Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

money_saving_diva

Oh I love this thread!! It is all sooo true - it should be printed as a book!!! :j

I have so many things I could put down lol!

I was worried about the poo thing during labour - espcially when at the pushing stage I realised that when you are pushing most effectivly it feels like having the biggest poo ever! :eek: but I didn't care by then and I told my hubby if I had pooed I didn't want to know. He has always told me I never did but I am not so sure .

My ds came at 37 weeks after everyone telling me 1st babies are always late!

My ds came the day we moved house! Don't move house at 37 weeks!

My labour was very quick and everyone including the midwives were telling me that cos it was my first it would take ages - it didn't!

The funniest moment during labour was being in an open ward with 3 other ladies waiting for midwives to be allocated to us. This could not happen for another hour so I got on with my labour quitley and privatly with my hubby. The other ladies made such a fuss and acted like they were about to give birth in the next few minutes causing so much fuss that they got midwives to check them. We then heard the midwife say to the girl that was making the most noise after she checked her - 'but you are only 1-2cm like you were yesterday' :rotfl:she was shouting 'i can't do this' and my hubby said joking to me 'if you say you can't do this I am going to hit you with a big stick' I laughed so hard :rotfl:I was then checked and I was 6cm and rushed to a delivery room where I was checked again and I was 10cm! and I had been the last to get a midwife! I knew I was far along - you have to listen to your body and make yourself heard I now know! I will be getting to hosptial quick with this one in case of an even quicker labour(I am 22 weeks pregnant).

pigpen

money_saving_diva wrote: »

My ds came at 37 weeks after everyone telling me 1st babies are always late!

My ds came the day we moved house! Don't move house at 37 weeks!

We moved house Monday.. waters broke on the school run Friday.. last day before the end of school year!!.. baby #4 born Saturday.. at 34 weeks... don't move house when pregnant!!

And in labour at just over 30 weeks with DS3 on similar open ward with 3 other woman.. I decided to have a major strop with hubby whinging about being awake at some God forsaken o'clock.. I went off on one.. 'I don't even want a stupid baby I don't even know why you brought me here.. I refuse to have it!!!' I was promptly removed to a room as far from 'normal' people as they could get me!!

Sami_Bee

Curious_George wrote: »

...ladies if it doesnt feel right for gods sake make yourself heard....

1st timers if you take anything from this thread let it be this!
Only YOU know what your body is doing/feeling

neneromanova

That you will wake up during the middle of the night with searing pains in your side (even at 10+5weeks) and feel like the whole world is ending, only to go to toilet and let out an almighty f@rt!

Happened last night....sooooooo horrible.

mumOf2wonderfulkids

i dont know if it's just me, but i tore a little with dd (not enough to need stitches) but for the next week OMG the pain when trying to pee, stung like hell!! i had to fill the bath up, have a wee, then empty out and refil to have a wash lol that was a nightmare!
although ds was 1lb and a half heavier and didnt tear with him


oh and you hear about high blood pressure being bad,
they don't tell you if you have low blood pressure, you feel on the verge of passing out every time you stand up!
and you can burst into tears at the very slightest thing,

being about ready to pop i went xmas shopping in argos, every time i tried to queue up to collect i would feel faint(low blood pressure) after about 6 times of getting up and down, i found the nearest assistant walking around, immediately burst into tears whilst trying to explain to her that i couldnt stand up long enough to collect my things!

pigpen

mumOf2wonderfulkids wrote: »

being about ready to pop i went xmas shopping in argos, every time i tried to queue up to collect i would feel faint(low blood pressure) after about 6 times of getting up and down, i found the nearest assistant walking around, immediately burst into tears whilst trying to explain to her that i couldnt stand up long enough to collect my things!

PMSL I did that at the deli counter at a local shop.. I tapped the woman in front after ordering my shopping and asked her to tell the shop assistant I was siting on a chair across the shop wih my head and my blood pressure in my boots!! It is something I have had mainly at the beginnings and ends of all my pregnancies.

Almost fainted in my savoury ham I did!!

jimjams_mommy

I can now say from personal experince Inductions can fail, I had FIVE failed atempts over a week!!!!! 3 pessarees with sweaps, and 2 painfull atempts to break my waters.

At least I didn't poo myself, or so my other half says lol

But the spatone Iron supplement was great, well worth the money and no black poo or constripation!!

confusedroast

That your body cane "empty" itself as labour approaches, I was induced and kept needing a poo so would waddle off to the loo, whilst on the loo I would have another massive contracton, do a big poo then as I was about to get up would have another contraction, anyway after visiting the loo 6 times and nothing coming out I was on my way back to my bed when I inquired when the midwife would break my water?
"We will do an ARM in an hour" - I was in labour for 20 hours at thispoint
I waddled fast back to my bed and said to husband "Yay they are going to do an ARM soon so we can gethis show on the road"
As I tried to get back onthe bed GUSH GUSH GUSH, my legs shook like jelly, I nearly fell down and then said to myhusband "Oh my god I wet myself" Then GUSH everywhere and realised it was my waters (baby must have heard midwife)
Now what I didnt realise is that with EVERY contraction my waters came gushing out like niagra falls, my bed had to be changed 8 times and husband kept having to put big pads under me, all I kept saying is "Oh my god I am so sorry" I was very embarrassed!!!

ooobedoo

Just bumping.......

LilacPixie

You might not know you are in labour. I didn't.
If they burst your waters its like a crochet hook.
MW's that have been around the block a few times are definatly better, I had one young one tell me i wasn't in labour, her computer told her so but my urge to push said other wise. I was right.
There are worse things that labour pains. Kidney stones.
MW are obsessed with birth plans. I refused to do them which annoyed them no end.