We'd rather have a finger than a funnel whilst eating our bodyweight in Raspberry Magnums to ease the fanny daggers... keep growing those babies viroids, its JS Grads no 27

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 27th 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!

Here is the stats list, please update your own spot with any updates: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oLJqpadAb2givKYq8OJfGCti3s6xzsTGlI-GoaBfM_M/edit?pli=1#gid=0

I cant stop eating! I'm an eating machine!
I'm going to share something with you that will make you all feel mildly jealous.
My lovely dad is amongst other things a very talented baker, he bakes fresh bread, cookies and stuff every day for him and my mams business. I'm so sorry to tell you all that I've got a freezer full of freshly baked goods and I'm eating it.....all.....
With butter and/or clotted cream. So there.

Synthetic cream shouldn't be called cream, it's just gross.

Yeah well I get year 9 cookery lesson outputs once a fortnight Ga ok I'm jealous. To be fair to the lad his sweet dishes are bloody good. His savoury dishes are less exciting. I nearly cracked a tooth on an over wrapped samosa....

I have no idea how to make friends. Did preggers yoga and daisy and made no friends. Do booby group and sling meets now and no friends (except for one I already had). I'm glad it's not just me!

I went to see the inlaws at 36 weeks but that was M4/M5. I've done the A470 a couple of times and wouldn't fancy it late on. Were your others on time/late/early?

JC sorry you're feeling rough. Please don't go back to work til you're ready. I struggled on whilst feeling awful but didn't have time off sick as couldn't put my finger on an actual reason- I wasn't vomiting at all and not feeling particularly sick, just ridiculously exhausted, tearful, and incredibly 'not right' in every way. I had started to wonder if it was more of a antenatal depression thing. I kept wishing for a physical symptom so I had an excuse to go off sick for a bit! Thank goodness it went at the end of first trimester and I do feel back to closer to normal.

I feel a bit stupidly paranoid though.. Every time someone asks me a question that's in any way related to money/planning for baby (ie house, car, DH's job, timing of edd, how far away we live from parents, childcare etc etc) I feel like they're making judgements about whether this is all a big mistake and we should have waited a year or 2. I guess it's coming from my own worries about all those things, but I'd like some sanity please. I'm normally pretty rational and that went down the drain on BFP day and doesn't seem to have popped back up yet.

Dulcet glad baby school was good. Know what you mean about the making friends thing. Hopefully when I do nct there will be lots of bubbly people who initiate the steps to friends and I can just go along with it! awkward

I do the NHS classes and last time when I was pregnant with DD I went to 2 sessions out of the 4. I didn't speak much to anyone, but we all had a sheet with everyone's names, numbers, email addresses. One person from our group was organised and sent a group email to everyone to start the meetups (usually for coffee) and went from there. For 6 months I didn't reply to a single email. I kept meaning to go but never did. One day after DD had screamed the place down and I was fed up of being in on my own all the time I bit the bullet and turned up to one of the meets. Since that first encounter I see most of them at least once if not twice a week (depending on which baby groups I'm attending) and they are all coming to DDs party and bringing their DHs and little ones. I understand it's hard to make friends but just try talking to one person in the group every week (different if possible) during the juice/ biscuits. I've gone again this time just to try and make more friends as I'm the only one who is not working now as they have all gone back to work (albeit part time but DD needs some form of stimulation every day). There'll be other women in the exact same boat thinking the exact same things that you are about trying to make friends. At our age we do get embarrassed but honest to god it will save your sanity when little one arrives!

JC are you vomiting all day every day? Have you tried going to the docs and asking for anti sickness tablets? I was prescribed them during my first weeks as I felt rough as a bears arse. Poor DD barely got a look in as I'd sometimes really crave something, then half way through eating it my body would just be like "nope I don't like it... Get rid!" And id end up vomiting anywhere and everywhere I literally had seconds to get to the toilet. May be an idea especially if you're concerned that you may become dehydrated even though you're drinking.

