Avoiding accidental golden showers and unsolicited bump touching while enjoying the gamble of the poo-lottery and apparently getting more massive by the day - JSer grads 31!

[DulcetMoans]

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 31st 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 49th outing. WARNING: they're all a bit kerazy not to mention randy!

There is also a Just Mumming thread 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: Stats

Morning!
Honestly there are so many tricks for small nursery! Ours is tiny and my wardrobe has to stay in there because no room anywhere else.

We bought a tall chest of drawers off eBay - the ones sold as nursery chest of drawers were all short and fat and didn't fit. This one was hideous when we bought it but dh stripped the orange glaze off it, sanded it down and stained it to match the cot bed and put new antique looking handles in. It looks stunning and has loads of space for storage.

You can use cot top changer as dulcet said. We are going to use a ledge that's in there and has no purpose currently.

I decided I wanted a rocking chair so we have one, for me to sit in nursery and bf. Found vintage one on gumtree that's smaller than shop bought ones so again we stripped it and restored it and I have found some comfy cushions for it. As baby gets older we will move it downstairs to give him more room.

We found under the cot boxes that pull out and can store extra bedding, clothes or nappies. If you buy the ones made for cot they were £50. We found ones on Amazon for £10

Dh is building shelves for the corner of the nursery. No shelves fit that exist already so they will have to be created. It will be like a rack with square shelves for baskets and boxes to slot in.

Decoration wise the peel off stickers I got look nice. We thought they might look cheAp but they don't at all. Which ones did you get Fleur? Ours were tenner on eBay

Have fun with miniRM! That's lovely that you know each other. Me and dulcet have a mutual friend we only realised recently. And before lives in same little town as me so we are going to meet for coffee once my baby is here.

My hips hurt too much to stay in bed so I'm going to have to get up :(

Envious of your big second rooms! Our houses in Scotland had huge rooms so we bought massive furniture. Here they are tiny so we have no space

Mine were off etsy and were about £30 la they're really good and easy to put up.

Our nursery is about 4m x 3m so a good size, for London. I have a cot, a tall boy, chest of drawers and a rocking chair in there. We will eventually need a wardrobe but I am debating whether to have one built in next to the chimney breast at some point in the future.

Our house is pretty small, the biggest bedroom is only about 4m x 4m and I am not sure that I will be able to fit the bedside cot next to my side of the bed
The alternative is to push the bed up against the wall and have the bedside cot on the other side - but it means that DH will have to get out of bed at the foot of the bed and he leaves for work at 5.45am
I am sure it will all work out ok.

Oh and we are keeping the guest room for DH to sleep in if needs be - he is determined that he will stay in our room but I am worried about how he will cope at work all day on little sleep.

Our nursery is a completely undone room a five minute walk away. I decided that this would be a really good time to buy a new house that needs shit loads of work doing to it and a new roof oh shit I should complete in about 3 weeks but its a vacant possession so anything can go wrong in the next 21 days

Still have put the stickers up here, the shortness of the giraffe and the tree have confused me so not sure what to do about it now!

Midwife coming to your house on a Sunday mountain, that's a great service! Have you done the last minute tidy? Mine is coming here for first time on Weds so will be blitzing Tuesday night!

Can you get a massage out of the situation fleur?! If your shoulder hurts I think you need a full body massage!

What do you think she will do jelly??

(I am typing this with some awful dejavu going on! )

That's exciting gaggia! Clearly mental, but exciting! Will it need work before you can move in? You have a deadline! A friend here moved two days before giving birth, it did mean she was mostly on tea making duty but also meant her parents had to unpack stuff while she was pushing as everything was boxed up!

Sorry gaggia I shouldn't laugh, but you have just put things in perspective for me!!

fleur we have already decided that dh may have to spend some nights at my parents down the road - not ideal, but maybe just for post night shifts, plus he has some really important exams coming up in September, which will hopefully happen before lo arrives. I offered to do the nights there (my parents would be thrilled) but he loves the idea of being fed and looked after by my mum shes a feeder

That's exciting gaggia! New house! Is cunthawk having its own room?

What déjà vu dulcet?

I've had no word about a HV and apparently you're meant to get one before birth

HV visit before birth? I haven't heard anything either! Nothing mentioned at all.

Exciting to move house ga I hope it all goes through ok. Nothing like doing two of the most stressful things at the same time, my SIL moved on the Friday and went into labour on the Wednesday we ended up decorating the nursery when we went to visit my new niece.

We also moved into a do-er upper and, 4.5 years later, I would say we are done. Except for the kitchen. The kitchen is a hand me down ikea job which, in fairness, doesn't look too bad but wasn't fitted particularly well (as it was only temporary ). To open the dishwasher we have to close the back door and take the architrave off . It's amazing what you get used to/ put up with.
Also, until we had a new bathroom earlier this year our old one had a hole in the floor as a result of a leak the first week we were here. I could walk into that bathroom in my sleep and know to avoid it .

