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!!!

jw the baby bjorn bouncer, that is the expensive one right? £99 or something like that?
ur right, my LO is a right big lad! takes after his dad and older bro.

mrsboogie, ermin i'm afraid i have no magic solution. this is what i do. he feeds at around 7am, 11am, 2-3pm, 5pm, 7pm, 8pm and i give him a dream feed at 11pm. this last feed, i pick him up and just feed him. he is asleep the entire feed.

when he was 9 weeks old, he started taking less on the 2-3am feed. so when he was about 10 weeks old, he was given just water when he wakes up at around that time. then after a couple of weeks or so, i guess he worked out it wasnt worth the effort waking up for water!

i think it is all up to the baby really.

mtsboogie which bouncy chair do you have? the ones i have seen all say to be used until baby is 6 months old or 9kgs.

yea, i think a bean bag is not that good.

Oops, sorry JW I did indeed mean to refer to the saucy shenanigans you and JJ have been discussing. It's true that a man with rough-hewn boots and a power-tool is a sight to behold .

DH and I went up to Berwick in a lovely little hotel for my 40th and have been meaning to return to that neck of the woods with the kids - it is a gorgeous bit of coast. We'll be visiting all the places you mention, hopefully, and taking a boat trip to see seals and puffins, and the cottage is on a working farm with its own bit of beach over the dunes, so whatever the weather we'll be losing frisbees and paddling in wellies .

Agree with mrsb et al that bouncy chairs are more useful than bean bags - you may as well use a pile of cushions. My 6 month old niece was loving her door-bouncer at the weekend - although at the point when we'd got her fixed in the harness and my sis was lifting her up by the metal bar at the top to fix to the bouncy straps, it did remind me of that bit in Jurassic Park where they hoist up the cow in the harness and lower it into the raptor's cage. Sis was a bit upset I mentioned that; can't think why .

link to the beanbag.

www.mothercare.com/dp/B000JDWCPE/ref=pd_cpl_room/275-7785355-8386846?%5Fencoding= UTF8&mcb=core

heron aha, sounds like bottle-feeding then? I thought it was too good to be true - I'm expecting to breastfeed on the hour for several hours at a time for the first few weeks including through the night. I do have one friend whose breastfed babe slept through from 3 months, but only one. Hey ho, maybe I'll be lucky.

ermin the evening feeds are formula. the daytime feeds are breast. ur right, the formula does make them last longer.

i breastfed solely until he was 7 weeks old or so, then i just got way too tired.

yes, maybe you'll be lucky it is all baby dependent.

I get it heron. Your breasts must be ready for that first daytime feed! With my first two I coped fine with the tiredness of night-feeding for a few months - they were either in bed with us or right next to me in a crib so I hardly woke up - and they both managed to sleep from around midnight to 5.30 from about 6 months old which was manageable, so I'm hoping this one won't be any worse. But I'm pretty sure I'll feel the tiredness more at 42 than I did at 35. Have already told DH not to expect much in the way of catering, cleaning and laundry duties for quite a while

heron D's chair is here -actually I lied, its not a bouncer - its a rocker. From what I can see some of the rockers aren't suitable for children who can sit unaided (I suppose in case they catapult themselves out of it ]

aarrghggh. sorry it's the bouncers that say they aren't suitable for children who can sit unaided.

ermintrude I'm trading stuff I have for provocative pics of JJ's OH. There's a good price for them on the black market It's like Nuts magazine but for the middle aged desperate housewife market.

Didn't get as far up as Berwick as that's just near to the border (or praps on the border) but I would dearly love to go back one day. Very dramatic coastline and I love the history too.

You've got the added bonus of Harry Potter being filmed at Alnwick castle which was before our time. (that's if your DC are into that sort thing).

heron I think the Baby Bjorn is expensive but we got ours second hand. Would never pay £99 for a chair! I think the ones you can get in Mothercare are perfectly fine and do the job just as well.

Just chuckling at the child being put into the pen as a sacrifice. No wonder she wasn't pleased!

We've got this one. I'd look out on Ebay for one though and not pay full price.

ermin when are you due? ur right, my boobs are full to bursting in the morning!

jw looks fab!

mrsb that looks good. did you buy yours from amazon? i wonder if the chair can be used as feeding chair as well? i guess that would mean i would have to sit on the floor to feed my LO?

17th June - I'll be 30wks tomorrow. Hoping for a home birth, got the MW coming round for 32 wk appt and am doing all I can to get the little beggar head down but it's still doing dolphin dives.

ermin still early days, lots of time to stay head down yet good luck!

I'm not sure where we bought it now heron I think we paid about £35 for it - look on ebay there are some good cheap sellers selling this stuff new as well. We do use it as a feeding chair as D won't sit in the high chair yet. Works fine - you don't have to sit on the floor - I sit on the sofa to feed him. Its not ideal so we will have to get him into the high chair soon.

Also this chair was great for D to have little cat naps in when he was little(er). He used to love being rocked to sleep in it.

