i saw triplets leaving the hosp where i work today. 2 in pink and 1 in blue! so cute and looked tiny. will i ever stop feeling broody? my youngest baby is now 19 and im 48!

Steady girl.........
You just wait to be a Granny...............
But I know what you mean.

Karen :)

The thought of smelly nappies times 3 and no sleep for three years would soon quash such feelings, LOL.

got to agree with Brainless, any thought of no sleep and crying all the time puts me off and the fact that i've done it three times.
my youngest is disabled to so has a young mental age, i love her to bits but at 7yrs i still get sleepless nights so can't even think about babies.

> The thought of smelly nappies times 3 and no sleep for three years would soon quash such feelings

Not for me it wouldn't !!!!    I'd love another but not allowed !

same here...i want one more to make up a nice round 5!!!!
not allowed one!!

I hadn't felt broody since my youngest was born - he's 8 now.

But then after my husband and I split up and I met Mr Right it's come on with a vengence! Unfortunatley I can't carry another baby due to an op I had years ago but we are even considering surrogacy now... it's just so difficult to do and very expensive :(

Im currently 9 weeks pregnant and very very sick! Didnt go to work on Tuesday and they asked me if i was going to be unwell for my next shift could i ring in the night before! I think i was put on this earth (as we all are scientifically) to be a mummy, i have my menagerie already but to add one of the human kind come July. Ive have sat them all down and said this will be our last Christmas alone so they are to make the most of it with there presents as baby will take up a lot of money and attention next year.

Slightly nervous, but excited at the same time, really looking forward to breastfeeding and creating a bond. We dont wish to find out the sex as we want it to be a surprise. Got a few names picked already and i had my bloods taken last week. My mum found out the other night, had to give me a lift home as the battery in my car died on their drive. She saw my antenatal book on the sofa so i couldnt deny it, although i wanted to wait until i had my scan which is the 23rd of this month. Its good to have her on my side with the morning sickness as she was taken into hospital because she was so bad with it, OH says its psychological and i should suck a mint. He comes out with that again and ill have to vent my hormones on him stupid man.

Just trying to grin and bare it at the moment :-(

Congratulations Louise x x

Trust men to come out with those kind of comments if it was left to men to give birth im sure the human race would fizzle out LOL

will i ever stop feeling broody?

I never have. :-D :-D I should have had a house full really, two wasn't enough. I have 20+ nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews, but it never did stop the ache and broodiness when I see a baby. I love my boys to bits but I wish I had had more children.

But sensibly I wouldn't want one now, the feeding, crying, nappies and sleep deprevation doesn't phase me one bit, a baby could come into my life anytime, it's the rest of it, having to do the endless school journeys, the waiting outside school gates, assemblies, ball pits, endless clubs and going back and forth, at the time it was all just normal but not something I would fancy doing again, so wouldn't wish a child at my age, (not that I could have one anyway :-D)

But wish I'd had more at the time, and babies still make me go all gooey. :-D So your not alone.

How wonderful Louise, congratulations!!! :-) :-) :-)

Congratulations Louise! Try ginger biscuits before you get out of bed and some peppermint oil on a tissue to sniff through the day. I also found those sea bands (like travel sickness bracelets) helped take the worst of it away so wore them all the time!

Darling when he says that, suck a mint and then be sick in his lap he will not mention a mint again!!

Congratulations Louise!! I would agree with Zaska about the ginger biscuits, they certainly helped me. I was fine with first only sick a couple of times, with the younger one I was sick every morning for 9 months (not later in the day only in the morning), stopped the day she was born (have had a headache instead :-D :-D ).

Zaska - Go for a puppy - much less upheaval than a baby and the headaches stop much faster :-D :-D

I think you're right and another dog for us to 'share' would be far more practical. I can't have a baby so I just need to move on... and I hate the school run, the taxi service, the teenage angst and the constant juggling act I have to perform to keep on top of things with 3 kids. Why on earth would I want to spin that out for another 15 or so years???

Why on earth would I want to spin that out for another 15 or so years???

15 years? my baby whos 19 still lives at home and has his meals cooked for him! i dont think mothering ever ends!
to louise- congrats and dont let anyone talk you out of breastfeeding, i fed all four of mine for a year and its wonderful but the mil was always trying to make me bottle feed- at least you know how much milk they are drinking shed say. well, mine gained a pound a week so were obv getting plenty.

I don't see the taboo re breastfeeding. Its such a natural thing and something i want to do for as long as i see the benefits. Which is upto 4 years old i have read but i wont be doing it that long! I speak to quite a few mums to be working where i do and i see the connection between latch key children and absent fathers and those mothers who think its disgusting to breast feed.

If anyone tells me otherwise they will get the same treatment as when they tell me i cant have a baby with 'those' dogs in the house. Possibly a fist full if im hormonal.

well i am in a state of shock since tuesday night! my daughter called me to tell me she is having a baby! my first grandchild and she is due on 7th july......i am not ready to be a nain yet!

Try flat Diet Coke for morning sickness.... it works !!!

Gabrielle x

only a few days after me! so i can sympathise if shes poorly xx

you never ever stop feeling broody, i have two girls,one aged almost 4 and one aged 2 and 3 months and i still feel that heart aching urge and stomach churning ache of want when i see and hear a little baby,i would like to sleep through the whole pregnancy and wake up at the birth,but alas there is no more room at this inn unless its the shed,so no more for me.
Louise,try a plain cracker before you get up,i had terrible all day sickness on my first pregnancy, i actually lost half a stone. I found that it was amazing how you get used to it, the hardest bit was not letting others know as i did not tell people until i had my 12 week scan,so it was alot of sneaking off to the loos
good luck honey