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!

at your porn scan pic Vallinna. That's one to save for his 21st birthday!

vallinna. Don't tell the IVF people - they might charge you extra for that added bonus!

Glad you had a lovely scan. I am meant to be working, but it's sunny, I'm lazy, and do not give a fuck

Hope you ladies are all doing well. 30 weeks on Sunday for me, whoop whoop ...

I know the feeling TTL not even that sunny here and I am in full on w/e mode! Got in anhour late too as overslept yet still went to the gym before work. And I am wearing jeans. Such a rebel You are exactly 10 weeks ahead of me as I am 20 weeks on Sunday!

Just got back form the Midwife.
Was very good.

Lots and lots and lots of questions.

She seemed a bit surprised when I said I'd never had chicken pox, and suggested that it would be a good plan for my blood to be tested for immunity, especially with the kids in the shop.

She knew who I was from the shop (and I assume she knows from the Breastfeeding DVD that's available that I have a non-speaking role in ), and said that she always tells BFing mums to come to me (cos I have a lovely room for privacy)

She also seemed very okay with me wanting a home birth - providing everything goes well through the PG, she can't see a problem, and even had positive thigns to say about it being more comfortable etc.

Just under 10 weeks behind me ttl - 40 weeks tomorrow

nickel definitely worth getting a test done for CP immunity. You may be one of those lucky people who've managed to become immune despite never catching it!

It's (unusually) pissing it down with rain here today.

ooh, you're about to drop! Come on baby!

I hope i've got immunity, because I really do not want to catch it now!

It's weird that i've never had it, because my big sister had it at 4, but i didn't get it.

Glad your appointment went well Nickel and that you have a lovely midwife. Do you see the same throughout? I think I may see several different ones (well, I have seen 3 different ones so far!)

Oh Frak! You do realise that if you vanish from the thread for a day or so I will be convinced you have popped!

I'm meant to be packing the house up, but had to send an email and disconnecting the electric, but while no one is looking I'm skiving .

Frak How exciting you could go anytime now!! I'm excatly 9 weeks behind you. Can't believe I've hit single figures of the count down now. Epp. (also can't believe how many spelling mistakes that one tiny paragraph had. I called Frak Fark!).

ah, no, i've got a different midwife normally, which is a shame.
I think they share it, so mine is based on what days I'll be booked in for

'Lo everyone!
First of all, Dee I'm so sorry to hear your news and hope you have the support you need. xx

Kat glad to hear the scan went well! If there'd been anythign particularly noticeable they would have booked a second scan.

Vall That boy is going to miss out on a university education after all these scans I am so glad I got a doppler this time round because it has saved me a fortune put my mind at ease so many times, even though I feel squidge all the time!

Nickel Boy are you in for a treat if you think nips and swollen labs are the worst thing that can happen! I have swollen bits too and it's weird - i didn't get it with the first...
As for chicken pox, it's definitely to be avoided in the first trimester but I know someone who got it towards the end of her pregnancy and it didn't cause any problems. My dh is convinced he has never had it but he must have because he looked after DD when she had it and didn't pick it up. Supposedly you can get it and have one spot and not even really notice it... here's hoping you are one of those people!

Coaaf great news on the house! v pleased for you!

No news here. 24 weeks tomorrow and we had our first proper kick which we could see from the outside the other day!

Frak slice of pineapple?

I don't think it's the worst that can happen
Unfortunately, I'm expecting it to get a lot worse!
but thanks for the CP reassurance.

How can you tell if the baby's got hiccups? I'm getting these odd kicks low down but they're very rhythmic - too slow and heavy to just be my pulse but much more regular than kicks, so I'm wondering if they're hiccups or not :)

If they are that's good because her head is down - she was breech at my 20 week scan (like lots of babies I think) and sideways at my 28 week scan. Still a long way to go so I'm not worried about the position, but it's good to know where she is! I think she's doing some sort of hip hop dancing in there at the moment - last night DH could not believe it when he was watching my belly wriggle!

Right. Work to do to make up for yesterday's total lack of productivity, and garden to mow/weed. I say that, but DH will be mowing and weeding and I will be sitting in a deckchair milking pregnancy, I expect

I forgot how difficult it can be to access certain muscles in the last to months of pregnancy. Going to the loo suddenly got a whole lot harder

The good news is we're in our new place surrounded by boxes and the sun is shining while I lie on the bed in the sunny window

Woohoo come on Frak Its gone so fast! Good luck!

Wonder what the JS ethos will be with birth? Are we going to remain as cool about it as usual just to break from the norm? (While counting Braxtons and checking for pant goo?)

COAAF Enjoy the new house and make sure you get loats of skiving in

I think the baby must be a creature of habit already as I have really regular movement/discomfort patterns: 3pm lots of pushing feelings low down, 11pm stitch under my rib followed by strong back pain then 1am bump goes really hard and huge!

