Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

Ishtar

mrcow wrote: »

I've never admitted to anyone (apart from my OH) about my flashbacks from the birth of my eldest daughter as I thought people would have thought me crazy. It took a few months to realise what was actually going on in my head as I'd never experienced anything like it before.

I have to say I didn't feel I had too traumatic a time - although I did deliver on my back in stirrups, which was something I really didn't want to do (and which I strongly resisted). Funny thing is, I didn't have any flashbacks at all until I went to the gym when DD was over a year old...they put me on this bench to do sit ups, which required me to put my legs up in the same position (albeit closed!).

It really shook me, and took quite a while to get over. Once the flashbacks started, they had to run their course and yes, they do pop up at inopportune times.

I felt it was something you couldn't bring up with the doctor...however, Sheila Kitzinger discusses it in her book 'The Year After Childbirth'. It makes very reassuring reading.

D.

fishingcinema

that your contractions can suddenly stop when the babys head comes out

with both my girls as soon as there head came out my contractions completely stopped i had the midwife saying one more push i told her theres nothing there she felt my stomache and agreed then had to pull them out:rotfl: and it was not as if i was in laubour forever my first was 4hours and second was 3 and a half hours

as i read in another post not all babys take to breastfeeding like ducks to water tried with both mine and owwwwwwww

i never forget with my first the midwife came out about 3 days after i had been breastfeeding and asked how it was going i explained not well as she had managed to give me a lovebite on my nipple:eek: to wich the midwife said come on lets try and put her staight back on to the sore one:eek:

so two weeks later and lots of ice before feeding i gave up lol

happymoneysaver79

been pmsl at some of these stories! Just thinking back to my own experiences and I can remember the midwife comming round to check on my stitches, I was so full of wind and desperatly trying to keep it in (I was on a full ward), she asked me to turn on my side and open my legs. She leant in for a good look and as she did I let out the biggest most smelly fart - right in her face. I've never seen anyone move so fast - I also got discharged that day, what a coincidence!!!

fishingcinema

happymoneysaver79 wrote: »

been pmsl at some of these stories! Just thinking back to my own experiences and I can remember the midwife comming round to check on my stitches, I was so full of wind and desperatly trying to keep it in (I was on a full ward), she asked me to turn on my side and open my legs. She leant in for a good look and as she did I let out the biggest most smelly fart - right in her face. I've never seen anyone move so fast - I also got discharged that day, what a coincidence!!!

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lol thats hilarious:T

Spirit_2

This thread is hilarious, and has brought my 19 year old memories flooding back as the underworld of maternity has been revealed

• Not being at all radiant as a Mother-to-be but becoming greasy, spotty and swollen.
• Being horrified at pushing out a 'poo' as Mr Spirit looked on (aaaarghh)
• Planning to have 'natural childbirth' but pre-eclampsia putting paid to that and having epidural, pethidine and gas and air.
• Expecting to breast feed for at least 6 months. Failing to produce milk, being hooked to a milking machine behind my ward curtains. It clanked and made mechanical slurping noises.
• My F-I-L admiring the bonny baby in the fishtank next to my forceps squashed head daughter.
• Almost gassing my visitors as I leaked the foulest of wind. All were too polite to mention it, until 7 year old nephew visited when he announced it to the whole post natal ward.
• The midwife poking suppositories into my derriere and saying loudly "oooh I can feel it. Its all like rocks".My colleagues were waiting outside of the curtain
• The family planning nurse visiting my bedside and giving me 3 packs of condoms and me thinking thats not very many. 6 weeks later as all 3 packets remained intact thinking how optimistic the nurse was and I would never have sex again.

tallyhoh

Trying to get an hours sleep before I had to be up at 5am to take child to childminder before working a full day when child was only 6 wks old, I had my OH (also known as t**t in this instance) poking and prodding at me & telling me that the book says sex is ok after 6 wks.

I still want to kill him after 16 years.

jackieb

fishingcinema wrote: »

that your contractions can suddenly stop when the babys head comes out

with both my girls as soon as there head came out my contractions completely stopped

As soon as my son's head was out he started wailing. I was still in pain but it was very funny. Just a crying head sticking out of my hoohaa. It was like something out of Alien. He seemed to be there for ages.

tsstss7

Hi

heres the things i wasn't aware of at 25 dispite being an avid reader of pregnancy books....

1. When you v'e had the baby you look down at your tummy the next day and can bearly tell the difference ( I expected to be back in my pre pregnancy clothes in a couple of days how naive was I!!)

2. Your previously 'couldn't help you enough' partner will come home from work and say "what have you been doing all day" every day until you want to kill him!

3. Lots of men won't share your enthusiasm about the cute little bundle you've just miraculously made together and don't have any interaction with their child (except in public when they suddenly turn into a model father) until they can talk back to them - you don't know what sort yours is until it happens!! (good luck there!!)

4. All those little pregnancy niggles they say will go soon away after you've had the baby don't (piles, carpel tunnel sydrome, 3 stone of fat).

5. The pre-preganancy lack of sleep is nothing compared to the sheer hell of 24 7 responsibility for a living and breathing human being.

6. You will be so tired in the early days that you will often not speak to another live adult (other than your partner) for up to a week and not care/notice.

7. A man with a baby attracts attention from (often) young and pretty girls/women - a woman with a baby is invisible (especially to bus drivers) except to other women and the elderly.

8. You do not need 90% of the rubbish you are expected to buy for your baby/child - the problem is you dont know which of the million and one things you are supposed to have you don't need until you are giving it away to another mug who will then store it in their living room/nursery and then attic until they can persuade someone else to take it off their hands.

9. No-one uses the expensive pram/pushchair travel system for longer than they have to (too big and heavy , wont fit in the boot with anything else) and travel systems are too heavy with the baby in esp. if you v'e had a ceasarian (and now we are told they shouldn't be in a car set for longer than 20 mins anyway!)

10. Your life will change beyond recognition while your partners will be the same as it ever was. (his loss)

chocaholic110

jackieb wrote: »

As soon as my son's head was out he started wailing. I was still in pain but it was very funny. Just a crying head sticking out of my hoohaa. It was like something out of Alien. He seemed to be there for ages.

I have read this three times now and each time collapsed into fits of giggles. thank you for cheering up my day!

Kaz2904

This thread has taken me hours to read!
I never expected it to hurt at the front in your most intimate area but I thought it was going to explode.
That even if you don't tend to see the midwives while you are working in the same hospital it doesn't mean that you are not going to meet the man from memo (who you know very well) when you are walking down the corridor in just a tshirt and pants. He is then up a ladder outside the delivery room while you are screaming your head off!
Why is it that they want you to keep still and keep trying to get you on the bed? I couldn't bear to sit or lie, I needed to be upright and had DD standing up and DS kneeling.

Why is it that DH still feels the need 4 years on to tell people that I did a poo while I was having DS? They don't need to know that.

That your MIL will be doing your washing while you are in hospital and you don't want her anywhere near you knickers, nighty, and dressing gown as they are soaked with blood.

That when people come round it will always be your fault if the house is a mess not DH as he has to go go out to work all day and sleep all night while you just have to be at home with baby who sleeps for 10 minutes between 1 hour long feeds. And when they do sleep for longer than 1 hour some git comes round and knocks on your door wanting to see the baby. NO, SOD OFF!