Just Shagging Grads thread No.13 for upduffed viroids!

[Nessalina]

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 13th grads thread... celebrating the success of Just Shagging in getting us viroids upduffed!

For those that don't know, a 'viroid' is from the original JSing thread 1, where someone was trying to type ladies (in reference to all the JSing ladies), but their phone decided to call us all viroids instead!

The name stuck and we've been the JSing viroids ever since.

The thread we have graduated from is here in its 29th outing. WARNING: they're all a bit kerazy not to mention randy!

There is also a Just Mumming thread in postnatal clubs here for once your babies come along, or to keep up with the graduated graduates! It's a bit quiet at the moment, but with all these upduffed viroids hopefully it won't be for long!

There is also a private facebook group (so it doesn't give the game away in your news feed!)... if you want to join to see photos of new babies etc, just ask in-thread!

So, roll call below please, viroids!

tee I love one born! I get this masochistic sense of glee whenever I watch it!! My virgin door-dah records every new episode that come up and I watch them one after the other. goes and sits in my own crazy little corner

I used to love it, watched it from the very beginning, would get all teary every time a baby popped out, but those nice fuzzy feelings have been replaced with lurching fear and 'noooooooo!'

I've been avidly watching the earlier seasons filmed at the LGI - as it's where I'll actually be giving birth it seems like sensible research!

Feeling full of bliss this evening - DH made tea, Apprentice on the telly, and my natural water birth is still on the table!

obviously the way my luck's been it'll all go tits up and I'll need an EMCS anyway

I love one born! I'm guilty of recoding the USA version. This and don't drop the baby but don't drop the babies birth scenes are very graphic

Awake again. Previously I woke up at 4/5am to turn over, but now I can only sleep on my left side because baby is lying down the right side! If I try, he squirms And by then my left hip hurts too bad to stay on that side! Really scared of making him flip again accidentally
So it looks like I'll be up fairly early from here on in...

Oh ness that's rubbish I need my sleep its the only thing keeping me going at the minute! I would struggle at 5am starts!

Ness! Well done! Not on the 5am start - that's just pants - but on flipping that baby!

Oh dear ness, can you get comfy on the sofa when you're up early and watch something, so that you're still resting even though you're awake? Or is getting comfy on the sofa no longer a possibility?

I've woken up with a cold. Not what I needed...

wil I'm cross on your behalf, the priority seats on the tube are most definitely for pregnant women and I shouldn't think there's any mistaking it at 26 weeks (unlike my oversized muffin top). I find it really difficult to ask for a seat and I don't know why?

Me too Tabby, I am totally rubbish at being assertive. I was only about 22 weeks at the time but definitely obvious. One guy kept looking at me like he thought he should get up but never did. He wasn't actually in a priority seat though. Luckily lots of people got off after about 6 or 7 stops. I normally drive everywhere so don't have this issue. Had a long sleep last night and still knackered .

Wil do you think you might be lacking in iron perhaps?

I had blood tests and they never phoned to say there was a problem which they said they would do so am presuming not. Probably just having a toddler!

Morning Viroids! ness I feel you on the early starts. Woke up just before 3am, was 4:45 when I last checked the clock before I went back to sleep. Hormones mess with my sleep patterns badly, not what I need at only-just-5-weeks!

wil I must've missed your tube trauma, I really, really hate that - and also that so often it is a woman who stands up for a pregnant woman, while the rude men avoid eye contact! I can recommend pointing to the priority seat symbol, pointing to your stomach, staring the sitter down and saying brusquely "excuse me". Body language speaks much louder than words in such situations.

Morning all, been to hospital yet again, think I need to set up home there! Was just (yet another) check up and chat but I'm really ready for 20 week scan. I'm 19+5 but it's not for 2 weeks as we're away next week. I want to know she's ok!

Hope you're all ok :)

I ended up browsing MN sat up in bed til about 7am then lay back down on the sore side and got a couple more hours At least on mat leave I can sleep whenever!

