40 + Mums and Mums to be - Bellies, Tellis, Vomit and Poo

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Come on by if your 40 + and are pregnant, almost pregnant, just pregnant or even just want some virtual cake!!!

lulu at 22 weeks, with a little baby squiggling in my tummy, I would be hard pressed to do anything other than say yes, yes and yes again!

Tee Lovely bump

jw so glad to hear about the neck thing ... I was going to ask you today what the Dr had said. Must be a real relief.

lulu if you partener is willing - just do it. If that's what you really want why not eh?

neddie hope you're feeling better soon

I'm feeling fat and out-of-breath and waddly this week. keep falling asleep on the settee. Must be too many days off work eh?

I saw this article today Chocolatehelpsyouliveto_100 ... just as I thought (she says stuffing in another dairy milk bar).

Bonzo I'm on my way to my first century That cheered me up!
JJ I have persuaded DP to come to live over here ASAP and sod the salary- we can eat beans- as long as we are together. Sometimes you just can't do everything on your own- and having twins, a stud farm, other children and a textile business is just toooo much. So on Easter Sunday I had a little breakdown in a picturesque little village outside Bath (you Know they race cars there)and told him I couldn't do it anymore. He was great and last night we did his CV over the phone for 2 hours!
I am proof reading it tonight and we can send it off tomorrow- fingers crossed everyone.
Off to stuff another choc egg........101 bday?

Oh dear neddie you're really going through it. Hopefully when your DH comes over the live on a permanent basis, then your anxiety and a whole load of other practical things will resolve themself. Thinking of you dear.

lulu my oldest is 23 and youngest is 11 months. Go for it!

Many thanks for your comments re the neck - or pain in the proverbial.

tabitha I started taking the raspberry leaf tea at 32 weeks. Back in the olden days I bought it loose from a healthfood shop. Times have moved on however so you can probably buy it in a more practical way of using it.

Ah bonzo snooze-arama? Remember it well. It's an evil plot as once you recover from the pregancy exhaustion then it's replaced with new baby exhaustion

mrsb tempting me with cake-age! I dare not risk 6grams. I'd love to but dare not. Once I get a taste for sugar then who knows where it could lead? You're leading me to wrack and ruin.

Thank you for your thoughts Johnworf- I am normally a "get a grip" kind of person but when I do get down I go to the bottom of the pit. I've done a bit of praying ( to whoever listens) and hope my fortunes turn. I try to bear in mind all the really lonely and hopeless souls for whom my life would be paradise and try to be positive. Soon I will be knee deep in poo and vomit with 2 wailing sprogs and all this will seem absolute bliss!

Ps Raspberry leaf tea is great I took it with DD2 1 1/2 hour labour from start to finish! (Could have been castor oil though

Raspberry leaf tea it is, then. I'm convinced.
Lulu I'm having my first at 43. Good luck to you and DP.

Morning all. TFI Friday indeed.

Kids back to school on Monday (small hurrah!)

We're off to Laser Quest today and lunch out. I'm having retail therapy while the boys chase each other with laser guns. Meeting with DS#1 who is working in the shoe shop today so I'm purchasing some black cork heel wedges with a nice 25% discount Can't say fairer than that really. Just need other son to start work in a handbag shop and then all my dreams have come true

Saw this article about home births which I thought was interesting.

Morning all!

Set new personal record last night - 5 trips to the loo. Each one followed by about 30 minutes of baby going 'Mum, time to get up? Mum? Mum? Mum?'

And indeed TFI Friday. I'm actually at work today, since Monday and Tuesday were holidays. Not used to working on Fridays!

Enjoy your therpy, JW!

tee sounds like a good night It's just practice for when baby is born Then you won't know what a good nights sleep is.

I intend to enjoy my shopping therapy. Now I've flogged all my bigger sizes on Ebay, I am only left with 1 pair of grey knickers and an old nursing bra. Off to buy some clothes that fit

lulu we've got a 24yo, 22yo, 2yo, and one on the way (24wks) and it's all brilliant. The 24yo has a 2yo, and the 22yo has a 3yo, so we're grandparents as well! I agree, go for it!

