We're marvelling at bucket fanjos, peeing while we vom, trying subsistence farming and staying incontinent. Keeping our GX and firmly holding the hands of viroids having a hard time - JSing grads 36!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 36th 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 35th 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.

Missed sooooo much after a birthday weekend of fun. Where to start?

La so sorry to hear your little man has been poorly but glad he's doing well and you're home with him. He's bloody gorgeous and you're entitled to a coffee in peace, unfortunately that might not be for a few years.

Hi Lil! Very exciting news about your imminent upduffing, can't wait for you to join us here :) . Your friend is a crap one but clearly just doesn't get it. Sorry you don't feel like you have RL support but we are all here for you and you get to rant without the stabbing, which sounds easier to me tbh

Ga congratulations on the house! Woop! It sounds like a lot of work but will be worth it if it's the one you wanted.

Congrats on the second interview carrot, sounds very exciting and you must have impressed.

Gouda I'm another with a sex drive through the floor and the logistics are awkward too because I am massive. It's been a month at least, and dp is miserable. I must make the effort but last time was uncomfortable and I have trouble shutting out the baby being right there in the room with us and it freaks me out a bit.

Sorry to all those with dizziness and sickness, it is all part of making a person but it doesn't make it easy or even tolerable a lot of the time. Be kind to yourselves viroids.

I have had a brilliant week of birthday fun but have worn myself out again. I am spending the day in my pyjamas and doing as little as I can get away with. I have swollen ankles and am having bouts of BH contractions regularly. I get them whenever something puts pressure on my abdomen, the drive back from London yesterday involved me having to hold the seat belt away from my under bump area because of the pressure giving me regular tightenings whenever I let go. Is anyone else getting loads of BH? Bat, Toast, Ga? you're all about the same gestation as me, are you getting anything similar?

Looks like I'm not the only one having trouble to log in?

quiet fred is quiet

Hello! First time I've been able to get on all morning

Ooh, its back!

A speed camera flashed as I drove past today but I am 99.999% sure I wasn't speeding. (I know its there, I'm not stupid!) So hoping it was at the van going to other way. Thus begins the tww to find out if I need to get my speedo checked.

Also, noisy cat did not come in for breakfast today.

Yeah the server has been down almost constantly all morning. Shit must have hit the fan somewhere or another in mumsnet hq!

Thanks viroids. I definitely don't feel like I was that impressive. I hope I can say differently after tomorrow! Keep your gingers crossed!

lil your friend sounds like my mum. She has no connection between her mouth and her brain whatsoever. She once told my friend who was 27 at the time that she thought she would be "an old virgin" (someone who never marries or has children" That was especially awkward as my sister has only been dating her bf for a few months at that time, who was her first bf ever (she was 26!).

I know she doesn't mean to be so thoughtless and most of the time I just ignore any stupid comments like that, but it's hard when you are feeling vulnerable at the time. This was one of the reasons I never told her about my mc, and still haven't told her about this pregnancy. I just don't think I could deal with her comments if anything should happen.

Rhi I'm glad you had nice time, belated happy bday! Pyjama day sounds exactly what you need right now! How old are your other DCs btw? I used to have lots of BHs when I walked too quickly or too "intensely", i.e. walk up the hill - and we do live on a bloody hill!

Carrot my other DCs are 5 and 3, they're brilliant but exhausting and are currently wrecking my house while I put my feet up. I don't have the strength to argue. Glad to hear I'm not the only one who's had a lot of BH too

Happy birthday Rhi ! Albeit slightly belated!!

I hope you had a truly awesome day, and manage to spend the whole day in pjyama-ville

I'd love a pyjama day... am bloody knackered today! Trying to focus on the code I'm writing in work is proving very difficult :(

It's back! Thank god, I can stop painting now .

I'm already getting a couple of BH a day (I think), it is sometimes just one part of the bump that goes hard/tight - is that weird?

3 pillow fort was good, but still not sleeping brilliantly. Eris is still in the room next to us as she is too small to be spayed/chipped and we don't want her to get out of the cat flap. She wakes up at 5am and meows (loudly, a lot). I normally get up and give her a little cuddle and then she is happy until about half 6/7 when I let her into our room so she can torture us with her claws. (This is a big improvement on her waking up 4 to 5 times a night and howling the house down when she was tiny/poorly).