Also think I have been getting braxton hicks over the weekend, my whole tummy just goes really tight and bump totally changes shape when then ease off after a while. It makes me catch my breath sometimes and last night at the wedding it was hard as I kept getting some very nervous faces when I was trying to hide it. Only 4 weeks today till EDD

frak is over 40 weeks pregnant but still posting helpful advice on mn My kind of woman!

I have lost the JS spirit entirely this weekend, having previously believed I was cool as a cucumber about this whole thing. I did loads of gardening with no gloves on and ate a sandwich with mud up my hand (I had washed my hands, but evidently not properly). Then I googled 'gardening without gloves + pregnancy' and realised this puts me at risk for toxoplasmosis, and totally freaked out. Cue buckets of tears, a panicky phonecall to my mum, another to NHS Direct, hours of googling, a sleepless night, and an attempt to call my mw this morning. I am so angry with myself, and I'm not sure whether it's because I have needlessly put the baby at risk or because I can't stop freaking out despite knowing the chance I've actually contracted toxoplasmosis is very low ... so anyway, I need frak's kipper, though it's been so long since she's had it out I'm sure it reeks to high heaven!

CONGRATULATIONS coaaf!!! What a slog it's been to get to your new house, but you've done it just in time to relax before the baby is born :)

My mw just called and said there's a higher risk from feeding lambs at the zoo or eating parma ham and that I really shouldn't worry about it at all as the risks are so minimal. She told me to forget about it. I am going to try!!!

i'm very uncomfortable today.
I feel like a fat heavy frump.
My boobs are really heavy - had to buy a new bra on saturday night from Asda, but they don't do any non-wired bras that has seamless cups.
I got a sports bra,
which I am wearing inside-out because I wore it for about half an hour the right way in and seam was ripping my nipples!
But I don't think it's very supportive - it seems to be squishing my boobs out to the side, and they're rather hanging over at the bottom (not out of the bra, but making the fabric bunch up)

Added to that, I slept rather stiffly so my shoulder/neck hurts when I try to tilt my head to the right. And my pelvis feels like someone is chiselling from the inside.
Apparently it's all normal, but why can't it all happen at separate times???

ttl - DO NOT GO NEAR ANY LAMBS OR SHEEP WHEN THEY'RE LAMBING.
seriously, bad, bad, bad plan.

sheep and pregnant women

Nickel when we had our mass migration over here, sore boobs and bras were hot conversation for about a month, then we progressed past it. It's so nice to have some new grads joining and reminding us of those early days. Mind you having out grown my first mat bra already, I'm now sneaking the damn thing off when there is no one else around as it's tight and painful.

Am applauding my craftiness of clearly marking the box with the chocolate in it. Who needs plates and cutlery when they have chocolate?

Hope you're taking your MW's advice TTL.

Wonder how Frak and Gormers are getting on.

it's not nice!
It's early days, surely I shouldn't be feeling like a whale yet??
Is this a taste of what's to come?
:(

oh dear.
I can hardly move because of this annoying grumble on my pelvis.

I'm still here. Still pregnant. Still spending too much time on MN spouting crap dispensing wisdom.

Glad your MW was reassuring ttl I think mine is just terribly paranoid about toxoplasmosis, but it is sooooo much more common here and food hygiene = not great in many places. I reiterate the 'if you have flu like symptoms get checked' though.

You have your priorities right coaaf chocolate can be eaten without plates or cutlery.

nickel I find sports bras do squish, but I am quite amply proportioned in the bosom area anyway. I know these are nursing bras but they are stretchy, seamless and non-underwired.

Well I have to say the Just Shagging method of eviction doesn't seem to be working. DH isn't complaining though...

Frak

nickel she wasn't telling me to go near lambs, she was just telling me that doing a bit of weeding and then eating a sandwich is not very dangerous and I should stop worrying. I will definitely keep an eye out for any flu-like symptoms at all, and if I get them I'll be demanding blood tests.

Thank you ladies :)

morning lovelies

Sorry you've had a stressful weekend takethat At least the MW called to put your mind at rest. Oh, and what did you do with your beloved Take That tickets in the end?! Did you admit likely defeat and sell them on?

I must be seriously chilled or reckless. I have a (small) flock of sheep and while I've had to ship them out to be lambed by someone else this year because of the MC risk, I still vist the ewes/lambs weekly. I still move the occasional 25kg bag of sheep food, have the occasional cuddle of a lamb and still work with the (obviously) not pregnant rams. I use hand sanitiser on the drive home then wash my hands when I get home.

Poor you on the boob front nickel. We remember your pain! I even took to getting my bangers out under my coat when I was driving during the winter because any material touching them was beyond agony.

Yeah! Congratulations on the house coaaf! That must be a huge relief.

I'm not convinced my DH still finds me attractive while pregnant. He's never great on the "wow, you look great" front. But normally I not quite so insecure. On Saturday night I said "you do know I feel crap about the way I look at the moment don't you". This was a perfect opportunity for DH to say "don't be daft, you look gorgeous". But instead he said "as long as you don't get hung up and worried that you will always look like this"!! The poor chap also thinks my body is going to go back to the way it looked on our honeymoon after having twins!!

I hope you aren't driving yourself too mad frak