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!

Morning all!

My night was great, DH was on night duty and I slept in the spare room. Apparently he was up for quite awhile from 0230. DH has now gone back to sleep for a bit before heading to work.

Forgot to say...DH and I saw Damian Lewis yesterday at City Centre! Well, DH saw him, I only saw the back of his head!! Apparently the man shops at Next.

JJ bummer about the weather. Its very nice here, but I am planning on staying in and getting fun things like laundry done!

Talk to y'all soon!

morning all!
tee what a big boy A is! good that his ribs are healing.

green poo - LO now takes cow and gate comfort follow on milk and his poo is green and muddy and the smell! unbelievable. it does say on the tin that this milk does make their poo vile! but apparently it is easier to digest.

not raining here but not looking like the summer the MET promised!

jw have read the time travellers wife but could not suspend my disbelief about time travel that i did not enjoy the book so much.

heron what a shame you couldn't get your head around time travel. Actually, time travel is, in theory, possible. It's just that most people cannot believe that it could happen. (maybe it won't except in theory, who knows?)

It's not just about time travel though...it's more about enduring love. I did consider Alba as a name for K (meaning 'white') But too many associations with cheap stereos came to mind

I'm sporting my new binary watch today. Children not impressed with my geekness

morning all

well, not a good night, not at all, very unusually D unsettled and whingy and crying in his sleep and having to be got up to. plus my insomnia is kicking back in so when he was asleep I was awake and vice versa. Am shattered. Have a meeting today and have not yet any idea what I am supposed to explaining about.

Dis definitely teething - there are pools of dribble on the floor whereever he traverses. Poor wee sod.

I enjoyed the time travellers wife - thought it would make a good film at the time although will have to be quite condensed plot wise. I don't believe time travel is possible because if it was it would already have been invented in the future and people would have travelled back in time already since time isn't linear. But if we ever discovered how to travel faster than the speed of light it would be travelling back in time wouldn't it?

yes, I am another geek/trekkie type person

Have been trying to Read Revolutionary Road myself but haven't got past first page in 6 months.

Good call on the name jw deffo first thing that comes tomind at the name Alba is cheap stereos, unfortunately.

right, my eyes are bleeding, need coffee.

Jeez mrsb I can't take that time travel info in at this time in the morning, I'll try to digest it properly after a strong coffee . I quite enjoyed that book but my agent says it's like The Kite Runner, 'faux literary'. That usually means extremely popular and read by millions of people, so they like to be snobby about it .

On which note, the director who bought a film option on my first book wants to renew it, and to meet up next time he's over from NYC. DH keeps having dollar signs in front of the eyes but I'm counting no chickens, or even pennies.

Just got some Mamaway feeding tops and they are v nice - quite fitted (enough to make me HAVE to hold my tummy in and double-layered rather than the huge billowing tops with a letterbox effect for each bozoom that I had for DD and refused to wear. But in those days I had less belly to show so didn't mind pulling up a standard tee shirt to feed. Definite progress has been made in this area for the wobblier amongst us

Which reminds me, well done JJ on getting to perfect BMI and JW for the size 12 trousers.

A asleep so I'd better do something constructive. Ah yes, that coffee...

mrsb sounds like you're in for a great day. NOT. You and D are def out of sync. I've never suffered insomnia myself so can't sympathise although the idea of not being able to sleep would fill me with dread in itself (isn't that part of the insomnia problem? You worry you won't sleep so you don't?)

Hope his teeth come through soon and end his current misery (and restlessness).

Good luck with your meeting. If I was ever tired at work, my brain would freeze and I was certified useless for the day - as opposed to next to useless the rest of the time

I doubt v much we'll be able to travel at the speed of light if we are still taking Einstein's theory of relativity into account. Possible in Star Trek; yes

If you're interested in time travel though, here's a great article

Exits stage left into a wormhole

ermintrude sounds like your agent wishes that they'd had Audrey Niffenegger on their books

Ooh no JW, that would be common. And extremely lucrative. Actually, I don't think my agent would have any qualms at all about representing Audrey - someone once told me 'always remember one thing about agents - they're feral.' They basically sniff you and make their decisions based on how good you smell - whether it's an aroma of excellent literary style or huge money-making potential, either will do but both is preferable .

LOL! Love the description

jw you made me laugh about alba and cheap stereos! too true

advice please ladies? my LO has got a prince lionheart bumbo like soft seat. i use it to spoonfeed him his puree. it is easy to clean. i plonk him on the kitchen floor and all mess is easy to wipe up.

anyway, his chunky thighs are now too chunky to fit into it. and it is a tight squeeze so that his thighs get red marks! poor thing. so need to get another seating alternative. he does not sit up properly yet. and need something supportive and soft.

lol @ wormhole

so which do you smell like erm? the former or the latter?

/beams self back to bed leaving life- sized holographic image tapping at keyboard...

Blimey heron he must have very robust thighs if he's too big for it. Mind you I'm going off the Bumbo and not sure if they're exactly the same. Do you not have a bouncy chair for him? If he can't sit up yet then I'd feed him in it.

mrsb like the sound of the hologram at the desk. I could do with one of those meself

Not looking forward to going to this cardiology appointment on Friday. We have to wait in the 'main atrium' with the great unwashed. I need a germ repelling forcefield to go around the pushchair.

