Calling The Viroids - Just Shagging Graduates!

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Just thought I'd start a thread for all those JS graduates, whether a newbie graduate or even if you left us a while ago and are well on your way. Would be good for us to keep in touch, see if we're all staying 'sane'.

Don't know about you ladies, but I am still filled with the overwhelming urge to PIAR (that's POAS for all you older graduates - after you left us we went a little mad and started harnessing the power of the ramekin!) I think once you start the habit it doesn't leave you!

Well, it's good to know that the Just Shagging method works. Even if we did once in a while just cheat a teeny tiny little bit!

bb DH is always telling me to leave the baby alone because I'm constantly rubbing and jiggling my tummy to try to get her to kick . I only started feeling it just over a week ago but it's been getting more regular ever since, and at first I could definitely only feel it when I was lying down and concentrating. But now it has carried on I know that's definitely what it was. So yes, I reckon you're feeling your twins! Poke away, I say - it's good for checking they're still in there

Ohh BB and TTL reading you refering to your LO's as The Twins and Her was just so lovely right now. They're no longer beans

Speaking of beans congratulations, welcome and a great big pot of sticky stuff to/for you Katee. It must be time for a thread party to celebrate?!

I'm feeling much better today, thank you everyone. I just really needed to blow off some steam. The world is so small sometimes so I'm always having to watch what I say as everyone knows everyone around here. However today is a new day, the sun is shining, I've digested the crap and am now focusing on the good stuff and finding a new home, for now.

Right thread party .

Ohh just had a thought Pushchair party! Like a tupperware party only with prams instead of food storage...

Morning!

You guys are going to think I am mad but I am almost certain I can feel my alien teedy bear moving. It's very low down (as in pretty sure it's not bowel) sort of in the 'mound' region. It's the sort of popping bubble people seem to talk about. Way too erly though, right?

On the other symptom side I had massive projectile vomming yesterday! Sort of pleased if that makes sense. I then had a full on elizabethan swoon last night! Didn't quite faint but it really was as close as it comes.

vallinna are you sure you don't just need to fart (only kidding). I hope it is your LO! How exciting! Can't say much on dopplers because I have avoided them so far. I just know that if I bought one I'd be checking every ten seconds and freaking out so I have resisted the urge.

Thanks nomore :) Having trouble calling her by her real name in real life - referring to the baby in the first person feels cringey to me, like when people refer to themselves in the third person ... but I want to use her name, so I'm doing it in texts to DH at the moment but not out loud! . Glad you're feeling better, anyway, and focusing on the positives. I just keep thinking 'a year from now it could will all be sorted' ... though a year from now I'll be back at work, which I'm already dreading . At least by then I'll have again to pull me through.

The bank had never heard of the mortgage I had read about (on Financial Times website, Guardian, The Times, BBC website, lots of money-related sites and so on, all from 27th January onwards). I got passed between four different people, each of whom lied to cover up their lack of knowledge. Then they said I should speak directly to my branch, and the manager at the branch said he had never heard about it but would find out and call me back. He didn't call me back, so I rang him, and he said I was right, it does exist, but he doesn't know anything about it yet, so can I ring him back in 2 weeks when he will have found out more! Mental. At least it wasn't an outright no.

TTL It seems ridiculous that they don't seem to know as much about their own products as the media do. Perhaps they should read the papers more!

Glad you're feeling better NoMore. I love the thought of a pushchair party. I've been reading about sling meets which seem quite popular in leafy Hertfordshire. Am quite concerned that we live at the top of a damn great hill and however I transport Squiglet around - sling or pushchair - the hill is going to be a bugger every time. Hence I need a Bee plus as it's lightweight etc. DH is quite a techie so I think if I can convince him that we need the high spec then he'll be up for it. Plus it's a Which? best buy, and he can't contemplate buying anything that doesn't get a Which? rosette.

