Shagged out viroids - JS Grads 2

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Our old thread ran out of space! The horror!

Wow fuzzywood that's amazing! I really hope things are going well :) I have forgotten your DS's name? How was the birth? Are you the first JS graduate to actually officially graduate? I won't ask if you're still shagging

I am sneezing a lot and snoring - DH has had to buy ear plugs . I'm hoping it's hayfever and not the bloody toxoplasmosis .

cowboy how's it going?

vallinna that's interesting about the homeopathy. I'm sure your hair will grow back all luscious and thick - I read somewhere else that for most women their hair tends to get thicker in pregnancy because the hormones interfere with the growth/shedding cycle and all you get is growth and no shedding, and then when the baby is born all the hair that should have fallen out in the previous 9 months falls out quite quickly. Weird what your body does when you're pregnant, but even if yours is not doing what it's supposed to I'm sure it's just a temporary pregnancy thing.

Everyone keeps telling me how tiny I am but with over 9 weeks to go I have put on 1st 10, so I'm on track for 2 1/2 stone I reckon. Doesn't seem abnormally small to me, since all the advice says between 1 and 3 stone is normal.

Right, back to snoring, sneezing and scoffing chocolate ...

ps - frak, I hope you're hanging on in there, either way :)

Star yes I moved this weekend. Just to a new house, not anywhere exotic and sunny sadly. How are things with you? How far along are you now?

Fuzzy oh you're getting lots of lovely new born cuddles . I hope all is going well with your little man.

I saw JustKeepSwimming on a thread yesterday saying she was due to pop at any moment. She must have graduated around the same time as Frak. Goodness but that was a looong time ago! .

TTL unless I've been sleeping lambing or sleep gardening I don't have a risk of toxoplasmosis, yet I'm still as bunged up as possible and am surpised DH doesn't complain I'm snoring. Most likely it's pregnancy blocking you up not your dodgey gardening/hand washing skills affecting you.

TTL and COAAF I too am honking and hawking like a phlegmy old man, it's disgusting. Otherwise fine thanks COAAF, albeit slow and sleepy. Am now 25 weeks (I think) and have suddenly ballooned outwards into a comedy bump shape.

TTL I had the lovely thick shiny pregnancy hair last time and it did indeed all fall out suddenly about 6 months post-birth...gutted. I think I even posted a thread on here asking if I was actually going bald

Fuzzywood congratulations, how lovely to be cuddling your snuffly little 11 week old :)

frak and cowboy suspiciously absent...

Ohhh! Remember what I said about JustKeepSwimming? look at this. So exciting when viroids pop.

Ohhhh! (I need to step away from the childbirth board, sorry for all the squealing) Frak was about this morning asking about contractions because she may have been in early stages of labour.

Babies every where!!

ooh, is she a Viroid?
i didn't know.

LOL COAAF! I am with you . My F5 key is going to wear out! I am getting a touch of the monster! Babies are everywhere at the moment!

Not much here, worried re: lack of movement but having heard the HB on Monday I really should just relax. Scaring myself with people having bad 20 week scans (have ours 2 weeks today) and I wonder why the hair falls out! I just can't believe I have made it to half way. This time last year I had finally decided to get my lack of periods looked at and now here we are having gone through all the crap! I'm a lucky, lucky lady

fuzzywood congratulations!

So no news from frak? Ohh might be good news then! I hope she goes first She won't speak to me again otherwise!

I went to the hospital and I am apparently having contractions but not dilating so they said as long as my waters don't break it's perfectly fine for it to go on like this for as long as it wants to! As soon as i get to 8 mins appart they stop again. Its all in the right direction! In a strange way I am feeling better than I have in ages.

I'm here! Probably contracting but irregular and not as painful as I thought they would be? And no show or waters....

Just been talking to my besets friend in the whole world who reckons I'm going to go tomorrow. Well, we'll see

Oh so the labour off continues Err so once Cowboy goes, who's next? (me isn't it? Epp!)

WILL EVERYONE STOP HAVING BABIES!

I feel like a kid in a sweetshop being told I can have ONE cola bottle whilst someone else gets to go wild

How am I going to survive another 20 weeks!!

Seriously, good luck to you all. I really hope you all get the births you want xx

Err Vallinna the point of this thread is kind of that we are all having babies.. I know what you mean though. I'm trying very hard not to remember that it should have been either last week or this week that LO was originally due.

Damn this pregnancy brain...always forgetting something

It might just be me but the actual baby part of this process has (and is) always seemed so far away it's not real yet, and now the childish impatience sets in!

