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!

Morning!

Ok still don't understand tax credit thing but I did calculator and I'm definitely not eligible. Are you saying I'd be eligible next year? I don't think I would be because dh earns £24k and mat pay is more than £2k to take it up to the threshold. Is that correct? The problem is we live in south east so like tee our rent is astronomical. So it doesn't matter what we earn, it just gets eaten up by cost of living.

Yes I was zoo keeper - it's fun but terrible pay and very bitchy workplace. I think I was on £9k annum at the time. It's a lot of cleaning. I trained at a few zoos before going into the wider field I'm in now. I like my job better now because I get to see animals when I want but I'm responsible for the overall practices and policies for certain species on a wider level.

Had massive first pregnancy proper meltdown yesterday. Proper shite day at work, then was late to fit mummy coz I didn't know it starts earlier on Monday and also couldn't find parking. Got in there and no one made room for me and I felt embarrassed and harassed. Teacher came and gave me a hug after because she said I looked upset. I then bawled my eyes out all the way home in car.

I'm feeling isolated. My friends and family are in Scotland and the friends I've made here are lovely but they don't have babies and people have stopped inviting me to stuff since I got pg. I made a heap of friends through having my horse but since getting pg I've had to give all that up so I don't see any of them now.

I'm just feeling a bit sad and I really want to move back home.

Food/bonding - I just want sweet stuff all the time so it's not good stuff for the baby. Since finding out sex I do find it easier to picture baby once he's here bit we still call him 'it' and 'the baby' to each other.

Gaggia I felt massive from 9 weeks but everyone said I wasn't. I was in mat jeans from around 10 weeks.

I started feeling a bit better at around 16-18 weeks and now feel quite ok most of the time. Get very tired if I do too much though and walking up stairs make me out of breath. I'm carrying 1.5 stone more than normal which won't help. Got mw appointment today so I'm going to ask her to check me for anaemia.

Oh and my legs are raw from scratching at night, I'm very itchy

Never having sex before bed again whilst pg. got up 5 times during night to wee and wipe the jizz that wouldn't stop leaking. Seriously has the man not even had a wank in the weeks between?? Where does it come from? Feel utterly knackered

Oh la ~gives hug~ it must be so horrible to be quite so far away from everyone. I think being upduffed is quite isolating in itself, it's not even something that can fully be shared with the baby daddy. That's why you guys are my salvation

Oh la sorry you feel so isolated. I did when I had DD I just wanted my mam all the time I practically moved in with her.

At 6.30 this morning DD got up and went downstairs to run herself a bath minutes later when I was in bed I heard the bath running, ran downstairs and found the kitchen and bathroom soaked, a naked child and boiling hot water filling the bath. She was unscathed. I am still confused as to what the fuck happened.
Bloody kids!

It was also triggered by lady who bought my horse from me. If you remember she had him on loan coz I didn't want to sell him. She then threw a wobbly saying she didn't want to loan anymore as he didn't feel like hers (which he wasn't, he was on loan) and that she was going to give him back, knowing full well I couldn't have him back because I'm pregnant. So I had no choice but to sell him to her.

She's a very nice lady and he is very loved but she just. won't. leave. me. alone!!! I get messages nearly every day asking me questions or telling me stuff she's done with him. I've coached her through getting saddler out, given advice on bucking and coughing, heard all about her search for a sharer and now it's all about tracing his breeding. When she had him on loan I gave her full pack of info, painstakingly writing out info about how I've tried tracing his breeding but got to dead end, etc etc. when she bought him I sent a massive email with his full back story and again my efforts to find out where he came from.

But all yesterday it was message after message about how it's annoying her she can't find out, how she's desperate to know etc. funny that when she had him on loan I tried to interest her in this stuff because his breed impacts on how you should feed and train him (he's Iberian) but she wasn't interested. Now suddenly she's interested.

I'm glad she loves him but I am still cut up that I had to se my horse and these constant messages are wearing me out, making me emotional and upsetting me about my beloved horse that I had to sell. I just wish she'd leave me alone! I have politely said this a couple of times now - that it's lovely she's doing so well but that it makes me a bit sad that I miss him. She said yes sorry she does realise that. She also keeps saying 'sorry for being a pest and bugging you with more questions, ...' But then she still bugs me with more questions!!!

