Fantastic 40's Pregnant And Popped !

[johnworf]

Fabulous 40 and over ladies.

If you're pregnant or already popped, come and join our merry band. All welcome for chat, gossip, rants, and top tips!

but they don't charge interest do they? or is it that the sofas are overpriced?

I'd say the latter, at a guess.

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Ok that's enough now. I have milk in my boobs but the little sod won't work at getting it!!!

Have you noticed how nobody on mn ever has really crap let down? It's all 'when my let down kicks in there are floods in Norfolk and it gushes out of the side of my dc's mouth to run out to sea'. I'm here to stand up for the women who have the most rubbish let down ever - I'm one of them. It's not a let down it's a trickle.

HadEnoughOfThisBreastfeedingMalarkeyTiggaxx

I must say dawntigga I've not had a problem with let down. Even on when K was in hospital, I'd still let down in the supermarket to a crying baby. Not sure about the running out to sea! But, like everything, it's not a guarantee. Don't give up on it though. It sounds as though you've done most of the hard work

dawn I had no let down at all! Hence the bottle feeding over here!

dawn my let down is slow. LO eventually got fed up and now prefer bottle. i am still expressing, he is now over 6 months old.

missing DH, who away on cycling hol in france i gave the trip to him as bday present. will be all alone with baby and DS1 for the first time since baby was born!

ok deep breathing, dont panic. you can do this!

Heron of course you can do it, if all else fails just all snuggle into bed and snooze together.

Dawntigger you are doing fine too, your LO has not got to where he is with out your milk so far. Keep you fluids and choccie levels up and all will be well.

I have been arranging Ollies settling in visits at nursery today it has made me realise how close September is when I have to go back to work.

Evening all. Well, I'm to bed in a minute!

dawntigga panic not - let down is a weird thing. Mine was slow and I never, ever leaked except once when Verity slept through longer than usual and I rolled onto a boob and it burst Oh, I gave up on the BF threads and these buxom woman with their overflowing norks Anyway - they're better at getting it out than you think....Verity managed almost 14mths on it!!! Seriously - I never felt this let down malarky folk talk of.

heron enjoy your first night alone and 'DON'T Panic!!"

jw hope you won the Barclays argument. Oh your lucky DH - I love a pub quiz. I won with Key West Florida's all comers championship trophy with my mate when we popped down there for a long weekend once. Such a proud moment!

Oh and someone slap me. We turned down a full VIP ticket to the Cartier Polo on Sunday ......cos, we'd rather be knee deep in nappies having fun

Ah shit, I can't make it to the Cartier Polo either I get invited nowhere not even to DH's pub quiz (cue the violins now please). How come you get invited to that? Have you got a couple of polo ponies in your back garden?

Think I'm off to bed soon myself. Getting up at 5am makes you tired, strangely enough.

No plans for tomorrow. Hurrah! Calendar and diary both empty. Bring it on.

Not long until March 2010 now...........(gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

Nah - no polo ponies (not even pit-ponies) - or maison-style handshakes with Neddie!!! It's DP's brother - he's got 10 tickets to give to his clients (works for top, swanky bank - that is being propped up by us lot!) and none of them want to go And now even us poor old johnny no-mates don't want them either....hahahahah, some days you can't give the blinkin things away

Iris at Nursery tomorrow. I must get a bra - fed up of still wearing feeding ones....they do nowt for my deflated balloons!

blimey jj you're turning down to hob nob with Katie Price or did they not let her in last year?

my bro lives that kid of swanky lifestyle - hobnobbing at Rugby finals with the Chief Execs of banks and suchlike eminent types. the younger brother hobnobs with rather less salubrious types (Council estate dealers)the older one doesn't have a clue about the younger one's lifestyle or there would be HELL to pay!

I am not going to bed yet the little man is still awake and I have tomorrow off. Hurrah!

Jeez. Even though I didn't do the 5am shift, DH kindly plonked K in bed with me while he got the bottle. She amused herself by poking my eyes and pulling my hair. She really is better than any alarm clock I know

DSS off to his mum's today until Monday. Makes no difference here though, just one less place on Sunday to set for dinner. SiL is 'popping round' to drop off some work things before she jets off tomorrow. And, relax.............

Think my pc is coming down with SF or something as it's got some error. I really hope I don't need a new one as all my work stuff is on this one.

Myself, my DH and none of my family to my knowledge hobnob with anyone that is even remotely famous. We're just hoi polloi.

Talking of Ms Price, I see that Peter Andre is about to sue her.

I see Jezza Kyle is in the news again. And Noel Edmonds got married to a woman who looks strangely like him sans beard. Rather her than me.

Morning all.

Off to the GP in a bit for my 6 week antenatal.

JW I did mean my scar on FB! I'm still very tender around the belly and I'm sure she's gonna poke at it! I actually have heard of some women getting a smear at 6 week and was . Seems much too soon to me.

Cartier Polo is the kind of thing my CEO gets invited to that makes him go and roll his eyes. He says there are completely boring. Which makes me go .

Everyone have a lovely day and I'll report back on the poking!

morning all! survived night with DH
LO got a cough and seems a bit sleepy and grumpy. taking him to doc just to make sure. i know i am a bit paranoid. a lot paranoid about pig flu!