Good Morning all

Ds2 has suspected chicken pox, I have the beginings of a cold and sore throat, and I know that ds2 wasn't where he said he was last night, but I can't prove the little swine is lying!

JW, can I come shopping with you, can I please, please please?

MrsB, I wonder if your Effing B*stard Cat is a relation to ours, whose official name is 'come here you bloody little swine'. We have had cats for years but lately took in a gorgeous ginger tom as a favour for a mate's daughter. Never, ever again. Ours poos in strange places, where you can smell it but not find it. His latest award winning pooing place was on a blanket that covered a box of rare singles of dh's. Damage running into the hundreds of pounds . We've looked it up on the internet and decided that he is 'stressed'

Actually he's had a crap life, we're pretty sure that his previous owner but one was prosecuted for his treatment of him, he ended up in the cat's home, where mate's daughter got him from in December, he then had his tackle chopped off in January, then she had to move house and couldn't take him with her so he came to us in February. And he is very gorgeous , but then again with behaviour like that he has to be!

that should have said that I know that ds1 was lying about whre he was last night, I know where chicken pox boy was!

tee five times sounds like a very broken night - poor you. When does the nighttime peeing start? I haven't had to do that yet (I do sometimes get up to stuff more haribo sweets but that's another story).
Lilibet get a tracking device for those kids I'm sure my parents would have set up an entire incident room with flashing lights if only they'd had the technology.

How far are you along Peachyfox ? I am peeing at about 4 o'clock but then I have double trouble in there. I have to sleep in the recliner at the moment because something has happened to my back so I am almost up already.
Cat poo- one thing worse- cat pee! I love them but wouldn't have a litter tray in my house so I would have to keep them outside.

Neddie I'm 21 weeks, but just the one bubs for me!

I'm not a cat person really, DP and I are both crazy about dogs but can't have one till we're settled in one place (when! sigh...). At least dogs can't lie - you know when they've done something wrong...

peachy I think the night time peeing began around 26 weeks or so. At first just once a night. Now, as I said, up to 5. I think what it is is that every time I roll over, the baby hits my bladder and off I go!!

Oh cool peachy I will be giving birth at the same time! Hopefully. I think you may have told me already but I have pregnancy brain.

Hello all - just popping by as I'm running around like a whirlwind today....christening cards to make, shopping to do, friends to see and a lasagne to make - OOoo, get me I'm a cross between Nigella Lawson and Kirsty (handmade) Allsop!

Lilibet OOoo er, it's all going off at yours - son going AWOL, pee and the pox Chickenpox has been rife here but Iris refused to get it. Would have been good to get it over and done with.

Sorry about the cat pee. If it's any consolation - our cat Bob is a bit daft and clearly isn't very good at being territorial. It turns out that another cat is slinking in after her as she goes through her magnetic cat flap. Keep looking round and seeing this big black thing making itself at home Bumber about the records though.

neddie that sounds uncomfortable - poor you.

I still get up most nights for a pee - maybe I'm just old with a crappy old bladder

OK - off to shops and give mate her b'day card. See you later x

Ok, I'm back. I've emptied M&S and H&M although there's a few bits and pieces I didn't fancy so you can help yourself to them!

Phew. Shopping is tiring but rewarding.

I still get up for a pee in the night. I have about 5 inbetween actually getting in bed and going off to sleep. I think my bladder is the size of a pickled walnut.