I had The Chat at work about whether and when I'm coming back and what I'll be doing. It's really early days yet but it's budget-setting time in school around now and the Head wanted a provisional idea. Plus I wanted to know whether what I have planned in my own mind is feasible in terms of school - I want to go back 2.5 or 3 days a week, but want to do a proper class-share, not be bandied about doing PPA cover or being a general dogs-body. Head was very amenable to everything. Only problem is that I'll lose my (unofficial) management role, but I was sort-of expecting that. It's not in my job description and I'm not paid for it so the only thing I'd be losing is workload and control.

Can't believe I forgot about the thread party. Virtual for everyone and another wished-for Bee Plus thrown into the mix. I'm going to dance about it like it's a handbag, or a pole :)

Great the chat went reasonably well at work esk. I know we should expect and demand our rights at work but it's always a relief when we don't have to! On the June thread there are a couple of people who are being treated shockingly because of their pregnancy .

Not too worried about the bank thing as hopefully it's just because the product hasn't been properly launched yet. But a bit down because DH went for the only history teaching job in Suffolk or Norfolk and he didn't get shortlisted because he's too expensive (he's been in teaching 7 years and been awarded 2 discretionary points on the pay scale for excellent performance, and now he's about £15k more expensive than a newly qualified teacher). There are no other jobs in either county and by now they should be filtering out. If he doesn't get a job in the area we'll have to stay living in Cambridge and this time next year I'll be doing a 130-mile round trip with a six-month-old baby in the car :(

Thinking of murdering a Head of History somewhere in Norwich so DH can slide in and get his/her job. If you see anything on the news, keep quiet!

Hey ladies :)

Quiet on here this weekend. I take it you're all recovering from three bottles of virtual or something.

All the job stuff forced DH and I to reconsider the plan, so now we're thinking of moving to Attleborough which is a (scary Norfolk) town 15 miles from Norwich. It's connected by train to Norwich, Cambridge, Ely and London though. It basically means swapping commutes. Instead of 20 minutes for DH and 70 minutes for me, it'll be the other way around. DH is very excited as he likes his current job and it'll mean he can stay there.

Fingers crossed the bank let us move now!

Hope you lot are okay :) Anyone else think pregnancy must make them look younger? I spent most of last term depressed that everybody instantly knew I was much older than all the students, but this term I've been IDed several times (buying alcohol for other people, obviously), mistaken for a student three times - including once when a woman in my department didn't recognise me and forced me off the photocopier because she didn't think I had a right to be on there ! - and yesterday at the UEA open day a uni student thought I was one of the sixth formers!!! This is mental as I don't look very young, and I now have a bump

Maybe teenage pregnancy really is on the rise, so everyone sees my bump and thinks 'teenager' immediately

Weird, but it's nice when you already feel fat and frumpy and haven't had your hair cut or coloured for three months

3 bottles of Hmm is that why after a decent night sleep I feel the need for more (sleep not wine)?

I've discovered my unborn child loves cheese and onion chips. This could be dangerous.

I got mistaken for a student before I had a bump, seems to happen less now though!

My classes this semester seem less about my age as well. Bump clearly adds gravitas to me.

We have a carseat now and everything else on order. It's starting to feel really rather close. I figured that apart from teeny nappies and clothes we'd be in a pretty good position if babe decides to put in an early appearance.

nmcb mine loves salt and vinegar. I don't know how many tubes of Pringles I've eaten ...

frakkle wow you sound organised and calm. Am very impressed :) My students basically treat me as if I'm one of them, and I have absolutely no authority over them at all. Bump hasn't changed things ... they now just want to know lots of personal details about my life, my baby, my husband, and how old exactly I am since they thing babies are for old people and they're not sure I count :)

Happy Valentines Day!

I have been struggling to sleep and woke at 6am when DH went to work and went in to a cleaning frenzy for 2 hours til I went to work and he said its the best prezzie ever I could have done as I am not the most tidy of people so nesting must be real.

13 weeks left til due day and 6 weeks til I am due to finish work. My replacement starts tomorrow so I am nervous; what if hes better than me!

cowboylover he won't be better than you. And I bet he doesn't love cowboys, either, which is always a downer in an employee, I say :)

13 weeks to go! Woah that's gone fast! I'm getting impatient now. Anyone else have it that the baby kicks and kicks and then as soon as you get DH to come and feel it all stops immediately? DH thinks he's like the horse whisperer or something ...

