Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

ooobedoo

The girl who was inthe bed opposite had her pre-pregnancy jeans on about 3 hours after giving birth.....and they were lose........

Or when you have just had the baby a week ago and your evil MIL comes to visit and informs you that when she had DH in hospital people were asking her why she was in there and when she replies that she had just had a baby, and her stomach was flat as a pancake.........or when she tells me that I don't look as fat in a skirt than in jeans.....

loopy_lass

my trauma was when i was outside gettin some fresh air, someone said "whens it due".... er ITS four days old thanks very much... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr how rude!!!

or the nurse who kept saying come on get up get out n see to this baby, and all i could do was say i didnt feel very well & kept fainting... until they realised i needed 3 units of blood.. felt fine after that!

loops

Christmasshopper

ooobedoo wrote:

hehehehehe I can but I won't

I might....later.;)

Sarahsaver

Your husband bathing you in hospital (usefully qualified as a nurse) looking at your stitches (3rd degree tear) and telling you 'well at least you haven't got piles'
THat there is such thing as a pain like you are going to s**t a bowling ball.
That TENs machines feel VERY wierd. I thought I had about 4 pairs of hands rubbing my back late on in labour with dd...AND you can hallucinate.
THat you should eat something early on when you start to get contractions (like a chicken kebab ... mmm...) because you woun't be able to swallow later on.
ALso they took my babe (youngest ds) straight away from me and I didnt see him for an hour, I had had an epidural and no-one told me what the problem was. Luckily hes a cheeky gorgeous 5 year old but I still wonder what happened in that hour. Still I got my revenge. I had an epidural with him so I couldnt feel the bottom half of my body, and farted uncontrollably at the evil midwife who talked about me like I wasnt there.

finc

Sarahsaver wrote:

ALso they took my babe (youngest ds) straight away from me and I didnt see him for an hour, I had had an epidural and no-one told me what the problem was. Luckily hes a cheeky gorgeous 5 year old but I still wonder what happened in that hour. Still I got my revenge. I had an epidural with him so I couldnt feel the bottom half of my body, and farted uncontrollably at the evil midwife who talked about me like I wasnt there.

Sorry but pmsl that's hilarious :rotfl:

Firefly

Thanks to everyone whose posts have made me roar outloud with laughter. I've had tears streaming down my face at these hilarious posts. The reason they are so funny is that anyone who's had a baby can identify with the joy and the pain.

After baby no1 I was so scared to even stand up that I put off doing so until many hours after the birth. I wasn't expecting the vesuvius that poured forth - no pad in the world would have stemmed that tide but I certainly didn't make liver and bacon casserole ever again. Very vivid memories remain of standing on the ward surrounded by a pool of blood. My bossy midwife had told me I could refuse an episiotomy and I did, but still felt like someone had left a ring of barbed wire in place.

SPD is unbelievable painful, as are afterpains.

You can't have pethedine if your baby is breech, so give in gracefully and accept the epidural offered!

Morning sickness isn't what it says on the tin. It can happen morning noon and night for all nine months.

Bleeding after pregnancy can go on for weeks and weeks and weeks. Six in all in my case.

Even if you are normally really polite, you develop the ability to swear like a trooper whilst in labour!

Good luck everyone, it's worth it in the end. You never forget though, although memories fade.

pavlovs_dog

Sarahsaver wrote:

ALso they took my babe (youngest ds) straight away from me and I didnt see him for an hour, I had had an epidural and no-one told me what the problem was. Luckily hes a cheeky gorgeous 5 year old but I still wonder what happened in that hour.

sorry to go OT, but have you thought about requesting to see his medical notes? i assume any birth complications would be documented there?

iwanttosave_2

pavlovs_dog wrote:

sorry to go OT, but have you thought about requesting to see his medical notes? i assume any birth complications would be documented there?

I have tried that with mine and I am still none the wiser as they seem to have not documented it :rolleyes:

he was with no hearbeat or breath sounds and was for just over 4 mins, then had to stay in SCBU for 5 days, never got told what was wrong.


As for the jeans after giving birth? I did that, I lost loads of weight while pregnant, I was actually lighter at 9mths than I was before getting pregnant lol

daisykate124

iwanttosave wrote:

As for the jeans after giving birth? I did that, I lost loads of weight while pregnant, I was actually lighter at 9mths than I was before getting pregnant lol

God wish that happend to me!:rotfl:

Maybe next time!

chardonnay_2

moggins wrote:

LOL, I end up having to go through all my kids names to get to the right one

lol my mum does this! and she mixes up our partners names