Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

pickle

Myth: Birth is a private affair...I ended up with 13 people in the operating theatre with me.

Don't worry about cracked nipples - the baby will just suck the scabs off also (sorry if TMI).

But it's worth every minute of it.

pickle

ooobedoo wrote:

I think I was having a bit of a moan to a midwife and was told I should of thought of this before I 'did something' with my legs.....I was livid.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Some of them are real charmers, eh?!

Janepig

ooobedoo wrote:

They also don't tell you about when the baby kicks your bladder and you nearly wet yourself!!!

Both DS and DD spent almost the whole 9 months with their feet in my bladder - if I drank much more than a thimblefull of liquid I was dashing to the toilet within minutes!!!

Jxx

ooobedoo

I have been sat at my desk and the baby has kicked so hard it really hurt.

I think my daughter is actually tap dancing on my bladder most of the time!!!

EssexGirl

Oh just thought of another couple:

No-one told me that I would eat so many chips during my cravings that my child would turn out to be a complete chip hater!

That the most gorgeous man I had ever laid eyes on would be doing an internal on me.

That having been through labour and an emergency c-section, you will never be embarrassed about having your bikini line waxed again.

loopy_lass

when the staff in hospital cant remember your name untill they look under your nightie!!!!!!!!!!!! Stands at end of bed saying "ahhh mrs ??? er Mrs ?????" looks under nightie at you know what and says "ahhh mrs loopy lass" ...

GAWD!!!!!

loops

across

ooobedoo wrote:

They also don't tell you about when the baby kicks your bladder and you nearly wet yourself!!!

i went for a big family meal for my mum and sisters birthday during my first pregnancy and whilst at the table we all laughed a lot and then suddenly i wet myself!!!!!!!!!!!!! i had never had this problem before/since pregnancy i had a navy dress on and it had a patch at the back and i quickly got myself to the toilet full of shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!it just leaked out i had no control over it!:eek:
never happened in the next pregnancy i just had no control at the birth and had it in the bedroom instead!:eek:

Snaggles

Hello! Bit of a latecomer to this thread (I'm always late for everything). Actually came looking for a thread about morning sickness (8 weeks pregnant, unable to move without feeling sick ), but started reading this thread and just couldn't stop. It's cheered me up no end. This will be my second baby (have a son, who is 6 years old) and the memories of the birth had faded with time. But now it has all come back to me lol!!

Another thing they don't tell you (maybe it only happened to me as no-one else has mentioned it) is that your blood pressure can shoot up after the birth - cue some very bizarre visual hallucinations - I was in the loo trying to have my first wee, looked in the mirror and thought 'Oh how strange, I've only got one eye'. The most bizarre thing was that even though I was suprised by this, it didn't really seem to be anything to be overly concerned about. Then about ten minutes later, I was talking to one of the nurses and noticed that her face was black and white (little squares of each, sort of like a chess board). I asked her if it took long to put the black and white make-up on every morning......at that point she looked a bit worried and took my blood pressure, which was sky high!

The treatment for the blood pressure was weird too - I felt like I had little creatures running all over my scalp. When I shouted the nurse in a panic, she said, 'Oh yes, that's a normal side-effect of the blood pressure tablets'. Oh, thanks for telling me!

I agree with how useless OHs can be in the delivery room too - some of the posts about that made me laugh out loud. Mine yawned all the way through my nine hour labour and then once I gave birth, he said 'I'm so tired, I'm off home for a sleep'........grrrrrrrrr........he's never been allowed to forget that!!

Well, I've scared myself silly reading this thread but it has given me such a laugh that I have nearly forgotten how sick I feel for the last hour and a half. Thanks xxx

loopy_lass

that reminds me, just after having DD i was refusing to get out of bed as there were racing cars in the ward & i was sure i would fall out of the open window. Then i called the nurse in via the red emergency button & asker her why she had chopped my babies head off and how was i supposed to feed her like that...

Now that was strange.... what was that all about????

loops

Becles

Snaggles wrote:

Actually came looking for a thread about morning sickness (8 weeks pregnant, unable to move without feeling sick ),

I'm nibbling digestive biscuits to help keep the nausea away. You can get 400g packs for 25p in Lidl, so I've got them all over the house and in the car