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Just when you thought it could get any more FUCKING MENTAL....

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MercyMyJewels · 16/03/2017 21:03

We are asked, do you ever get weirdly conscious of your labia?

medium.com/athena-talks/do-you-ever-get-weirdly-conscious-of-your-labia-893f8b680aeb#.mfywyybir

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Datun · 16/03/2017 21:29

It's an ugh from me too.

ChocChocPorridge · 16/03/2017 21:28

I tell you what, I thought I was pretty prepared, I'd been on mumsnet 3 years at the time since my first son - but I'd never heard of, or been warned that my bits might turn into something resembling.. I dunno - one of those kids squeezy toys where there's there's the rubber ball in a net that you squeeze and the ball pops out the net holes..

TBH, given the look on the midwife's face at DS2's 1 week checkup, I'm not sure she'd seen anything quite like it before either!

PastysPrincess · 16/03/2017 21:26
Confused
QuentinSummers · 16/03/2017 21:23

Ugh ugh ugh. Seems like a rather ill disguised attempt to get off on talking about cunts. She starts talking about her sex life in the comments. Ugh.
Personally I don't find my females bits any more or less intrusive than the rest of me in day to day life. Weird concept.

Underbeneathsies · 16/03/2017 21:18

You have just reminded me choc of just after giving birth my left labia were huge and the other side not so huge. I was seriously worried I'd have to roll the left side up like a cigar to fit in the maternity pants.

Luckily I had just had a baby so since then I have not had time to think about my lovely labia. I presume they're still there and have shrunk back to their normal size.

Thelilywhite · 16/03/2017 21:17

chocchoc😄

ChocChocPorridge · 16/03/2017 21:14

well, I was sitting watching The Grand Tour just now, and had to adjust my jeans because they were pulling on my pubic hair..

and there was that time after I'd just had my second son, and my labia swelled up and got all lumpy (it was, thank god, temporary).... but otherwise, TBH, no, I can't say that I've ever been all that conscious of my labia. No more so than my middle toes or any other part of my anatomy.

As to boobs, well, not particularly either - although, again, once I leant forward to get a ban marie (however that is spelled) out of the oven, and managed to dip them in the hot water (moved pretty darn quick to resolve that situation and shed my t-shirt, I can tell you) - otherwise, again, not so much...

Mind you, I may not be typical - when pregnant I had a hell of a time remembering I had that too, I bumped my bump on door handles, tables, small children, and once I swept every item of cutlery of the side of someone else's table in a restaurant.

MercyMyJewels · 16/03/2017 21:07

*'nt, obv

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