Is there a thread for the old birds who are pregnant and over 40?

[hippychick66]

I'm on a fab thread on the ttc section but am now 7 wks preg .

I know it's early days but I wondered if there was a thread on here for the older pregnant woman who might be experiencing all the same things as me.

God, I hope I'm not tempting fate by coming over from the ttc side!!!!!

mellifluouscauliflower 42, #2 due 21 Jan (DS 5)
chickbean 41, #3 due 25 Jan (DS1 3.4 & DS2 16 mo)
nottslass 41, #3 due 26 Jan (DS1 23 & DS2 7)
ChunkyChick 42, #2 due 10 Feb (DD 2.3)
extremelychocolateymilkro... 42, #DD2 due in February (DD1 2.5)
Pumagirl 42, #1 due 31 March
HelishAngel 39, #4 due 1st April
Chynah 40, # 2 due 4 April (DS will be 15 months when she arrives)
varmit 42, #2 due 20 April (DS 2.6)
stinkypinky 41, #2 due April 23rd (DD age 3)
karney 41, #2 due 2 May (DS 17 mo)
schipo 40, #1 due in 16 May
ande 40, #4 due 31st May (17year old twins and 11 year old)
justbeme 41, #3 due 2nd June (DD 14 & DD 2.6.)
Hazeyjane 41, #3 due ? July (DD's 3.10 & 2.8)
negrilbaby 43, #2 due early July (DS 23 months)
bluebell6, 42, 2 due 13th July (DS1 2.4)
CoCoCakey 41, #4 due 16th July (DS1 22,DD 18, DS2 - 3)
HelishAngel 39, #4 due 1st August (other LO are 18, 13, 12)
chegirlsgotheartburn #5 due in August (16, 6 & 2. I had a beautiful DD who wouldve been 18 next week but we lost her in 2006)
Liahgen 43, #6 due 19th August
SmileyMylee 43, #4, due 26th August
Mrs Mopple 40, #2 and #3 due August 28th
HeighHo 42, #4 and #5 due end August
Hippy 43, #3 due end of August (2 DS's are 9 & 6)
MrsCrabby 41, #2 due end of August (DS 2)
asquashandasqeeeze 40, #6 due end of August
shinysideup 43, #2 due September (DD 23)
Curlylox 43, #3 due 8th September (DS 20 & DD 5)
rainbowdays 42, #4 due 11th September (DS 6, DD 5 & DS(2) is 1)

Just adding myself but dont seem to have a hash key to do no. thing..

mellifluouscauliflower 42, #2 due 21 Jan (DS 5)
chickbean 41, #3 due 25 Jan (DS1 3.4 & DS2 16 mo)
nottslass 41, #3 due 26 Jan (DS1 23 & DS2 7)
ChunkyChick 42, #2 due 10 Feb (DD 2.3)
extremelychocolateymilkro... 42, #DD2 due in February (DD1 2.5)
Pumagirl 42, #1 due 31 March
HelishAngel 39, #4 due 1st April
Chynah 40, # 2 due 4 April (DS will be 15 months when she arrives)
varmit 42, #2 due 20 April (DS 2.6)
stinkypinky 41, #2 due April 23rd (DD age 3)
karney 41, #2 due 2 May (DS 17 mo)
schipo 40, #1 due in 16 May
ande 40, #4 due 31st May (17year old twins and 11 year old)
justbeme 41, #3 due 2nd June (DD 14 & DD 2.6.)
Hazeyjane 41, #3 due ? July (DD's 3.10 & 2.8)
negrilbaby 43, #2 due early July (DS 23 months)
bluebell6, 42,#2 due 13th July (DS1 2.4)
CoCoCakey 41, #4 due 16th July (DS1 22,DD 18, DS2 - 3)
HelishAngel 39, #4 due 1st August (other LO are 18, 13, 12)
chegirlsgotheartburn #5 due in August (16, 6 & 2. I had a beautiful DD who wouldve been 18 next week but we lost her in 2006)
Liahgen 43, #6 due 19th August
SmileyMylee 43, #4, due 26th August
Mrs Mopple 40, #2 and #3 due August 28th
HeighHo 42, #4 and #5 due end August
Hippy 43, #3 due end of August (2 DS's are 9 & 6)
MrsCrabby 41, #2 due end of August (DS 2)
asquashandasqeeeze 40, #6 due end of August
shinysideup 43, #2 due September (DD 23)
Curlylox 43, #3 due 8th September (DS 20 & DD 5)
rainbowdays 42, #4 due 11th September (DS 6, DD 5 & DS(2) is 1)

There you go!
x

Baby girl chickbean born yesterday at 13.55, a week early, 8 days after my 41st birthday.

