We've got newbies to cheer us on, the February Warm-Up is complete, after waiting nine long months it's only bloody time for March Madness! Welcome to JS thread no. 46!

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Welcome, welcome, welcome to the 46th 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 45th grads thread is HERE

The thread we have graduated from is HERE in its 59th 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. I really hope that worked!

Congrats Thurs! All you predicting boybee were correct.

How are you doing Sky and Tea? Pom poms are staying ready at hand for you!

Congrats Thurs glad everything went well.

Congratulations thurs! Lovely news!

Still at home. I am going to be 2cm dialated FOREVER

Thurs congratulations! So pleased for you.

sky you are 2cm closer than you were last week. 20% there. Stay positive. You're doing this!

fruit hope ddog gets diagnosed soon and all is ok. And yes it is incredible the detail. Dh googled a pic of a baby born at 25weeks and that was just wow! It's an actual baby in there!

tea adding my pom poms for you as well as sky.

disco jealous of your mat leave countdown!

I'm still getting some pink-stained discharge, BH and some periody pains, but nothing coordinated. Have back ache but was tramping round Ikea this evening!

Go tea! Go! Do it for the team!

Tea if it's pink stained it means your cervix is doing something productive! My Pom-poms are ready for you!

Don't be disheartened Sky, things are moving in the right direction!

Stock up on paracetamol viroids.

Shuffles in from a week of silence to see what babies are here!

Whoooooo - congrats Thursday on your Friday boybee. Great stuff and hope you are doing well.

Hope your DDog gets better soon Feathered. They are so sad when poorly, poor sausages. Strokes and treats and hope he picks up again.

I have just left a week of intense workfest to arrive at snot fest - sniffed, sniffle.

to those who want to be in labour but aren't yet.

Skulks off to read rest of thread and catch up

Hello again lovely viroids - I've come to tell my birth story, such as it is.

Arrived PN ward around 9am, settle onto the very same bed I was in after DS birth. Meet my MW, and it's a woman who runs the same parkrun as ne very regularly . Wait around for a couple of hours for an emcs to be performed.

Move to delivery suite approx 11am. Meet anaesthetist, obstetrician, and couple of education students. Discuss fears, change into gown, DH v fetching in scrubs and crocs! Cry a little (scared)

Walk down to theatre a little before midday. Meet lots of other v friendly, chatty & deliberately distracting men. Drink another antacid drink (yuck), have cannula fitted, answer lots of questions. Sit with feet on stool over side of the table, rounded back, have what us very close to a panic attack then spinal is in! Huzzah, feel like hero as that was the bit DH & I dreading most after previous carve up.

BP drops v quickly, feel awful and sick. Breathing helps me through until the nice men give me more medicine to fix it. Sprayed with cold spray to check I'm numb. And then the doc comes in and opens me up!

Takes about 15 mins to get baby out, with a LOT of vigorous rummaging - apparently due to scarring from previous section, D doc being extra careful.

Hear a little cry, DH peeps around the curtain and declares 'that's definitely a boy

DH holds him while I get sewn up, feels very very strange, and takes about 30/40 mins I'd say. MW entombed concern about DS2 testicle, but seems ok later. Baby weighs 7lb 10oz. Is very chilled but obviously hungry!

Across the hall to a recovery bay for an hour of observations, and DS2 first feed. He latches like a pro!

Eat toast, drink tea. Like manna.

Moved back to PN ward. Baby feeds quite a lot then has a mammoth sleep. Eat dinner at 5pm, DH goes out for a while to find something for himself, then has to go at 10pm. Still have catheter fitted, and my belly hurts when I move but feel a million times more human than I did after DS1.

Anyways, sorry! Turned a simple elcs into a v long winded tale!

Way to go thurs! Beautiful baby.

So pleased you had a much better experience this time Thurs. He is gorgeous and a lovely name too.

sky how are you doing lovely?

So glad it all went well Thurs! Must have been really nerve wracking immediately beforehand and glad you had lots of intentionally distracting doctors milling about! When do you stay in hospital until?