In other news I'm up at 6am. DD isn't even here, she's at her grandparents. I am fuming I'm awake so early!!! What a load of bollocks! I have such a busy day too ?? I'm driving OH to work which is an hour and a bit round trip. Then picking up DD to take her for an eye test. Then I'm going into town to get balloons/ banners/ goody bag items for DDs party tomorrow, then I'll probably pass out and have a nap with DD. And then it'll be time to pick up OH from work again. I can't be arsed can someone please do my day for me today? I had a right old rant on Facebook yesterday about my sciatic pain. I actually think I'm going to end up on crutches as my right leg just goes from underneath me without warning. It's heavy and achey, I feel achey everywhere, it's shit. Just hope it calms down after baby is here otherwise I'm screwed! I've always been an active person but finding it so hard to do everything I need to do in the day plus looking after DD and keeping the house clean and tidy (ish) OH and his family are always saying I do too much. Thats all well and good but if I don't do it who is?! It's all well and good sitting in my house with a brew I've made for them declaring that I need to put my feet up and not clean but unless I decide that I don't mind living in a shit hole that is not going to happen. They think I have OCD. I think it's bad that they think I've got OCD when I mop once a week, clean the bathroom once a week, change the bed once a week etc. yes I do washing everyday and the kitchen and dining room gets swept everyday but that's because 1) OH flings food around when cooking and 2) DD eats by herself and gets food all over the floor. I don't do the hoovering anymore OH does it (begrudgingly and sometimes I can be asking for 5 days before he does it! Again only asking him to do it once a week!) I don't see what the problem is. I don't do it all at once either I do a bit each evening. If they're so arsed maybe they should come and do it!!

Morning everyone! Trying to catch up.

Sheepskin liner looks comfy tee but is £40 and I don't think we can afford that. Hope Mr tee stops being a nob!

I've made friends through my exercise class. I was honest and said straight away to even that I was there to meet folk and make friends because I know no one nearby with babies. They were all lovely and we now have a Facebook group to organise meet ups. Not met my nct lot yet but I'll do the same. I find people are more receptive if you are honest and tell them you want to make friends. Try to talk to one or two people and see how you get on if you're shy.

JC it is worth it but I remember how awful I felt and really sympathise as its horrible! Try to rest as much as possible it will start to get better from 12 weeks. Fybogel will fix being bunged up.

Cym I wouldn't go either, you just don't need the stress of 'what if?' Can she come to you? You need to put yours first - let her know you'd have loved to go but it's too much for you at 37 weeks. It's also a long time in car when pg and uncomfortable

I went through my work with boss yesterday and decided what needs to go to my replacement. It's exciting to think soon I get to not worry about work anymore!

Mountain could you be anaemic if you're feeling tired and rotten at 22 weeks? My spatone is helping a bit, I feel a little bit less fatigued.

Regarding returning part time I think the hr gurus wil probably have answered already but I've been told to broach flexi later in Mat leave and put request in. I want to work one day at home and have 1 half day.

I've been told I have to give 8 weeks notice to return to work.

Purple- achy bump normal, try belly band to hold bump up

Hooray for scans! Looking they need to do combined test at scan so you need to be certain amount along for the measurements. I was 13 weeks.

Being awake at 6am on day off is rubbish pixie! Sorry to hear you're in pain :( I agree about biting the bullet to make friends it's the only way I've managed it as im in an unfamiliar town.

Oh and when I walk longer than 10 min it feels like baby is going to drop out of bottom of bump.

Or just out of my bottom

And someone from the July group has again posted on Facebook about putting on weight and being upset about it at 31 weeks - like 11lb! I'm over 2 stone now!

Gosh La some of your July group sound bonkers. One of ours has a previous eating disorder so I can understand her paranoia a bit more, but providing you're vaguely eating healthily I see no point in measuring the numbers. I stopped weighing myself a couple of weeks ago when I hit two stone - it'll come off when feeding I hope!

