Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

iwanttosave_2

hurricanewyn wrote:

Nope - my mipples would go like that overnight. Some mornings they would be stuck to my bra!!

awww that was horrid, I remember having to peel the breast pad off my nipple because it had become stuck.

The thrid day was horrendous, I woke up with bricks on my chest, they were so heavy and hard, I had to go out and buy a new bra because I went up 2 cup sizes over night, 2 years on I have managed to get back down one cup size.

Overflowing was bad as well, it happened all the time at first, you would be feeeding and the other would be like a hose pipe gone mad and have it dribbling all down yourself in toys r us

iwanttosave_2

Coupon-mad wrote:

I read the first few pages of this thread and have already put in my 2p-worth (piles!).

But has anyone mentioned the sudden and irreversible emotional-ness (is there such a word?).

Since having my first child 13 years ago, I cannot watch any sad news item about a child without welling up (couldn't even watch that poor nervous 16yr old boy on X-Factor yesterday without mumsy feelings of 'aw...bless him' bubbling up).

Watching ANY nativity play, dance show etc (even if my kids aren't in it) makes me cry now....and I never used to be like this!!

YES!!!!!

I cant even watch the NSPCC ads, and I need sedatives after comic relief :rotfl:

ooobedoo

I couldn't watch outbreak the other week, the little lad cuddled into his parents who were dead, made me blub like a mad woman. I cried wathing the film with the woman from desperate housewives in it who is playing a man who is becoming a woman...she meets her son who was a rent boy, and when they get their car stolen he does a little business, and him being taken advantage of by a older ugly man made me nearly cry.....

Christmasshopper

When you are pregnant and squeeze into a small space, your baby will move and you won't be able to get out. I got stuck behind a machine at work when I was about 7 months pregnant and the fitters had to dismantle it to get me out (much to the amusement of my collegues!). Then a few days before my baby was born, when the nesting instinct kicked in, I had the urge to clean the little gap between the toilet and the wall. I just got in there with my disinfectant and cloth and guess what... I never learn!

loobyloose

Murtle - the daily injections are heparin (also have to take 2 aspirin daily too) there for a condition called APS.
The IV anti-biotics is for a condition called GBS
and of course as a few people said the anti-d is for R neg blood type.
The injections dont hurt at all, its the aspirin that tastes yuk! i wish they could do aspirin in an injection form.

Raksha

Reading this thread keeps reminding me of stuff I'd forgotten....

The aching boobies in the last trimester - aching so much they made me cry (and I'm the one who had three babies with just gas and air) I'd have to get up in the night and sit in a chair hugging them and just rocking backwards and forwards in a very primal way, wrapping a scarf round them helped very slightly - NEVER AGAIN!!!

getcarter

The walking around the shops feeling that your insides are about to fall out after birth!
The crunch the umbilitcal cord makes when it is cut (only just painted over a spot of blood that appeared on the ceiling when this was done).
Leakage both blood and milk, especially when feeding from the other.
Having the problem of too much milk do your baby is sick after every feed (and when I say sick I mean the whole lot - I ran out of clothes!) basically I was choking him with milk.

ooobedoo

I am going to get my very broody friend to read this thread.......might put her off a bit!!!

Former_MSE_Andrea

Gingham_Ribbon wrote:

I take it you've all seen this thread?!:eek: :rotfl:

Thanks for that Gingham (erm, I think ).

kal25

This thread is so great,my ds1 keeps asking what I'm laughing at. All that has been said is so true. You get told that every pregnancy and birth is different(you never believe it). My ds1 was gas & air only,ds2 was by elective cs as he stopped growing at 30wks and dd was born on her due day(new years day)had the worst contractions with her but slightly quicker labour.
With dd I was constantly having canesten as I kept getting thrush.I also felt like I was carrying lead balloons on my chest after birth (didn't have with other 2)when milk came in and seemed to last forever befor feeling normal again.
You never believe (and laugh) when told at antenatal class that giving birth is like having a poo.Incidentally on this subject with dd midwife was checking how far I was and all I kept thinking is I need the toilet and she's going to tell me off for c**ping on the bed.Then she says 'ooh the heads there she's on her way' that was my cue to carry on pushing as I just wanted her out.
You think it's all over after giving birth however you then have to give birth to your afterbirth as well!!
While in labour and you have to have injection of some kind (pethedine,drip inserted) midwife will say to you 'this may hurt a bit/you'll feel a small scratch'. This made me and hubby laugh after as I said to hubby 'like I'm worried about a small scratch when I was already in pain'.LOL
I think if I hadn't got 3 children and read this thread I definetley would not have children.I would be petrified. But as horrible as all our experiences have been I noticed most of us have had more than one.So to you who don't have children, it can't be all bad and is definetley worth it in the end.