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tell me please:) i like to be prepared! and im not scared! just give me the cold hard truth haha!
There is an old thread about this (like over a year ago). It was something like What you mother never told you about childbirth. I won't read any of it until I'm actually pregnant...but knock yourself out! : )
I'm still pregnant, so I don't know about birth, but I do wish someone had told me how EXTREMELY uncomfortable pregnancy is. I'm the youngest by far in my entire family, so no one to tell me there, and my friends all acted like it was the best thing ever.
HA!
How much blood they are gonna take from you
How much you are gonna worry about every little thing
How yucky you are gonna feel the first few weeks.
This one is from a couple weeks ago!
http://boards.weddingbee.com/topic/stripping-the-membranes-losing-your-plug
Yeah I just found out in the tampons vs pads thread that you have to wear pads for the first few weeks following birth because you bleed so much. That just sounds like a party and a half....
I'm with you though - I want to know all the nitty gritty so I know what I'm getting myself into!
The fact that if you DON'T get an enema, you'll poop on the doctor. :)
Yes nobody ever told me there was a such thing as a mucus plug, I was seriously grossed out and scared too death when that occured :/
Nobody told me how much you bleed postpartum and those ugly pad panties you have to wear the first day or two.
Trust me, none of this matters when your baby is here. I have the weakest stomach of anyone I know, and I did NOT care about any of the nasty stuff.
@Miss Sapphire: Phew...glad to hear that! I don't think my sister in law pooped with either kid. Her body sort of cleaned itself out before she went to the hospital for both kids. She spent half of the day on the toilet, and didn't poop on the delivery table.
How about the giant blood clots you pass while you're healing. I had no clue so when I passed a couple that looked like big prunes, I almost passed-out. My doc just said not to worry unless they were the size of lemons.
Each pregnancy is completely different and you can breeze through one without any problems and have multiple complications with another one. Or you can have no complications and have 10 kids...lol.
And for those stating the beginning of the pregnancy is the worst, you haven't made it to the end yet when your body no longer feels like you own it and everyday tasks become impossible...lol.
@jjmomma: I'm sorry. Did you say blood clots the size of lemons? The size of prunes would freak me out beyond belief. I'm not sure I could make it to the phone to call my doc if they were the size of lemons. OHMYGOSH.
How SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOW it is. I am 15 weeks, 5 days, and I feel like I have been pregnant forever!
@Storm0075: I have had 2 and I would take being nine months pregnant over being nauseuous,exhausted and pukey any day. At least in the end you know you are close and you can feel the baby move. In the begining it just sucks if you feel so sick, but you aren't experiencing the fun part of pregnancy at that point.
How hard to would be to walk around feeling crappy yet unable to explain to anyone why. How difficult it is to sit in a meeting with clients when all I can think about is how to escape to the bathroom without making a scene. Yes, that is my life.
@mrskesslertobe: yeah plus when you are noticeably pregnant everyone around you understands if you are tired etc but when you are in the frist tri and you havent told most people you are pregnant its hard to justify being so exhausted and feeling so nauseous!
I wish someone would have prepared me for tearing. =/ What a long itchy painful recovery... and they make you BM before you leave the hospital on those lovely fresh stitches... ouch
@HopingToBeaMama: Yes! I was so freaked-out and dizzy... I thought for sure something was going wrong. So I emergency call the doc and he is so calm (a bit annoyed), telling me "Did no one prepare you?" Uh, NO! Apparently, small clots are normal. Not fun, but normal.
@Storm0075: So true! Each pregnancy was different (labor was the same for me, though).
It sounds like we're all saying the beginning is rough as your body adjusts, then you get a break in the middle, and at the very end you're tired, heavy, and ready to have that baby NOW!! lol
In the final weeks before labor, I couldn't get comfortable enough to sleep and getting out of bed took a well thought out plan.
Hmmm, I didn't know about pregnancy carpal tunnel, before it happened to me. That was probably the suckiest part of being 35+ weeks pregnant because, between my hands falling asleep and getting up to pee every hour, I was only sleeping in like 30 minute chunks for the last month of pregnancy.
That "morning" sickness really lasts all day, and it can continue past the first trimester.
The fact that at the beginning, you have no energy and are always on the verge of puking. Not just in the morning, this is just the way it is all day.
At the end, your legs might twitch constantly at night. Also you can smell EVERYTHING.
That by the time you get to the end you're waking up like 10 times a night to pee and you're up just long enough to realize you're hungry and can't go back to sleep without eating something. <-- This was SO annoying for me.
@eurekaanchovies: what!?> tell me more please.... mesh underpants... hrmmm
@mrskesslertobe: ekkk!! i saw that haha!
