Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

xmaslolly76

Facilities are good round here even if the care isnt maybe they should spend less on the building and more on the midwives.

Now that is one thing i am hoping i dont have to go through is c section hun i hope it was as straight forward as it could be for you other than the bruises from the catheter

angelicmary85

I didn't poop myself when I gave birth but I drank so much water during labour that peeing in the shower after I had my daughter wasn't painful and I 'passed a movement' a few hours later and that was fine aswel, keep hydrated and all should be fine!!

Krystaltips

Our hospital has bidets on the ward, the midwives tell you to fill that up then pee into it...

xmaslolly76

good tip angel i only learnt the benefits of water myself after getting cystitis i was a fizzy drink follower until then now im never without my water bottle :-) x

skintchick

My pregnancy secret is something that really ought to be in the books as it scared me senseless.

I didn't know that if you get thrush during pregnancy it is perfectly possible for you not to have any idea, because you are so well lubricated that you don't feel the itching.

I also didn't know that if left to run riot thrush can cause such irritation to your vaginal wall that it can make you bleed.

This is not in any of my many books on pregnancy.

So when I started to bleed I was petrified I was losing the baby when it was thrush!

Had I known that thrush could go undetected and cause bleeding I'd have been less scared, as all it says in my books is that any bleeding in the second and third trimesters is a Very Bad Thing.

I will second that pregnancy gets very dull and boring. I'm now 29 weeks and time is dragging.

mumoftwo

xmaslolly76 wrote: »

I'm actually quite worried about pooping this time round ive been getting quite constipated in this pregnancy despite the mountains of tomatoes that i eat due to cravings would be just my luck for the bowls to give up just as i push flump out lol :-)

Cool, you crave tomatoes as well? When I was preggers with DD2 I ate mountains and mountains of tomatoes, I had to have them and made sure I always had them in the house, DD can't stand tomatoes now, think I overdosed her in the womb on them :rotfl:

emlou2009

when i pushed and nothing was happening, my midwife told me to push as if i was pushing out a poo! needless to say i did lol. had been constipated for 6 days beforehand... it wasnt pretty... OH is still traumatised :rotfl:

onewingedangel

did anyone else throw up while in labour? The first time, with my eldest, i was induced and was sick as my waters broke, and second time around i was sick just after I had given birth. The midwife told me this was very common due to the hormones.
I also remember needing an episiotomy with my first. It was agony to walk about, even my underwear rubbing hurt. (had to lie in bed with an ice pack between my legs lol )
Also because I had both my boys close together my belly now wobbles like jelly no matter how many sit ups i do.lol
Wouldn't change them for the world though.
xxx
M.

xmaslolly76

I was sick with my first just before pushing her out but managed to keep everything down with the second. :-)

LISSILEIGH

i was shocked to find out my new born girl was bleeding!!! this is also a normal thing for babies due to the hormone surge they are given during delivery