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!

Neddie I make bespoke corsets and underwear and have so many ufo's you wouldn't believe!

Still Sam should have the best fancy dress costumes around.

Seriously send me a link to your shop!!!!!

InNeedOfAFabricFixTiggaxx

Have finally finished my complaint letter about my stay in hospital with Sam and subsequent testing. Anyone want to proof read it?

StillVeryAngryTiggaxx

Husband came home sick from work today at 3. He is not a malingerer (has had less than 7 days off in 20 years at his place of employment), and various colleagues of his have piggy flu. I fear he may have it too. What are my chances of catching it from him before this baby comes? 38 +3 today...

dawn I will read it if you want: tee AT leyser DOT org.

duchesse don't panic. Find out for sure if it is SF, and then call your MW and see what she says.

I agree with Tee don't panic and call the midwife. He will have a high temperature, headache and joint ache to start with so check these symptoms. Keep putting the alcohol cleanser on your hands, that is how it spreads according to my DP because it has a high tolerance and can live on surfaces longer than normal flu (apparently). Most people don't suffer much reaction- only younger ones who have no immunity- be glad we are in the 40 plus mummy's as we will have better resistance and will already have had the flu at some point.Good luck.

Tee thanks have sent it to you

duch don't manic call the mid-wife you will be fine!

DP is currently running around the house with Sam, it's our first case of really bad collic. Of course I shovelled my boob into him when he started crying so if he vomits I've no idea what I'll do

SlightlyPanicyTiggaxx

dawn hope ur LO does not vomit. i hate it when my LO vomits. he is now off his reflux medication. and as long as he does not cry too hard, he usually does not vomit.

so sorry to hear Sam has colic

hugs to you.

A vomits on occasion. I just catch it in a spit rag and go on with my life!!

dawn I sent it back.

tee i agree with you. i have just lately become less emotional when LO vomits! i have lots of towels around him so the clean up is easier

life is too short

Hehe jj Yeah, you and Victoria swap notes I bet

Well done on the successful picnic and traffic jam negotiations OOh I always feel warm and fuzzy inside when that happens. But I'm a saddo so ignore me.

I've done a bit or retail therapy. Bought a nice angora cardigan in the stylie of fop..libertine... maybe. Oh I dunno...it has frilly cuffs and other frills and I'm really not a frou-frou person either. While I was out and about I got a fab new camera too. Our old one was one up from a box brownie. DH swooned when I held it up and he asked those immortal (and always the first) words 'how much?' After I'd administered CPR and smelling salts he was ok about it

mrsb how did you both fare at the docs? Have you come away with a tonic for the lad? How's he doing tonight?

Thanks for kind words re my doggie. I do miss him but it's priorities.

On the up side I can now sort out our dining room or as my older children call it 'the room that time forgot'. It's full of G Plan, which is nice in itself, but very dated. The sideboard is about 9 feet long! I've priced up in J Lewis and once again, DH swooned and asked me if I could find something a bit cheaper (like for £50? )

Think I'm gonna have a cuppa, watch a bit of Who Do You Think You Are (with the man of my recurrent dreams, David Mitchell no less) and then head up to bed.

Brap

evening all

been sorting out the living room after the departure of the flea chariot sofa steaming floors etc before new one arrives tomorrow.

Well, the doctors was a bit of an embarrassment tbh - D was at death's door all day; temperature, clinging, crying, wheezing, coughing, sweating etc etc. OH arrives home from work early to drive us to the surgery whereupon D perks up a bit and by the time we get to the doctor's he was stood up on the seats singing and dancing and all smiles. Not even a hint of a rattle in his chest. So, of course, nothing wrong at all. Not that I wasn't delighted of course but it would have been better if he hadn't been pretending to have a chest infection all day

I asked about my vertigo and he said it was probably positional vertigo and said summat abut tiny bits of calcium floating abut in my inner ear. Wouldn't give me any drugs for next time, saying they wouldn't work but that the remedy is a physical manoeuvre (eeek) and next time I get it I am to get off my "death bed" and come in and be seen.

hope all is well with all little ones, hoping we get some picnic weather here soon...

mrsb kids eh? Who would 'ave 'em? They always make you look like a prize liar when you take them to the docs. At least he's fine, which is the main thing.

