm not sure that hot soapy water is sufficient, especially for newborns. It's on here if it helps.

I hate the the faff of sterilising but in some ways its easier - you don't have to worry about whether they are properly clean or not - you just know they are.

jw bless her little heart I too was going to say she looks more like you as she gets older.
I guess you have heard the poem 'there was a little girl who had a little curl......'
yes it is Fisher Price, 'price' being the operative word when you have 2 to buy they do love them though they don't really make alot of noise which is good because our big fella gets a little nervous of loud and busy toys, they just play a couple of little jingles

And yet here, they disagree JW.

On the UK version it recommends sterilising tee unless you're going to use the bottle immediately. As anyone who has made up bottles one by one for a screaming baby knows....it doesn't work.

I think you've looked at the US version of that page and of course, it will say you don't need to sterilise, as in the US they don't!!

I think your HV will advise otherwise.

You can tell it's a US page, they can't spell 'sterilise' properly........hiss....boo...

LOL JW. My point is that I may live in the UK, but I still won't sterilise. Unless someone wants to tell me my water supply is bad, in which case I'll start sterilising everything everyone uses!!