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!

(i realise where the confusion lies now - It's JC's mum that was giving me the left over clothes from when JC was a baby! Mine'll be JC2, i suppose!)

I know what you mean about pregnancy body - mine's currently fat from eating too much. Having to eat too much because I feel sick if i'm not eating
I think i'll have a lot of non-baby weight to lose when it's all over.

Totally with you on the pregnancy body Brassica - I'm going to feel so SLIM and MOBILE when this bump is gone. Put that pregnancy seatbelt in the car - they're uncomfy and they're no good in skirts but they will hopefully protect you and bump in a crash.

Got my Babylist order today. OMG it's fantastic, full of really gorgeous stuff and beautifully packaged with tissue paper and purple ribbon. Now prewashing stuff :)

katee I didn't feel baby move til really late, but I had an anterior placenta and when I did it was a proper jab at the top of my uterus into whatever organ was annoying baby at the precise moment. Absolutely unmistakeable feeling! vallinnna's turning round sounds more like what people on my ante-natal thread experienced though.

Snap - Love the look of Babylist - just googled it. Quick questions - do I ring for an appointment and then basically go and prattle off what I need? Do they charge (or do the get commission from the brands on what they sell? Muchos thanks!

Brassica I'm with you on the pregnancy body. STILL at the fat rather the preggers stage - expect when I lie flat when I have a definite bump, but you can't really do that in the office. Am tempted to wear my 'Baby on Board' badge on my top rather than my coat. It doesn't help that my mat trousers have belt loops bang on the hips so when you are wearing a fitted top your hips look humongus! Not even overly impressed with my now 36D boobs, they hurt to lie on (can still just about lie on my front, all be it a bit twisted!)

Name-wise (and TOTALLY outing myself not that I know anyone on Mumsnet!!), at the moment he is Edward Fox (as in a middle name, Fox isn't our last name) with Edward shortened to Teddy - at least while he is a bub. Fox actaully started out as a bit of a joke about 8 years ago but has really grown on us (the dangers of nicknaming bumbs/unborn-or-conceived children!) It was going to be his first name so there was always going to be a 'sensible' name in there somewhere in case he wants to be a lawyer or accountant - and if he gets there he can be Edward or (urgh) Ed!

PS - no, not after the X-Files character

Love the name vallinna

Humph! Have you guys seen the models on Next Maternity on-line?! They barely look pregnant!

Ring them, tell them a bit about what you want and they pick stuff out for you as suggestions (they found me the ideal pram) but you can try what they have samples of. They close the showroom for consult and will spend as long as you need talking to you about everything. Usually it's £95 but wellllll worth it! I promise they don't sell you stuff you don't need, they know what you do need (down to practical things like order fetching net knickers and maternity pads), they're always available if you need to tweak your order which I did about 5 times and because they've met you and seen your reaction to things if you ring up going 'help I think I need a this' they'll be able to advise you brilliantly.

They are fabulous and I love them!

like this one

Awh Brassica I do the same with all the pregnant selebs...but then I look at some who, in the grand scheme of things are not huge but cos we are used to seeing them as size 0s they look really big, or Kelly Brook, who is reportedly only 12 weeks in the photos - just think how massively uncontrollable her chest will be shortly (apologies to big chested ladies on here....and for my general bitchiness in that comment!)

Thanks for the positive comments on the name! I think people think we are kidding!

Thanks for the advice Snap def going to go! Will leave it until I am pretty much third trimester though (stoopid superstitius self!)

vallinna I went to see them at 20ish weeks as I was in the UK but didn't order until 32 weeks. They were fine with it and totally understood that I hadn't had the second scan and everything yet. The advantage of doing it that way was they pretty much had everything in stock ready for me when I wanted it and just packaged it up to go because I'd chosen everything and even if they'd ordered it for me they'd have been able to sell it anyway.

It's worth doing before you get to the stage where shopping is a hassle and you need to wee every 10 minutes (although they're obviously very used to pregnant people!). Ring and see what appointments they have free - I was so lucky they were able to fit me in on 2 weeks notice, but it being 2 weeks before Christmas may have helped.

Oh and superstition of the day, to make you all laugh, the pram base is currently residing in DH's car because I refuse to have it in the house!

can you put it in the shed or garage?

Don't have either unfortunately and garage would probably still count as house for me. We live in an appartment with no additional storage space. Grrrr.

Lovely neighbour (who lends me her hoover as ours is broken and I can't face shopping for another) is going to look after it but is away for a few days so it's temporarily in the car. At least we know it fits!

Still, DH isn't using his car at the moment and she'll probably be back before he is.

How about this for a name choice?! I like your name Vallinna. I think if it was Fox by it self I might be a bit but I can see how it would grow on a person (and at least the middle name isn't bear).

