Pregnancy's Best Kept Secrets

lilmissmup

I wanted to try and get pregnant next year or early 2010, i am terrified now after reading this thread! :eek:

MoneySavingStudent_2

Oh Yes forgot to add,
Twins run in my family and tend to skip a couple of generations... Guess where i fall! Thats right my odds are something rediculously high, that im going to have twins... :eek:
Either that or my sister might have the gene and i might have got away with just 1 at a time! lol

keelykat

I first read this thread a while ago, but it didnt put me off oddly enough as im now almost 6 months pregnant! lol.

Loved reading all th stories, even though many made me worry lol!

keely.

Emmy_L

I hated being pregnant in all honesty,I was huge as a whale in Preg #1 and ended up with emergency section, #2 I got SPD (not even VAGUELY funny),wanted to try natural but they laughed at me, and they put a bloomin drain in me (ouch ouch ouch ouch at that removal) after that section,had chronic sciatica with number three,fought tooth and nail for a natural (ended up opting outta consultant care...she was very intrigued by that one!LOL),had her two days after her due date, 4 hour labour,no pain relief until she was popping out. I got second degree tears (ouch ouch ouch ouch ouch)
and was throughly shocked by it all.
So lets see,DD#1 is 8 years, DD#2 is 16 months and DD#3 is 3 months...and I'm sooooooo broody it's ridiculous!

gravitytolls

Congrats Keely.

I'm just recovering from a bout of booby thrush. My God, the pain! It is indescribable, and despite visiting the GP about the one weeping bosom, finishing the course of antibiotics, it was 3-4 weeks before I found a website that enabled me to self diagnose. It's taken 2 further weeks of applying Nystan to feel that I am finally on the mend.

Moral, don't suffer in silence. Cracked nipples hurt, they may bleed, but the pain is in latching on, once babe is comfortable, it eases, and there is no pain when not feeding, it improves after a couple of weeks. Thrush !!!!!!!' hurts beyond anything, I'd rather give birth again. It also hurts, like shooting pains from nipple through the breast, during feeding, and after feeding, nipples are permanently hard, bright red, and hurting, not sore, between feeds. It hurts to cuddle baby against the chest.

Mercifully, this isn't so common.

Incidentally, everyone says sore cracked nipples are caused by babe not latching on correctly. Although this may the cae sometimes, it is also an excuse. Nipples are used to be treated with care, gently, in comparison, by even th emost callused hands. Go from this to a hungry, hard sucking greedy baby, and it stands to reason they're going to be sore. Imagine picking up a set of shears for the first time in spring. After several hours, your hands have developed calluses, and are sore. Same difference.

Good luck, don't let my booby tales of woe put you off. My babe is 15 mths, I developed thrush because I had a small graze from a new tooth, I ran the race for life, the nylon sport bra irritated the nipple, causing bleeding, and the rest is history.

BF is wonderfully rewarding, and it's easy and convenient once you get past the first couple of weeks. If you can't stick it, bottle feeding is equally rewarding.

JoolzS

I have to say that this thread makes me very, very happy that I am childfree by choice.

Hell_Dans_Un_Handcart

That the co-codamol they send you home with will constipate you terribly. Hello Senekot, bye bye dignity [sob]

That gas and air will send you beyond cukoo land, to the place where chickens go to die. It does not, however, take away the pain.

That despite wanting a drug free water birth, two hours in, you will be screaming for a c-section.

That delivering the placenta is like giving birth all over again.

That the nice man at the end of the bed is about to say "I'm just going to check you for anal tears" and will shove two unlubed fingers where no fingers should go.

That your husband will tell you that you didn't poo during labour, only to throw it in your face in an argument, two years later.

On the plus side...my ladybits didn't hurt that much at all afterwards and sex is the same as before for both of us. You can't have it all...:rolleyes:

candygirl

Omg i'm wetting myself laughin at this thread, and am so glad I can't have any more kids:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Must make sure my preg DD doesn't see it though:eek: :eek:

foreversomeday

Ooh I think I've been lucky so far... 7 months and not had most of the horror symptoms!

However one thing they didn't tell me... feeling the baby move is lovely but sometimes it hurts! Especially when he decides in the middle of a Braxton Hicks contraction that he doesn't like being squeezed and pushes his arms and legs out in all directions.

keelykat

Well this obviously didnt put me off..im due in just over 5 weeks lol.

Glad to see someones brought the thread back to life!

keely.