Fresh - I noticed in very early pregnancy i was waking up very early! I went home to visit parents and I normally have a good lie in, but I was wide awake at 6:30! It was funny because my mum seemed really put out that I was up

Wil - I got the train the other day without a reservation and thought 'no problem, I'll just sit in a priority seat', but they did specifically say 'elderly or disabled people' neither of which pregnancy is Lucky for me there were loads of seats, but I would have had to ask someone to get up if there weren't... With PGP at the minute I reckon I could push for disabled, lol. But I really couldn't physically have stood!

I know what you mean fresh will & tabby - I donned my badge this morning as started to heave before we left the house and Mr Tee wouldn't let me out of the car until i put it on. Train was standing room as per, I didn't get offered a seat, but then I didn't ask for one - but I did ask some people sitting on a group of 4 seats if one of them could please open a window. The way one of the women (seated) looked at me, you'd think I'd asked her to eat a turd. I was feeling too yuk to come back with a withering reply, and have since thought of about six witty retorts since being at my desk.

Aww Tee maybe you should try vomiting on some laps or at least a little theatrical gag? I get the train into London roughly once a week and I've had to cough up 30p at Paddington (before coughing up my breakfast) a couple of times - grim.

Have a lovely time Zyla

I cannot tolerate OBEM USA. I tried one episode but the dramatic music put me off within five minutes. Why do American shows have to do that? It's real life, it's labour, it's dramatic enough for god's sake without having to pile it on. Love the UK version though

I find it interesting that in OBEM USA they push everyone to have an epidural. It's so different to the UK way!

Yeah us Brits are supposed to suffer! It really is the most bizarre hang up. A surgeon friend once said to me that there is no other condition in a hospital environment where a HCP wouldn't encourage the use of pain medication. And people always seem to think they've done a better job if they don't have any drugs - they always mention it. Very weird.

The perception here is rather different to Australia, and I think the US also. In Aus, pretty much everyone has private health insurance (tax penalties apply if you don't) and if you don't have it before you start thinking about a family, you definitely get it prior to as the qualifying period for maternity care is - wait for it - 10 months. I was very surprised when I rang BUPA to ask about maternity cover and they said they "don't consider pregnancy an illness", so maternity cover here is a completely different and very expensive package purchase. It may not be an illness but it most certainly requires medical care, so that is a little illogical to my mind!

Woah fresh I just assumed that if you had medical insurance that covered pregnancy?! So you would have to pay more anyway even if you already had it? That's ridiculous!

I am absolutely in the 'give me all the pain relief' camp. I am interested in Hypnobirthing, or at least managing through part of labour with meditating, and zoning out, but I am not putting pressure on myself to grin and bear it when there are a selection of things to make it more comfortable to hand. I do absolutely get the ladies who don't want pain relief as they don't feel in control, but I don't anticipate that I'll have much control anyway, so i'd much rather be a bit numb for it.... :)

Tomorrow I'm aiming to vom on someone's copy of the metro.... :D

Haha go for it although go for a Daily Mail if there's one close by!

Oh totally, if you can manage without obviously do it as less need for forceps etc but I think pain is subjective so for someone else to tell you you don't need something is a bit strange to me.

lauren You'd think that, right? But nope. Loophole found. Of course, if any complications arise for mother or baby then it immediately becomes an "illness" and is covered. Truly, truly bizarre.

tee I vote you find a Sun reader and give him a page 3 worth. ;)

Sorry about difficult travel time teejay and BRAVA for your post about pain relief, that's pretty much how I feel about things, particularly after being woken up by what felt like an actual contraction this morning. Nothing since, of course, but things are moving along.

I went to the osteopath today which was really nice. I've been feeling pretty down and it was quite nice to just go and have someone focus on me for an hour or so. I don't quite get how it works but she reckons she's loosened up my pelvis and also showed me some brilliant positions for labour so feeling a lot more cheerful now. . She also stroked my head really nicely when I told her my mum keeps scaring me! Tee hee!

to be fair fresh I do have page 3 boobs at the moment (if you ignore the lovely blue veins!) :(