We're growing babies, stomach beards and nipple pubes - it's pregnancy glamour galore with humongous tits, medicinal prunes and praying for poo on JS Grads 37!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 37th 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 36th grads fred is here

The thread we have graduated from is here in its 52nd 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.

toast high five for the maternity pads. Asdas baby event starts Monday if anyone needs baby stuff.

We've been out for tea and it was rubbish. Bloody chain pubs serving crap food.

Swelling is better tonight. I had an epic nap earlier and woke up feeling amazing, like I'd actually slept for the first time in ages

Retina scan in the morning I hate them! Nothing like sore eyes and being able to see fuck all for 3 hours to make your day!

I've made a to do list of things I have to do by the end of the week. The days are blending into each other and I'm not achieving much.

When do I get the surge of energy for nesting? I so can't be arsed to do anything. I sat on the bench by the tills in morrisons as my energy had run out, DH had to pack by himself and did a crap job

Must have been one of those days for crying and/or having a strop. I've had a face of thunder all day long. A hundred and one things need doing and DP just lounges on the sofa. Of course, when he realises I'm in a mood he asks if there's anything he can do to 'help me'. Arrrrgggghhhhh!

Why should I have to tell a grown man that the bathroom needs cleaning, those wall brackets we bought two months ago are still waiting to be put up, etc., etc.? He'll do stuff if I ask him, but it drives me mad that he absolves himself of all responsibility for working out what needs doing.

Of course, we are lucky that the fridge magically fucking cleans itself, and we have cupboard fairies that appear every now and then to clear out old stuff and tidy. Not to mention the fucking dinner-planning phantom, and the magical automatically-updating grocery shopping list (which also drives itself to Tesco to fetch the shopping). Thank fuck I don't have to do all those things!

Of course, I never said any of that. I just stewed in hormones anger while sorting through loads of old paperwork for hours...then burst into tears over dinner (dinner that I made cos he didn't think to start it until I mentioned that we needed to eat).

Fuck it. I'm going to cheer myself up by eating a lot of galaxy caramel.

Oh dear tea, think I read on here that someone just accepted that their DH/DP needed to be told what needed doing and once she had accepted that life was a lot easier. An interesting approach I thought! I do understand your frustrations though.

Carrot, first

Meh.

Carrot, I get that with my back too. I used to get it pre pregnancy but could 'crack' the bottom of my back to loosen it up. Now it just gets tighter and tighter. If I lie on a slope (e.g. The garden) I get stuck and DH has to rescue me. Have stopped doing it now.

Urgh, Purple, crap chain pub food is the worst - what is the point of it? (Apart from not having to wash up of course.) for your eye scan.

Hello 3am club.........ugh!

Morning viroids
Can we all agree then that yesterday was just a shit day all round then? !?
Im really struggling to be positive /mildly optimistic about this pg...how have others who mc'd previously maintained any sort of pma. I think if mmcs didnt exist i could feel a bit better, but they do

ga - sleep vomming experiment #2 - eat not too much quite a long time before going to bed - no sleep vom! Went for dinner with a friend and ate at around 8pm - had to choose something not too heavy but then went to bed after midnight and all was ok Thought you might like this one as it means we can eat - just not too much and not too late. Probably means I'm going to have to knock the nightly chocolate binges on the head though

Awww, shell, I really sympathise. I'm not sure I really really believed it until the 12w scan, and it was a horrible early few weeks. I paid for scans at 7 and 9 weeks which gave me some reassurance - for a few days at least! Once I'd made it past previous MC point at around 8 weeks and I'd seen a heartbeat I did begin to feel a bit more confident. Eventually I decided there was no reason to be pessimistic as it wouldn't change the outcome anyway. But it still wasn't easy.

Big hugs. Try to take extra extra care of yourself.

Aww 5hell I'm sorry you're still feeling scared about things, no advice really other than you will start to feel better as you get further along - I am very lucky to never have had a mc but one of my best friends had 3 and I think I had her anxiety so I was completely convinced of imminent disaster at all time and I think it was around 14 weeks that I managed to chill out a little bit. Not comparing my situation with yours because as I said I have been very lucky and would never claim to know what it feels like to have a mc or even the threat of one but I think you just have to take each day as it comes and as time goes on you will start to believe that it will be OK.

Morning viroids :)

5hell it's difficult. I've never had a mc but I was still very anxious for those first 12 weeks. All I can say is it does get better.

I wish I could take advantage of these supermarket sales but DP is saying because we are moving we can't buy anything :(

I know what you mean 5hell, but I think Niff is right. No amount of worrying will change the outcome. Even if it gives us something to do in the early days!

