We're pulling pompoms from our fanjos to cheer each other on, breaking beds, twiddling our nipple tassles and counting jeremies! It'll be sneezebirths all round on JSing Grads 34!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 34th 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 33rd grads fred is here.

The thread we have graduated from is here in its 51st 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.

Or after an epidural!

If it's anything like crowning out my Epi-no, being on my back is much harder work than other positions and feels like it bulges into my arse more how's that for a mental image

Although I am not thankfully having contractions at the same time, so who knows wil, I may come back and eat my words! Not on the epidural though, my birth centre doesn't do them

Toast by nature indeed, I could eat it all day. With a variety of jams or peanut butter

Congrats on your good scan news pretzel! And your cooked breakfast!

Jam AND peanut butter

Oh La, bless you my lovely. I totally understand why you feel that way and your hormones are blocking that strong independent woman. You baby IS coming and will be perfect and all of these tears will seem so far away then. You are also exhausted and have been in stop start labour for like weeks now. You have all my sympathies and DH needs to do some serious tlc for you when he gets home. Big massive squishy hug and I don't even mins if you get snot on me

La I think you need to breathe and try and get some perspective. You are pregnant, you are essentially full term, that baby literally cannot stay in there forever.

I'm not sure why you're taking it so personally, but it honestly HONESTLY isn't any kind of reflection on you as a woman. Whenever that babe decides to arrive, and by whatever means, you are going to be a wonderful mother and THAT is what is important. Please please please don't upset yourself now, i think you'll be baffled yourself by your reaction to this in a few weeks.

And as for the logistics of birthday parties? You really are over thinking it my lovely. One step at a time.

Talk to your midwife - she probably has loads of experience with women feeling like you are xxx

I know - I'm being a nob. I think I'm just very tired

I don't think you're being silly but you're fed up, sore and hormonal. After he's here you won't remember all this and it won't be important. But I get that it feels important now. Sharing birthdays is good as you could have joint parties and share costs! But you could take a while in labour anyway so even if things kick off today, could be a day or two before birth. Good luck at sweep, hope this is lucky number 4!

I do think you are being tired and hormonal la - both totally understandable. This is why I hate "due dates". I know everyone is saying the same but it really won't be long. Think about your ever improving bishops score - massive progress!! Now stop being a knob ah don't hate me, I love you really

You're NOT a nob!

But I think that the only thing that will make you happier is acceptance of your situation. You can't change it.

And we love you. And are ALWAYS here to listen to you, no matter xxx

la I don't know what you posted but can only sympathise with your frustration. Big hugs. He's coming soon x

pret congrats. Amazing scan pic :)

La - it's not at all logical to be thinking that way, but emotions are rarely logical at the best of times, let alone when you're very very pregnant and feeling fed up.

When you've cried out some of your frustration, maybe try and think about it from a different angle. If you hadn't done things as you did, you might not be where you are now, which is (very overdue baby aside), hopefully really really happy. Being first is often as bad - if not worse - than being last, but coming in at any "position" is worthless if it turns out that it wasn't what your life needed at the time.

If the babies end up sharing a birthday, then it's only going to matter for a few years anyway. Also: joint parties. You have the same friends, you can share the bullshit preparations between you, and help each other with the mass clear up afterwards!

la I don't know what you said but sending big hugs anyway xx

No you're not a knob, I am!

Thanks guys - I think I'm just tired. Altogether now I've been pregnant 49 weeks (including the baby I lost right before this one). I think it's just hormones and tiredness!

I pulled the post because it was silly and ungrateful for what I've got. Me a year ago would've slapped me now and told myself to get a grip

Also La - if you were in France right now, you would have only just have reached your due date! You're not overdue, you are just super precisely on time!

Good to see everyone seems to be doing well, and a big hello to the newbies. We've been on a mini break, so I've had some bullshit house chores to catch up with.