Thurs. Hope your first trip to the shower is good. Definitely stay min of two nights. You'll feel a completely different person tomorrow. Take the drugs. Try to avoid the codeine based stuff if you can as it will make you stuffed up!

Just had a big long catch up read whilst WoolBump does his morning excercises.

Massive congrats Thurs and what a fab feeder!

Hope Sky has had a productive night 😬👍

Feathered I hope some good news and diagnosis happened with the dog, pet stress is awful 💐

I'm 37 weeks today, planning to tromp round the park as the my foof pressure is through the roof today. I hope the ice cream van is there.

Haha country I'm the opposite - I'll happily accept being a bit bunged up if it means I've got codeine

How are you? I guess you're home now?

What news from sky and tea??? Updates viroids!

Thanks for all your good wishes, that was a looooooooong night. Baby feeding like a beast but very emosh about everything when it's not sleeping

Fruit how's DDog?

Still pregnant. Still uncomfortable. Pounced on DP which was more of a flop due to my sheer size planing a big walk and food mission after breakfast. Today is a good day for a birthday. Hoping minisky takes the hint soon.

As you were. Still BH.

Lovely story Thurs. Hope you are both still doing well.

Nausea and heartburn have begun but otherwise I don't really have any symptoms.

Am suddenly wondering about the gap between my pregnancies. Will 17 months (if on time) cause any problems for my c section that I had last year? I have blithely assumed it won't but that is based on various celebrities who seem to churn out babies without their bodies even noticing they were pregnant and it has just occurred to me that maybe it might be a higher risk. My scar healed over really quickly and well, and I don't have any problems with it.

Congratulations country and Thursday! don't think they give codeine anymore because they can't guarantee how quickly the mother metabolises it and there's a risk if she's a fast metaboliser the baby could essentially be getting pure morphine through the breast milk. Having said that they have me oral morph which is surely just as bad?!

Sky am dusting down Pom poms for you and giving lots of encouraging thoughts to your cervix

Sorry to hear about your dog fruit hated it when mine were ill. Hope they can get to the bottom of it soon

Fuzzy I was advised to leave a year after last c section before getting pregnant again. We jumped the gun slightly and ended up getting pregnant a month before ds's first birthday (apparently my cycle hasn't quite settled to what I thought it had ) I think 17 months is probably slightly higher risk but not a huge one, they weren't concerned about my gap. Probably just means more observations! People get pregnant accidentally all the time without leaving the 'right' gap they just need to manage whatever risk they perceive might be there

Had a huge mission out to the shops with DP. Gettting a bit of encouraging back pain and cramping. Baby wriggling away happily. DP cleaning out cupboards and then plans to steam clean the floors in the kitchen and bathroom. He's nesting! It's very sweet

Thanks viroids. Ddog seemed to be improving yesterday but then spent the night having bouts of diarrhoea and vomited on our bed at one point. Think he's giving us a preview of life with a baby! Back to the out of hours vet this morning and it was my favourite one. She is confident that it's a nasty case of gastro and gave us more drugs. He seems to have his appetite back although we were told not to feed him until tonight. Cue guilt inducing looks while I ate my lunch! Definitely did the right thing staying at home to look after him. Also gave DH chance to build the snuzpod and I rearranged the cupboards.

Congratulations Thurs sounds like it was a wonderful calm experience for you all and for babyThurs for learning to feed so easily.
Hope you got your ice cream woolballs, what flavour?
Hot lemon it up Peenut, you don't need snot in your life right now!
Hello Molly how are you doing? How are your lovelies?

thursday! Congratulations

Cheering on sky too

I've had the delight of losing some more plug today which may have been caused by the effort it took me to inflate the fucking Ikea changing mat!

Also continuing brown/pink stained discharge. Still now painful contractions though, only BH. DP is cursing while assembling flat pack, and I'm trying to type up my birth plan.

Oh, and I've mentioned to Strop Baby that I'm now top of the list so he should get a bloody move on!