Trying to make our fannies wider, Epi-no,no,no! All the pregnancy glamour of difficult shags, dribbly naps and pissy pants. JSers - encouraging food envy for 33 freds.

[DulcetMoans]

Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 32nd 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 50th 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.

I have no idea, I am guessing so they can have a look at your bits when you're in the water?

Oh bat, that sounds awful! You are so stuck if landlord won't play ball, doesn't sound like there is an independent body you can go to?

You will feel so much better when the stuff is out of the house fleur! I have a hoarder DH too, I have to really gradually remove stuff so he doesn't notice. This includes socks that are more hole that sock! Not exciting chore though. If you want something more interesting you can look into a pregnancy massage or something? I enjoyed mine last week! Have you got a fully DIY water birth?! Surely they have a mirror?!

Get a film on la!

Here's a sleepy kitten after a heavy night, positioned just under the bump. Shut them both in now, they will never leave me again!

Yay! So glad your kitty has returned!

Hurray for returning kitty's Dulcet

Boo for shit landlords Bat

Today I'm quite calm but I think it's a coincidence as I've been left alone. I promised DH that if I got stressed I'd pack up for the day.

Peeing it down here so I'm not doing anymore baby washing. I still have a load of sheets to do

Urgh I think i've just realised I messed up my booking in bloods appointment. I had to have my bloods done between week 8-10 (so after my booking appointment) and at the booking app. the midwife gave me a pot to pee in (red lid) and told me to take it to my appointment. I assumed she meant the Scan, so didn't take it to my bloods, but now I think I should have done!

Oh well....

Jelly I think you'd have been asked if it was needed? Plus you can drop wee samples in whenever so perhaps just phone to ask?

yeah i'll ask when i got for my scan (next tuesday...eek). I can't see it being a major issue, just my hospital doesn't do things in one place, midwife apps are in the doctors surgery, scans are in the maternity unit, bloods are taken in the phlebotomy clinic....

Viroids we have water!! It's a miracle! Can't believe how happy I am to be able to flush the loo and have a shower

Hooray!!!

Hooray for running water and kittens who come home!!

Hurray for water Bat

Just rang the infant feeding advisor about expressing colostrum pre-natally. She said I should go see her about week 34-35 so she can show me how to hand express and give me syringes. I should then practice a bit but not to freeze any as it doesn't freeze well.
Oh and it make take a few goes to get any out.
5 days before section date I need to start hand expressing into the syringes and keep in the fridge. We then need to bring these to hospital on section date in a cool bag.
This is all so that baby doesn't have a hypo after birth if I can't feed, am not well enough or can't get enough out.
The alternative is baby gets formula for that first feed, then I can BF.
It probably isn't as much hassle as it sounds.
She said I should exclusively BF to stop the baby developing diabetes later in life. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I will do my best. Being BF didn't stop me getting it. I don't need extra pressure tbh.

Bit of a catch up from post me as I seem to spend half the night lying awake and half the day sleeping

Dulcet Boo for kitten Yay for kitten!

Bat Boo for no water Yay for water! Mind you I did read "we have water" without looking who wrote it and thought thank goodness one of them has finally started labour

Ga Grats on sorting out the grumpy FB'ers only wish I knew what you'd said

Pretzel Boo to friend mind you I'm not sure whether it would offend me, then again I've hardly told anyone so there is no-one to ask!

La Sorry to hear about vag punching sounds like a weird sport that might be featured on Eurotrash

I seemed to have missed the origin of the Cunt Cushion, and I can't make my mind up whether it's something to sit on to get comfy during later stages of pregnancy, or something to slap another person with. I'm hoping it's dual purpose.

Boo for all viroids struggling to sleep at night...I'm with ya

I'm off for my GP appointment in a bit, and am building myself up for a sensational anti-climax

I told my mum over the phone last night (they don't live nearby). Didn't quite get the reaction I was hoping for. I guess I thought that she had an inkling that we'd be trying for a baby...but it seems not. Poor woman got the shock of her life, and my Dad managed to do his share of the phonecall without mentioning it once. I think I'll let it sink in for a day or two then call them again

Now you three at the top of the list will you get a bloody move on!

Huzzah for returning cats and water!

purple that sounds like a lot of faff! I don't know if this will help but I just want you to know that DS had to have formula top ups in his first week and it didn't prevent us breast feeding to over a year. So let that pressure wash over you and wave it goodbye

IME MWs can be rather too zealots when promoting BF to first time mums.

Oh and I feel pukey this afternoon

Purple a girl in my nct class has gd and has been expressing into syringes before baby was born last week. She came to our nct bf class and then had support from the care people. She said it was fine, the only difficult bit was teasing the small droplets of colostrum into the syringe but once she got hang of it it was fine. I've been practising hand expressing and it's not difficult once you get the movement right.

I have been trying to hand express and get nada - should I be worried at this late stage?

I have never been able to hand express - even when I was full to the brim of milk!

No Fleur - some people don't get any milk at all before birth, everyone's different. I just tried it because mine leaked

MS is back. if you need me I'll be crying into my dry toast.

At least I had three days respite.

Glad kitten is back Dulcet!

I never got anything from hand expressing whilst pregnant Fleur. Think its different for everyone.

Purple - another one here who had to do formula top ups for the first couple of weeks, but now still ebfing at 6.5 months

Aww pretzel :( hope it clears soon. Mines gone pretty much. Not gloating just glad.

Purple - I find it honestly ridiculous that midwives can get away with saying things like that. The militancy around breast feeding is honestly making me less and less inclined to do it.

If you want to breast feed then great, but don't let your midwife or anyone else guilt trip you into anything. Diabetes has been known about for over two thousand years.

Considering how exclusive breast feeding seems to be promoted as the absolute panacea for all medical ills, it's frankly amazing that any children died/were ill/had any health problems at all before the invention of formula.

End of rant.

Thanks jelly, holding out hope it'll shift before too long.

I've just terrified myself by lurking onto the grad grads and reading birth stories. Why am I doing this again?