DH says it is fine and sunny in france! grrrr.

morning all. grrr to shared rooms and other bloody babies. mine fed then slept the other crying little wretches cried between them every hour. Plus new woman brought into room at 3am (will you all shut up!!!!) I WAS asleep.
had horrid day yesterday with "wind pain" in my shoulder. was in the middle of a feed when it struck. G screaming to be fed and outraged at being put down ... me howling and weeping with an excruciating pain on every breath. took ages to get under control and MW had to take G away and cup-feed him formula to stop him crying.
Feel marginally better today but isn't day 3 milk and hormones day? so can see this being a bundle of laughs too.

missed the giant hailstones jw

neddie not long now for you?

jj my sister has hypermobility. she's fab at yoga

oh talking of sister ... she's gutted she can't come and visit. She babysat her neighbours baby - who was unsettled and so needed cuddling. Baby now diagnosed with SF!!! don't know when will get to see sis now . Plus sis has asthma so slightly worried for her.

jw what was that magic winding technique that involved a knee?

bonzo not sure it's magic winding but it does work! Put baby on your right knee, rub his back with left hand in circular motion. Gently rock right leg from side to side (to your left knee and out again) while doing all of this. yes, it's a bit like patting your head and rubbing your tummy at the same time but you do get the hang of it and it sure gets their wind up!

Yuck @ screaming babies.

Day 3-4 is usuall milk coming in day and also when your hormones can all get jangly. Is the wind because they fill your stomach with air as part of the CS? My mum had a remedy for it so must ask her. She got wind between her shoulder blades when she was sterilised. Will let you know.

tee when I had my older children it was standard to have your smear as part of your postnatal check at 6 weeks. It was only when I had K that I learnt they'd changed it.

morning all

much housework to be done before sis and her DP arrive tomorrow morning but the little man isn't minded to let me do it.

Will have to wait 'til he's in bed!

I've not had a post natal smear think I had one before I got pg.

Sounds like a rough old night bonzo when do you both escape? my DP had a winding technique which basically involved putting baby on his knee and jiggling him about although thinking about it, maybe he was holding his head u by then? - it works though!

see they had to transfer a pg woman with SF to a hospital in Sweden on account of running out of lifesaving machines here. Cripes - that's what is worrying about when it really gets going.

thanks for the winding thing. is that with him sitting on knee or lying over?

don't know where my wind comes from. Think is just from op ... all of us in this ward have it.

have a right one in bed opposite. paediatrician was mid-sentence talking to her about baby when she answered her phone and started chatting to her OH!!

I'm back.

GP did do smear!! OUCH. She said 'well, you aren't too inflammed'

Other than that, all is well. Cleared for 'family duties' . Back on psych meds and POPs.

bonzo sprung soon?

Bonzo I bet you're counting the days... can't imagine how awful it must be on a shared ward with a brand new baby after an op . I had that pain - is it called something like referred pain? An odd word anyway - after a laparoscopy and just had to take loads of painkillers but it was a horrible sensation. Make sure your visitors bring chocolate, get ready for those hormones and lumpy breasts and think a few days ahead to being at home, calm and happy with Gregory . Hope your sis doesn't develop SF and gets to see her new nephew soon.

Tee Good luck with the poking. I think my GP does the check at 8 weeks - they can choose apparently - and I might have to have a smear at the same time. Don't care any more, it's not as bad as a sweep.

mrsb did your brothers receive the same education? I'm always fascinated by families in which paths diverge so much - DH's is a case in point and a lot of it is because he got into the grammar school and his sis didn't. Which of your bros do you get on with best?

Dawntigger my let down is less extreme this time around but I know LO is getting enough - it just doesn't squirt out in the shower, which in my view is a big improvement .

heron nowt wrong with being careful, hope LO just has snuffles and that you have fun with babe and DS whilst DH is sunning himself in France.

bonzo how very rude is she! Btw, sit on your knee rather than lie.

When I looked surprised when my consultant told me they no longer do smears at 6 weeks her explanation was that your cervix is still soft and it can lead to false results and also it's too soft for poking. Never worried them before

Yeah mrsb I read about the pregnant woman going to Sweden for treatment. V scary.

Tee what are POPs? LOL @ family duties. Always raises a laugh I suppose.

Progesterone Only Pills JW. Love them as for me they mean no period!!

ermintrude well, they went to the same schools - I can't vouchsafe how much actual education the younger one received. As you can imagine this has been the subject of much dicussion between myself and my sister (both somewhere in the middle of this familial continuum)

Its a combination of circumstances and personality, the older one has told me that at age 13 having seen my parents' uselessness with money he vowed never to be like them and so he set upon becoming a very successful chartered accountant and did the whole middle class success story; big house, kids in Blackrock College in Dublin, playing Rugby for the country etc. The younger one was born when we were teenagers (an accident) and they were fortyish. By which time they had exhausted their ability to be strict catholic disciplinarians and the younger grew up rather more feral. He was recently featured in the local press for his errr gardening abilities

unfortunately sensible elder brother has never had any time for the younger (I men never) and remains in blissful ignorance of the worst of his adventures. But of course therein lies part of the problem - his only brother treats him as beneath contempt and has never been a role model.

Funnily enough they are similar in looks and intelligence and the younger has his own business and is successful and very talented at many things (including getting into trouble)

I have always had a soft spot for the younger one as we were both the black sheep (although compared to him I was more of a pale grey sheep) but the older one is like a curmudgeonly, disapproving uncle (even though he is younger than me)

two more different outcomes of the same upbringing you could not imagine!