But in exciting news....I have my second gynaecologist appointment this week!! That means I get another quick peek at the baby, and get to harass her about whether she can tell if it's a boy or a girl I'll be 16+0 at the appointment so it might be a bit early. On the flipside, I have to mentally prepare myself for the bollocking I'll get for gaining 2kg in the month since I last saw her.

When did you guys get your proper bumps with your first? Not necessarily big, but the actual pregnancy curve. My lower abdomen has been expanding at a rate of knots since the beginning, but the bit from my navel and above is only just starting to push out. From the side, I just look like a massive fat bloater, which is quite funny.

I want to have the pregnancy curve ASAP (as I guess everyone does) but I do worry a little that I seem big (belly wise) compared to other women with similar builds I've seen online. I know we shouldn't compare, but it's pretty much innate human nature to do so!!

Aww you're not being silly and ungrateful, as you have said yourself you are tired and emotional and we put so much faith in these due dates that it must be so disappointing and frustrating when it comes and goes and no sign of anything happening - and then you can't even rest as you're putting yourself through all these things to try to get minila moving. You didn't have to remove the post and you don't have to apologise, you're not the first and you won't be the last to feel like this. In a few days you will have your baby in your arms and this will all be a distant memory but until that point it's shit and it's ok to feel sorry for yourself!

Not sure what you posted la but I hope you are ok. Sending massive, massive hugs - I cannot even think about how I would have felt being over due, tired and upset

However minila makes his appearance it doesn't matter. In my nct group we have all had very different experiences but the end result is the same. We are all now complaining about sore boobs - the last one gave birth yesterday at 42 weeks exactly.

La sounds like you were really upset. A few things I can guess from replies...

1. I'm a twin. Shared parties are awesome! The budget is often bigger so instead of "going to soft play" it's "hiring out soft play" which is fabulous!
2. DSis and I are likely to pop within days of each other. If not on her birthday. We don't live near each other but it is so lovely to think that the future cousins will have something special to share. The first few birthdays will prob be joint, as we'll prob both want the same weekend. That's fine by me (DSis has a bigger house so gx she'd host!)
3. I missed out on having a "first grandchild" because of my MC. I was heart broken. However. Now I see it as the ILs using the first as practise whilst I figure out what sort of gp they are, so I can plan how I want them involved in the future. Any mistakes they make won't affect me! evil laugh BUT it took me time (6+ months) to get over it. However. I didn't have an adorable squishy newborn to distract me.

Anyway. I hope some of that was helpful.

Oh la, didn't see your post but sending big hugs your way. Can only imagine how frustrating it is to be waiting so long and feeling so tired and sore all the time. We're all rooting for you, but please give us a kick up the backside if you feel like we're adding to your stress levels by asking what's going on with your fanjo won't you? (If we're overexcited weird internet aunties )

Thanks all of you, you're lovely. MW was bit taken aback by the tired snotty creature that faced her but rose to the challenge.

I was DOUBLY fisted, I'm 2cm dilated and there's apparently fuck all reason why this baby is not here! Little monster. So I've been told to go to bed and sleep.

Sorry for my self indulgent moaning last few days. Patience was never my forte. I also think it's side effect both of being pg a long time and being told at 37 weeks that he was in place and could come early. It moved my expectations from thinking I was in for the whole 42 weeks to 'oooh he might come any minute!'

Going to take my sore and bleeding self to bed now!

As you were...

Nice scan pret!
indigo I had a positive birth experience with my first so if you want I'm happy to share won't go blabbing about it too much on here
Also didn't see the post but la many for making it so far, and managing all the hormones so well!
honey you're a twin! Awesome secretly hopes the early positive on my test means twins

Auf we always like birth stories, bonus if positive. Helps us know what to expect

Gouda that's fantastic that you'll get to see your wee one soon! My proper bump (as opposed to bloat!) appeared around 16-18 weeks I think.

I love obem normally but hated the last series! I didn't feel we got to know any of the staff which is normally part of the fun and all births seemed to be on back pushing sideways. Also the men were idiots! Hoping this series will be better.

Niff I hope the rash isn't anything to worry about