Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 48th grads thread... celebrating the success of Just Shagging in getting us viroids upduffed!
For those that don't know, a 'viroid' is from the original JSing thread 1, where someone was trying to type ladies (in reference to all the JSing ladies), but their phone decided to call us all viroids instead!
The name stuck and we've been the JSing viroids ever since.
The 47th grads thread is here
The thread we have graduated from is here in its 61st outing. WARNING: they're all a bit kerazy not to mention randy!
There is also a Just Mumming thread <a class="break-all" href="//onwww.mumsnet.com/Talk/postnatal_clubs/2588689-we-re-still-teething-trying-to-wean-and-our-babies-just-won-t-go-to-sleep-when-we-re-trying-to-js-for-another-one-it-s-just-mumming-no-11" rel="nofollow noindex" target="_blank">here for once your babies come along, or to keep up with the graduated graduates!
There is also a private facebook group (so it doesn't give the game away in your news feed!)... if you want to join to see photos of new babies etc, just ask in-thread!
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Come hither upduffed viroids here we will hold your hand through scans, rejoice at your hairy shins and of course share your lust over Ian McShane. It's JS Grads 48!
Lalalalalaa · 30/10/2016 21:51
Thanks la we have a new home 
I was feeling a bit lost there
MyBlackCat, 34
DC none but 1 furbaby, the love of my life 
Cooking - 34w boy
Less than six weeks til due date, 8 more days of work, 5 more commutes - roll on next Thursday.
Did my first nct class yesterday, was good, lady that took it was a bit old school with her resources but I learnt stuff, DH definitely learnt stuff too. Other couples on course we're nice so fingers crossed some future meet ups and friendships will develop.
I had my 34 week midwife appointment today, I've not really taken to my usual one and today's was much nicer. I have sugar in my urine so have to go back again next Monday to get re-checked, works well as due to my commute I will have to leave work at 2.15 to make my appointment so I make that 6.5 days of work to go
Exciting canters - I'm looking forward to it all now, I have four more days of work after today - lots to do but can't wait to finish.
I may be deluded but I'm not apprehensive about the birth, everyone loves telling horror stories but I'm determined to prove them all wrong hypnobirthing has definitely helped my relaxed approach.
Didn't sleep well last night, a few hours awake between 2.30am and 5 but wfh today so not too bad and off tomorrow.
I don't have to take iron supplements anymore, my bowels are very grateful 
MyBlackCat - you've reminded me I never posted my birth story on here. I read the hypnobirthing book but didn't commit to it fully, but combined with my yoga breathing & visualisation, I felt pretty calm about the whole thing. Here you go:
I was booked to go in for induction on Thursday, when I'd be T+13. I rang first thing in the morning and was told to go in for 1pm, but when I arrived they were super-busy with various emergencies and several other inductions for higher-risk patients than me, so we waited a few hours and then after bumping into one of my obs reg friends, persuaded him to let us go home and come back later rather than hanging around on the ward all day. We returned later that evening, it was still hectic, but the midwives said I should stay in as they would still potentially start the induction overnight as long as there was adequate space on Labour Ward. Fortunately one of the few perks of being a member of staff was that we got a side room.
Waited up quite late still not knowing what was going to happen, then about 1am, just as we'd decided it was probably time to try to get some sleep (I hadn't slept much the night before due to nerves!) the midwife came in and said they'd got the go-ahead, so I then had to go on the monitor for a bit before starting. Interestingly, at my sweep on Sunday my cervix had been quite favourable (Bishop's 8, I'd been told it was ARM-able) but when she examined me it seemed to have regressed back to about a 4 
so we started with Propess about 2:30. Tried to sleep again, but the noise from the monitor kept me awake for the first hour, then once that was off I started having crampy pains which weren't terrible but enough to keep me awake. Then I started to feel generally unwell and vomited a couple of times, though I wasn't sure if it was just stress or something happening/going wrong. Bear in mind that given my job, I see a lot of scenarios in obstetrics where things haven't gone to plan, so was mentally expecting something to crop up at some point!
