Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

*zippy*

I had just given birth and was lying there legs akimbo waiting for someone to come and do my stitches when the MW announced theres a surprise visitor for you and let my FIL in to see the baby :eek:

ooobedoo

Did he leave, shocked and mentally scared???

*zippy*

I'm hoping he was so overcome to see his beautiful grand daughter he didn't notice . He was crying mind :rolleyes:

The thing is I flashed everyone at my wedding, you know when you lift your dress to kneel down, I had one of those hooped petticoats on, apparentely as i picked it up it flipped up at the back and everyone got an eye full.

coolio_2

well-medicated wrote:

I had C sections - but a close girlfriend of mine who delivered shortly after I did, got the shock of her life when she was informed that she had passed a bowel movement whilst in labour! I think I was the only person she told - and that was over ten years ago. A secret worth keeping I would think.

About 90% of women will do so while pushing, midwives will clear it up discretely so a lot of women are unaware they even have.

Tondella

coolio wrote:

About 90% of women will do so while pushing, midwives will clear it up discretely so a lot of women are unaware they even have.

what a frightening statistic! :eek:

coolio_2

If you have a water birth they have sieves to fish it out


Also, the discussions on contraception, a lot of people probably think theyre fine for a few sh@gs. And you would be surprised that people have sex on maternity wards after just giving birth, I kid you not

finc

coolio wrote:

If you have a water birth they have sieves to fish it out


Also, the discussions on contraception, a lot of people probably think theyre fine for a few sh@gs. And you would be surprised that people have sex on maternity wards after just giving birth, I kid you not

Shockingly this is something I found out for myself when I was in with my first! I couldn't believe it was happening (not to me of course, no flippin chance :rotfl:). They weren't even that quiet :eek:

Penny_Watcher

With my third (and last baby) I had a c-section (BIG baby) because the last one got a bit stuck.

Nobody told me that although the epidural meant no pain and not able to move, you could still feel if your were being touched. Felt some pulling and vague tugging and also I was quite shocked at the sound of a hoover being switched on! Apparently they suck away your amniotic fluid. Obvious really, but I wasn't expecting it.

When baby was being born one of the theatre staff said "Oh look. I think it's a girl!"

!!!!!!! *sound of rising panic* How can you just think it's a girl. Isn't it obvious??:eek:

What had happened was we hadn't discovered the sex of the baby at any of the scans. My bump was HUGE (even bigger than with Elephant Baby DS1) so everyone I had spoken to assumed baby 3 would be a boy too. When when DD2 popped into the World in all her girly glory the theatre nurse was a little shocked.

Not nearly as shocked as I was thinking for a little while I had a baby of indeterminate sex!

hex2

My first was a girl even at 36 week scan. Bit shocked when they handed her over and I realised (in the immortal words of nanny in blackadder) that she had a winkle. Not even an especially small one I hasten to add. He must have been shy!
Took me a good few weeks to accept that he wasn't a girl and we hadn't even thought of a boys name.

Dormouse

finc wrote:

Shockingly this is something I found out for myself when I was in with my first! I couldn't believe it was happening (not to me of course, no flippin chance :rotfl:). They weren't even that quiet :eek:

Ooh, I just remembered a story our midwife told us during the antenatal classes about how she walked in on a couple who were at it in the maternity ward :eek:

(This was the same midwife BTW that brought us all a real placenta to see during the classes :eek: )