40's + Mums and Mums to Be.

[johnworf]

Hello, good evening, and welcome. Our ovaries are tired and withered but we've still managed it despite what the Daily Mail says!

Come on in for a gossip, cake, parenting tips and the nonstop drivel interesting chat.

Newbies welcome :-)

hehe...it was rather provocative wasn't it? Good job the pc swallowed it whole

So, hedgepig got an electric shock and the promise of something goldy looking? Is there any actual present-ness though? Real, live, solid, prezzie type things??? Oh you are so patient. I want mine placing in my hands as soon as my eyes open on my birthday. But hey, I still bounce on my bed shouting 'I'm XX today!' Won't be for many more years though as my hips are going

The whinge fairy has arrived in our house and refuses to leave. K has done nothing but whine all day. DH has took himself off to knock down a small wall at the front. Men and hammers eh? What's that all about? Anyway, I keep eyeing up the strawberries everytime I open the fridge door.....it's a bad situation and I'm really not looking forward to telling my GP 'I'm fat again as I had a visitor and Wimbledon is on'. It's not standing up very well as excuses go is it?

Evening ladies.

hedgepig OMG - that was a bloody close call I had a boyfriend who kept fish - I ended up hating him so much I actually contemplated frying them by dropping something electrical into the tank
Hope you had a lovely birthday

jw PMSL @ Wimbledon being a crap excuse for getting fat I've put on weight but it's a combo of Costco pastries and this nasty period. I don't like to actually watch the tennis but when it's warm it's nice to have it on as summer background music!

floria come on woman - keep up - keep up

heron hope you all had a nice lunch and this weather is more to your liking!

Iris has learned how to jump today She is SO, SO thrilled!

OMG posted a whole post and then clicked off and lost it! aaaahhh BUM!

hedgepig glad you didn't give yourself a nasty birthday surprise!

Was in work this evening and heard D screaming hysterically in the nursery yard again. Really loud. So left work and went to get him only to discover that they had taken the kids of for an evening play, put sunream on them and put D down on the ground where he procedeed to rub the suncream into his eyes off his hands. Cue manic screeching and the girs then set about him with a cold compress trying to get it out of his eyes and he went even more hysterial.

He was in a terrible state - swollen puffy eyes , streaming tears and nose face all blotchy its only now he is back to normal.

Was thinking maybe we should post a daily update for all the ladies who are hard of keeping up (or have lives )o they don't have to trawl through 20 pages.

We haven't heard form ladymac for a long time have we??

mrsb should I read your mind now?

OMG poor D. I would have been hysterical myself if that had been K. At least you were there to console him and sort him out. No lasting damage is there? He's really not had a good past few days has he?

Are you thinking we have a daily roundup of what has happened for those who are not addicted able to get get on MN everyday?

No idea what happened to lady mac. She seems to have vanished into thin air.

Just winced through Masterchef with the horrid Greg Wallace again. Not gonna watch it again...can't stand seeing that spoon/fork going in his grinning insanely moon-like face

Keep losing my interweb connection for some unknown reason. DH was playing poker this afternoon and in the middle of a game, bam, gone. He ended up behind the shed at the bottom of the garden on someone elses connection to finish his game.

jj - is that real jumping Iris can do now, both feet at once? That is so lovely! Feeling much better now, thanks, just a little bit iffy in the evenings but pretty much human again. Glad hedgepig escaped electrocution - perhaps the laws of physics did the decent thing and suspended themselves with it being a birthday and all.

Oh we've flaked out here at jjtowers TOOOO darn hot.

stormfly yes, jumping with both feet - so cute! She has been trying for so long bless her.

jw lol@DH behind shed for some illicite web connecting! Yes a round up is a great idea - just wish I had the brain capacity to do it. I often read back at posts and think - A*se I meant to say 'hi' or make a comment. Thing is, I've usually only been away for a few hours..max

mrsb oh poor little lamb, bless him, no wonder you could hear him

erm has the sweep, curry and covering caused any stirrings yet?

