JSing Grads turn 21! We've got the Key to the door, cosy wombles and a drawer of dirty spoons.

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 21st 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 38th 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!

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I need to sit down and work out when festivals are so I can sort a date out, then go and visit the church I want and beg to be allowed to use it we are out of catchment. Once that's in place ill have a date and can plan properly! But every time I plan to do it I'm always tired by the time I get around to it, I'm thinking maybe maternity leave (before baby comes) might be a good idea! You're right though, baby things are much more exciting

I was going to say it does sound like dementia, so I wouldn't take it personally. Horrible illness :(

Glad you got parcel though - can you put note on door asking postie not to leave parcels with neighbour?

Why is it every morning without fail I'm the one who has to get up and feed the cars? During week he works nights or not til 10am so I'm up first and feed cats. But then he works fri and sat night so even though it's my weekend and lie in time I also have to set alarm and get up. We got in at 2:30am and I've just had to drag myself up to feed cats. He's snoring loudly next to me. Grrr

zyla are you ok?

I did my initial wedding planning with booking stuff early then did the rest every sat night in front of a film. How come you have to wait to find out about festivals? Are you a big festival family?

My family isn't la but all of my friends are I used to be before DD glasto in particular would probably halve the wedding guests!

Will do la, and not to leave in my bin! Take them to the depot, I will collect!

Good plan lauren, get the big bookings done and work from there. A deadline normally scares me into action!

If you just leave the feeding will the cat come and wake him up la?

They get locked downstairs at night so I have to go let them out and feed them. They start yowling the place down if I dare to be later than 8.

Lauren I'm a massive festival junkie, used to go to 3 a year. Went down to 1 when we moved to Sussex coz of getting married and saving. Last year we couldn't afford any :(. Hoping baby doesn't mean end of festivals forever!! I'd def take my kids to glasto I love it! Not titp though, too drunky

I looked into that forest festival for DDs first festival, at Dalby forest. But the last couple of years there hasn't been any bands that I recognized and its a long way for me to travel just to camp so I haven't been. I've not been to a festival for 5 years now and get serious envy around July and August!

God the horror at the thought of a baby at TITP ! Actually I don't think kids are allowed. Always wanted to go to Glasto but it's so far. Latitude in Suffolk is supposed to be nice and chilled La? I don't know where Sussex is but it's down south so could be near suffolk. There's one in the lake district supposed to be family friendly too.

Morning viroid grads, I am today 4wks+6 and struggling with my appetite. Usually no problem at all, I love my food and have a fairly varied healthy diet apart from my usual love of cake and all things sweet. But at the moment every time I look at food I just don't want it! Forcing myself to eat, and feeling nauseous afterwards. I'm trying to think of things I can have for work lunches this week- so far I've basically come up with a list of dry crackers (but the thought of cream cheese or houmous etc with them is not good) and satsumas. Anyone have any ideas or tips please? I'm guessing this nausea is going to be around for a while...

What's your opinion on marmite? I found the saltiness quite good. Nothing much puts me off my food though so there wasn't much I wouldn't eat. Plain biscuits like digestives?

Talking of festivals- there is a lovely family friendly festival called WOMAD in Wiltshire - lots of international and UK artists, huge range of styles. It's not huge at all and very friendly.

Hmm always a bit ambivalent about marmite but will give it a go. Going to go and browse the supermarket shelves later for things that take my fancy.
Just enjoying my first day of knowing I'm upduffed and being able to chill out and enjoy it at the moment, rather than rush about to work/see family etc like the last few days

Oh have you only just got your BFP?! Sorry, didn't read properly. Congratulations and welcome! Hope you find something which stays put in your stomach!

Bovril on toast was my staple toast I think either ness or Zyla recommended it. It's great, except it might out you by accident if you eat it at work.
Isle of Wight is a family festival isn't it? We usually go to lots of airshows in the summer, the one at Fairford is huge so we normally camp, but I think DS is just going to be too new for it.

Thanks wil, I introduced myself a few days ago and have been quietly lurking since, so basically I am Toast, 29yrs old, 4wks+6 with our 1st. BFP was only on Thursday so still getting used to it but since then I feel like I'm getting the full whack of early symptoms (which tbh is quite comforting).

Latitude is a great family festival and usually has some good bands plus a fab comedy tent. We have been a few times, since getting older we have found it a bit easier going
My DH isn't into festivals at all but when we met he said he would try each one once. Glastonbury 2005 was particularly memorable, heh. He hasn't been back since.

As a seasoned IOW festival goer I would not recommend for babies. When it first came back - absolutely! But now it's a corporate mess and way too many people for the space. There's camp bestival (not bestival!) and guildfest which could work.

