Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

do_it_today!

Nobody told me that after a mild straight forward quite pleasant first pregnancy that I could feel sooooooo horrendously ill and sick with the second!!!:(

Im praying ill feel better before February!

dreambirdie

No-one ever told me that from about 20 weeks pregnant onwards you never get a full nights sleep because you wake up 2-3 times to go to the loo!! And during the day if you so much as sneeze or cough you will wet yourself a bit!

that wind can be soo sore that you feel like your in labour

that milk can leak a bit through the night and you wake up with crusty nipples - trying to get the crust off - OUCH:eek:

at the end of the pregnancy you must always have someone to dress you in the mornings as its totally impossible to put your own socks on!

that the babys can stick their head/bum/arm/leg right up inside your ribcage which causes the worst heartburn EVER - it actually feels like someone twisting a knife in your chest.

who said pregnancy was beautiful :rotfl:

ooobedoo

I have just been looking back trying to find something and found this thread, it seems to funny that I was pregnant with DD when I started this thread and she is now 5 and quite a little madam

HRV

no one told me .... how hard ir would be to have your baby twins rushed to intensive care coz they were born 2 months prem and not see them for 18 hours and nt even be able to hold them :-(

no one told me ....how hard it would be to be without your partner coz he didnt make it in time

...and that was after 'morning sickness' that lasted from 5 weeks until 32 weeks despite anti sickness meds

My twins will be my first and last!!!!

raven83

I lost all my dignity when i had my first dd1 9 years ago, the amount of doctors/midwifes/random people that saw me in not such a pretty state soon saw to that! When dd1 was a day old i had my own side room and bathroom i decided to have a bath but didnt lock the door when the cleaner came in just as i was standing in the bath starkers and bloody, i didnt even bat an eyelid or feel at all embarassed which is sooooo unlike me because if someone had told me that would of happened before i had kids i would of been horrorfied!

narabanekeater

I posted over a year ago when id just had my 1st 2 now im a Mum of 3 so I shall add. That its fine to laugh your way through labour. Yeap all this happened in 2 minutes flat. I was already in hospital waiting to be induced. DH was dozing and I felt my waters go so I jumped off the bed shouted OMG shes in my knickers downing my undies while slapping DH awake. He took one look and pressed the bell and ran off to get someone. So what do I do whip off my pants feeling the baby coming. In walks DH with whom I assume is a DR who pulled me into the coridoor there and then by the doors to the maternity ward my daughter was born. The DR well he was a cleaner a very shocked one. DH apparently just ran up the coridoor shouting 'its in her knickers' and he was the only one who took any notice of him. DD was officially born in transit as they called it in 2 minutes with well in the end and by the time they cut the cord and got me a wheel chair quite an audience. Sadly that will be my last birth experience ladies but I assure you its worth every moment of piles,wind and sleepness nights

PinkLipgloss

Nobody told me that "morning sickness" does not necessarily happen in the morning. For the first 3 months of my pregnancy I felt fine in the mornings but awful in the evenings and threw up like clockwork between 8:30 -9pm.

Another thing that nobody told me was that the afterbirth is HUGE and DISGUSTING! The midwife made a point of showing it to me (after she'd weighed it) and I felt sick just looking at it!

On a positive note, nobody could ever quite put in words just how amazing it feels when you hold your baby for the first time and they open their little eyes and look at you.

basscadette

Oh wow, great thread. Wish I'd found it when I was pregnant.

Here's mine:

No one told me that

Morning sickness could last the first five months. Also, I was expecting to fancy charcoal and pineapple but it didn't turn out that way. I completely went off meat and couldn't bear to look at, feel, smell or eat chicken in any form whatsoever until the third trimester. I also went off vegetables and lived off cheesy garlic bread and Tangfastics for the whole of the first trimester and part of the second. I intended to eat healthily!

That I wouldn't be able to stroke my cats for about the three months of tri-3 as they were too far away down there on the ground lol. (or feed them hehe - don't worry, my husband did it)

Giving birth

No-one mentioned such a thing as 'back to back labour' or how excruciatingly painful it is. Or that mid-wives think it's the same as normal labour so just tell you to breathe through it. I was half insane from the pain after 36 hours when they offered to finally induce me at 3cm.

That I wouldn't be able to sit or lie down for said 36 hours as it was too painful. I was on my feet for almost 48 hours in total.

That you couldn't have an epidural until a certain point - no matter how painful it was or how long it took you to get to that point. That they give you smarties (well, about as effective as) as your only pain meds til then.

That diamorphine and an epidural combined could make me feel so good after all the above.

That babies cry when they need to eat. Naive first mum, exhausted, no sleep for around five days and baby is crying at night. I'm standing stroking him wondering what's wrong when the mid-wife comes in and starts feeding him. I was so embarrassed - he must have been starving. Didn't even occur to me to feed him poor baby.

marywooyeah

No one had told me about shoulder dsytocia (sp). I had a back to back baby naturally at 42 weeks and only had gas and air. When they said they could see the head I just thought great the baby is coming out! In films they shout "there's the head" and suddenly the baby appears.

I was pushing and pushing wondering why he wasn't coming out when the midwife said cheerly "ooh his shoulder's stuck!" and she just jammed her hands in and pulled him out! I'd come off the gas and air so had no pain relief and I thought I was going to die from the pain when she did it! she later explained should dsytocia and that the urgency meant she didn have time to explain so literally dived in, but I found it quite scary so wish someone had told me about the possibility of it beforehand.

gizmodo_2

I remember reading this when I was TTC last year

Now that I've done it, I don't think I have anything fun to add that hasn't already been said though. The only thing I can say is nobody told me how much I would enjoy being in labour and giving birth and would want to do it all over again everyday since she was born