Shagged out viroids - JS Grads 2

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Our old thread ran out of space! The horror!

LOL COAAF - I am hoping my child's first words will be "Mummy, can we please watch some more Grey's Anatomy?"

IMPORTANT NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT!! The drought in the 'Pod house has finally broken. I got back on (well under) the horse and finally JS! DH reckons it could have even been better than his Easter egg but he is reserving judgement until he has tried the egg

Good work vallinnapod! It's what Jesus would have wanted DH and I are full of good intentions but more often than not end up asleep by 10pm.

hahaha Vall and Easterstar! We manage it occasionally but I tend to choose sleep over any other activity in the sack these days!

Frak massive congrats for your baby boy - love his name! Glad to hear it all went fairly well. Tears happen. I had an epi with my DD and it wasn't a major problem TBH.

nick don't worry about the month after the birth. You won't actually remember any of it once the child hits 3 or 4 months. It's just pure survival instinct that gets you through!

Happy Easter everyone! x

Just popped on to see how everyone is doing. Just moved house so had very limited internet connection.

Congratulations frak for your baby boy. Glad you are both doing well :)

Vall I intend to sooth Currant Bun to sleep with the Gilmore Girls episodes.

Congrats on the house move Baby2b. It's great fun with a huge tum isn't it?

Sadly DH is still unwell so even when I want it anything more the a shoulder rub is just a fond and distant memory at the minute. When I told DH by the time he is able to JS again I'll be about to pop/have popped and it'll be off the cards until I'm all healed up again. He wasn't to pleased about that.

Vall yeh [busmile] that's what the Easter bunny is all about!

COAAF how much longer have you got? I'm 37 weeks now and feeling/looking huge but some how still JS even after the week 20 to week 26 drought! I thought by now it would be way off the cards and a little weirded out by it but it's been fine! Admittedly limited but still nice but keep thinking it might be the last for a long while!

Ladies - Tyrells Mature Cheddar and Pickled Onion crisps. Nom!

That is all.

Valinna sometimes crisps are all a girl needs!!

Had a lovely sunny few days off and looking forward to the next 4 day weekend!

Hope you've all had a great time [bugrin]

frak whoop whoop congratulations!!! Amazing news :) I hope you are enjoying your first few days as a mummy [busmile] If you get any spare time make sure you come on here and let us know how it is going!

vallinna Tyrrells are amazing. I am so with you lady [bugrin]

We've got my parents staying and so I'm jealous of all you JSing ladies. Though we did manage some JS-style activities last night [bublush] - ones that can be done silently on a creaky bed [bublush] [bugrin]

Today my step dad we fixed our bathroom door. We have barely had a door on there for two years (though it's L-shaped so you can't see the toilet). I think that now we have a bathroom with a door on it we are officially grown ups and ready to be parents [bugrin]

Umm crisps! I just can't get enough food!

Watching Devils Advocate now with DH and seriously tempted to crack open an Easter egg [busmile]

vallinna - ours too!

we did it on Saturday (no foreplay, cos I was worried all the rubbing might annoy my new sensitive bits), but a huge big snog followed by a quick shag (well, it's been nearly 2 months...) - I can't believe how different it felt, physically. Even DH thought it felt different.
that'll be my new huge red labia, then. Totally changed the sensation. (in a nice way )

other symptoms (less TMI this time! )

this sense of smell thing -

I didn't realise it was a huge thing, because I've always had a keen sense of smell (previously mentioned, I'm sure)
But yesterday, smells were like this:
went past Macdonald's and I cuold smell the fries like I was in the restaurant (it might have been the open windows, but we were in a car, on the other side of a huge brick roundabout)
went to Sainsbury's, men outside smoking weed , smelt like I'd stuffed my nose into the rizla. Could smell it still when we were halfway up the veg aisle.
walked past the fresh herbs - the basil smelled so strong that, again, I could have stuffed my head into the wrapper and taken a huge whiff.
Then we went past the herb aisle - not down the herb aisle, just across the top of it - must have been about 10 yards away: I could smell the mixed herbs. Thought for a mo that the stacking lady had dropped a bottle on the floor (she hadn't)
We were at the cash tills, and I thought I would vomit because the smell of fresh coffee wafting over from the cafe was really really strong. DH couldn't smell it at all
when we got home:
DH was grating chocolate for the milkshake (healthy and homemade banana milkshake), and I could smell it really strongly.

I had the smell thing. I could tell DH what he'd been doing that day, whether people had been smoking around him, whether he'd visited the ship yard. The poor guy ended up taking about 3 showers a day!

Motherhood is exhausting, exhilarating, even more hormonal than pregnancy and if you thought your boobs hurt before just you wait!!! DH has been sent on an emergency breast pump buying mission as M just isn't taking enough off and hand expressing is excruciating.

I'll wait until we have a post-natal thread to share birth story etc as I don't want to scare anyone.

You can always make a post-natal thread!

Thanks for the warning on the boobs.