I was at a Netmums coffee morning and my waters broke (not dramatically, thank goodness - that would have been - just a trickle). Less than 4 hours later DD was born in the birthing pool at the hospital. Great experience - feel very lucky to have had such a problem free labour and birth.

No name yet - we were so sure it would be another boy - still can't get used to hearing "her" and "she".

mellifluouscauliflower 42, #2 due 21 Jan (DS 5)
nottslass 41, #3 due 26 Jan (DS1 23 & DS2 7)
ChunkyChick 42, #2 due 10 Feb (DD 2.3)
extremelychocolateymilkro... 42, #DD2 due in February (DD1 2.5)
Pumagirl 42, #1 due 31 March
HelishAngel 39, #4 due 1st April
Chynah 40, # 2 due 4 April (DS will be 15 months when she arrives)
varmit 42, #2 due 20 April (DS 2.6)
stinkypinky 41, #2 due April 23rd (DD age 3)
karney 41, #2 due 2 May (DS 17 mo)
schipo 40, #1 due in 16 May
ande 40, #4 due 31st May (17year old twins and 11 year old)
justbeme 41, #3 due 2nd June (DD 14 & DD 2.6.)
Hazeyjane 41, #3 due ? July (DD's 3.10 & 2.8)
negrilbaby 43, #2 due early July (DS 23 months)
bluebell6, 42,#2 due 13th July (DS1 2.4)
CoCoCakey 41, #4 due 16th July (DS1 22,DD 18, DS2 - 3)
HelishAngel 39, #4 due 1st August (other LO are 18, 13, 12)
chegirlsgotheartburn #5 due in August (16, 6 & 2. I had a beautiful DD who wouldve been 18 next week but we lost her in 2006)
Liahgen 43, #6 due 19th August
SmileyMylee 43, #4, due 26th August
Mrs Mopple 40, #2 and #3 due August 28th
HeighHo 42, #4 and #5 due end August
Hippy 43, #3 due end of August (2 DS's are 9 & 6)
MrsCrabby 41, #2 due end of August (DS 2)
asquashandasqeeeze 40, #6 due end of August
shinysideup 43, #2 due September (DD 23)
Curlylox 43, #3 due 8th September (DS 20 & DD 5)
rainbowdays 42, #4 due 11th September (DS 6, DD 5 & DS(2) is 1)

Born:
18 Jan - to chickbean 41 (DS1 3.4 & DS2 16 mo) - DD (name tbc) 8lbs 6 oz

Congratulations! Excellent news that the birth went well......post a photo of DD when you have time please, would love to see her.

Congratulations Chickbean! What lovely happy news

Chickbean, yes that's fantastic, congratulations and well done!

What a nice start to this thread too - hope it's just one of many to come.

Chickbean - congratulations and wonderful to hear of such a great birth of your dd.

Well done Chickbean! Congratulations to you and yours. X

Gosh, this thread has made me feel better!!

I am 43, expecting DS4, other boys will be exactly 7, 6 and 2 when this one comes along - all birthdays in the same month .
I am not sure I'll join this thread as I am trying to curtail my MNaddictioning and am on an antenatal thread.

But good luck to you/us all! And congratulations to Chickbean.

Congratulations to chickbean - I've got 6 days left to go, but heres hoping for a Delivery just like yours !!!!!

Just wanted to add my congrats to Chickbean. A daughter - how wonderful. I have 2 DS's and am secretly hoping this one is a girl but of course am more concerned about health etc.

2 sets of twins as well!!!

I have my booking in appointment on friday with the midwife and she will sort out a scan. I'll be over 9 weeks before I get to see some proof. Didn't get an early scan as am very fortunate and no history of MC's etc.

Just want to see the flippin' heatbeat.

We told our sons recently - they are so excited and sworn to secrecy. 6 year old will never keep it in until I'm 12 weeks .

