Calmly and regally gestating our beans in a land of obsessive ILs, placenta horticulture, sweary doctors and naked pancake cravings. It's the JS grads thread 23!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 23rd 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 40th 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!

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!

The stats sheet is here

So, roll call below please, viroids!

I can only speak for me bat but I still feel a wee bit detached tbh (am 28 wks)!
I know when I had my scare at 15 weeks I was upset, but I still hadn't got my head around that there was a baby! Even when I've had scans/heard heartbeats it feels a little bit like it's happening to someone else, which is probably terrible! The nicest or closest 'love' I think I get is when me and Mr tee are talking to him, or playing him some music and he kicks back at us, but i would say at least once a day one of us goes, 'fucking hell, we're having a baby'. I don't know if that will change in the next 10 weeks, but I suspect I'll get my rush of love when he turns up (or after as May be the case), I'm a visual person, hypothesis have never been my thing, so although I talk to him and give him little rubs all the time, I still have a degree of 'Holy christ I'm growing a human' as oppose to feeling attached....
Rambly post sorry!

I am quite attached to mine. I think I do love it. DH does. He's always stroking my stomach or giving it a kiss. I think it's sweet.

I'll probably feel differently when I start feeling it moving

bat I am no good at bonding with bumps, especially when I can't sleep and I'm constantly peeing and can't eat or drink half the stuff I want I didn't really bond with DD till after she was out, and even then I had to get over the shell shock of her being early, and the stress of her not feeding properly, but we're all bonded now! I expect it will be much the same with this bump

Bat I am 5+4 today (so early I know) and not attached at all, other than the obvious would be devastated if anything went wrong / am over the moon to be upduffed. Dis is a MW and was talking to me the other day about the importance of talking to your baby etc...I don't think I'll want to before a 12w scan as I'll just feel like such a twat! Different strokes for different folks and all that, though.

Viroids, I have not done any work today at all! Oops! I work from home and just cannot bring myself to do anything other than file a couple of emails. Am too excited about tomorrow's first MW appt!

Oh phew glad it's not just me - I was worried I had come across like I don't want my baby! tee that's exactly how I have felt when having scans - that it is happening to someone else. I think it's really cool and feel excited - but I don't think I actually comprehend that it's inside me. I suppose it didn't help that I was so worried at both of my scans that I couldn't think anything other than thank god it's all OK....maybe I will be able to relax and enjoy my next scan a bit more. I have heard some people say that finding out the sex has helped them bond but I don't think we want to find out.

Maybe we should buy something baby related and see if that provokes any feelings!

Haha lemon I too would feel a twat talking to my belly which is currently only fat due to excess carbs!

Reminds me that when we had to tell friends at 4 weeks due to being on ski holiday - I had only known myself for 2 days and was not only feeling shocked but also terrified and hated having to tell people so early - and one of them obviously missing the wild look of terror in my eyes was like 'ooh do you have a feeling yet whether it's going to be a boy or a girl??' I know she was just trying to be excited but it was the weirdest question ever as I didn't have a feeling that there was a baby at all let alone whether it had a microscopic willy or not!

Haha Bat it's not got a sex until about 8w anyway . I have to agree. There was a surge of relief at my scan at 8w, and another at 12w, but I don't really connect in the way I think you mean until I get regular movement. I also feel ridiculous talking to my belly, DD does it more than I do

Might be worth seeing paeds, Wil, if nothing else they can open the door to different reflux meds - if of course she needs them. DD was something of a screamer too, part reflux but much more curious and nosy than her developmental stage allowed. I think a lot of it was frustration.

at microscopic willy

Hello folks, I've been away for a couple of weeks with work, and the jet lag has killed me so sorry I've not been up to posting much. Flew round the world in 10 days (Tokyo then Houston) and I would NOT recommend it when 11 weeks preggers. Feeling sick as shit still, and I've been back for 3 days.
My little bean seems to have thrived on the sushi and steak however, just had my 12 weeks scan and all is fine.

Speaking of microscopic willies, I had a private scan on Saturday and you could clearly see the 'third leg' (as the sonographer described it). As the bean is only 5.5cm long then his willy must be close to microscopic!! NHS scan just glossed over that whole area, didn't even take a look, so I had no idea they could even tell at 12 weeks. I suspect it's more clearcut if its a boy!

Town I didn't know that! Maybe usually it's not very reliable at that stage perhaps your DS is destined for a schlong in later life?

Someone help me. Today I have eaten:
a slice of pannetone
a glass of cherry juice
2 fruit teas
half a tub of raspberry sorbet
heinz tomato soup
a chicken and ham pie
ratatouille
a slab of stilton
2 biscuits
a piece of ham
a packet of crisps

WTF is wrong with me? It is like I am physically unable to stop

These Freds are brilliant for self-realisation. Reading this back, I have basically done fuck all, all day, except eat. And not healthily, or sensibly, or even at the right times. I have essentially just walked into the kitchen and opened my mouth and chomped my way through it...like a pregnant bloated pacman with Prader-Willie syndrome, or something.