This morning I had the following conversation with myself.

Oh, still not gained weight, goody!
Omg, not gained weight. Surely I should have by now!
The baby is dead! It's not growing!
I don't have much of a bump!
Omg I'm going to get to 20 week scan and find out it died ages ago!
Aaaaaaah!!!!

Which obviously was very constructive. I have had a word with myself.

honey massive hooya! Huge! Weight gain doesn't happen for some people plus you've mostly vommed! I've lost and maintained in this final trimester.

5hell it's really hard. I don't know the answer. I think the more time went on I got better at being positive. Movements is the biggie. Once you're feeling them, you know it's alive
I really sympathise though, it's awful

Pud how do you fk up a chicken Caesar salad? No Parmesan, too much lettuce, and tasteless dressing! How difficult is it!

This should be the last retina scan for a year now. I hate them!

Oh and honey I didn't gain any weight til 3rd trimester

Yes honey Hooya indeed!
My weight gain is pretty much boob I reckon

Lol hooyahs accepted! I think it was brought on by seeing dsis who is 3 weeks ahead and has a decent bump... But she's also a lot skinnier to start with and its not her first so imagine her stomach muscles said something along the lines of "fuck this" and gave up.

Purple you haven't gained much have you?

purple a fucked up Caesar salad would just about break my heart. Man, I love me a Caesar salad

Is it her first honey?
I was sure that all the Pilates and running I've done between babies would mean that I would show like a first timer but it's not the case at all - I have a v small, not really visable to anyone else including DH bump that already requires maternity clothes to be comfortable.

honey as far as I am aware if you are of the slightly larger stature to begin with you don't put on a much as early. I've put on about 3kg in total but have been stuffing my face with crap Just remember you have seen micro-honey and you know he/she is in there :) I was worried the same as you that id get to 20w and find the baby hadn't grown last 12 weeks but at the 16w appointment on Friday hearing the heartbeat was massively reassuring :)

I am still tempted by a reassurance scan though, madness I know.

I reckon I could easily get addicted to scans.

I dont like ceasar salad. I have a thing about lettuce... I like lettuce leaves, not lettuce stalks. Ceasar salad is all stalk. Also not a massive fan of chicken breast.

5hell it's hard, I am still panicking about MS buggering off so early despite having enough other symptoms. For me my coping strategy has been to try to not think about the fact that I'm pg, except when it comes to drinking and not eating certain things of course. DP and I have been trying not to talk about it until the scan, although lately it has been creeping into conversations more often. Today you are pregnant. You can't influence tomorrow, but try to cherish today.

honey hooyah, if it's not her first she is much more likely to show earlier than a first timer. Also everyone carries differently - when I was pg with DS I had a colleague at work who was also pg with her first. She was 11 weeks behind me but she caught up with me bump size wise by about 5 months! Her DS was only a lb heavier than mine when born.

I am still exhausted. Was hoping going to bed early would have done the trick but I feel even worse. Just standing up from a chair feels too much...

Anyone has been discovered anaemic at booking in and did they call you to tell you that?

Oh god Purple, they couldn't even make a Ceasar salad? That's ridiculous! Come to my house I am a feeder I will cook for you.

Jelly, LTB immediately for not letting you buy cute baby things! Seriously though, the sales/baby events will come round again before you are due.

Honey I didn't put on any weight until about week 18, and then put on 10lb in 5 weeks, oops! This a or may not be correlated to me being on holiday! How long until your scan? I think you said on JSING the other day that your BMI was high? (Which you cannot tell from FB pics btw!!) If I have that correct then I think it is fine not to put on weight anyway, baby will take what it needs.

I am knackered. Effing cats effing meowing all night. Eris is getting spayed tomorrow so will be allowed out in a couple of weeks and can therefore sleep in the kitchen with big cat and NOT MEOW CONSTANTLY FROM 5AM in the spare room. Cannot wait. Then the baby will come and we will start all over again.

Oh Pud, you flatterer! Yes, 41 That's what I am holding on to. I don't need to gain weight, so I am not going to. Ha ha!

thanks lovely viroids! i think maybe i'm in a bit of a funk coz of lack of proper exercise too, which is hopefully what's triggering my negativity, rather than intuition! By my count i'm 9w today and still havn't heard from a mw sigh

purple you have my sympathies, it's so dissappointing to go out for a bit of a treat meal and end up with something much worse than you could have produced at home!! i hate ceasar salad, but that's beside the point

bat hope your dinner experiment pans out

i have put on 2kg...not surprising given lack of exercise