I don't want to stop her speaking to me coz I want to know he's ok and loved, but I can't get over it when it's being shoved in my face day after day. It's wearing me out and I'm sad :(

Aw La hope today isn't too tough on you. I could cry I'm so tired. Why have your friends stopped inviting you out? Maybe say something to them about still wanting to meet up?

I do find I don't see my friends without kids so much for the first year after baby is born. They have more interesting thing to do I suppose. Friends with children are more forgiving about you dragging a baby everywhere.

Oh my god gaggia thank god she didn't sit in bath as it was filling!!!

Glad she's ok but what a monkey

Sorry for my unloading today. Last night I tried phoning people to talk to about this but everyone was out, so I didn't get it off my chest. Feel a bit better now. Just wish she'd ride off into the sunset on the horse she manoeuvred away from me and leave me alone!

Ha! Not just you with the jizz leaking la, it's even more of a cul de sac than normal, at least when we were ttc the jizz had somewhere to go instead of dribbling everywhere... I recommend weekend morning sex then shower!
Sorry you're feeling isolated lovely . This pg lark is surprisingly lonely and as mountain said, it's hard for the menfolk to get it sometimes too. although I'm having a bit of a recluse phase at the moment where I don't really want to see anyone, and actually like the idea of fucking off to a remote cabin in some woods until this baby arrives, just to save me from anymore 'advice' or opinions or frigging baby chat from people I know that already have kids. I'm not just a bloody incubator!

gaggia I thought I was 13/14 weeks at my scan and I felt huge too, was firmly in mat leggings, consultant had the nerve to say 'ooh, you're not showing just yet!' And Sonographer actually put me back to 11.5 weeks! (Have since had various date changes depending on which scan/midwife/Dr I've spoken to) so have gone for somewhere in the middle.

Wil I wish I could send you chocolate to help with tiredness! This period can't be much fun :( can you ask dh to take over for a night off?

Meant to say gaggia I got put forward 3 days at scan

Really hope I get put forward, I'm big enough to deserve it. I dont want to get put back like poor tee it would make my maternity leggings feel all wrong!
wil you poor thing. You have my sympathy. I think you should have a cry, just to get it all out.

fleur I just had quick look back but can't find what I'm after - did you find out flavour at your scan? I wanted to update the stats sheet...(obsessed)

Or was it someone else who found out? I'm confused...

Indigo found out she was having a girl quite recently la.

Hugs La xx

Hooray! Knew I wasn't going mad in that capacity at least. Thanks

I could ask MrWil to do a night at a weekend as she hardly feeds over night anyway so he'd just have to bring her in once or twice. But sadly not this weekend as he is out for the day on Saturday and I don't want to spoil it for him as he's been so helpful. Must get showered.

I am having trouble breathing... Probably the little one squashing my lungs...

fatty i'm the same - apparently it's as the baby grows upwards into your rib cage everything gets a bit squished. I'm going to mention it to midwife today though as being out of breath/faint can also be an indicator of anaemia.

I am going to mention it at my next appointment as well, but that is two weeks away. I'm pretty sure I'm not anaemic, as I'm drinking iron lemonade every other day to keep my levels nice and high. And as long as the baby is happily kicking away, I'm not worried about the little one at all.

No, having a surprise here!

I am breathless too, have been since the very early days. I live on a very small hill and I am left rasping like an 80 year old asthmatic walking up it each day.

It is not so much that I'm breathless, more that it feels uncomfortable to breath.

Morning viroids,

La I'm really sorry to hear you're feeling like that hopefully you'll start making pg friends through the activities you're doing but sometimes a girl just feels like she needs her mam too.

Had a nice lie in and a natural prostaglandin injection this morning and, well, there's no nice way to put this.... I don't know where the jizz has gone it's been a while since I had ghost jizz. It's my day on the family sweepstake - come on baby bring home the money for momma! DP got a big boot to the stomach which nearly spoilt the mood (but made me laugh)

Ga I had to go into maternity gear at 12 weeks. I'd exhausted my 'fat clothes' stash. The baby is still tucked in your pelvis but the growing uterus pushes your other organs up and out so your early bump is actually intestines. I was a bit horrified by that thought..... Explained why my early bump was squishy though. It's all hard and lumpy now.

Didn't town find out she was having a boy?

Lolz at your prostaglandin injection Pis! DH didn't appreciate that term... apparently its not very alluring or some nonsense Hope it kicks things into action for you!