Good luck to Nottslass hope delivery is really easy for you too.

pls can i join?? im 36 and am due 2 have my fourth child on 15th may...i kno im nt quite in my forties yet but feel more at home on this thread than with the younger mums. congratulations everybody!!!! jen. xxx

Jen6jen, don't suppose anyone minds youngsters hanging around !?

I see you're due in may though and want to point out that on the may antenatal thread, there 48 names on the latest list, and of those 19 of us are 35 or older. The youngest is a sprightly 26. I'm sure that's not reflective of all pregnancies nationally, but don't think you'd have reason to feel out of place. Be warned though, there is much more traffic on that compared to this thread.

Anyway, congrats on your pregnancy. Do you know if its a boy or girl yet?

yes its a little boy...i tend 2 relate 2 ppl who r late thirties early forties beta 4 some reason. maybe its cos my kids make me feel abt 70 on a good day. haha. x

Congrats chickbean! Well done!

Jen, I can understand. It's my first (a boy too) and I'm a bit scared at what I'll find at NCT classes next month. Bit worried that DH and I will be old enough to be the parents of most of the other people there

congratulations schipo my first baby feels like 4eva ago now.he shouts at me and locks himself in his bedroom when the girl hes asked out says no. scary!! ha.i think part of the prob is tht i actually work in a nursery with girls who r 17 and 18 and im the same age as some of thier mums!!

We'll let you in Jen. Although we're all dead jealous of the 3 at the start of your age . Actually shouldn't say all as I can't speak for the others but personally wish I was still a thirty - something.

Am dreading all the mums in the playground at school finding out I'm preg cos they will probably think I'm ancient. I don't want any negative comments to put the dampners on it.

I heard two talking a few months ago and one said, "I would like more kids but I'm over thirty now and not sure that I can start all over again!" They start early around here I guess.

Anyone had any cravings?? I can not stop eating juicy fruit eg. pinapple, mango, melon. I am eating it all the time. Am quite pleased really cos there are a lot less healthy things I could be piggin' out on.

my cravings have been orange lolly ices..not good 4 heartburn really but beta than the cravings 4 bleach and dettol i had with the others. ha. xx

hippychick,I haven't had any negative comments re my age (well,not to my face.lol)
One person did say "Has he(meaning OH)got used to the idea yet" assuming this pregnancy was unplanned.

As for cravings,Ice Poles & sniffing shoe polish has been my thing !!! I did have to resist eating the snow,as I was overcome by great urges to grab a handful & "savour the flavor"

thanks ande

congratulations chickbean our first graduate! sounds like you had a lovely birth experience too.

All the best to nottslass for an equally speedy delivery.

Wish I was having healthy cravings hippychick... mine are all for bread bread bread and cake at the moment, but you and Jen have inspired me and Im off to buy ice poles and pineapple this afternoon

I don't seem to have any cravings just at the moment - the nausea has put me off pretty much everything... none of last pregnancy's sickness calming tricks are working, lemon and ginger tea worked wonders then, but now just makes me feel sicker...

schipo best of luck with the NCT classes we felt similar when we did them before DS, I was 38 at the time, DH a lot more than that... and he was definitely old enough to be their dad. But despite age differences and a fairly disparate group, we're now all firm friends and they are the most fantastic support group I could ever hope to find going through the first few months together really is a bonding experience and it's well worth having that network of advice, or even just a few sympathetic ears. Age is immaterial, it's the experience that brings you together.

nottslass fingers tightly crossed for you and hoping if you get to due date and decide to go for the induction that it's another easy one for you.

Since we had an early scan we have told a few close friends already - and no raised eyebrows as yet... still trying to keep it a secret at work (any top tips for hiding the start of a bump?). I don't suppose there'll be raised eyebrows there since my colleagues don't know how old I am... I try to pretend I'm thirty something like most of the rest of them. Not sure it really works, but I like to think it does.

Hippy - how did the scan go????

rainbow it wasn't a scan unfortunately. Just my booking in appointment with midwife. We get a free Nuchal scan in 2 weeks time. Just want to see the flippin' heartheat so I can believe it all!!!

Midwife was really nice, she said her mum had her last baby at 43 so she was totally on my side and very supportive about my age etc.

How is everyone else - all ok???