Pixie that's rubbish being up so early on your lie in day! Hope you get a nice afternoon nap later. Don't be afraid to ask for demand help - and hoovering once a week is not OCD! DD was up at the crack of dawn again here too. Bloody aluminium blinds.

Our NCT group were very quiet in the classes but once the first babies arrived there were a couple of round robin emails and we started arranging to go to the same baby groups. It spread from there, and though we drifted apart again once back at work it was a good group to have. I'm still in contact but we don't see one another much now. The other place I met people was at baby massage, and when I signed DD up for nursery they did a stay-and-play session which was brilliant.

I saw that la I have given up weighing myself now. Pointless.

Also not helped by my current obsession - Heston's salted caramel popcorn. I have polished off a packet already today.

Thanks La I might get a bump band.

I'm keeping an eye on my weight because I'm scared of gaining loads. I've battled it all my life and never won. I'm eating healthily but I do weigh myself every week. I know I might gain some and I'll have to be ok with it. So far baby is slightly bigger than it needs to be but within the right range so whatever I'm doing is ok so far. I could have a big baby due to diabetes anyway hence all the growth scans I'll be having. It's very unnerving for a control freak to have a body out of my control

I'm not vomiting constantly, maybe 2 or 3 times a day after food, in between times its just retching as there's nothing there to come out urgh Trying to eat little and often but it's hard to be varied. I had dried apricots last night as that's all I had in the house, hopefully they'll get working.

Weight I'd such a funny thing. I'm expecting to put on weight, it's what happens when you have a baby! But some of my friends have been shocked by it, guess I don't know how I'm going to react but hopefully when I feel better I'll try and eat as healthily as I can which won't be constant and be done with it!

Pixie it sounds like you have way too much on! Is there anyone else you can get to help with things? I'm lucky that I have a cleaner, I offered to cancel it when I went on mat leave but dp said why? It'll be helpful and mean you won't have to worry about it. But then I hate cleaning!!

Hope the apricots work JC and you feel better soon.

I'm keeping my cleaner on mat leave too. I may only do this once and I'm not wasting the precious time with my baby cleaning the house

I am considering upping my cleaner's hours I figure I will be at home more and so it will get messier?

I like a clean and tidy house. The cleaner comes on Monday and gives the whole house (it's tiny) a once over. I give the kitchen and bathroom a wipe over every day and then I dust and run the Hoover round again on a Friday before work, my neighbours must think I am mad when they hear the Hoover going at 7am and change the beds and towels for the weekend.

Each weekend we pick one room and do it thoroughly. DH will do this but won't wipe the sink every day. He is an all or nothing type.

I'd love a cleaner... DP has one and he's hardly at home anymore! Wonder if I can put a case forward to spend the money here instead.... I got DS to hold his sister yesterday so I could clean the bathrooms. They were starting to look grim so it was quite satisfying. Then I realised I was missing a trick - took the baby back and got him to hoover the house still smells all bleachy

Thank you for your input viroids! DH finds it funny that I 'consulted the internet', but sees now that I wasnt over thinking things.
The total for all 3 labours together is 18 hours, so I dont tend to waste time when giving birth! DD1 was born @33+3, DS was a day early and DD2 was 4 days late, so its a mystery when this one will turn up.
He is hoping that DCs still get to go, and will call his mother to explain tonight.

That's quite a bit of difference cym I mistakenly thought there would be a pattern.