I will add to this that it is 6:15pm and I am not yet dressed or washed

lol lemon if it helps that sounds like me most days... Today DD and I had a pj day (though she has had 2 pj changes today, don't ask!) She has eaten a whole box of yoghurt tubes, a whole multi pack box of fruit paws, a chocolate bar, soup and bread and my crusts for lunch and curry for dinner. I had a bacon sarnie for breakfast, soup and bread without aforementioned crust for lunch, 3 packets of crisps, half a box of malteaser's and half a cadburys creation jelly bean and popping candy chocolate bar and half a tub of stem ginger ice-cream... I've not actually had dinner yet!!

I am home from work and have banned myself from the kitchen.

I can't be trusted - I don't think I am even particularly hungry, I just need food

Thanks for the book suggestions!

Got to go to fit mummy in a minute but I'm so tired! I'm in bed with the cats!!! Work is so full on just now and every day drains the life out of me. I was dreading going in this morning.

Wil I think go with your instincts. Do you think she might be crying more than normal? It can't hurt to get it checked out, after all it can't make it worse?

Fleur I did get what you meant - I do find it frustrating that I'm not eligible to tax credits because I earn too much, as I pay nearly £10k in tax each year. We will need to be very careful when I'm on mat leave with money but I think we will be ok. It can't be fun having to claim benefits. I don't mind people who genuinely have to claim benefits, I feel very sorry for them and they should claim whatever they can. I get very irritated by the scroungers who lie to get out of working though. when I was a zoo keeper the zoo was full in weekdays of families who were clearly benefit recipients having a family day out at the zoo. It was £18 per adult so not cheap! On the other hand without them it would've been a very dull day with no one to do the talks to!

Towns that's great news about scan!! Are you sure microscopic willy wasn't the cord? I've heard many people confuse them.

I didn't start to bond with this baby until a few weeks ago when I started feeling movement. Before that I was delighted to be pregnant but in a more distant way. Now I chat away to bump and we are often awake together at night.

Don't feel pressured to talk to baby lemon just now, yes it might help with bonding to give a little time to thinking about baby every now and then but they can't hear you until 20+ weeks!

I just ate a bowl of pickled onions and cheese cubes - like a deconstructed bunch of party cocktail sticks

Off to stretch my legs up and down now and expel pickled onion generated farts

La you were a zookeeper? What a job!!!

Fleur there must be some way to stop us chomping, surely? Does it get worse the further along you are?

Tell me about the tax credits malarkey! Do I get money in exchange for miniLemons? < bustles waddles off to research >

Lol Lemon! I still eat like a stoned pacman and I've been unpregnant for 10 weeks now so no excuse! It's hard work building a baby so go easy on yourself

I remember someone asking me if I loved the baby when I was about halfway pregnant. I was a bit like I didn't not love him but... I was very attached to my bump though, think I definitely bonded with him more in the third trimester, imagining what he'd look like etc. Never really talked to him though. I knew all along he'd be a boy Probably coincidence rather than genuine psychic ability though!

Mmm. Pickled onions.

I do wonder if I knew the sex I would feel more of a connection?

ATM I am not sure how I can explain how I feel, I can't picture him/ her and it feels quite abstract and so, although I have strong feelings, I am not sure it is love

I'm actually enjoying being pregnant now feeling the little kicks and having a bump to rub - I feel quite content!

Jealous of all your nomming. I have had one biscuit & a piece of toast today! But managed to keep em down so far. Phew

La I want pickled onions now!

I'm worn out, we got back from Paris and went food shopping. Got a few baby bits in Asda - we probably shouldn't buy so early but I couldn't resist. Might start stocking up on nappies and wipes but not just yet. Have no idea what to buy when really. I like to be organised though.

Woohoo for micro penises

Wil I think it's worth mentioning to GP if HV thinks you should. They should know whether to refer on

La we won't get anything other than child benefit. I'll drop to lower rate tax payer once I'm on Mat leave and will remain so when I go back part time

yes lemon assuming you don't earn 'too much' and you or your OH work at least 16 hours a week you get tax credits for the minifolk, good luck working out how much though! I they make it purposefully confusing, but we get £58ish a week child tax credit for DD but we earn too much for working tax credit or we get something stupid like a few £s

la it's not party cocktail sticks unless it has pineapple! goes and hunts out the pineapple because now I've thought about it I need it also Zoo Keeper!!

I made super awesome quarter pounders for tea tonight and the little sod baby has moved into my stomach, so now all I want to do is puke :( the last time he did this it went on for three days and I constantly felt like I had consumed a 15 course banquet. Waaaaaaaaaaaaah!
I ate like a horror from about 12-22 weeks, lemon every work day began with a greggs bacon roll and an apple Danish. :)

I would definately recommend taking someone with you when you go food shopping though, my crazy eating occurred across christmas and we are still going through the m&s party food I overbought and subsequently froze. I can't even think about how much I spent, i just wanted to eat ALL OF THE THINGS.

You must have a big freezer Tee.

The tax credits threshold can't be very high because we don't get them as MrWil is over it. I haven't even got round to claiming child benefit. Idiot.

Thanks for advice. We are at the doctors for jags later in the week so will see how she is over the next few days and maybe try to keep a diary.

I just want all of the food.

DH went food shopping without me. The fridge is still empty, he is trying to be helpful by not buying stuff for me to scoff but I just want to eat. All.of.the.time.

Just seen a friend who is 7 weeks behind me. She can't face food and looked positively green when I told her what I had eaten today. Mwahaha - she has this to come.