Just a quick one as I should be teaching - it's 9.02 and I've got to get over to the other side of campus by 9.00.

Just a quick "hi". DH and I are on hols in not so fecking sunny Devon Back soon for a proper catchup

Aw have a fab holiday BB Hope the sun comes out for you.

Get me for being organised. I went to see a childminder this morning as my friends here told me that you need to put names down for nursery (which I don't want to use, but not many CMs around here it seems) a year in advance. Despite only being 3 months pg it doesn't seem long til it'll be a year before I need a nursery place!! So I went for a chat with one of the lovely minders in the village where I teach (have had children she's minded in my class, and she minds children for several of the teachers in school). But she gently explained that there's no way she can predict what her places will be like in over a year, (which I expected) so I'm really none the wiser.

of bb. Devon is gorgeous and about as close to the Maldives as I'm going to get for the next 18 years, so I wish I was there!

esk it's a pain isn't it? The nursery on campus won't let you put your name down until the baby is actually born, but then can't tell you when a place will be available, which is likely to wreak havoc with the fact I absolutely must go back to work in January or we can't eat or pay bills. Oh well, as with baby poo, baby sick, birth, sleepless nights, and the years of poverty that await me, I'm just pretending it's not goign to happen Instead I am going to have a baby who is born while I am asleep, smells of strawberries at all times, doesn't wake up until she's three and only once she's able to read, write and behave impeccably with no prompting, and is going to make us all a fortune as a child prodigy of some sort ...

Either that or she'll be an ordinary human and I will be beating down the nursery door in January

Also at BB's holiday. Even if the sun doesn't come out. It'll still be warmer than here.

Not much doing here. As usual. I finally look pregnant, not just like a greedy fatty fat fat and LO has discovered something better than walkers cheese and onion.

Pass the hummus!!!

Mmmmm hummus. And breadsticks. Mmmmmm....

Nothing much here either. Have been working pretty hard this morning but SIL is coming to visit this afternoon and staying overnight. Last time she popped up on her own I got horrendously drunk, fell into the fireplace, bruised my arse, scraped my shin open, changed my dress and went to the pub down the road only to throw up and come straight back home to bed.

Conceived about 2 weeks later, so today's going to be a bit more sedate I reckon. Probably the cinema will be as wild as it gets

LO hasn't kicked today, which is bugging me. Usually by now there has been at least one series of thwacks. Off to do a few cartwheels and eat some chilli or something to kickstart her.

Is there nothing much there because it's all broken down and not been fixed TTL?

I remember you falling into the fireplace . Alcohol really does help when TTC.

Thank goodness I have been able to replace wine and vodka with food hummus. I made myself hold out from late last night until midday today before devouring the last pot in the fridge. Now I'm out of hummus and water crackers. I may finally have motivation to leave the house .

Ohhh bon voyage BB! DH and I are looking for some winter sun...every possible destination so far has descended into civil unrest; Tunisia, Egypt and last night Bahrain! Serioulsy!! No one tell the Canary Islands or Dubai we are considering them!!

at on campus nurery TTL - I have not given that stage the slightest bit of thought yet!! A friend asked about my birth plan yesterday. My response was I am literally surviving week to week, am not sure I have even comprehended there is a bub in there, let alone that fact in 6 months time it needs to come out!

There must be something in the water NMCB my craving have just got a whole lot healthier! Really wanted mango, blueberries and cold, red grapes last night. This morning, well, lunch, I have made the bestest new discovery - M&S cottage cheese with prawns. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm! Still fancy ketchup with pretty much everything and last night I was craving a dirty hotdog with oniions from the dirty vendor vans (live opposite a football ground!) Still, a definite improvement!

Quick question for you more PG types! I am 11 weeks today (woo hoo!) I am pretty sure when I am in bed and I lie on my stomach I can feel the baby - not moving or anything, just something there. Am I mad, is it more constipation?