RIght - have a fierce old headache - I'm off to bed....nighty night

JJ I'm with you on missing to respond to comments or forgetting saying things in response. I'm useless...or pc chews the post up. I hit 'post' and then I think 'oh poo, should have said that'.

Sorry to hear you have a head. Hope early night sorts it

ermintrude think it's time we got this party started. Lie back and think of this weeks offers at Tesco. Dr Worf is in the building and I've brought my yellow marigolds.

Ok, first draft of today's events:

JJ's iris shows that white girls can jump. Yay!

ermintrude longest pregnancy since records began. Now into the 17th month. Had a sweep today.

mrsb's LO got suncream in his eyes He's ok though thank goodness

iris does a no show. Last heard of bouncing on a gym ball....across the south downs.

tee off seeing vagina monologues. Has a clean fridge and toaster thanks to her mum

hedgepig's birthday today. Hurrah! Almost electrocuted herself on the fish tank in celebration.

floria still hunched over her hot pc reading through pages and pages of waffle

If I've missed anything off, feel free to add.

Evening all.

Just got back from seeing Vagina Monologues with my mum. Was absolutely wonderful. I am impressed with myself that I had a baby 13 days ago and here I am out and about until 9:30pm!! Of course, its only because my mum is here doing for me!

God, what a lot of posts. I only came on here to say ermintrude thank you for the invitation for covering instructions but I will pass on that one as I am expert only in equine breeding - however we managed our first (and possibly only) covering of the season this afternoon. It was a bit of a shambles but we managed in the end. My groom had never held a mare for covering before but did a splendid job with me shouting from the sidelines (and eventually joining in to help-which was really stupid at 28 weeks pregnant with twins).A friend (very horsey)but not particularly experienced in covering with stallions was holding the stallion. Poor chap was all over the place and got a bit of a booting from his girlfriend who was fed up with his poncing about! My friend then tried to help him in but had her grippy gloves on and made his willy bleed . I screeched for her to take them off before any more damage could be done and finally he reached the goalpost, hurrah!!! Hopefully we won't need to repeat this as I don't think I can keep from getting in and helping.
I think we will only have one foal next year as I should stop this dangerous activity until I have hatched my LOs.

I have had my 28 week scan this morning and apparently my twins are in a bit of a jumble.
Not sure this is a tech. term but they seem correct size and they weren't too concerned.

good luck erm hope you have baby by the morning!

Oh happy birthday hedgepig hope you had a great one!!

Neddie that covering sounds traumatic. My DH is very satisfactorily endowed but not enough to warrant calling in a friend with grippy gloves to help with positioning . Next time you must keep out of the way of hooves and shout instructions from the hayloft or something

JW your round-up is excellent, I expect one every night now.

JJ jumping is such a jolly jape

mrsb poor baby D and his sore eyes. My DC's nursery used to enforce sunhat wearing from about April to October which seemed a bit crazy, but it meant they didn't reapply suncream on faces so the little ones couldn't do that eye rubbing thing.

Fish tanks - my brother used to keep tropical fish as a teenager and returned from holiday to find the thermostat had gone crazy and boiled the fish. He performed c/sections on the guppies and some of the young survived. Rather than this being a noble life-saving act, he was motivated by gruesome curiosity and it's a mercy he wasn't clever enough to be a surgeon.

Right, off to the stables. Whinny

Oooh yes a nightly round up!

a good start jw

I am forever forgetting to comment on something, like, tonight, Iris' jumping news

and I totally missed out on the trekkie convo having always wondered whether jw was so nicknamed from a trekkie reference...

hedgepig happy birthday and well done on not killing yourself!!! Divvy!

MrsB poor boy screaming - fortunately there's nothing evil in sunscrean so it won't do any long term damage.

Neddie - eeew at the gripping gloves. And look after yourself - a misplaced kick doesn't bear thinking about.

jw at what you said.