Wow, good luck Frak and Cowboy, do come back and let us know how you're getting on!
Vallinna I'm terrified of the whole giving birth bit. I'm very happy for Squiglet to stay put for the next 17 weeks, then appear magically in some way that involves neither dilation nor surgery.
OTOH I'm having a lovely time shopping for baby. I've got quite a collection of reusable nappies built up now, with some pretty wraps (wish I was 100% certain it's a girl, as there are such pretty things around). Need to stop buying now though . My nappy plan is to use Tots Bots size 1 for the first few months then, if all is going well, to invest in the BumGenius birth-to-potty nappies. Having said that I got a free BG tiny size from my Bounty pack and have somehow bought another one from ebay, and a tiny itti bitti d'lish which is so soft and cuddly I can't imagine it getting filled with poo!

Congrats on the new house COOAF. It must be such a relief to be in there with time to spare.

to everyone else.

Definitely in labour! It's actually okay so far - contractions 1 min long, just under 4 mins apart and still at home. Loving my microwave heat pack and I thoroughly recommend yoga classes if you're not doing them already.

AHHHHHHH! Labour! Frak hope it's all going/gone well.... how exciting!

Cowboy how are you doing?

COAAF glad to hear you are in the new house!

Vallina It's impossible NOT to worry isn't it?! I have my moments too, although now the boy is doing lots of dancing a lot of the time so it keeps me a bit saner. It's still early for you to feel movement, so try not to worry too much - he'll soon be digging you in the ribs

Esk i got over the whole 'ohmygodihavetosqueezethisbabyout' fear through a kind of resigned acceptance that there wasn't any other way to do it. It was an unforgettably amazing experience and I have no fear whatsoever this time round. I second frak on the yoga or hypno-birthing ethos because it's so important to chill out (ridiculous as that might sound) and go with the flow.

My in-laws are arriving today. Fun.

Woooooahhhh ladies the race is well and truly on! frak and cowboy both in labour GOOD LUCK!

Glad to know you lot are as disgusting as me with your 'honking and hawking I think I do have a full-on cold now though as the snot has reached epic proportions ... and it's definitely not pant snot ...

Oooh very exciting. Looking forward to news of a little Fraklette soon

Actually my FIL is a hypnotherapist. Somehow I don't fancy him talking me through labour...

I'm reading Stand and Deliver at the moment, which a friend lent me, seems to be full of good birth stories... though I don't think I will ever be able to hear Jennifer Rush's 'ring of ice' without thinking of the book's 'ring of fire'... ouch!

Go Frak, go Cowboy! Will be eagerly awaiting news

By the way, nickel I'm totally with you on the chisel front, feels like someone is trying to resculpt my bits from time to time with a hammer and chisel and it bloody hurts!

OMG! You mean these bumps turn into babies?!

Good luck to frak and cowboy. I hope everything happens word for word as written in your birth plan!

Katee thanks! I'm glad someone's on the same wavelength - these ones who are all going into labour right now just can't understand the pain

I'm stressed out this morning. Not for any sterssful reason, but that I woke up at 3-ish this morning with a very dead leg. It was very fizzy and uncomfortable, so I thrashed around a bit and rubbed it, before deciding it would be a good idea to get up and walk around a bit to get it back to life.
Oooooohh.
I knew i wouldn't be able to put weight on it straight away, so I tentatively put it on the ground and rubbed again.
when I did put weight on it -oh my!- knives and swords, not pins and needles!!!

I walked to the toilet, stumbling and ow-ing all the way.
DH was very sympathetic, asking if I was okay and checking to see if it hurt. Of course, apparently he was asleep through it all because he couldn't remember it at all when I met him for breakfast!

I also woke up later on with a fizzy left arm.
This had better not be a new trend.

And Push... Hope all is/has going/gone well Frak and Cowboy. Though CB are you actually in labour yet or are you just leading us all on?

TTL I'd had the same thought as you re the next 'labour off'

Nickel I've not experienced the whole dead limb thing, but have read about plenty of other who have. I recall suggestions like eating bananas and uping calcium intake.

BB in your case that bump really will turn into babies

Wish I was still only at the 'chisel front' stage. I now either have to walk like a geisha or with a serious hips set wide, waddle all the while going at a top speed of a snails pace. And to make matters worse I did to much walking yesterday so today I'm physically exhausted and starving (hence why I'm overly excited seeming today).

Waves to those I've not mentioned.

I migth try that, (not the bananas - i hate bananas), I haven't had as much milk recently as I think I should - had a lot of cheese and yoghurt, though.
I noticed that one brand of pregnant-lady-vitami-pills has calcium in, and then brand I'm taking doesn't. Mine have nearly run out, though, so I might get some with calcium in next time.