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

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Here's another one!

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

LOL JJ. Great picture! Of course, you didn't show the next one, where she's actually eating it...

jj ah that's what I did ont he first day of holidays in Tenerife - I looked like a boiled tomato! And I was sore for 3 days - really silly! Of couse M was slathered in factor 50 / hat / sunshade etc just like V. I felt a right idiot.

jw rules - yes - ahem - made for breaking in my book (of rules). There's always going to be a chocking issue with babies and food. (M choked on something the other day - scared the life out of me - had her out of the chair and upside down, patting her and it came out - fortunately.) I think the thing is that babies can deal with lumps and chunks sooner as they are more developed when they are weaned at 6 months+. Unlike times not too far past (your first 3 children) when we were weaning at 4 months. Then the baby didn't have the same tongue control and neeeded to have mush or they definately would choke.

Anyway - we do what we think is right and if it works it is super - and if anyone tells us otherwise they can sod off - innit

On a slightly more sensible note - I think with many things connected to parenting it's horses for courses. Iris was just not the type of child to go for the big lump food thing for a while. She's also got problems with her fine motor skills, so it would have been a nightmare for her to deal with. She can still barely use a spoon - took her until over a year to find her mouth with food. Also I would have been terrified - first baby, prem and all that.

Verity on the other hand - no problem - not big on mush but in hindsight I could have left her till about 7-8 months before weaning. I have no problems with her even coping with an apple and she's only got two teeth!

The problem for me is the evangelical approach to finger food from many on the weaning board - as though they've discovered something revolutionary and we're all a load of plonkers who are going to cause irrevicable harm (or a best constipation ) to our LOs because we puree stuff. I've not got a problem with it either way.
Then again - as you'll see from the pic in the link in the previous post.....I reckon what's good enough for my cat....

Haha! JJ love the trailing babygro leg. K has one of those when she gets a new size

I honestly never knew that you could serve baby food in a cat bowl. I spent all that money on a Tripp Trapp when she could have shared a bowl with the dog.

The cake shoppe is the same shoppe as the white chocolate and blueberries came from

Sweaty raspberry is on trend too. You're streets ahead of us all again

Oh yes jw I found once Iris started to crawl I could serve her food anywhere....cat bowl, the floor, the gutter...the stairs

MMmmmm those white choccy & blueberries......I think I fell in love with those

OMG that expression 'on trend'...hahahah or as Gok would say 'bang on trend' AHHHHHHhhhhhh!!!
That's me alright....'bang on trend'...

Verity's having screaming ab-dabs...she's so tired but won't give in. I want CAKE but there is none in the house....can I make grapes appealing?

/runs in

Want CAAAAAKE! WAAAAHHH

/runs out

JJ I was going to write 'bang on trend' as the very effeminate stylist on GMTV always says it. Everything is 'bang on trend'. I was listening to him and thinking 'wtf does that actually mean?' I think it means (in my olde worlde language that it is trendy or 'in')

Awww poor Verity. It's awful when they get overtired. I found a cunning plan tonight where I had to go and help DSS so I put her in her cot, didn't put the blind down and lay her on top of her blanket and not in her gro bag. I also left the door open so she could hear me. When I went in a couple of minutes later, she had gone off on her own I think it's the ritual of curtains drawn, gro bag on etc that gets her crying.

Just sat down to watch MPW. So glad that Anthea and the Bovey man have gone. I'd hate to be at a dinner party with them..eugh.

I have an early start planned tomorrow. To the shops while it's nice and quiet as I can't abide fighting my way around the supermarket. Also have a list for DD#1 You never get rid of them even when they grow up!

I managed to resist the House of Fraser bag sale today. They had Radleys at half price but found the strength to resist. Yay to me

JJ I suggest you cover the grapes in chocolate

JJ try this Grape pudding - a friend of mine from college used to make it:

1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon orange rind
1 cup sour cream
2 tablespoons of Grand Marnier or Cointreau
2lb of seedlesse grapew

Mix it all together and scoff

Ollie has just gone to sleep argggggg he was also very over tired we went to the fair in the next village and he woke up and would not go back to sleep. I introduced B to candy Floss, poor deprived child has got to 5 1/2 and never had candy floss.

/ hands mrsB some toast and jam (no cake to hand) in a baton passing relay stylie!

