Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

tigtag02

LilMissEmmylou wrote: »

lol well im glad my pain and suffering amused u haha

It was my suffering I was laughing at but am quite prepared to laugh at anyone else too

Curious_George_2

Katmc2k wrote: »

Oh Dear God, I am absolutely and utterly terrified! I am only 22 so not planning baby for another 6/7 years but not so sure now? I wanted four kids! I've named them and everything...

I don't think I can do it!

please dont let us scare you off!
seriously... if it was really that bad then i wouldnt be having a second one in 6 months (im a complete wuss!) infact NOBODY would have more than one....

its just when you give birth you get membership to an all girls club where you get together afterwards and compare battle wounds (and try and out do each other with the horror stories!)

:T

rchddap1

Birth wasn't exactly fun for me. In fact I told my partner there and then that I'd changed my mind and didn't want it...bit too late though. I also started to appologise for everything.

However, here I am 5 and a bit months later and I wouldn't change a thing. To see her little smile when I come close, or to see her giggle when being tickled is worth all the tea in China and then some.

She is my little princess and I'd do it all again for her.

dagrowler

I'm knackered from reading that!

I'm super super broody at the moment and though i'd read through this to discorage myself... Hasn't worked! now i can't wait for piles and cabbage boobs and liver in my pants (god i sound like a perv!)... and i suppose a perfect little person too!

Thanks all for sharing your experiences in great detail. Keep em coming
x

ktb

I am absolutely with you there dagrowler... sooooo broody and thought this thread might put me off ... but no such luck!

Loving the stories/info ladies & very much looking forward to being able to contribute myself

Curious_George_2

dagrowler wrote: »

i can't wait for piles

I know a lot of people have mentioned piles, but i didnt get them (fingers crossed i dont this time either..)
and if i did poo during labour, im one of those women who had a lovely midwife who cleared it up without saying anything!!
but im pretty sure i didnt do one

Dormouse

dagrowler wrote: »

now i can't wait for piles and cabbage boobs and liver in my pants (god i sound like a perv!)...

PSML :rotfl: You've just made me spew my cereal all over the laptop (yes, I'm pregnant, hence weird snacks at weird times of day :rolleyes:).

Slightly changing the subject, does anyone have any positive unexpected sides to pregnancy/childbirth? Obviously the little bundle of joy is pretty positive, but any unexpected benefits/good sides?

I'll start. (And yes, I know I was very lucky in some ways and everyone is different.) I expected it to take months for DH and I to, ahem, resume our relations but in actual fact it only took just over two weeks (I had no tears etc, obviously). That was a very positive surprise and quite frankly, one of the nice things that kept me going through the otherwise zombiefied existence of the first few months with a newborn.

Sorry for TMI

Also, I do remember hearing stories about couples who got it on in the postnatal wards literally hours after the birth :eek:

tra_2

After 48 hours of labour, I grabbed my husband by the throat and in my best Damien voice said "make them do something" I don't know who was more shocked, husband or the midwife.

I am due again on 2nd October and apparenlty he's not coming this time!

Paula_anne

Ha Ha, i was the other way round with my 2nd birth, yeah i was in pain but coping ok with gas and air and it was him saying 'have the drugs' this time i'm gonna go without drugs, should have seen his face when i said i wanted a home birth, conversation lasted all of 10 seconds and were having it at the local birth centre. can't wait to get fat again.

Kelinik

Dormouse wrote: »

Slightly changing the subject, does anyone have any positive unexpected sides to pregnancy/childbirth? Obviously the little bundle of joy is pretty positive, but any unexpected benefits/good sides?

One word BOOBS!!! I've always had a pitifully small chest and LOVED being able to fill out tops properly with my 'borrowed' chest (thats what hubby called it lol!). Of course they were only temporary but however shallow it might make me it made me very happy!