Our super healthy fanjos just love getting their five a day but we draw the line at frozen poopsicles. We're the 25th JS Grads!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 25th 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 42nd 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 will be linked to by our stats hero La (can't do on iPad sorry!)

So, roll call below please, viroids!

Kato that made me chuckle.

I'm 5'5 so hopefully I'll be ok with a sling

I googled kato and I still not sure! Is it just the adjustment period after birth?

purple and rhi, I looked at the mumsnet review pages as a first look at slings. Worth a look to start your research maybe?

Thanks for the understanding - I know it was an extreme set of circumstances that got me there so not completely decided on docs trip but it is a small series of breakdowns/worries I am not sure is normal. Think im going a bit pregnant mental! Oh, and pillow man probably didn't even think about it afterwards. He was just a track suited hard man with his mates making pregnant woman cry! thinking he was all that.

Fourth trimester is basically the thinking that for the first 3 months newborns need to be treated as though still in the womb.... constantly carried close, skin to skin, fed on demand etc. But also Mum should get to spend that time bonding with baby, establishing bfing etc... rather than the modern trend of being up and about and back to normal within a week.

I get the concept, I just can't process the wording! I live in pedant corner!

I'm 5'4 and I'm going with a sling I have to tie myself. They are so much comfier! Also, I know the ones you tie yourself aren't bad for the baby's hips, as some of the 'backpack' like ones are...

I tried every type of carrier at the sling library with DS. I was just rubbish at baby wearing and kept dunting him off things, yawning and gleeking on him or dropping crumbs on his nut. Oh, and made us both sweaty (and this was January!)

I shan't be trying again this time!

Yeah, it is not for everyone!

Thank God Kato - I also hate the 'fourth trimester' tag. And slings. Another short arse who just can't get on with them. Babies are heavy and I have a sore back already. In fact I hate any wanky phrase that has been coined to make money out of normal development/parenting by making it into a 'thing': wonder weeks, baby-led weaning, controlled crying, sleep regression, baby wearing... Pretty sure the list is endless. Also pretty sure I'm a grumpy arse.

They take the baby to work La?

I think the fact I spent so much on an iPhone controlled seat that 'mimics the movement of a mothers arms' suggests that an 'attachment parent ' I am not.

Makes me sound like a shite mother but I remember Ll too well ds and the colic from 1730-1100 every. Night.

Oh my god what is the seat and can they spend all night in it? I'm going to have to wrestle this one into bed tonight.

It's called the mamaroo and I think thy can spend the night in it, it goes flat and has a 'car ride' setting too. Plays white noise too.

£270 new but I got one on eBay

I recently realized that people will probably put me into the 'hippy mum' category. Reasons for this:

• hopefully a home water birth
• cord tie
• bed sharing
• exclusively breastfeeding (if I can, but I don't see why not)
• baby wearing
• cloth nappies

Thing is, I don't see myself as a 'hippy mum' at all. I am just trying to think of things that will make life easiest for me, nicer for the baby or better for my wallet!

Ah so that's what a mamaroo is. I fear I'm three months too late. Fuck why hadn't I heard of that before?

You mean four trimesters too late?

Nothing 'hippy' there at all fatty! Sounds pretty much like my plan when I was pg with ds! Except the cloth nappies. Never even entertained that!

I remember my mum using cloth when my siblings were young (I am quite a bit older than they are). They were nothing like the awesome once you can get now, though! And I have some online friends who are really into them.
So when I saw a stand with Totsbots nappies last year at a fair, I went to have a look and decided to look into it for real once we would go for a baby. Now here I am, 6 months pregnant and the proud owner of a stash of cloth! Main reason: it saves me a lot of money!

And my DH will be in for a shock. He knows I'm going to breastfeed, but I'm not sure he has realized that I will feed 'in public'. His mother is a prude, so he thinks I should go somewhere private to feed. Well, I certainly won't do that in my own home! And I probably won't do that either when we are someplace else, like at his parents.

I think to th uninformed they think that public bf involves theatrics and extreme nipple flashing! Certain stories in the media don't help, but I was out having coffee with a friend and I told her Ds needed a feed. she was looking around all surreptitiously and asked where I'd go, she was listing off where the toilets where and suchlike but I told her that was him fed and sleeping. She was amazed that she didn't even notice I'd been feeding the whole time!

I will not feed my baby on the toilet!

Hi, tried to catch up on today's chat after a day with PILs (some people say it's rude to keep looking at phone in others' company!?) but from what I can gather/

Thanks for the list la! I've done my best to capture it in screen shots seeing as can't copy and paste from the app.

Tee- v insensitive comments from your friends! No wonder you're pissed off. Great news on the mcDs drive thru though.

Dulcet- thank goodness the toilet trouble got sorted. Panic stations or what?!

Err, not sure what else sorry. Ooh gonna have to go check out the undergrads to see who's BFP it was!

So I've had a hormonal tired sort of day that started with a Big Cry over how fat and frumpy I now look and how I couldn't find anything nice to wear to see PILs today.

We're staying with them tonight and hopefully I'll be in a better mood tomorrow. Plus I've cheered myself up with some online shopping with Gap Easter discount code - jeans and skirt for me and a few baby bits (yeah my first baby purchases!)

Oh- fatty- your hippy mum list doesn't sound too bad- but what do you mean by cord tie? As for exclusive bf- I hope to do this too for a good while, cloth nappies- yes hopefully once I can get my head around the practicalities and choose which brand, and baby wearing - yes probably but I feel like I need to work out how to actually hold the baby with my hands before I go hands-free! I'm not gonna be a home-birth gal but each to their own and I think it's fairly accepted as a normal thing now, no?

These new style cloth nappies ... Do you still have to flick/scrape shit out of them?

I read something about putting them in machine on a rinse cycle first before a proper wash. Hmm not sure about flicking and scraping ??

I read something about putting them in machine on a rinse cycle first before a proper wash. Hmm not sure about flicking and scraping ??

Toast, a cord tie is a nice plaited cord made from embroidery yarn that you use to tie around the stump of the umbilical cord instead of a plastic clip. I want to use it as I think it will be nicer for baby's tummy.

Kato, these new style nappies come with an inlay that you can flush down the loo. The shit will be on that and the nappy will have caught the wee and the moist from the shit. You can of course use them without the inlay as well, but with is easier. If you use those, you don't need to put the nappies on a rinse wash first. Just bung them all in the machine and run a proper wash.

Ive not seen the new cloth nappies yet, maybe I should have a gander.
Dulcet- I think my reaction would've been the same as yours!

In a nutshell im still bloody ill. Finally went to an out of hours doc this evening as I was showing signs of pre eclampsia. Thankfully not! Pee and blood pressure perfectly fine. I'm just very dehydrated, have a very bad stomach bug and need to rest (haha with a 10 month old?! Dream on!!). Apparently ive got a heart murmur too but that is quite common in pregnant women but I have to go for an ECG just in case anyway... Such fun getting covered head to toe in sticky pads!!! Don't think eating a sausage barm, roast dinner, ice cream and drinking coke helped me today so it's basic boring diet of chicken/ rice and soups with lots of fluids starting from tomorrow.. Bloody Booooo!!!! Still no chocolate for me, I just can't face it (I also don't want to see it in the toilet bowl within 5 mins of injesting it either
Hope you lovely viroids had a fab Easter x

These are the ones I've got, if anyone wants to have a nose: www.totsbots.com