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Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

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  • msmicawber
    msmicawber Posts: 1,962 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Annie's absolutely right. Also, remember that most of us go on to have more children, proving that the rewards outweigh the aggravations.

    Also remember that you're having an adventure!

    Very best wishes
    Debt at highest: £6,290.72 (14.2.1999)
    Debt free success date: 14.8.2006 :j
  • vik6525
    vik6525 Posts: 16,347 Forumite
    One thing the books I read never mentioned was that all dignity will be lost by the time you have actually delivered your baby. My first experience of labour was made worse by one of my best friends at high school coming into the room and announcing "Hi, Annie, I will be your midwife for the delivery. Now, can I just sweep your cervix?" :o

    33 hours later, I had my DS, a very bad repair job on the episiotomy and legs that looked like they belonged to someone else. For some reason the water retention came AFTER I gave birth. :confused:


    oh the dignity thing... gives me shivers just thinking about it... my induced labour was made all the more weird by the fact that the midwife who swept in looking very stern and bossy, turned out to be my godmother who i hadnt seen since i was six years old... when she broke my waters for me, and then looked at my notes, her face just dropped when she realised that the last time she saw me, I was wearing a pink frilly dress and patent mary jane shoes!
    You lied to me Edward. There IS a Swansea. And other places.....

    *I have done reading too*
    *I have done geography as well*
  • ooobedoo
    ooobedoo Posts: 1,019 Forumite
    As my son was transverse lay(sideways) the doctor who did it(the c-section), wanted to take photos of the procedure but they couldn't guarentee that I couldn't be identified from the photos, wish I had done it now, even thought it would of been very blood thirsty to look at
    Oh....I'm not going to lie to you......At the end of the day, when alls said and done......do you know what I mean.........TIDY
  • ailuro2
    ailuro2 Posts: 7,540 Forumite
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    All of us are laughing hard, which means although our pelvic floors may be a bit stretched we can still laugh without actually peeing our breeks...we must have done our pelvic floor exercises after all...give it another few years and it may be a different story:rotfl:
    Member of the first Mortgage Free in 3 challenge, no.19
    Balance 19th April '07 = minus £27,640
    Balance 1st November '09 = mortgage paid off with £1903 left over. Title deeds are now ours.
  • Penny_Watcher
    Penny_Watcher Posts: 3,518 Forumite
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    joanne0620 wrote:
    I'm due in 9 weeks with my 1st (And last!!!!) and this thread has frightened me to death! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


    Oh Bless You :grouphug:

    Don't be scared (well - alright - maybe a tiny little bit scared :p as it's your first). As previous posters have said if it was really that bad we'd all be only children. Telling tales of how your labour went is (sometimes) part and parcel of being a Mum.

    Good Lord, give yourself 9 weeks and you'll be on here too :D

    I don't know about the rest of you ladies, but although actually bringing them into the world wasn't the best fun ever I wouldn't change my kids for the world. A bit of discomfort for a few months followed by a day or two feeling like you've been run over by a bus is a small price to pay.

    You cannot live as I have lived an not end up like me.

    Oi you lot - please :heart:GIVE BLOOD :heart: - you never know when you and yours might need it back! 67 pints so far.
  • Chrismojam
    Chrismojam Posts: 821 Forumite
    ooobedoo wrote:
    I am going to get my very broody friend to read this thread.......might put her off a bit!!!

    Hasn't worked on me yet:p
  • ailuro2
    ailuro2 Posts: 7,540 Forumite
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    Oh, that's another secret....once you have kids...

    you're part of the club..the parents club...no-one tells you it exists, but it does.:D

    Suddenly strangers will talk to you at bus stops, and you will compare kids, parenting, etc. when before you'd be thinking- cute kid- why doesn't she wipe his face/when's the bus coming?
    Member of the first Mortgage Free in 3 challenge, no.19
    Balance 19th April '07 = minus £27,640
    Balance 1st November '09 = mortgage paid off with £1903 left over. Title deeds are now ours.
  • 9pm in the pub...5 days to go.. Not a sniffle of a braxtons or tighnings nothing, zilch.. happily singing away on Karaoke, tra lalalalaaalll a... 3 parts to the wind... then

    3 Contractions 1 after the other less than 2 mins apart..

    3 contractions in the new style parents car doing an impersination of ambulance,calling my mother all the FEMALE WOOFS under the sun,every time she hit a bump

    2 contractions later out pops my DD.. at the speed of light.. bless

    1 contraction more hello afterbirth...

    45mins Start to finish... thats how you do it.., Now whats all the fuss about.....

    10pm in bath.. ready for a rest n cuppa.. lol

    hubby made it back to pub for last orders!
    BSC Member #97- Discharged 4/2/09
  • Penny_Watcher
    Penny_Watcher Posts: 3,518 Forumite
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    9pm in the pub...5 days to go.. Not a sniffle of a braxtons or tighnings nothing, zilch.. happily singing away on Karaoke, tra lalalalaaalll a... 3 parts to the wind... then

    3 Contractions 1 after the other less than 2 mins apart..

    3 contractions in the new style parents car doing an impersination of ambulance,calling my mother all the FEMALE WOOFS under the sun,every time she hit a bump

    2 contractions later out pops my DD.. at the speed of light.. bless

    1 contraction more hello afterbirth...

    45mins Start to finish... thats how you do it.., Now whats all the fuss about.....

    10pm in bath.. ready for a rest n cuppa.. lol

    hubby made it back to pub for last orders!


    :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

    You lucky LUCKY - person!

    You cannot live as I have lived an not end up like me.

    Oi you lot - please :heart:GIVE BLOOD :heart: - you never know when you and yours might need it back! 67 pints so far.
  • There's no such thing as dignity during pregnancy/birth. I thought the poking and proding and labour position (with the world and its wife having a good look) was as bad as it could get. During my section, just after DS was born, my DH was still at my side whilst the dear doc was getting everything put back in place and he said to DH "have a look at these". He had something in his hands which I couldn't see. "What's that?" asked my poor loved one. "That's her ovaries" said the surgeon, and popped them back inside.

    Pity I was numb from the chest down, or I'd have hit him a swift kick!
    :j
    I gave up jogging for health reasons; my thighs rubbed together and my knickers caught fire!
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