Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

Ishtar

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?

Towards the end of the first stage of labour I felt like I could take on the world - the energy/power (call it what you will) was amazing - I also realised what I could achieve, and I think its made me much stronger.

I guess you see yourself in your true colours, just before you go into the transition phase...

Oh yes, and becoming a mother has meant I take no bull from anyone anymore.

D.

Dormouse

Kelinik wrote: »

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!

Oh yes, good point! :T I'm shallow as well and am really enjoying being 3 cup sizes bigger than usual at the moment :j

Curious_George_2

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?

well there is some obvious stuff... the scans are amazing, hearing the heartbeat, feeling the kicks, watching your baby do somersaults when your in the bath, just generally feeling special (everyone loves a preggo!)
but they are all expected....
so my favourite has gotta be the 'normous 'nockers! and the fact that after my first pregnancy they "settled down" but never went back to as small as they were before and left me with a great C cup!
gawd knows how big they are going to get this time... but if they dont stop growing soon im going to give dolly parton a run for her money! :rotfl:

and the other unexpected present was the filthy FILTHY sex dreams and when they were really good, that i would actually orgasm in my sleep...
fanbloodytastic!

you have to love the visitors.... booby fairy and horny fairy

carolpinkdreamer

I loved how thick and glossy my hair was during pregnancy...best it's ever been....and then it came out in handfuls after the birth. Boo hoo!

Worst, worst, worst thing of all was asking night nurse for something to ease my agonising piles. She pulled screen round my bed, handed me a suppository and told ME to insert it.

I spent about 15 minutes trying to force this bullet into what felt like an agonising HANDFUL of wriggling worms.:eek: I had to call her back because I couldn't find the hole to put it in!!!

She took one look at the 'crash site' and fetched me a tube of cream and painkillers instead!

:rotfl:

Ellie2758

one of the worst things that happened to me was having to have a D&C after each of my kids were born. This meant going back into hospital and after the General Anaesthetic not being able to breastfeed until I had expressed the milk that had been affected by the GA. Being told that they would get me an expressing machine, then having to wait ages for it - with boobs filled to bursting point, and then being told that they couldnt get me one after all. Cue massive wobbly and arrival of expressing machine.

But the really, really worst thing was when the cord snapped after baby no. 2 was born and all of a sudden it was like being in Casualty. Mass panic, midwife trawling around inside me pulling out bits of placenta. Me, high as a kite on gas and air, seeming to fall down some dark tunnel and hear voices tellling me i was about to die. Saying goodbye to OH cos I thought I WAS going to die. Then being told I could either have an epidural or a GA to get the remains of the placenta out. Choosing an epidural (no way did I want to be unconscious after the black tunnel experience). The anaesthetist saying "oh dear, she's not very happy today, is she" in a sarcastic voice. and STILL having to go back a fortnight later for a D&C (by which time child no. 1 had chickenpox and OH had just wrenched the bathroom tap off the sink - which is another story!! tried to tell the midwife that i couldnt go to hospital till we'd got hold of an emergency plumber!)

oh, happy days. and now they are all growed up.

Eels100

OK, 14 weeks until D-Day and I've changed my mind for sure this time, can I exchange my bump for a voucher?!

Aaaaah, every time it wriggles I'm reminded of the fun and joy that awaits me though ... and the blood and snot and vomit and gore and piles and mastitis and no sleep .... still, can't wait - must be mad!

MJMum

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dagrowler

MJMum wrote: »

When you are already a D cup, the visit from the "tit fairy" is really unwelcome! If I had any more kids, I think I'd be tucking them in my knickers! :eek:

LMAO - i think i might start calling OH the tit fairy

wayne

from a blokes point of view.standing in the delivery room watching the woman you love screaming and not knowing what to do to help.telling the midwife no thanks when she asks if you want to 'come see the head'?not knowing what to say when the nurse says 'congrtulations you,ve got a healthy baby girl.waking up at all times of the night to feed and change the bed slug that,s now changed into a eating and sh---ing machine.waiting for your wife to finish blobbing and evey time you chance a cuddle the bloody baby starts with the wah wah.trying to watch the football while the by now rug rat wants to be on your knee more than her mums.still trying to watch the football while the damn kid trys to eat your face or worse throws up on your fav shirt.but the worst thing,the absolute worst thing is coming in from work,seeing the kid waddling towards you,snot hanging down its face,shouting daddy,daddy and you just know that for the rest of your life that little bundle of sunshine and love has got you wrapped around her little finger....that would be my amy.19 years old now..............

rjh090384

not preggers yet but dreading it now!! i am already an f cup and find it hard enuff to find bras cause of my small cback size grrr