My mum sent us egg cosies for an easter pressie, and they stank of fags. Everything she sends does, and I don't think that was my sense of smell, cos DH could smell it too.

Nickel your labia had me laughing, sorry. (now that's not a sentence I ever thought I'd type )

Apparently chocolate gives me heart burn. But I have to keep eating it just to check (greedy [bugrin]).

CB I'm 32 and a half weeks, so around 8 weeks left. Am really hoping DH gets his shag cape back on in time to give the ol'JS ethos an airing before horribly sore and abused fanjo puts the kybosh on things for six weeks!

Now who mentioned chips? Hand them over please. Right now.

Woot. It turns out that when I have to stupid fecking buses being early I can still walk fast enough to over take short fat slow moving other people! I'm soo going to pay for it tomorrow though.

do you mind!
my labia are beautiful!
I uite like them being big and red, it's odd.

wwmc!
you poor thing!
chocolate followed by Setler's tums!

Not sure what sort of stage of purchasing you guys are all at but Mothercare has 10% off car seats, pushchairs and cots. Also worth joining their Baby & Me club as you get loads of money off vouchers - I just bought our car seat for £120 as opposed to £150 (£135 in the 10%, a further £15 from the vouchers and free delivery) Worth a constant check on the site too as bought my breast pump for 50% off (unfortunately now back up to full price).

BTW would avoid Mothercare stores like the plague - may just be unfortunate but the 2 I have been in to have been the world's biggest jumble sales with no stock!

I was just wondering when I should be thinking of buying our car seat Vallinna, not to mention when to start stocking up on bits and bobs, buying pushchair, cot etc.

Spent the weekend with DH family. Had a lovely time but got v stressed over DH mum and her attitude to keeping stuff. She still has lots of DH stuff around at theirs and randomly decides that it needs sorting (fair enough) but she and I have very different attitudes to keeping piles of crap stuff around and she will argue with me that it needs to be kept, but not by her. She is really lovely really, but she makes some comments which I find very difficult to take.

Today's my last day off work for Easter and I've been running round like a mad thing getting all manic and panicked about how much there is to do before Squig (16 weeks to go ) pops out. Have written list after list of what needs sorting/painting/buying/starting/finishing. I even printed out a calendar for the next 4 months, marked on it when we're busy and plan on showing it to DH alongside the list(s) of jobs that need doing and demonstrate that with only 10 free weekends before EDD we need to get cracking. I'm hoping that it will help him see how urgent some of this is.

Also, anyone who's been joining me in coveting the bugaboo bee, have you seen that there are new limited edition spring colours out? Unfortunately they don't seem to be available in any of the package deals but I'm very tempted to have one anyway so that mine is a little different from the others millions around here - seems Herts is prime Bug territory.

Gawd Esk when you say 16 weeks to go it sounds soooooo soon! I have 18.5 weeks to go. Prefer saying I am 21+3 - I have waaaaayyyy more time that way

I wasn't going to buy anything until the last couple of months but keep finding 'bargains' I am sure these sorts of offers are on all the time but the fear of missing out has me purchasing! Plus I am lucky in that I can keep baby stuff at my Mum's place (we will probably be living there between houses when bub is born any way) so the clutter factor is removed for us - I think she is OK with it!!

Stroller-wise I am an Uppababy Vista girl myself I am going to see it 'in the flesh' before purchasing online (groovystyle.co.uk has lots of good deals as far as I can see). My worry is it may be too big for London transport. I think I will sling it on the tube but I want a pushchair that is bus friendly (well, as friendly as these things get!). For that reason London is full of Bees, and we may end up with one too. They are so slim. I just think the seat looks titch even now. I want bub to be in it for the foreseeable future! I also love the idea of a carry cot (even though all my Mama friends say the baby hardly spends any time in one!). I know the Bee lies flat in the cocoon but.... I love the spring fabrics too. Have you seen this place? I came across it on another Mumsnet thread, If we do end up with a Bee I think I will try and stamp my individuality on it it's cheaper than buying the official Bugaboo fabrics!

Woot! I'm growing tomatos for Dolmio!

Still waiting for my Mothercare vouchers. Com'on MC (not that I actually have any money to spend, but still)

Ah poo. Vallinna I wish you hadn't mentioned Mothercare because of course I had to go and have a look at their website. Only to find the travel system we have on babyplan is reduced even more (in the colour I prefer too). I've been considering going in and cancelling our baby plan because with DH sick (and not working), we literally have no money (though we do need a new pushchair as old one is fast becoming unsafe).

Oh well at least we'll have tomatos.

My old bedroom at Mums house has been full of baby bargains and stuff we have bought since I was around 20 weeks so nicely coninsided with the Jauary sales! Think there is another Asda baby event coming up so I will e going to that again.

I think I have forgot how much stuff we have as with under 3 weeks to go I still have not collected it all

Thats for the remind on the Mothercare vouchers, I will find them out before I go sometime this week as realised I have not got a nursing bra yet. I know I read its best after the baby has engaged but as my MW doesnt think that going to happen til I am in labour I dont want to leave it any longer.