So you've had a flea in your ear (one of the ones that got away?) from your doc? At least they can give you something to help. Be told for next time!

Is the sofa all sparkly and new and everyone wants to try it out (apart from the cat who isn't allowed?)

Nothing much to report from worf towers. Got up to blue skies and sunshine but not sure how long it'll last without checking forecast. Just checked; sunny intervals through the weekend until Monday when more rain arrives. Not too bad I guess.

I just saw some pics of Girls Aloud and I can't believe how white the ginger one is. I thought I was pale but she's like a ghost!

Just popping in to say I may not come back for a while depending on results of scan and my own heart ECG thingy which they are doing today as I told them I wasn't driving there three days in a row! Just hope my dad is better with the wheelchair as he has a habit of pushing the doors open with my very swollen feet bless him.
Dawntigga will send some info on my store when I return I have only got Christmas fabrics on the e-bay one at the moment- not sure you'd want to make a bra with Santas on it!!

Good luck neddie! mrsb sheesh! Kids! But, as JW said, at least he's feeling better.

JW sounds like decent weather. I hope we get the same.

A had his usual up at 2:30 up at 4:30 up at 6:30 night. He barely ate at 4:30 so I am thinking it is actually a wet nappy that is waking him. How to get him to not pee between 2:30 and 4:30...

Oh and he has already outgrown some of his 0 - 3 month babygros. Of course when HV weighed him yesterday? 12.5 pounds!!

Financial advisor coming by this morning for signatures on things and A and I are off to post 10000 thank you cards and do some shopping.

Have a lovely day everyone!

Morning all.

neddie Hope all goes well today - let us know how you're doing as soon as you can...we worry you know!!! xx

Dawntigga custom made corset...oh wow! I found them SO difficult to make - I remember crying so much during my corsetry term at college, so I doff my hat off to you for being so skillful!

mrsB good to hear all was ok at the docs and HUZZAH! for a new flea-free sofa

jw G Plan is hot, hot, hot! Keep it! Flog it! You'll probably get a fortune! Oh a new camera...ahhhh,,,,,ahhhhh.... Sorry, but it's the only thing I'm very geeky about I've just bought a website from Clickpic and will resurrect my passion shortly! You can never spend too much on cameras!!

duchesse what news on your DH? How are you feeling?

Off to collect our elderly friend at 10. I'm very worried about her as she's been off-colour since an operation over a month ago....shall try and feed her up with cake!

Out to a friend's yesterday and have missed about 15 chapters of this thread, so will have to pick up again here.

MrsB I'm imagining some Heath Robinson type contraption jiggling you about upside down to sort out your ear. It will be worth it if it works though - sounds like an awful thing to be suffering from .

Neddie good luck with the hospital and if you have to stay in hope all goes well. Take a long stick to poke the doors open before your feet reach 'em

Tee We've moving on to some 3-6 months clothes too and A is only just over 5 wks, the little porker. He is quite long for such a young baby. Haven't had him weighed - HV from GPs is coming next Thurs morning to do his weights and measures, then I go for my GP check-up and his jabs a couple of weeks after that.

Not sure Arthur cares about wet nappies much. I'd taken him to my friend's in a disposable and because he'd had 2 enormous poos earlier in the day (all over the washable nappies of course) I completely forgot to change him until DD got weed on and I removed a dripping nappy that must have weighed 2lb . No complaints from the boy, typical bloke

JW your admiration for clever chaps on the telly always seems to translate into something much more umm, steamy . I'd love to have dinner with D Mitchell but physically I find him a total turn-off. I bet he hasn't even got hair...

sunny here, hope it lasts but doubt it.

Blumming heck! Just written a long post and managed to delete it! Second time lucky.

tee did you have your thank you cards printed or did you get normal cards? If you got normal cards where did you get them from? I'm thinking of sending normal thank you cards but including a different picture of Sam in every one. Might see if I can get a tasteful download to print a card on the printer.

mrsb sods law was written with children in mind!

jw the best therapy is retail

Neddie I have several Christmas projects and would much prefer to put the money in my friends pockets than a strangers! Stop being shy!

jj they probably taught you the difficult way where I was taught the industrial way. I can send you the instructions on how to assemble if you'd like, the trick is not to mix up the top and bottom

MustSortOutHerUFO'sTiggaxx

Bottom! Forgot, was watching that Frugal Gastronomy thing last night. Anyone else very about a meal that cost over 2.50 per head being frugal????