I spent the afternoon in the garden - with M in and out of the paddling pool / sandpit / trampoline / flowerbed etc etc. I waddled about after her then inflated my gym ball and supervised from its lofty and undercarriage-hugging heights (very comfy indeed). What a gorgeous day to have an afternoon off [sigh].

bonzo of your day

ladies I have decided that I need some kind of chair for D now that the rocker is no more, but there seems to be very little out there except this which I think is lovely but is a tad expensive.

not even to be had cheaper on ebay.

what do we think???

One of my guinea pigs sprogged unexpectedly in the night- twins, one boy, one girl. Big babies. I blame child 3 for introducing the male to the females' cage back in April.

Congratulations duchesse on becoming a guinnea pig grandma

mrsb I LOVE that chair. Bit pricey though but I can see why. Seems very stable and I doubt you'd have many accidents with it. Go for it. I'd love one myself but I'm just wondering how I could get it past DH on a short fuse. I doubt the stock answer of 'oh this old thing? it was at the back of the wardrobe/in the loft' will wear.

JJ are you going to encourage iris to jump more and buy her a skipping rope? Mind you, those things need lots of eye/hand/leg co-ordination so she might be a bit on the young side.

Off to Costco this morning. Will do my very best to avoid the lemon drizzle cake but can't promise. I am so dreading tomorrow with my GP and weighing me that I'm thinking up feeble excuses not to go........but I will. I must

K has found a new game of spitting milk back out when she's sucking her bottle. She is hardly having any milk straight from it these days. It's so hard getting it down her neck. She looked tiny y'day at the playgroup in comparison. When asked her age you could see the amazement/shock on the mums faces when I said that she was 1. Even after I explained she was 9 months corrected she still is smaller than theirs. Ah well.

Oh to be a guinea pig and plop a couple of babies out in the night, no bother.

MW coming to take blood pressure this am because yesterday's readings were thru the roof - directly before and after cx sweep which, as I've mentioned several thousand times already, I find excruciating, so I'm hoping it was just anticipatory fear and subsequent trauma.

JW Nothing wrong with K being small and perfectly-formed. She will look extremely advanced when she learns new things

Morning all!

Not so bad night around here. Got a bit of sleep, despite being up from about 2:30 to 3:30, not with the baby, just up! He was sleeping like...well a baby!!

JW Adam does that. Takes the bottle, plays with it, holds the milk in his mouth, spits it out. Usually for about 20 minutes to half an hour before he actually drinks any. Makes me batty!! I was hoping he'd out grow it. This a new thing for K, though, huh?

mrsb I also love that chair, but agree its a bit pricey. Although based on the pics, looks like it might last through young childhood, since it says it is up to 30 kilos, so over time, it will be worth it, maybe? Wow, that was wishywashy!!

duchesse Do they have names yet? I think you should name them mums and net. ::flees::

MrsB - I have to say I don't like that chair - seems a bit pricey for somthing they're not going to use for that long. What about a beanbag or a baby rocking chair. It's not going to be all that long before he's going to be toddling about and wanting an ordinary mini-chair to sit in like this ikea one.

Duchesse congratulations on the guineagrannydom.

ermintrude - hope the BP is down today. Calm thoughts before MW arrives ...

I am shattered. M woke at 4am crying and sobbing for mummy (daddy would not do). When I asked what was the matter she said "Din-o-saur Rarrrr".
Could only assume she's been having a nightmare. But she refused point-blank to go back to bed and insisted on "mummy bed". An hour of wriggling and eye-poking later she was banished back to her own cot. ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz ... oh yes - just practice for in a month's time but urrrrg.

Morning all. gosh I feel a bit better but still a bit peeky. Mind you I've noticed Iris's nose is streaming - so maybe it's snot time again!

mrsB mmmmm, now chairs are an odd one. I've found that the moment they are on their feet they will not sit in anything squashy or low to the ground. You'll want to sit on it more than D!!! They'll literally just want what you guys are on - or a minature version of them. I got cheap IKEA ones and a table....one of the best things we ever bought. I don't mind Iris standing on it and jumping off! Her little friends who could walk were climbing on them from 1yr old! My thoughts are - he's a boy - he won't use it....go striaght to the chair like bonzo said.

