It's the calm before the storm (sort of) that is Fantastic February and the March Madness - we did a lot of shagging last summer! We need more JSers on this, our 44th thread!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 44th 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 43rd grads thread is HERE

The thread we have graduated from is HERE in its 57th 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!)

Yayeeeee! Go JS twins! High fives Pretz and Jelly and mini fives to your babies!

I think the stars have now aligned so that we'll get a new crop of BFP and grads!

So sorry to hear your sad news 5hell, sending positive vibes.

Much in he way if positivity to your sister and mum Mermaid too. hope all goes well with the transplant.

Yes mermaid I hope you had a lovely evening with your family.
Many many best wishes for your sister

Don't leave just!!!

We have a girls name but no boys name. We're not having a girl

Ha ha country just use the girls name, it will be erm.....different
As I'm sort of expecting, what with my half of your baby and all, I'll lurk around a bit

I hope to fuck I'm here with the proper credentials soon (there's a certificate right?)

Well my fat arse is still saving you a seat madam!

Thanks love. I hope I get to that seat before you leave, feeling like I won't so be a love and pop a reserved sign on it for me. Write it in jizz or something.
So far only benefit I can see of not being upduffed is non fat arse

Right, sorry grads, I'll stop hogging your thread and shuffle back to discuss cm with the undergrads.

Lol, don't be silly Just! You guys are welcome any time! Otherwise when you do graduate we'd all be strangers and it would suck massively! We need to make sure we stay involved with each other so we can support each other!

Yes honey is right - I'm guilty of only sticking in this thread so I'm well happy to see you just and ain. I hope you graduate soon

Have pretzel and jelly graduated further without so much as a good bye birth story?

Bad nights sleep again, although I can't blame DS quite as much as usual. Thus baby was jiggling so much that I was having to clench my pelvic floor to stop myself pissing the bed

Everyone stay away from just seats it's the one with the cock drawn in jizz (it's so obv since I've written jizz I attempted to spell it with a g)

Awww, fanks Thursday

I do pop by every now and then - though it feels like more lately what with all the excitement going on.

The undergrads need to get a move on, we are trying, I promise!

just ain I gatecrashed over here before I graduated. It was when I was doing first ivf, wasn't shagging and wasn't pg so I had a foot in each Fred! Can't wait for you two to graduate. I really do feel for you both for what you're going through. I have to confess I haven't been able to keep up with ug Fred as well as this lot as work is manic for me in January but hope things are moving forward for you on referrals/appts.

5hell sorry to hear about your mum
And hope things are going well for your sister mermaid

Slightly freaked out that it's a bad omen to have the baby stuff in my house, hooyah me

Definite hooyah lil.
If the worst were to happen, how could it be a prams fault?

I understand the superstition though. It's part of why I don't like to find out the sex.

I have buggered off back to bed whilst DH does some painting downstairs (of the home improvement kind, not the artistic kind).
I'm having bloody awful womble and fanjo pains. My app says it's round ligament pain (?) and I can expect this worse cos it's twins. Yay.

I accidentally posted this on the UG thread (where I belong) but I meant to post it here so I'll copy and paste...

5hell, I'm so sorry to hear about your Mum. I hope you and your family are able to draw strength from and be there for each other. It is such a scary and upsetting time when a family member is unwell and you don't know what the future holds.

With my family when my mum was unwell we all started saying "I love you" to each other more often and although my Mum sadly passed away from her illness, my family remain incredibly close, much closer than before she became unwell. We see it as the silver lining to the cloud.

I loved seeing Just and Ain!! Can't wait for you guys to graduate for good. Thinking of you both and sending lots of jizzy vibes your way!

ScottishLady your post made me well up. My dad died very suddenly (although had been unwell for a while and I should have realised he was on borrowed time). While I regret not treasuring him more and being able to hug and tell him I loved him more (because I was just a bit bratty!), I will always remember having a three way hug with him and Mum the day he died and us all saying we loved each other cries.

Anyway. Everything cross for your Mum 5hell. She sounds like she has an awesome attitude.

First time the viroids have come across a bit "AIBU" crowd on the Facebook group in response to a post I made about the gina ford baby book I just bought. Sheesh. Be lovely if I had a built in knowledge about how to look after babies and what to expect but sadly I don't, hence I thought I'd buy a book on it. Turns out sarcasm and general outraged bafflement is what I should have expected. Oh well. May have been too much to expect a more balanced view or recommendations for better books to learn the basics.

Ah, spoke too soon. Other book recs flying in!

feathered you poor thing! That was a bit harsh for a Sunday morning! I am sure no one meant to come across critical of your choice to try and educate yourself. They just really hate that bird.

Thanks for well wishes guys.

Grad fb group sounds terrifying!

Oh my gosh.
This zika virus is breaking my heart

What Sky said. I think there is quite a high incidence of anxiety etc in the group and GF (by reputation) does not go very far to helping you relax about your baby.

Definitely a reaction to Gina, not you. Not everyone is able to just cherry pick so it's a violent concern that you could set yourself up to feel like a failure before you've really got started.

Thursday, Jelly has popped her birthday story on FB.

Wahhhhhh!! Thank you Sky and Honey. Couldn't decide whether I was just overtired and emotional or whether it was actually quite harsh. Reaction to Gina or not, some self awareness wouldn't have gone a miss! Kisses to you both!

Feathered I think when you're in the thick of it with your own you can develop really firm opinions really quickly based on your own experiences and it can be difficult to be objective. It is very easy to forget how frightening it can be as a first timer with limited experience. Plus, not everyone wants to be fully baby-led. I was much happier with a combination approach myself. I tried following a book called Upon Becoming Babywise reccomended to me by parents of twins - who needed a schedule to cope with the demands of two - but abandoned it pretty quickly. I am actually planning to give it another go and to spend some time looking through the other books we bought first time round. My thoughts are that since DP is a first timer with a newborn I can flag up bits for him to read so that he is prepared and we are literally on the same page when it comes to the basics.

I never read the book, but found the barebones of the baby whisperer routine outlined on MN somewhere when DS was a few months old. It fit his natural inclinations, so we went with it.

Someone lent us an an annabel karmel book I think for actual instructions on how to bath them and practical shit like that. Have a mooch around your library maybe?

sky you're being very diplomatic!

I hope jelly returns here too, I'm not on the FB group anymore. Feel free to give her a prod anyone

I had some period pain like back pain while watching the tennis earlier - my immediate reaction was to worry about getting my nightshirts into the dryer in case I ended up going into labour early.
Needless to say...I'm not.

I was actually very about the reaction that she got and felt that some of the posters were being extremely samctimonious. I am trying to be very measured though because I recognise I have entered the "take no shit" phase of my pregnancy and I don't want to create any internal dramas in our group.