Anyway, the point of this whole post is that DH just literally sleeps through the whole thing, totally out of it, 2 hours of meowing last night, I was waiting to see at what point DH would wake up and do something about it, he didn't. What is he going to be like when we have the baby?! Hopefully I will be bf which puts more of the responsibility on me, plus he will be working so I will expect to do most of the night work but I am expecting some assistance! How do you guys split/plan to handle night baby?

Disclaimer 1: DH is normally very good at splitting chores etc so he is lovely really when he is not snoring

Disclaimer 2: I appreciate that the first half of this post makes me sound like a mental cat lady because I am

Pud I breast fed and DP slept through the vast majority of night feeds. I think that's just how it is and there was no point us both being tired and grumpy. I found it easier to give him jobs to do in the day, cooking, cleaning or laundry so I could nap when possible. We'll have three kids though so this time he'll be dealing with my older two a lot of the time, so I'll have to help with the other jobs too. Should be fun but I'm expecting a tough few months.

Also thanks for the birthday wishes, could I also ask someone with a PC to change my age in the stats please? I am 34 now :)

Happy birthday!

Pleased to announce that since Thursday ms is so much better I can eat proper food. Nt completely buggered off though. Smells/foods that make me want to barf include - deep heat, eggs, tea, curry and bananas

Please remind me NEVER to move whilst pregnant again!!!

Happy belated bday rhi :)

I'm jealous of you folks getting movement and Toni's...i've got nada, still not felt any "movements". 16 weeks tomorrow so was hoping i'd feel something by now. I keep getting flutterings in my belly but I assume that's my mind playing tricks because movement would be lower down wouldnt it?

I did get a weird tightening between my naval and my breastbone today, in the middle of a meeting. Made me flinch in front of some rather senior people which is always fun.

pud OH sleeps through everything. Wasn't so bad when I was off on maternity but since coming back to work I had to take action! Monitor now goes on the bedside table next to his head when he's on night duty!

Ha ha good work would! I am hoping niavely that the baby will have my sleeping gene and therefore will quite like sleep/nap. (Wishful thinking!)

Jelly, don't try to move again when pregnant! Did you get a buyer?

we've got an offer but it is under what we wanted. Just trying to decide what to do

yorkshire- we haven't talked about night feedings yet - I think it just seems a bit far away at the moment. I guess taking turns when we're on leave, I'll do it when DH is at work (since I can sleep at least a bit during the day) and then take turns when we're both working.

Even if breast feeding works out, I still plan to do quite a lot of feeds via bottle from the very beginning - partly so DH gets that bonding experience, partly so we know someone can look after the baby for a few hours sometimes without us having to come back for feeding.

I know some people get really arsey about using bottles when breast feeding, but I've had a number of friends tell me it's been a life saver//or that not doing it has been a major source of frustration.

Personally I don't think I could breast feed for more than a few weeks if I was literally the only person capable of feeding the baby for every single feed!

I plan of expressing from about week 4/5 onwards, and just be the sole milk machine until then. I'll probs do all the feeds but ask DP to be involved in the day time stuff more, where he can. Obviously it's all dependant on the baby, if you have a baby who cluster feeds then you're not going to get much chance to share the responsibility whilst he/she is stuck to your boob

If he's sleeping you fucking elbow him til he isn't

Then he delivers baby to where you have perfected feeding lying down, and then 10/15/30 minutes later he changes baby's nappy and does the winding and settling until baby is grunting away in his/her moses basket.

On other nights you send him in the spare room and do it all yourself, but you get to do mega napping the following day.

Each of these babies has two parents.

If you want to mix feed or express then mores the better IMO. then Dad can take charge of one whole feed while you get a block of a few hours sleep. In. A. Row!!!!!

Ha ha Thursday, he did tell me to use the elbow on reference to sorting Eris out at night! Would love to do some expressing as well as bf but I know it doesn't work for everyone. Interesting to hear different takes on this, I guess we will have to play it by ear a bit and find out what works for us. Gx DH will end up with a month of leave when the baby is born so he can get plenty of practise in then!

exactly. Bugger all you can do about it until you're in the thick of it. Nice to make sure both parents are on the same page at this stage I suppose.
Luckily my DH was very much of the 'you do the research, I'll follow your lead' school of thought which suits us both

has anyone seen that story of the women who breastfeeds her own son and her friends son....

Happy birthday rhi

jelly hopefully you won't have to move house again?! Hope it's going well.

I intend to try really hard at the BF because I'm cheap and formula is terrifyingly expensive I also intend to elbow DH during the night, he may not hear the baby but he WILL hear my elbow! Might let him off nights when he goes to work as I love a good daytime nap and he's useless when he's tired.