Oh, and that thing she did with hot dogs was a direct Delia rip off!

VeryDifferentIdeasAboutFrugalTiggaxx

Dawntigga everyone else seems to be making a tremendous effort with the thank yous. We went to John Lewis and bought several packs of their 'Hungry Caterpillar' Thank You postcards with envelopes and I managed to write something different on every one but didn't do photos or anything. Didn't like any of the specific 'Thank you for baby's gift' cards we saw but wanted to avoid the usual pics of flowers...

There are websites which will upload a photo and print out a message for you on a special card - my sis did that and they were lovely. Just too well-organised for us .

ermintrude try making your own. I've started making all of mine now. I've made some in advance so I don't have to hurriedly do one when someone's birthday I've forgotten pops up on the calendar. They don't take long.

JJ this camera (without going into the dslr league) is fab. I've taken some of K this morning and put them on FB.

Yes, my secret is out, I have a penchant for geeks. My previous DH and 2 LTP's before I remarried were v geeky and scientific. I thought I'd have a rest from all that when I married DH I guess He is geeky in some aspects but academically, not so much.

Anyhoo, off to pick up DS#2. DD#1 sent me flowers this morning with a card saying that she loved me. Made me cry

neddie you won't be reading this but hope it all goes well today xxxx

morning all! how are you all?
neddie will be thinking of you, let us know how you get on.

tee my LO is a porker too. he wears 9-12m size and he is only 6 months, going on 7 months.

very stressful at home this morning. LO did not settle after drinking his lot of expressed breast milk. and plus he puked, so all my hard work went into a couple of towels

so i was trying to express new milk, DS1 was whining. arggh, i swear i've had enough of this stress in the morning. told DS1 that if he does not stop whining, he will have to go to summer creche! i did not like having to make this kind of threat but i was at the end of my patience and it was only 8.30am!

thank god he is now at summer club and LO is at creche, so i can whinge in peace!

ah ladies, the guilt! now i feel so guilty being cross with DS1.

heron you shouldn't be so hard on yourself, you are doing a very hard job brilliantly well. give yourself a break!

back at work. not feeling brill, but ho hum.

Mr D is being taken out to a stately home today by his grandparents, which he will love much better than being stuck indoors with his poorly gimmer mummy.

They also asked if they could take over to Manchester for a day to visit rellies and I am a bit ambivalent. I know I am being precius but would rather if he was going on a long motorway journey that we were with him. I am being silly aren't I?

jw you can take a pic of yourself in the frou-frou cardie and put it on FB! Ah g'wan!

Poor Neddie- I hope you start to feel better and less Zeppelin-like soon, although the only cure is hoiking them out... My friend's twins and triplets were all born at 32/33 weeks and are hale and hearty. It sounds like it's taking quite a toll on you though.

Well, husband felt well enough to go off to work today, so maybe not the piggy influenza after all...

I got stung by a wasp while letting the chickens out this morning. Thankfully it doesn't seem to be swelling up to my usual gargantuan reaction to wasp stings proportions.

Am big time nesting. Got everything ready for the baby yesterday, including retrieving antique cot from attic, polishing and assembling it, making it up (it's going to be my downstairs cot), packing a hospital bag (under instructions from my midwife even though am booked for home birth), vacuuming large part of the house, and have washed practically everything in sight in the last two days. Can this mean anything? Also am not sleeping so much any more, which is telling. (Gone from 16 hours sleep in any 24, to about 9- have stopped having any significant nap). Plus am hungry! I'm actually beginning to think this one may not go overdue. My mama is here at the moment, staying until next week, so would be quite good timing really...

JW I fear that my attempts at home-made cards would be crap. It's possible to get away with less-than-perfect presentation in baking if the cakes taste good, but that doesn't work for cards and the like. I even pretend DD does all my wrapping for me I'm so cack-handed. Not clumsy or uncoordinated, just totally impaired on turning an idea into something 3D. But there are clearly many creative ladies on this thread who have skills I can never dream of...

Talking of frou-frou cardis, I've just got - grrr, am trying to find link on boden site and can't even get the home page to load. Is it just me? I'll come back later to show you what I've bought (bet you can't wait .