Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

kitty123

Blimey, I should never have looked at this thread! I am nearly 30 and my husband doesn't want kids but I thought I might one day. Now I really don't think I do as I cannot take any pain/dicomfort and am paranoid enough about my body as it is and I'm tiny!!
Why does anyone go through it? Let alone when you know what to expect 2nd time? I can't cope with lack of sleep or entertaining children/babies so it sounds like hell!!! Assume I am not destined to be a mother....

laikadog

thought id add my thoughts while im here,
re; eldest son , now 18yrs. 9lb 2, 36 hours of pain. born christmas eve
i loved being pregnant, till he settled himself with his feet right up under my chest so i could hardly breathe.
wished i known then that you can refuse internals as i was getting one at every appointment. arrgh the embaressment !
2 weeks over due so was induced, repeatedly !!! always ask for the nurse with the longest fingers !
spewed up with the pain of having a huge needle rammed in my arm for the drip, always ask for the numbing gel !!
3 times having a 'clip' inserted to attach babys head to a heart moniter, only for them to work out it was the moniter not the clip that was broken.
pethadine, never again, was calling for my cat, and asked bf if he was the king of bloody england !
epesiotomy, owwwwch,
forceps owwch !!
being told to keep still while some git stitches your fan back together!!

re:eldest daughter, 14 in a week, 9lb 6
just had gas and air but still felt the pain tho !!
was so tired, kept shouting 'get this f*****g out of me !!
had her on my hands and knees so bf had a great view of the epesiotomy and the crunch noise !
the minute she was born i felt completly wideawake and all pain forgotten, till the stitches , ha ha
the best bit was having a shower afterwards, bliss !

re:daughter, 10yrs, 7lb 4
was told she would be at least 11lb so refused to give birth, told doctor i would kill myself first, and i really felt like i would , i was so scared !!!
had a cs and she was breech.
what a shock to see the staples holding me together !! mingin !!!
was determind to get moving after cs so up and about really quickly, felt great. till they said daughter had a hole in her heart, so was panicking that she was going to die. hole closed within 6 mths so all was well.

re son , 6yrs, 7lb
was told he would be huge too, so given another cs, but couldnt get spine block in, took ages thankfully aneathetist was a lovely bloke and i managed a laugh or two between sobs !
panicked a bit when my chest went numb and i couldnt breathe for a minute but quick injection sorted that !
they played my cd too so my son was born to 'the bad touch' by the bloodhound gang which caused much giggling amongst the staff.
never forget the scraping feeling in my insides when they are getting baby out.
was a very jolly time really , even in recovery, cos my best mate was on duty so all we did was laugh and joke.(and try not to notice the bloke in the bed opposite who was lifting his legs and showing his nuts as he came round from surgery)
and fianally, i know im waffling on a bit,
i was amazed by my wound, it was just a pink line, how the hell was it held together !!

but after all that , i'd still have another,

ooobedoo

I thought I would bump this up.................

Lurleene

I've just seen this post for the first time and have been nodding and wincing in recognition at the first few pages, oh and lmao as well! Here is my little contribution.
1) Whilst you are lying there in shock having run a 28 hour marathon every body immediately congratulates the proud dad!
2) Having just delivered you are quite likely to go into shock and be trembling so hard that you can barely hold the beautiful precious baby you have spent the last nine (ten!) months desperate to meet.
3) You will probably puke too.
4) You will go to pat your now empty stomach and find that your hand sinks to a depth of two foot into a strange dough like substance that can only be your new abdomen.
5) After wandering around with a bump the size of jumbo jet, you may feel so thin that you are happy to parade around in leggings and little T-shirts. You are not thin - you are just ever so slightly lighter and you will feel sooooo embarrassed when looking back at photos of your extra three stone lycra clad body that you will evermore be too afraid to show people your precious baby photos. I learnt second time round:)
6) You will not sleep for about two months before having the baby so before the night feedings you are on a sleep deficit already. Five years later you will still wake to find your child crawling commando style across the carpet ready to make an early hours assault on your bed.
7) If you have a particularly traumatic labour your mother will feel compelled to share it with every woman she comes into contact with (in the spirit of sisterhood apparently) so that relative strangers will happily ask you how your bum***e is holding up when you are in Spar.
8) Even 20 months on from the last one I still have trouble finding the right words I want to use. Hard ones like pen or ... oh god I can't even think of an example. I very rarely complete a sentence nowadays, relying on hand gestures,or the fact people aren't paying attention to me anyway, to get me through.
9) That you generally don't make the most fantastic likeminded friends at playgroups, but rather just hang out with your little one watching everyone else apparently all one big happy clique - doing everything far far better than you:eek: You could never invite anyone home for coffee anyway, your house is far too messy.

There are many more things that spring to mind,but I must point out that the early days with my little ones were the most wonderful, wonderful times of my life and I look back on everything fondly, no matter how s****y it seemed at the time!

kal25

I love this thread, it makes me laugh(not at but with you):rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
Everything that has been said is so true, some may not believe until they have gone through it.
Here are my experiences
1st DS 7yrs 6lb 12oz
You don't always know if your waters have gone, I didn't as I was on the toilet on & off for the first 4hrs of labour.
It is possible to be sick while in labour believe me I know.
I always thought no matter how much I put on I would lose it,when the baby came,yeah right.
Midwife told me it couldn't hurt that much when I first went into the labour ward,after examining me told me I was 9cm dialated.
While in hospital even the slightest whimper and I was up to check it wasn't my baby crying.

2nd DS 4yrs 3lbs 14oz
Would have been quite happy to stay where he was despite being underweight.
Can never understand how celebs go for CS by CHOICE?? :eek: Can only imagine they have epidurals.
That you will lose the use of your legs and fall flat on your face, if not careful.
Your body never feels your own, after having a CS.

3rd DD 13mnths 6lb 13oz
No one told me for a quicker birth it would hurt more second time around.
Laughed at midwife when she told me I might feel a slight scratch as she was giving me pethedine/putting in a drip.How on earth she thought a scratch could match the contractions,I'm not sure. Feeling embaressed when I thought I was going to go toilet on the bed, in actual fact it was DD crowning.

That no matter how long & painful their births are they were worth every minute. That you will laugh at the midwife at the antenatal classes telling you giving birth will feel like having a p** but really it is:eek: .

dianadors

Front bottom piles at 7 months preggers were my big suprise! Looked like the offal tray in Dewhurst butchers window!!! Caused by pressure and me decorating the nursery.

dianadors

Also - back bottom piles so horrendous after delivery that they said they would send a surgeon to look at them. Bared my backside to a painter and decorator who was gowned up in surgeons attire -complete with wellies- who was only there to get an estimate for painting the ward! Incidently the "pile chair" (chair with hole in it) features on all my hospital pictures - lest I forget!

heather38

my baby is nearly 4 months old and i still can't go to the toilet properly!! oh the joy. why oh why did no-one tell me?

mishmash

No body told me I would never be able to do star jumps again without wetting myself, My youngest is 2 and oldest is 14.

gelato_cat

FRONT?!!! :eek:

Please tell me they went away eventually!

Suze

dianadors wrote:

Front bottom piles at 7 months preggers were my big suprise! Looked like the offal tray in Dewhurst butchers window!!! Caused by pressure and me decorating the nursery.