CuntHawk is not welcome anywhere near the new building site house. It can go to fuck!
I am clearly mental dulcet it will need a fuck tonne of work before we move in. A roof mostly!! But it was a bargain. Only because no one else bid but the agents leave it open to higher bids during my completion process so it could still all go tats up!

fleur that sounds awesome! I bet it feels lovely to be nearly done.
I think it was bother or could who moved just before the baby arrived too.

Ga you are moving house?! How pregnant are you? (Has small panic attack on your behalf). Seriously though, if it is a house you love it will all be worth it. We moved house 10 days before we got married HAHAFUNTIMES but it was actually lovely to have a new house together at such a major life event. And we adore this house. Unfortunately, we haven't really done any DIY so now have to do the whole house and garden before the baby arrives. Oh dear....

I have my 16 week appointment this week. Do I need to take a wee sample along? I only have one sample bottle left and was considering using it to collect a poo sample for Eris to test for giardia. Both our other cats got it within two weeks of being here and we are starting to wonder our water supply is contaminated. Hmmm.

Yeah, all but two of us have been contacted by HV from my NCT group, a couple have met her too. Midwife said if I haven't heard from her when I see her Weds then she will chase. I kind of don't want one though... The one my group have met has no sense of humour apparently...

It was typing the message to jelly and fleur whilst laying here with the telly on that was dejevu la. It's gone now.

I agree with fleur, it's surprising what you can live with when you get in the house gaggia! We spent a year having to bail ourselves out of the shower with a dustpan as the pump was broken before getting it fixed. You will need a roof though I think!

Ga it's totally doable! Girl in my exercise class got keys on her due date, was moved in one day and baby came the next! :)

Obviously try not to cut it that fine...

Yeah dulcet I've been told our one is nice but tbh I quite resent idea of someone coming to assess my bloody house! Apparently first question she asks is 'was it planned?'

Dh has just said to me 'it feels like you've been pregnant forever'. No shit Sherlock, and if it feels like forever to you imagine how it feels to me! Been pregnant now since August with a small 2 week window between MC and pregnancy. Still delighted i was lucky enough to get pg again straight away but oh my god that's been 10 months now

Pud you take pee sample to every mw appointment

I agree - we have all kinds of quirky stuff in houses over the years, you most miss it when they get fixed!

pud I'm nearly 26 weeks. I'm buying it on my own because I have total ishooooos. DP will be living there too of course. He gets my total fear of having nothing that is just mine.
Once I get over myself I'll get him on the deeds and whatnot.
DDs dad made sure me and kid had nothing when we split up. He's still living in what was our lovely house and although we get on well now I could cry when he opens my lovely cabinet when I visit with kiddo. Ladies make sure you're covered and your name is on everything if youre not married!

dulcet I don't know. She's a bit bat shit so I don't know how she will react. She never raised me but always says we have a "special" bond because I was her first born. Tbh I go weekswitbout thinking about her and only speak to her on FB now and then.

Mother issues over.

ga you're nuts. Also your ex-DP is a knob. DP and I are joint tenants on the deeds so ok from that perspective (plus getting married). I did a whole module on family law at uni and some of the outcomes where people were co-habiting and split up were shocking. A lot of people don't realise there's no such thing as a common law wife!

Gees Ga, that sounds really tough. Respect for you buying a house independently though. OH and I are married and my name is on the deeds but we do desperately need to sort out life insurance. Bit morbid but needs to be done!

This is really sad but when we were at the cattery the other day a Mum and her Son were giving their cat to them and the little boy was in tears. Turns out his Dad had died and they had lost the house and to top it all off they couldn't keep the cat in rented accommodation so he had to give up his cat too (weeps). So the moral of the story is life insurance. because you don't want to have to have to give up your cat

Ga, totally doable. We moved at 35w with DD. Got paint on the walls by the time she arrived two weeks later. Still needs a bit of work but it's surprising what you think is important pre baby arrival compared to afterwards...

Pud that's such a sad story!

Very sad pud :(

My DM was nearly ruined by my arsehole of a father. His debts nearly destroyed our family and I had to save the family house, which thankfully we then sold and DM could get away from him.

I don't think you're strange at all Gaggia, I totally understand why you want to do that.

We were joint on the deeds of our house and will be again on the next one, plus we are life insuranced to the hilt anxiety coping mechanism

It upsets me when landlords won't consider pets. Pets are family to people and if only landlords would realise someone is more likely to be long term tenant if they are allowed their pet.

That's so sad :( our landlord wasn't happy, but we forced him into letting us get Lily, and as la said, I'm now loath to move because of her!

Aw sad story pud that's really awful.
jelly sorry about your mothers issues, but your grandparents are clearly fab and have done an excellent job!
la that's awful!, your dad is a right dick.
mountain meeeeowwwww!!!!! What a cutie.

chat will you be moving back to the uk soon?