Hello, this is The Secret Mum Club. I'm Emma and there's no soap today. She's a little under the weather, unfortunately, but we're going to keep it going for our Thursday episode and we're squeezing in all the extra bits and bobs from the week.

Squeeze your bits. Hey, there she is. Thanks for a bit of crowd participation there.

All of your comments, thoughts, questions and fun stories

to keep you going through the weekend.

Shall we jump on in?

It's time for another correspondence corner.

I'm really trying to work the crowd here.

Thank you, Maz.

Thank you, Sophia.

Thank you, Rosie.

Okay, a whole bunch of you got in touch and left comments on our reel about keeping old

pregnancy tests and your baby's umbilical cords.

Jackie says she's got two of her grandbabies cords who are nine and seven now.

I wonder if they're still going strong, because

Sof was saying she had Colby's for 10 years and it basically disintegrated. So Jackie, I need to know

what state they're in at nine and seven years old. Louise says, I still have my 18 year old

daughter's cord and clip. It hasn't disintegrated. She thinks it's disgusting. Yeah, fair enough. Julie said, I popped my now 33-year-old son's umbilical cord in a memory book with all his other milestones and a little lock of hair from his first haircut. But after downsizing the house, I ended up fobbing the whole book off to him and his wife. The looks on their faces when they saw the umbilical chord were of pure horror. I love the idea. When you first make it, you're like,

oh, my baby. him and his wife. The looks on their faces when they saw the umbilical cord were of pure horror.

I love the idea. Like when you first make it, you're like, oh, my baby's bit of skin and their first lock of hair. And they grow up, she's like, she's trying to get rid of it. Just fob it, fob it off on there. I don't want that anymore. Abby says, I threw mine away. It freaked me out. and Andy said, I had the little strip pregnancy test and I

laminated them. My eldest is 31 this year and I can still see the line. Oh, that's a nice thing to do

with it, rather than just leaving it in your bathroom cabinet rotting away and smelling like we,

like me and Sof did. I've got, so I've got Joseph's umbilical cord in a memory box, but when we moved house, I just didn't really put it away into a safe place. So now it just sits in his bedroom. And when they're just like rummaging through stuff and they're bored, they often just open that box up. And it's got his little wristband that he had on in the hospital with his name on. I think he didn't have a name at that point, so it just says Baby Jones and his date of birth and his little umbilical cord with the clip. And they're always like, what is this? Disgusting. Like, it looks like beef jerky. Can you imagine that? Have you put it in a bag? No. It's just loosey goosey. Yeah, like a dried up bit of pepper army. I don't know what I'm going to do with it.

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