By 7am I was really not feeling good, and the cramps were getting stronger, with very little break between them - but I'd been warned about "Propess pains" and wasn't sure if it was just that or genuine contractions. Called the midwife in and she put me on the monitor, which showed I was contracting 6-7 in 10 mins, but fortunately the CTG was fine. She then spoke to her supervisor and they decided to take the Propess out, but the pains continued, so they got the doctors to come and review me on the ward round. This took a while to happen, and I was nervous that as the contractions didn't seem particularly strong, they wouldn't be effective, so was dreading being told that nothing had happened, but turns out I was 6-7cm! The poor obs reg had to cannulate me for IV fluids, and they were debating terbutaline but thankfully decided against it, so we made our way to labour ward.
It's only about 50m down the corridor, but the midwife suggested I walk rather than go in a wheelchair - longest 50m ever! I must have had 5 contractions on the way, and of course got spotted by one of the ICU sisters, the theatre manager and a physio - so dignified! However, the walking clearly did something and my contractions were getting stronger, so once we got into my room on labour ward I was very pleased to be allowed the Entonox. I found it really useful, both as pain relief/relaxation and because it forced me to concentrate on my breathing, as my calm yoga preparations/visualisations were rapidly heading out the window and this helped me get back on track. My obstetric consultant came to see me (the one I'd seen on antenatal ward was the on-call one, though I did also know her quite well) and one of the anaesthetic consultants heard on the grapevine that I was here so dropped in as well - both wanted to know if I wanted an epidural but I'd only just started on the Entonox so didn't feel like I needed it at that point - turns out I don't think there'd have been time for it even if I had wanted one! Did end up trying to have a technical debate about why I didn't want pethidine whilst mildly floaty though!
Fairly swiftly after arriving on LW I started to feel pressure down below - this was one of the things I'd learned about when doing O&G but didn't really understand until I felt it. Got re-examined and was fully at 12:25, tried a variety of positions, but unfortunately the ones which were most comfortable were the ones where the CTG wouldn't pick up, so I kept getting moved around. They tried to put an FSE on, but it fell off. After progressing quite quickly through 1st stage, 2nd was tougher, because I was just so tired, but the midwife and DH were fantastic support, and then a random med student showed up mid-pushing to add to the cheerleading squad. There were a couple of dips in his heart rate and the senior midwife came in, so I had another Entonox-blurred discussion about "If I need an instrumental now, will it be forceps or do you think they can do a Ventouse?" However, it wasn't needed and I finally delivered at 1.41pm - as soon as he came out I looked at him and said "He's huge!" but DH, who's not really seen newborn babies before, said "Oooh, he's so tiny!" Turns out I was right - 10lb! Placenta was also enormous. I didn't have a particularly huge bump, so I was quite surprised, had been expecting 8-9lb. Miraculously despite that "only" had a 2nd degree tear, so had that repaired while having lots of skin-to-skin time.
Overall I am really pleased with how it went, and that I managed to avoid needing any kind of intervention from my anaesthetic colleagues, though I feel like I really can't claim much credit for that as it all just happened without me having much conscious input into it! I'm fully aware that having a "good" birth is so much down to luck rather than any preparation or anything I did "right," but I'm glad the jinx of being a HCP didn't get me!
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Yes, Fuzzy - it's a great job and I really like obstetric anaesthesia, which is a bit of a marmite subspecialty within the profession! As for this 8%, even with the breakdown Chat gave (I have similar figures in my head) it seems low. There are also some women who don't get on with G&A because it makes them feel sick or they don't like the dizzy feeling.
We have a Whatsapp group, lots of 3am messages! We've met up once and have our official reunion next week (which DH can't go to 
) I've also signed up for their Early Days postnatal course, though obviously that group will be different people. And I'm going to a La Leche League meeting tomorrow gulp
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