Oh wow hedgpig that sounds way too good Mucho thanks - I've ended up with more grapes than you need to make a gallon of cheap plonk! Candy floss - how exciting - I hope he liked it!

Not been watching Hell's Kitchen jw mind you - I can't bear the Boveys...smarmy looking duo. There's something about MPW that looks unclean - and not in a dirty (sexy) kind of way.....just mucky, like he's not washed his neck

Good for you on resisting the bags. I want to get a really good fitting pair of jeans - ones where the waist actually goes in - rather than flop down on my hips. Apparently there are some in HoF called 7 (ages of mankind) and they are horrendously £££ but have nipped in waists...am tempted to try them on - but what if I like them?! Perhaps then I'll have to buy them and be...yes, you've guessed it....BANG on trend

Have fun at shops - think we'll be in for a rough night so not anticipating an early start although have local kiddies party at 1pm. Hope your DD1 gets her flat trauma sorted.

DONG! Yes, that's Big Ben and it's time to say goodnight everybody......."good night everybody" x

'ere I can have toast and jam...

oooh jj try 'em on have them, they'll last for ages!

I just bought this
and this

and ahem these

Just a quickie...sorry I've not been around...
JW Thanks so much for Weds it was truly delightful, especially meeting the utterly gorgeous and impaccably behaved MissK ..and appologies for not being very on the ball...by mid afternoon I was so tired I wasnt even capable of finishing my sentances...Its this teething malarky after 3 weeks of lulling me into a false sense of security in the belief that I would get 4 or more consecutive hours of sleep a night, A has been keeping me up half the night again all this week ...I'm not surprised you succumbed to chocolate...(especially after I had scoffed all those profiteroles in front of you...I wish I could say my self disgust and shame has spurred me into getting back on track with the dieting but sadly ..not yet )I hope you have a fab shopping spree tomorrow and the Doblo doesnt cost you as much as you fear.
Peachy Thrilled for you on the good scan result.
Iris Were you not on the Oct 07 antenatal thread?
Hedgepig that recipie for grapes sounds amazing!
JJGlad you had a good time...lol at the raspberry look...it is a look I have sported frequently. Aloe vera (I even grow the plant just for this purpose!)takes the edge off it quickly I find.

Morning all.

Man does heartburn suck. Especially at 2am.

mrsb I love the skirt and the scarf. 3rd link doesn't work.

hedgepig will hold onto that recipe for after baby born! Like, maybe for while still in hospital.

Everyone have a lovely day!

Morning ladies.

floria poor you - broken sleep like that is crippling. I find it almost impossible to go back to sleep straight away too. Teething is giving us the run-a-round at JJTowers Iris was screaming the place down at 3am which then started Verity off....I remember going back to sleep and the dawn chorus was in full swing with me contemplating a blackbird massacre!

mrsB as American waiting staff are so fond of saying...."Good Choice....Good choice!" I LOVE white Stuff - would basically buy it all up at the beginning of the season! Wore my blue skirt (funeral outfit) yesterday and cot loads of compliments Yes, the last link didn't work - pray tell us what it was!

tee sorry about the heartburn - I can console you with the fact that once the LO is out, it slumps away literally that day.

Iris and DP still not up - mind you he did end up in bed with her till 6am, everytime he went to go she wailed like crazy - so he's had less sleep than me!

morning all

We ll Mr D didn't sleep a wink all day yesterday from 7am til 7pm - he fell asleep when we were driving home from his gran's in the evening so we hardly saw him but boy did he sleep last night! - surfaced for two bottles and not a peeop besides.

Sympathies jj on what sounds like a horrendous night!

trying again

tee I know it still seems a way off but in a few weeks time you won't even remember the heartburn. Being at work in the hot weather has reminded me of being regnant last summmer and with the beginnings of SPD and polyhydramnios I know it must have been very horrible but I can't remember what it felt like. Which is good.

My sister arrives today so must get on and get sorted..

have a good one all

Am v of Ulrika's new cleavage

morning all! mrsb very of your shopping ! love those sandals!

floria hugs to you, broken nights are so hard!

dang! just burnt a pancake! forgot it was still cooking, got distracted reading all the posts on this thread!

mrsb love love love the sandals!

heron remember, MN is bad for your cooking!!