bonzo Awwww bless M. Iris did something similar the other night - except it was a crocodile! Good thing is - she usually wants Daddy!

duchesse congrats on the new furry brood!

jw walk away from the Lemon drizzle! Most excellent round up BTW! Oh and as for K being weeny - so is Verity - I mean she barely makes the 2nd centile. No idea why - we're not that small - but she seems perky enough. Ho hum....perhaps we can start the Liliput club!

neddie good lord - what is it with these horses - can they not manage it themselves?! Am feeling quite ill at the thought of erm's DH needing help in such a fashion

MIL is over in a moment to have Iris for the day - just torn between going out with Verity or doing the chores...MMmmm?

awwww bonzo how sweet, rarr! poor baby.

ermintrude if your BP wasn't through the roof before and after a sweep you'd be an automaton, FGS how obvious! When I went in for my induction the first BP reading they took was so high they started yapping about pre eclampsia and looking worried, they took it again a while later and it was fine. It was the fear

I'm sold on the chair, not sure how big a 30kg child is but I imagine a four or five year old would fit in it. Although D is big - It's the opposite with D he towers over the smaller 18month olds at nursery while they whack him with things Still OH has agreed to it I just need to badger him a bit more about it. I can't really see a use for a proper chair for a good while yet.

oh meant to ask tee who gave you a hard time about not BFing? was it on MN?

Hi all

jw - brilliant round up - thanks (I'm another one who can never keep up!)

ermintrude - about your sweep. I've got a posterior cervix so when I had mine with both boys it felt like they were digging for spuds agony Hopefully you wont have to have another

mrsb - nice chair but I agree with getting ikea chairs instead. Cheaper and will last longer (though we have to hide ours away when not in proper use as they're too handy for climbing on to, to get to shelves/tables etc )

DD has gone down with some lurgey she brought back from Leeds and is currently laid up in bed feeling nauseous and looking dreadful. What is it with this household and bugs at the moment?!- it's been dettoxed and bleached to death recently too!

must rush - boys luch to do then need to enjoy the sunshine

Thanks for sweep sympathy all, mw came and bp is much down on yesterday, although still a bit higher than normal. But no protein in urine, swollen ankles or other worrying symptoms -in fact I'm feeling rather well, although 2 tonnes too heavy. I think it's just lots of extra blood pumping round my system, in hot weather, whilst waiting to start labour.

Tee lol @ expecting 12 day old LO to grow out of it . Don't you dare get up in the night if it's not at Adam's request though, you need that shut-eye.

JJ It's a no-brainer. The sun is shining. The chores can wait

Bonzo it's awful when they wake up all scared like that . When ours were out of pull-ups we used to tell them that bad dreams were their bodies' way of saying 'wake up, you need a wee!' which worked a treat, both in terms of stopping The Fear and getting them to have an early-hours wee. Glad your DD got back to sleep afterwards.

iris what a shame that your DD is poorly. My mum used to complain that whenever we visited from uni we'd be ill and I think there's something in that - we'd drag our carcasses home, start eating well and getting some sleep and wham! the lurgy would catch us unawares. Hope she feels better soon.

Off to hang out a line of whites [wmile]

iris sod's law isn't it that you get some time off to see your family and next minute, you're laid up in bed feeling like hell on earth. Bugger. Hope DD is better very soon

ermintrude things are going in the right direction for an imminent birth then?

I've still got a little chair from Ikea that my boys used to sit on. Prolly don't do this one anymore as I'm talking about 15 years ago this one was bought however, it's lasted. I've carted that chair from every house move I've done over the years (many) and still not sure why. It's paid off though as K can have it. Just needs a lick of paint

Back from Costco with no cake. Before I could congratulate myself though, I found that I was pushing strawberries with cream into my mouth How did that happen??? I'm blaming the tennis and I'll be telling GP tomorrow that sport is indeed bad for your health.

Anyone seen Katona 2 stones heavier ? Also the scary facebook story? Mind you, that couple are mad by not restricting who can view their page. You're just inviting trouble otherwise.