Ohhh Cottage cheese...... I am SO suggestable these days!

Vallinna it was around the 3 month mark I started to feel a change in my tum. Kind of a hard lump where before the was just squish some give. Ohh how exciting for you.

I would offer to babysit for you all when it ccomes time for going back to work, but I think you'd all start to complain about the commute involved (not to mention a house full of babies blowing poor DS's mind!)

Hm, hadn't thought of not being able to put name down until child is born. How does that work if the waiting list is over a year?? Bah.

I LOVE teacher training days. We have one today and we're not starting until 9.15! Laying in til 8 felt amazing. Suppose I ought to get myself into gear and actually go to work, as I suspect that being late for such a late start would be taking the P somewhat.

Afternoon lovelies!

Slowly starting to burst out of clothes. Well, not exactly burst but my trousers are definitely a bit tighter as is the bra I am wearing today. Oh, and my gym capris - had to roll them down half way through a x-training sess! I think I look very PG when I look down on my tummy but completely normal in profile when looking in the mirror

Also got an odd pain - think it is ligaments. On my left hand side, sort of uterus location. Not crampy but sort of mildly 'stabbing'. Been like that for a while really (well, a couple of weeks).

I have my 12 week scan on Wednesday (11+6). Excited and nervous. Had the conversation with DH about his thoughts in case things aren't fine (obv trying not to think along those lines but I have realised I am a natural pessimist...!) - both of the same opinion but I stressed mightly that I would have no idea how I would feel if we did get bad news.

Oh and we may move to Australia shortly after the baby is born.....

One of those weeks.

Thank you Takethat! No you are right; hes good but not a mention of a cowboy all week

I know what you mean about stopping moving as DH has not got to feel her much but Mum did manage to the other day when she needed a boost after a long day in work. Ended up histericaly laughing in worh when a guy I work with touched my bump (without asking) and as soon as he put his hand on it she kicked him hard off! I like her attitude already

I think I remember the fireplace thing as well! I cant believe I have been watching the 6 nations without a can in my hand! I wanna be at the stadium singing my heart out and falling off the train at the end of the night not with up feet up to stop my ankles getting fatter!

vallinnapod: I know what you mean about the holiday destinations! We where going to Thailand but with baby on the way we cancelled. Now watching BB2 and Pembrokeshire looks great and only an hour or so drive away I cant believe we have not ben so looking now to upgrade the dome tent to a 'proper' family tent.

Anyine got any experience with babies camping?!

Vanilla: the 12 week scan is strange and so exciting at the same time, I remember being totally speachless which is very unusual for me

Australia! Is that good thing for you? going to be an adventure of a year x

Take me to Aussie with you Vannilla I loved it there and I'm so sick of cold. Hope all goes well with your scan next week.

Cowboy I have no experience of camping with babies, but I was out camping at 3 months old. By all accounts it was a rather unsuccessful trip ending up with my parents having to pack up in the middle of the night due to being flooded out and trying to get 3 kids settled in the car for the night We had many wonderful family camping trips after that though.

Hello lovely viroids, I've been lurking for a while again! Not much to report since it seems all I have been doing of late is reading about birth/babies or working

TTL glad your plans for move are shaping up, hope the bank get their act together!

Vallinna Oz!? Do tell? Sounds like a very exciting next chapter!

BB defo of lovely holiday in Devon, hope the weather is behaving itself for you!

Cowboy I'm not the girl to ask re camping last time attempted involved lots of cider and peeing in bushes ..and that was me in late twenties!!

Is anyone else going to be going to weddings when just about to pop? I've now got two, one 4 and half weeks before due date and one 4 hours away 3 and a half weeks before due date. I'm a little concenrned as imagine by that stage I'll just want to stay put and also what kind of tent like outfit am I going to have to spend hard earned cash on?? Normally I love a good wedding, good times with lots of happy friends and loads of bubbly and lovely outfits - just thinking that being over eight months preg may take the edge off!

Right off out now for a lovely treat lunch mmmmmm. Enjoy your weekends!