Celebrating Christmas with the arrival of BabyBloom and XmasPud - we're testing our pelvic floors through the festive season, mince pie tasting and turkey stuffing (nudge nudge), it's the JS Grads 43!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 43rd 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 42nd grads thread is HERE

The thread we have graduated from is HERE in its 56th 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. (Except it's not because I don't know how to link to the stats sheet!)

Shaking my recently overused pom poms pud!!

honey I was up every hour last night. Literally every fucking hour. And getting back to sleep was torture because of my hips. Can't wait for this baby to be out!!

Eugh. Sounds awful Jelly. I am not there yet, luckily moving around is still pretty easy.

Baby was quiet all day yesterday, had to poke it to get any sort of movement. Today its having a rave. Basically I think it had turned round, and now it is back to facing outwards, so every kick is visible from the outside. (Like something out of Alien.)

Merry belated christmas to everybody!

A huge hug to corgi. I hope that you have family or people you can rely on nearby to help support you.

Big to yorkshire for getting to 3cm dilated without even noticing! That's pretty hardcore! I know it's a brilliant sign, but I'll still keep my fingers crossed for you that everything continues to progress well. You never really know where you stand with these things do you!!

We have our LAST midwife appointment tomorrow (I guess they might book some more in though?), so I get an update on the cervix situation. I do feel like things have been happening, so interesting to see if I'm right.

We had a lovely Christmas weekend on this end. I am super grateful that I didn't go into labour with DH's family in the next room of our shoebox flat . Everyone was incredibly helpful, and really pulled their weight. I have to say, I was very impressed. Meanwhile I sloped off at regular intervals to lie down/have a nap/rest, and it didn't feel at all awkward. I hope everyone else managed to have a similarly enjoyable day!

I'm still recovering from Christmas/touring the Midlands the week before to visit family. So tired! I definitely overdid it. We'll have to cut that down next year when we have an eleven month old!

I'm tentatively going to say my hips have been better at night, though they are more dodgy when I walk now. Sympathy jelly, agony hips are no fun at all.

pud let's hope you're making progress without pain! Wouldn't that be great?!

gouda gx appointment shows cervix is doing something exciting!

Another one quietly doing a cheer routine for pud and gouda hope things get moving for you soon.

I slept like a baby... as in slept deeply except the 4 times I got up to wee and the time I woke up starving at 4am. But the best part was sleeping until almost 10am. I then had a pastry and a long steamy shower (finally shaved for the first time in 5 days... my body hair was nothing short of luxurious) and now I am out to drop off a care package for my friend who let me flounce off to hers for a few days. She gets home on NYE and is straight out to a party so I thought I would put together some nice things to eat when her hangover and jetlag collide... Then if I am feeling spry I might go spend some gift certificates in Central London...

Sky that's really nice of you. Enjoy shopping if you get that far!

Pretzel I was in the Midlands for Christmas too. Lovely lady of the country.

World's most pointless shipping trip ever. I bought nothing!

Oh no! Nothing you liked? I have not managed to buy any mat wear in shops. It's all so boring or has stupid slogans on it.

M&s changing rooms were shut so didn't bother in there, Debenhams could only find a tiny rail of maternity in red herring - nice trousers but not in my size, primark seems to have got more expensive for what it is these days, and although I tried in some bras in there they didn't fit. H&m was just skinny jeans which I don't wear anyway forget while pg! New look was disappointing too, all jeans and leggings and only sizes 22+ in work type trousers. Thunknim going to AIT on the laptop this afternoon and we hat I can get online, order ahed loads and send back what I don't like

Yeah ASOS is supposed to be really good.

I got loads of stuff online. Topshop do Maternity boyfriend jeans if you aren't into skinnies

I've just stuck to accessories

lil new look online sale is decent for tops ... I got a few long sleeved ones for 4 quid each.

I only do skinny jeans so h and m is spot on for me, fortunately. I look about 10 sizes bigger in loose jeans for som reason!

That's what I did lil had to order a load and send half of it back! Asos do free returns through the post office and new look take online returns in store (pay by card not PayPal).

Thank you all lovely viroids for your hugs and well wishes. DH is being amazing and we are going to back to my parents tomorrow, work have sorted out cover for the rest of my nights which I'm very grateful for, think birthing centre would be really hard ATM! Just wish it would hurry up and finish instead of all this blinking spotting and cramping. Xx

So sorry to hear what you're going through. Gx it speeds up and is over soon. Glad you've got a lovely DH by your side. X

Glad you can take some time off corgi and hope things get better for you soon

Quiet on here today.

Do we think Pud is doing a baby?

I think do, pud is never quiet this long

No indeed! Push, Pud, push!

Ooh pud we are waving fanjo flags for you! And pompoms of course!!

Pud did a baby girl :)

Yay Pud! Good job!

So, Niff, Gouda.... You're next!

I can't believe how fast that list has gone down!

Yay, pud did a baby!

fuck that list is getting shorter

How is everyone today? I'm starting to feel really rather pregnant these days - getting random pains in my lower abdomen, and what I think might be minor sciatic stuff in my butt.

I'm so looking forward to starting my Pilates sessions to help with it all.

Braving going into town this afternoon, and then one if DHs friends is visiting later so a few of us are going out for dinner. I'm well looking forward to something that isn't ham or turkey

DH and I ahve promised ourselves to try and go out a few times in the coming months, have some time together before we get held hostage again!