@piglet_625: bwaha i read that too..... i hate pads... ew
@jjmomma: o my!!! i would be worried if i didnt know that haha!
@plantains: awwww :(
@HappilyEverAfter54: hirmm.... i want i water birth and i have read that the tearing is reduced (although i know its likely i still will) but im still worried about that!
@amnystik: lol i wake up to pee anyways and im not pregnant! i just cant imagine!!!
@stephanie63087: You don't have to use the mesh panties! I was surprised with them with my first delivery, but I brought my own comfy undies the next time. Just be prepared to toss them if they get stained.
@jjmomma: "Did no one prepare you?" Wouldn't that have been her job?
I'm really the first of my friends to be pregnant, so these threads are always an eye opener. So much to look forward to.
Oh! I just thought of a GOOD thing that happens right after delivery... at least for me. I am so unbelievably hungry that any and everything they put in front of me... lime jello to salisbury steak (you know, hospital food) is like a gourmet meal. Food just tastes so damn good! I was so freakin excited to eat. LOL
(The second time around, I reviewed the hospital's cafeteria when choosing a birth plan! We were able to pick one with room service around the clock, and a menu like a restaraunt. I was in heaven!)
(After three hospital deliveries, I'm looking into home/ water birth if I am blessed enough to have another...)
You really do forget the pain afterward, so all in all, it's not that bad.
@kiddosc: My thoughts exactly! But this was an after-hours call, so it was whatever doc on the team that was assigned to the night. He had never met me and apparently had a rep as a being a bit... cold. I wish you guys could hear his tone, very snooty (a word I have not applied to anyone other than this man).
@jjmomma: You are SO right about the hospital food. Holy. Crap. They had these wimpy burgers with fake grill marks on them and lumpy chocolate pudding, but I was so starving it was the best thing ever. My husband kept asking "Don't you want takeout from a restuarant or anything...?"
I was like "Nope, go rustle me up some more burgers and pudding."
That you can puke during labor. I never had morning sickness but when I got to the hospital I had to run to the bathroom to puke. I hadn't eaten all day so it was just bile. So gross! Bring gum just in case, lol.
Also, that you really won't care about anything except pushing out that baby. We had my dad behind a curtain because he wanted to be a part of it all but I didn't exactly want him seeing everything. Well, once she started crying my dad ran from behind the curtain to come see her! Haha We even let him cut the cord because my FI thought he would faint. It's funny to think about because I know if I wasn't so focused I would have been a bit embaressed. Now it's just a funny story.
Oh! And about the hospital food... I literally drank all the OJ in the hospital. They sent an intern to the store to buy me my own personal gallon when they ran out. I barely ate and all I wanted was OJ!
@KatyElle: Our hospital food is actually pretty good. The just remodeled their OB area and the beds are queen sized so both parents can sleep in the bed (Ithink this might be gross, we will see) and you get a steak dinner for 2 the night after you deliver, it comes with steak, potatoes, and dessert. They set it up with flowers and everything. It sems like it would be nice, but I would probably eat DH's food too.
I LOVED being in the hospital after delivery. They cook for you, change your sheets, do the laundry. You never have it so nice once you get home.
@mrskesslertobe: My hospital also did a "Parent's Meal" and it was so cute. They even gave us a table cloth and flowers and a pretty good steak. I loved my hospital.
I can't comment on the birth/labor part since I'm 16 weeks pregnant with my first but:
The thirst! No matter how much water I drink, I still feel like I'm walking through the desert. And my lips are chapped like crazy.
The growing pains: I'm already doing the pregnant waddle because everything below my belly button hurts!
Oh and I heard that some doctors/nurses don't tell you when you've pooped during labor. So I bet there are plenty of women out there who pooped but didn't know it :)
That pushing for a super short time is not necessarily a good thing.
I thought that morning sickness meant throwing up in the morning a couple of times, like over the course of a week, and that's how you figure out you're pregnant. What I didn't realize that the entire first trimester is the stomach flu. I'm so tired, so low on motivation, pukey, headachey, exhausted and I have insomnia a few times a week.
I hate feeling so sick and tired and not being able to tell anyone why. God forbid anybody stop by and see how messy my house is.
@Storm0075: I absolutely agree!!! I had it fairly easy in my first tri, no morning sickness just extremely tired and a little nauseas. But 28 weeks on was pure misery. I now that isn't the case with everyone, but I could not wait to get this little girl OUT!
Something else I learned - kidney stones. They can be brought on by pregnancy, and seriously they're worse than labor, I kid you not. I had them once at 24 weeks and again at 28 weeks, that was the only time I threw up from pain during the whole 9 months.
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