At this stage toast, you just eat what you can. I stopped eating proper dinners for weeks as I couldn't face it. I agree with wil on the salty things - crisps and rice cakes maybe? I love fruit but found citrus hard after it made me sick so maybe blander things like cherry tomatoes or grapes? Just eat what you can and drink loads!

Lauren I've never been married so have no useful advice but wedding planning sounds like an exciting thing to do! Need to work a bit harder on DP. He responds better to the practical side of things - legal status, inheritance and tax rather than love, commitment etc

At Glastonbury time I was planning to stick a dirty paddling pool in the living room with some warm drinks nearby, a tent in the garden for the nights and a ban on flushing the loo for a month beforehand so I can pretend I'm there. However DP thinks we should go to a local festival instead.

Wil are there any parkruns near you? They're free timed weekly 5ks. You could set a date when you want to run it and then if you take longer to heal, recover and train you won't lose anything? I can't wait to get back to running which has surprised me actually. I was a regular runner but had a horrible time at the Edinburgh marathon last year and was seriously thinking of giving it up.

Toast when my appetite was lacking I started eating soup - it was light enough not to make me feel yucky afterwards. I didn't get any proper nausea and sickness though so you have my sympathies!

Can you put food out at night La? Or would they just eat that and still demand feeding in the morning?

Hope all is going ok Zyla?

fleur I was at glasto 2005! That one was a peach! I watched someone row a canoe past me in the campsite I've been at all the truly horrendous years (2007) was another and still love it! It's very family friendly at glasto wil but I'd not take a child who couldn't walk without help coz it's massive and tiring. I'll check out Latitude.

Best festival I ever went to was Connect which was over at Inveraray castle. It only ran for 2 years but it was incredible!

I used to love titp but now all the neds just go to get fucked up and I ended up next to tent where someone got stabbed :(. Not nice

pis that sounds like a plan! I'll still be upduffed at glasto but I'm up for an unflushed loo. Brothers cider anyone?

Toast nausea is v good sign! Keep ginger biscuits next to bed to nibble before you get up. Tiredness and dehydration make cramps and ms worse so lots of liquids, nap, bananas, toast with butter, anything bland. Eat little and often, particularly keep snacks at work to nibble each time you feel sick.

Dulcet I think guildfest is no more. I loved bestival, might see about that one. It was like mini glasto!

I love bands so I'm quite snobby about going to festivals for the good bands. I wouldn't go if there weren't a few decent headliners.

Dh has just reached elephant snoring proportions.

Toast wow you are getting the sickness early! I'm jealous but not jealous, if that makes any sense? I'm just hungry - start to feel sick if I get hungry but that soon goes.
I second the marmite idea - but I love it. With my first pregnancy, for work snack, I got the mini brown soft rolls, and had cheddar and LOADS of Dijon mustard. Its the mustard that I loved - that same saltiness combined with carbs ... mmmmm.

Come on micro-Zyla, we want to meet you!

So, after all my thinking about excuses not to drink last night, turns out I don't need an excuse. Sad fact of 35ish year old female friends - we all know the score, we all know likely why you are not drinking, and we all know you don't talk about it until 12 weeks. So no-one asked and I didn't tell. The one other couple there, my friend wasn't drinking either, and I know it'll be because she's pg or trying - she wasn't driving either so no excuse there. But I didn't ask. Sigh. Talk about elephants in the room.

Towns you have lovely friends who don't interrogate or raise eyebrows my lot would've been all 'ooooh! You're not drinking!!!'

I didn't get nausea til 7.5 weeks and then it felt like worst hangover of my life for 5 weeks!

It's not constant- defo better by the evening so I'm not too worried about evening meals atm. And not actually being sick just regularly feeling nauseous. Maybe I'll try to forget about it today... Yeah right, I'm flipping pregnant!! Hooray!! It's all I want to think about! (Oh and how the heck am I supposed to just go and be a normal person at work tomorrow?)

Loving the mustard idea. I love it anyway I definitely never ever eat whole grain mustard straight out of the jar so I will try that one.

Towns your friends are very subtle! I have a hen weekend in 2 weeks, the bride and one of the bridesmaids are both close friends of mine and I know the second I decline a drink they will know I'm pregnant- they ask every time we see them when we're having a baby. I've decided to call them both the week before and tell them as I don't want to risk stealing the brides thunder in any way! And then they can help me avoid drinking games etc.
oh god I'm awful, I if I start thinking about the next few weeks/2 months I start getting scared terrified about mc or ep. I need to relax...

Sickness is horrible, I'm so glad I'm passed that!