Don't do cats for all the reasons stated above. At least with a dog they know when they've done wrong i.e. pooped. And you can clearly see it on the floor, not on top of your best silk underwear (unless it's mrsb's silk underwear that the cat moth has already gnawed on). I also hate the way you always turn on a light (usually bedroom) and there's a cat there, on the bed, blinking at you, looks like it's playing the cello as it licks it's back leg, and then squints as if to say (in a Lesley Philips voice) "and what the bloody hell do you want?"

jw sounds like you had a good shopping day! weather no good today - lots of constant light rain. so stayed in most day.

i agree about what you said about cats. but i dont like having dogs either. cos they have that dog smell. so when kids start asking for a pet, i will say, how about fish?
i know that they will pester me for one! ah, cross that bridge...

had stressful morning cos regular cleaner unavailable, so substitute cleaner turned up and she was hopeless! she did not finish the ironing. in fact, in the time it takes normal cleaner to do everything she hardly did anything! not sure what she was doing cos i was out at friend's place, while DH (who had day off) was dozing in bedroom. anyway, goes to show you nothing happens in my life, that this is the only thing worth talking about today!

heron we looked into getting a cleaner but I'm one of those people who would clean before she got here. Wouldn't want her thinking we were dirty....so seemed pointless. I don't iron anything. Straight out of the tumble dryer/off the line, folded and put away. Apart from the very odd exception, that's how it's been for ages.

Over the years I've had every household pet you can name apart from snakes. They've all got their pro's and con's. Dogs can smell. We send ours to the doggie groomer for bath and haircut. He smells better than me when he comes home Whatever you get for them, they'll be bored with it within a week. I convinced an ex partner to get his 14 year old (at the time) a rabbit. She'd been banging on about one for a year. Anyway, after 2 weeks she was fed up with it and I was lumbered with cleaning it out. I ended up giving it away in the end.

Just looking at my spoils from shopping. I really like the M&S Autograph Limited Collection at the mo. Bought quite a lot of it. Very nice it is too.

Goody Neddie a birth partner! I'm due August 26th so they say.
We're off out for the evening. I've managed to put on an outfit that doesn't make me look like a weeble (remember those things that wobbled but didn't fall down?) and DP is wearing his new very posh jacket and a shirt. We are going out in a very arty area of Berlin, which is already one of the scruffiest places I've ever seen, so to say he is overdressed is an understatement. Still, I've told him and he'll not be told!
JW good stuff on the shopping, I love the rustle of bags at the end of a good day

Morning all...ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz!

Oh for a cleaner! Actually we did have a cleaner but I think she was heron's replacement cleaner! I found her asleep once There'd be no point at the moment with all our building work....any cleaner would have to move in - it's a 24hr job...especially following the cat around. She's leaving a chalky trail of paw marks about...grrrr PLUS at 5am this morning she wretched up sick and a fur ball on the stairs...so gross

jw congrats on the shopping. I fitted in dash round Primark - got 4 t-shirts.

Ok...off to drop off a 3rd birthday pressie to Iris's little friend and then onto a 4th b'day party in 'posh' laand (Henley) where DP is the DJ....don't ask.... Well, best rake out some Boden then...the place will be heaving with yummy mummies. Mmmm, now that makes me want to wear a velour tracksuit

jw ur so right about the pet thing with kids! my DS1 had a couple of goldfishes, i was the one who cleaned the bowl etc!

it is a lovely day here, a little bit on the nippy side, but it will be warm apparently this afternoon.

i think i woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning. all i could see are all the things waiting for me to do. like tidy up, bla bla bla. i am summoning all my positive thoughts to get me happy because it is a bright sunny day! one of DS1 friends is having a birthday party at 12 at our garden square. being a bright sunny day, it should be lovely!

my LO always wakes up with sticky eyes. obviously during the night, the sticky stuff dries up and it all ends up on his bedding. doctor would not give anything for it. says that it will go away on its own? any experiences to share on this issue?

what is everyone doing today?

jj yuuukkk! we used to have cats and they were long haired cats, yes, i remember them puking up balls of hair. so slimy and gross! of course, i was the one who cleaned up all the time!

funny what you said about the cleaner you had! asleep!!!!! that takes the cake! are you renovating at the mo? should be lovely when it is all done. just hard when you are in the middle of it all!