Mmmmm, nice sandals mrsB am of your shopping haul. I like a twinkly gladiator- inspired shoe.

heron yes MN is rubbish for aiding good cooking. You really need to be perusing Delia online if you want those pancakes edible! Meant to say - I'd not realised you were from OZ - is it Sydney you're heading back too. If so I'm VERY LOVE it there....that weather, that lifestyle...that food!! Then again, I'm pretty envious of anyone heading to Oz, NZ, West coast Canada or the West coast US!

OMG MY breasts used to look like Ulrika's boobies I want mine back *stamps foot in child-like, petulant manner

Goes off to look at Ulrika's boobs....

Fab they are too! Mine are like the before ones but flatter...like pancakes. OOps sorry heron, you'll never look at a pancake again, burnt or otherwise

mrsb love the shopping haul. Skirt is very bodenesque methinks. Lovely shade of blue. I like White Stuff. Right up my street.

Done shopping and now whacked. DH and DSS want to go swimming and DH is saying to take K with us (1st time). I've bought her a cossie but forgotten the swim nappies. Really must buy one of the Imse Vimse ones as don't like buying disposables really (and I ended up throwing the last pack of them as she'd grown out of them before I got to use them).

JJ DH informed me he'd contacted the BBC to enter us on the programme 'Wanted down Under' as apparently, we're thinking of moving to Australia News to me. I think we need a chat...............

floria so sorry to hear that A has gone back to his old habits Look on it as a glitch and before you know it, he'll be sleeping through but for longer periods Btw, I revisited Slattery's the day after seeing you and A to order the non-christening cake and ended up buying DS#1 some of their carrot cake. He said it was the best he'd ever had!

I was also up at 4am this morning with a few of you ladies. K's teething is making her a bit fractious so a bottle, a quick change and some magic calpol and then she went back to sleep Can't wait until they've finished coming through...then on to the next lot!

Think it's going to pour down here after a beautiful start. Best start looking for wet play activities. Laters.

Don't know what happened to the heavy rain they forecast for today - it's glorious here! Hope everyone else has been as lucky

Mrsb - love your shopping haul (lovely scarf....droool!). I could really use a clothes shopping spree (will be asking for fashion guidance once i've shrunkled down again ). I'm starting to get really bored of maternity clothes now - especially as they're getting too tight around my middle but I'm buggered if I'm buying more at this late stage!

bonzodoodah - know what you mean about not wanting to face lemon water on top of heartburn but, trust me, if you sip it all evening before you go to bed, it really does work. Preventation rather than cure maybe

floriatosca - yes I was on the Oct 07 thread (thought I recognised your name - should have done a search to see where from sorry) I felt a bit bad that I couldn't keep up after I had DS2. That's why I haven't joined an antenatal thread this time. Time flies eh! I can't believe they're 18mths already!!

Mum arrived yesterday amidst a flury of gifts for the boys (I'm sure DS1 thinks she's related to Father Christmas ) and one for the new baby too (gorgeous M&S gift set with butterfly babygro vests hat & scratch mits ) It's lovely to have her here (even if she does snore like a rhino and wake DS2 up so much that he has to sleep with me )

The baby had been particularly active for the last 24hrs which, although good, has been very tiring. I seem to be growing daily at the moment and it's a struggle to walk far at anything more than a slow waddle(going to the shops nearly killed me yesterday - much bump ache afterwards )

I'm supposed to be cooking shepherd's pie for the boys lunch so better get on...

Afternoon ladies - well that was fun - I'm knackered, bring on the red wine, comfy chair and some CAKE! Just back from a joint 2nd birthday party, complete with bouncy castle, balloons and pass the parcel

Such a diverse bunch too....met one woman with eight kids (count 'em) all under 12, she was 28 and preggie with number 9 - her dc#8 was just 5mths old Then there was another set of folks belonging to the other child who had very posh rellies.....both sets sat on opposite sides of the hall

Off to look at climbing frames as the weather has perked up and the sun is out.

iris good to hear the baby is giving you a tough time on the kicking frint Hope shepherd's pie is yummy and finger's crossed your mum's snoring isn't too bad!!

OOOH a climbing frame. They have some brill ones in Costco - cost an arm and a leg though.

Just been perusing (and buying) from Boden. Sigh. Bad JW

hi ladies

where can i see ulrika's boobs? which site?

hope everyone had a good day today. the weather was a bit dreary at first, but it is now all bright

Daily Mail, heron.

Very nice they are too.