I said to the mw that I thought I would be early as my mum and sister had all of theirs before 38 weeks. She laughed and told me I could end up with an August baby

3 hours left at work and then 2 weeks off

I'd love a cleaner, but Mr tee likes doing a lot of it himself, think I posted about it before but his Saturday ritual is stripping nekkid, and bleaching the bathroom. I hate the smell so complain about it bitterly, but at least it gets done. I wipe it over prob 2-3 times a week but largely because we have dark fluffy towels and the bloody cats like to sit in the sink. He likes hoovering too, so I let him get on with that (also Saturday) but I use the mini Hoover around the litter trays once a day...and we strip the bed between us. The kitchen gets a wipe over every day as since we've been shutting the cats downstairs, they've taken to sitting on top of the kitchen unit cupboards, so I use anti bac wipes to zip over the counters. my biggest issue is that I'm just not very tidy. I do try, but I just think life is too short, which drives dp mad. I do luff the laundry tho, fresh ironing, I'm a total slut for fabric softener :)

My tesco delivery has 25 minutes to get here... I neeeeeeed my cakes.
37 weeks today. Fucky fuck fuck.

Oooh Tee you're fully cooked

Both of us hate cleaning. DH would do it if we both were. I'm away a lot so time at home is better used for other things

I'm really behind on the thread, but just popping in to say I've finished work!! Technically not on mat leave yet as I have 2 weeks of annual leave first, but still, this is it now, I'm a lady of leisure

I'm having a Magnum to celebrate, I think you all should too (apologies to those who can't face food).

Mmmm Magnum....
Hope the cakes have arrived tee, how dare they make you wait!
Im off out for dinner, a colleague is retiring and someone is off having a baby...

I feel very unfashionable for not having a cleaner! I'd love one but dh made this face when I suggested it, our house is small. But I still end up taking a couple of hours a week to do it. Kitchen gets wiped over every day, bathroom every few days and everything cleaned thoroughly on a Saturday.

Chat the weight posts really bug me! It's bad enough that we have magazines talking about so and so celeb losing baby weight in a farts time without other pregnant ladies making me feel shit. I do wish they wouldn't obsess as much, it pops up on my newsfeed and makes me feel a bit crap. I struggle with my weight and I'm over sensitive about it. I was at my lowest when I got upduffed.

Can we talk braxton hicks? I thought they weren't meant to hurt? I'm getting mild period pain cramps, tightening and general kind of crampy pain. It is happening every 15 minutes or so sometimes. Definitely not real contractions. It's definitely surprised me how uncomfortable they are, it's kind of like when you really need a poo and have been holding it!!

Hi RM! Hooray for finishing work! What are you planning to do for next few weeks? Are you guys ready for baby?

Mmmmm cakes and magnums!

Ooh you lot are so clean! Looks guilty at the dust on the floor I would love a cleaner but we are spending spare cash on DIY at the moment as we want to get house and garden done before bambino makes an appearance. for you Pixie, I loved your rant, hope you are okay!

Due to a lot of reorganising that is happening in my department I told my line manager about being upduffed today. She said 'Yes I know, I told the Head last week!' Ha ha, I obviously look absolutely horrendous. She was really nice about it though and hinted at a reduced timetable from Sept, yes!!

I am pissing myself laughing at a thread called 'Did I really say that?'

The following post is my absolute favourite ever:

"Last year I was fumbling about with an infuriating self-checkout machine in Sainsbury's.
I was in a rush, hormonal, had had a rotten day and was generally in a foul temper as the checkout seemed to malfunction in some way with everything I tried to scan.
The final straw was when one of the potatoes I was trying to weigh rolled off the machine onto the floor to which my response was spontaneously and loudly shouting at it to "fuck off then you spud cunt."
I then had to finish and pay with my face on fire knowing everyone was staring at the crazed woman who had just shouted at a potato in the middle of a supermarket.
Mortifying."

Ha ha ha ha actual wee came out and everything!

Haha la that's hilarious!! Where is this thread? goes off in search

My dp did the same thing with a cleaner when we bought our house. I said ok let's see how much cleaning we do then. Turns out the answer was not a lot and I sorted one out for the following week My mum was horrified! But then she loves cleaning whereas I have more important things to do like have lazy lie ins on a Saturday morning