Heron I too am at the sleeping too. DS2 (6 months) is certainly not sleeping that well and he is totally FF. I have finally stated him on solids so hopefully this will do the trick soon ...please!

I have a rocky chair like this (but without the toys) it is nice and padded and goes form lying flat to sitting up here

baby wailing have to go

hedgepig thanks for the link. will have a look. fingers crossed for you that giving your LO solids will do the trick!

Heron you could go for the compromise between a bean bag and a chair and get a baby_nest. I had one but didn't realise you should under-inflate it for a little one so didn't use it early. But it does the same thing as a bean bag when they're little and then helps them sit up a bit as they get head control ... and then acts as a bit of a playpen before they can crawl and keeps toys near them. (plus you can get them really cheap second hand - and they're washable).

I had one of these and can't praise it highly enough. but it isn't suitable once they can sit up themselves so you wouldn't get so much use out of it now I think.

ermintrude have a lovely break. I love it up there - all that wild and rugged scenery. Give you some inspiration for your next blockbuster?

Oh and while I think of it - don't wory about baby not going head-down. They will turn at the end. But if they don't I had a handy trick. If baby stays breech or transverse - get in the shower and put it as cold as you can - then use the shower head onto where the baby's head is ... My sproglet was transverse and then turning round and round. I did this cold shower thing and could feel her move away from the cold water. She moved all the way until she was head-down. I was quite impressed with my baby-turning invention. A lot less pain than manual repositioning and it can't hurt either of you!

Bonzo ta for the cold water tip! Brrrr, but worth a try. I know there's a while to go yet, but my other 2 were head down and back nicely facing outwards from before the 28 wk mw appt whereas this LO likes to go transverse and see how far it can push my extremities, and is sometimes posterior, sometimes anterior. Probably a bit more roomy in there these days... So at the mo I'm just making sure I don't sink back into sofas and spending some time letting the bump hang free while I lean against an exercise ball. It's quite a sight

Afternoon ladies.....we've been on an Egg Hunt....we got a BIG one....we weren't scared!
Even thought there were an estimated 200 parents with LOs ....it was CHAOS! Still, we came away with our bounty and had a good run in an open space.

jw the pics will be in the post He's got his slim fit, long pirate shorts on today - even I find him 'Phworr' ..... LOL@ pics for software being a good old Marxist concept. Boy - I bet he's whirling round in his grave at the moment, looking at the current economic state, shrieking.."I told you so". Hahaha, which reminds me....FIL said on Sun...."This would never have happened if Tito had still been in power"... Fabulous! Bring back dead commie dictators and make the world a better place....*sings in style of Coke advert...

heron am with hedgepig on the Verity was stuck to my boobies for the first three months and I get about a full night's sleep about once a week - max! And she's 10 mnths!
We've got this bouncer/rocker....it's amazing as it folds flat so we take it on playdates and Verity can nap as it lays flat. Plus Iris (2.5yrs) can use it too.

ermintrude Yes, you go out way too much - you positively enjoy yourself Is there a glut of babysitters in Notts? Should I relocate back?

Am once again very of impending holiday. Never been to Northumberland coast - Lindisfarne is on the list of places....along with Colarado! It looks very mystical and calm...definately novel material.

olema5 don't worry about breaking up conversations....in my case it's just usually the ramblings of a mad woman As mrsB said..I had my DD2 end of last May...and I had DD1 18mths before. I've made sure my 40s are exciting!!

Righty - I'm off - Iris has awoken and no doubt wants to know where the heck her Easter Egg is

bonzo thanks for the fab idea! i had a look and it is what i am looking for! not too expensive either!

jj the bouncer/chair looks really good. i like that it can fold flat. easy to put away then or take out to garden etc.

hmmmm, decisions, decisions!

looks like it is going to rain soon

Glad you ladies all having fun

just popped in to catch up and see how you and all your LO are and if there's any news from ladymac alas not yet.

It would seem you are all having a lovely easter break some with more exciting sights to behold than others jj

Some of you with lovely hols to look forward to ermintrude DH and I drove up to the highlands when we married and in all honesty I do think you can't beat some of the Great British scenery, I too am feeling very must try an get around to it again this summer.

jw on the subject of you parting with K's last 'comfort blanky' look at it as a fresh start, the next chapter in your book which has many many more chapters to complete

jj and bonzo your girls truly are gorgeous

Still not too good an easter break here at the moment, had to call doc out yesterday, DT and DD3 sickness and colds, never cleaned up so much vomit and wiped so many runny noses, would seem that DT are on the mend now though, managed to keep about 6fl oz down last night and this morning and some fruity custard at lunch (doc advised to get them to have sweet things to raise their energy levels) poor DD3 still bringing up everything she eats or drinks so are trying to get her to drink fruit juice at the moment
It always seems to happen in holiday time, had them all ill with chicken pox at christmas.
To make things even worse the weather is lovely here, would be great for the wildlife park or egg hunts, never mind, there's 2 weeks to this holiday so hopefully weather permitting we can get out and about next week

olema5 hello and congratulations on the imminent arrival