YEEEHAAAAA! Adam finally likes the Baby Bjorn! He's sound asleep against my chest and I've folded laundry and am about to think about lunch for myself! Now I just need to figure out how to use the loo...

Erm I would like to propose that if your book does become a movie you invite all of us to the premier and come out of the closet you hide in! I wanna read your books!!

JW you could just squirt Dettol at anyone who comes near...

I have not read the Time Traveller's Wife...Maybe I should?

And, according to the good Doctor, time is not linear, as has been said, but 'timey wimey'.

heron BEANBAG!! D's special little baby -sized beanbag cost £10 and is brilliant for such purposes. washable cover etc. Wouldn't waste money on a bouncy chair at this point as he will be able to topple it by the time he can sit up - especially as he is heavy.

jw leave K in the buggy with the plastic raincover over all the time you are in the exposed areas. I would. Should protect her from the worst of the coughs and sneezes.

also 3m is apparently the travelling distance for viruses so stand aloof from the massed hordes!

jw yes his thighs are chunky beyond belief. from top of it to the ankles, there are 4 michellin man type rolls.

dont have a bouncy chair. been trying to avoid buying so many of these things! actually might see if i can borrow one from my friends.

mrsb think the hologram idea could work!

Time travel? Ooo eer - is that anything to do with string theory?! I spent a whole evening once trying to understand DP's explaination of that...but that was in the days where I'd let him ramble on for hours!

erm LOL@agents being 'feral' I had one once for work - such an apt description. My mate's book came out two weeks ago and it's doing V well...and her agent now loves her and is all over her like a rash. Fab news about the re-signing of the film rights though. Got any more to sell? I've got a camcorder....I'm a bit bored at the moment...go on - I'll give you a £5 for one of them It'll be low-budget, guerilla-style, cool and yes, 'feral' even

heron can your chunky thighed boy go into a strap-in high chair yet? How old is he - I can't remember.

mrsB hope the coffee hit the spot.

Had nice time with friends but now not off out this afternoon - think it's a blessing really as Iris gets a bit over-excited. I may venture to getting the paints out!

3 metres? What is this virus...in training for the olympics? I had already planned the plastic over the pushchair. Might even feign a cough myself so that people back off

Why is the ON light on the cd player so alluring to Katherine? She can drag herself over to it now. Drat.Anything with lights is seductive. I think she is half moth.

JJ are thinking of space/time dimensions with String theory?

Can I be in your film of ermintrude's book? No idea what it's about but I'm very adaptive As long as I don't have to sit on the casting couch.............

Hahaha jw I just spent a merry two hours with Verity trying to disconnect my friend's set-top box because she enjoys lights and plugs so much!

String theory...well, I was thinking about that parallel life thing - you know, like that film Sliding Doors (did you write that one erm?)

So - it's where something sort of splits in two - or sort of doesn't but it appears to. Or is it that is does split but appears not too? I think it was the work of the father of the bloke who is lead singer with the Eels. Now, I'm not sure if that is space or time....or both. pootles off to consider this while steaming veg and making a cuppa

Oh no, you lot are still being all scientific. I'm with the doc, 'timey-wimey' sounds about right .

mrsb I think I smelled of Paloma Picasso when I met my agent. Either that or she thought I smelled of potential suicide if rejected.

There are billions of characters in the book that's been optioned, room for all of you, fear not. Quite a lot of high-jinks go on though, so be prepared for anything . ANd Tee if it ever does come out, then maybe I should follow...
Glad A likes the Bjorn - our A has loved it from the start and now my pelvic floor feels slightly less vulnerable I may start using it - it's only been DH thus far.

Love the image of heron stuffing baby's thighs into bumbo . He sounds like my niece - she looks like an old-fashioned winner of Bonnie Baby contest.

Well, he liked the Bjorn this morning...this afternoon? Not so much. sigh babies...

Hadn't realised we'd turned into a quantum physics thread Spose it beats 'what you having for tea'?!

I'm ducking out of the way as DH has a client coming round who I don't particularly like. She wants a lot for very little. If I'm not there then I can't say anything.....best all round.

Aye, jw just shows you that us 40 somethings are so very diverse in our conversation....if somewhat lacking in our knowledge!

Sorry about the baby Bjorn tee - perhaps tomorrow he'll be...."bjorn again"......?.....sigh, sorry, can't resist a pun of the worst order.

Meant to be going to a friend's for dinner tonight but i'm so tired....that really silly, can't keep eyes open tired. I'm sure mrsB is feeling it more though

Groan @ Bjorn again!

I hardly used our sling. Mind you, we didn't go anywhere to use it

DSS's book arrived today: All Cats Have Aspergers Syndrome. He's already read it and can so relate to it. We talked about it and he seems to really get it now and partially understand what goes on. Fabulous book indeed (recommended to me by a fellow MN-er)

Hope you can find the toothpicks to put under your eyelids for dinner later Horrid, horrid tiredness that you just can't fight.

just popped in to see if we are still discussing the unification of the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity or have moved onto the relative merits of Costco lemon drizzle cake over coffee and walnut.

one never knows...

not so tired now - have long since woken up, even after having had a lenghty conversation on cost benefit analysis with an economist