What are some things you found out during pregnancy that nobody tells you about?
Before you ever get pregnant, people make it sound like it's all sugar and flowers. They dont tell you about weird stuff like itchy nipples, weird discharge, vivid dreams and all the weird things that go on with your body. When you're sick in the first trimester, they lie and say you'll feel better at 12 weeks.
And i was horrified when I realised you have to also push out a placenta after all the hard work of labour haha 
And I found out your hair thins a few months after the birth?!
I know so many mothers, I'm fab with babies and kids, but clueless about the truth of pregnancy.
So second, third, fourth time mothers, enlighten us first timers. I want to know the truth about what to expect, not just "oh it's so wonderful when you finally hold your baby" or about the so called pregnancy glow.
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Everybody lies about pregnancy!
macdat · 16/10/2015 19:34
When you're finally left alone with your beautiful baby and he's silently asleep in the little goldfish bowl crib thing do not ignore the midwife when she says get some rest and then sit and stare and wonder at the marvel of life you have just brought into the world for hours. Just as you decide to get some sleep the little marvel will have then had enough sleep and wake up and want to feed for the next four hours
Funny one I found that no one told me...after ds was born still had really bad pains I said to the midwife "when is the afterbirth going to come?" She laughed and said its been and gone about ten mins ago...."why do I still feel like I'm in labour then?"....oh they are after pains they get worse and last longer with each child. 
anyone waiting baby number two though....I survived nothing to be scared of. Which reminds me a friend said to me did you have your waters broken?...yeah...was it horrendous? I've got a mate who said it was absolute agony blah blah....no honestly I didn't even feel it....I was in too much pain with the contractions to notice! Any ladies pregnant for the first time our bodies are designed for childbirth it's not the most pleasant experience but you will feel amazing at the end of it. I read a book called the good birth companion I found it really helped calm nerves...but only if your a booky want to know every detail about everything type.
That your fingers get fat! I did not know this until I couldn't get my rings off during my first pregnancy, now I wear them on a chain.
The indigestion and the heart burn after you eat anything.
How undignified it is being check by the midwife during labour and afterwards.
Other than that it's pretty awesome 
Discharge, bloody loads of it sometimes
Heartburn and acid, especially in the middle of yoga.
Restless legs keeping you awake at night.
INSOMNIA 
Piles.
A really hairy tummy.
Swollen feet.
Great hair until 30 weeks then blurgh, lank and thin.
Baby kicks and twists can be bloody uncomfortable, on the verge of painful at times!
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That I would suddenly have far more saliva than I needed 
That my ankles would swell up so much I was scared they would burst!
That I would feel 'normal' for a fraction of a second upon waking up every morning, and then feel like shit again for seven and a half months! (the first month was even worse)
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