Ummm I had something else to say I think. Gone blank though. Never mind.

COAAF - with that in mind I could call him Sue a la Johnny Cash

I don't know if anyone is as obsessed with BabyGap as I am but this many help the purses: Gap discount voucher

Brassica I feel like I have got huge recently and noticed that d
DH now automatically puts his hand out for me to help me up!

I got the tape measure out and I am now 5'4" tall and 4'6" around at my widest point which I think used to be my waist! We always have a family Easter bonnet comp but this year I am going alternative and getting the face paints out to make bump an egg and tie a ribbon around me!

LOL Cowboy!! How much longer have you got? Do you think you can get to as wide as you are tall?? I would seriously see that as a challenge (although at 5'9" maybe not for me?? Unless I keep mainlining the food as I have been )

Contrary to most people on the thread, I actually like my pregnancy body. When I look at myself in changing room mirrors, and see bits poking out all over the place, I can put it down to pregnancy rather than the combined effects of laziness, chocolate, wine and hangover scoffing, and think 'that's okay, I'm supposed to look like this!' And I'm weirdly proud of my bump (not that I tell people that in public )

Love the name vallinna :)

at Justine Bieber. On that line of thinking I could have gone for Martia Owen in tribute to Mark Owen

One seminar left (tomorrow) and then my 28 week scan on Wednesday, then a course on Thursday, a day of meetings on Friday, and term is officially OVER!!! Which is totally needed since I stubbed my toe yesterday and ended up sobbing on the bathroom floor for about half an hour, wailing to DH that I just can't take it any more

Managing to hold myself together today though!

cowboy - i make DH help me out of bed and off the settee - not because i'm huge (obviously ), but because i'm lazy and oh-so-very-tired. :(

had my first lot of dry heavign today on the way to work.
yummy.
still, at least I now have memorised where there suitable spots for puking are!

Yes have got another 6 weeks so I think it's bound to happen at some point! I have always been on the umpa lumps side of things

I like my bump and find myself rubbing it regularly!

I like that my bump is still often hidden under a coat (winter or rain) so it takes people a moment to realise I don't just have gas when I'm rubbing my tummy .

I'm sorry Nickel I probably shouldn't have laughed at your last post. The bit about memorising all the suitable puking places.

Coyboy I hate to say it, but I used to work with a lady who was the same height as you and she said that when she was pg she was the same around as she was high (mind you she did also admit she had had a weight problem to start with).

I laughed too nickel but I also admired you for your good planning.

My first pregnancy chuck-up involved a sick bag which I had to hide in the staff toilets

If only I'd planned it better

ttl thanks. i wasn't feeling sick till then!

this morning, i feel well. I still have the background "urgh" but only a tiny bit, so I can largely ignore it. (which means I can get on with my VAT return )
I had a couple of really deep sleeps this morning after DH had left, one of which involved a dream as follows (was going to write it all in the same sentence but it would look odd):
outside a car-park near sainsbury's, and there was this little toddler girl messing around with something dangerous (i'm pretty sure it was a clothes horse, but let's suspend disbelief for a mo!) and her mum and mum's friend were about 30 yards away, yelling at her to stop doing it. So, cos I was right next to the girl, i tapped the rail next to her hand, then picked up her hand and moved it off the rail.
then the mum came storming over to me to have a go at me for interfering and for hitting her child! (the friend backed her up on this, saying she saw me hit her hand). anyway, so I was explaining how i was trying to help cos they were too far away, and she ditched the ice-cream out of her plastic cone and started to stab me in the neck with the pointy end! It was really freaky.

Any time nickel

PMSL at your dream . Not at your abuse of an innocent child but at the ice cream cone attack. Sounds like the beginning of an episode to Dr Who

DH is now having sympathy pregnancy dreams, I think, since he never tells me about his dreams but this morning he said he'd been riding a lion on the beach and he saw a penguin waddling along and went to stroke it. When he got there he realised the lion was only letting him ride it for a while, and was eventually planning on eating him. A passer-by went to get help, but the lion ate him before any help arrived! I do not have dreams like this!

Just taught my last seminar of term. In fact, apart from a couple of revision classes, my last seminar before I have the baby. Whhooop whoop. I am celebrating with a cream cheese and sundried tomato poppy seed bagel and a cup of tea with three sugars in it. Rock on

at your DH being eaten by the crafty lion!

I can't stomach tea at the moment. sometimes I really need a cup of tea, but right now it makes me feel odd.
I do have crackers and philadelphia - DH bought me them so that I could eat healthy snack, rather than biscuits if i feel queasy during the day. He's a total star.

How can I post anything when I just want to go and raid the fridge for the tiny amount of chocolate left in there. GAH!