Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

Milford_Cubicle

No, it doesn't smell. But you need a blowtorch to get it off, it's so damn sticky!!

gibboelli

longforthesun wrote: »

I have never had strong long nails except when I was pregnant. They looked lovely sadly a week or so after giving birth they all broke.

Also for anyone who suffers arthritis all my pain went during pregnancy apparently this is common especially with rhuematoid arthritis.

Strange as it may seem I assumed my labour pains would be in my tummy but all my pain was in my lower back and was awful. It would be worth noting that you should make sure there is petrol in your car. when I went into labour we had to stop at the local petrol station and OH had to wait in a q to pay I was in soo much pain i was blasting the horn for him to hurry up I think he was to polite to ask the people in front if he could skip the q :rotfl:

hahahahhahahah, oh dear that made me laugh. I can just imagine my fiancee doing the same, politely queueing :P

Dormouse

Milford_Cubicle wrote: »

No, it doesn't smell. But you need a blowtorch to get it off, it's so damn sticky!!

One of the best bits of advice I got is to make sure you put some Vaseline on their bums before putting on their first nappy. It really makes cleaning that first black poo so much easier! :T

Sarahsaver

its after the birth this one, but not enough people tell you that breastfeeding IS hard to begin with and all the things which make people give up, soreness, constant feeding and so on, dont last forever. A few weeks then it gets so easy and rewarding - and money saving! LOL

sara1978

CRAMP !!!!!!!!!!!:j

More painful than either labour and more annoying then getting up a gazzillion times in the night for as wee!
I have a DD of 16 months (5lb 10oz episiotomy and stitches) and a DD of 12 weeks (6lb 13oz and just a small graze) induced with both due to problems.
Epidoodal with 1st, gas,air and pethodine with 2nd.

Also the old wives tale of heartburn and hairy babies is true. Both mine had full heads of dark hair when born and never lost it.

This thread is the best and funniest thing I've read in ages.Better than all the bumph your given when pregnant.I seem to have forgotten all the bad bits already. I'm broody again already but am not going to try for another until my youngest is at least 5 :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Merry Christmas :xmassmile :xmassmile :xmassmile :xmassmile :xmassmile

foxxymynx

How hungry you get or how moody and irrational you get.

...and to put a dwner on it, that pregnancy doesn't always mean that you'll have a baby, sad but true ...

Sami_Bee

I'd almost forgotten about cramp! mine was constant, so much so that I had to have lots of tests for blood clots because the doc's didn't think it was possible to have constant cramp for THREE DAYS!

Oliversmummy07

* The after pains I was never warned about this and thought I was dying :eek:

* That stitches smell like iron (just me???).

* How big forceps are????

* That a baby can have a black eye once delivered (cried when I saw him due to forceps)

* That baby will have a cone head for a couple of days

*Once born baby will reel you into a false sense of security as it sleeps through the night as it recovers from the birth (it's when you get home the sleepless nights begin) :rotfl:

* That auxilary nurses will treat you with no respect at all (might just be me but this happened with DS1 and DS2). :eek:

fawd1

that despite usually being a polite non gaseous person, you suddenly find a big fart to be the most relieving thing in the world and start to wish for them with all your heart. and this is still true of me at 7 months pregnant at the moment

Ishtar

fawd1 wrote: »

that despite usually being a polite non gaseous person, you suddenly find a big fart to be the most relieving thing in the world and start to wish for them with all your heart. and this is still true of me at 7 months pregnant at the moment

Thought it was just me!! (I'm 6 months pg)
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