Do you miss being pregnant

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I have two kids and they are 2 and 5.

I absolutely love remembering my pregnancies with both of them. My favourite memories are getting the positive test. The scans. Finding out the gender and going to Mothercare to shop.

I actually had the same midwives through both pregnancies but different ones in labour. I really miss the chats. It's funny looking back. I remember being 8 weeks pregnant with my first baby and going to the maternity unit to fill out the forms. It felt so strange to be there because I hadn't had any scans at that point. That's where I met my lovely midwife. She saw me at my first appointment and she was the last midwife I saw after my second baby was born. I actually see her in Asda sometimes.

Aghhh I miss those days.

Nope. Not one bit!

Nope sometimes I think I do then I remember the reality of it

Fuck no! The nausea, anxiety, heartburn, worry, pelvic pain etc etc. Awful bloody time, loathed it.

I do op!! Mine are 5 and 7 months, so not that long ago but I feel a little 'aww I wish that was me' every time I see a bump 🙈 yes the heartburn, pelvic pain, back ache, been huge and not been able to move much at the end etc were all crap but feeling baby move in my tummy was just my favourite !!
I'm currently trying to get dp to agree to baby number 3 in a few years !!!

I’m pregnant with my second. I missed being pregnant when I had my first and I think I’ll feel the same with this one.
But also, I think I’ll be relieved. I enjoy pregnancy except the worry.
I’ll be glad when I’ve got this one to a year. I’m not keen on the newborn bit.

Aww yeah I definitely have rode tinted glasses on about the first trimester sickness and exhaustion. But I loved the rest.

I think you feel abit special when you are pregnant and it's like more people care. But it soon fades once the babies here.

I would just love to do some of it again but I don't think I ever will because I'm knackered and stressed lol.

The appointments were quite nice... but not the last month of looking after a small boy who wanted me to run and jump and play cars on the carpet all day, while all the time I just wanted to lie in bed! And it’s so nice being able to eat what I like again now.

I had three miscarriages before my successful pregnancy, so while I loved it the whole thing was tinged with terror tbf.

I’d love to do it again and know that I would definitely have a healthy baby at the end of it.

It definitely has some harder points. Its awful if you've had a loss or losses too. I'm so sorry!

It's definitely hard work when you have other children. I guess I'm just feeling nostalgic about all of it.

Noooo! Terrible sickness, heartburn, backache...I am not good at pregnancy. I do not glow. I sweat heavily and spend a lot of time vomiting. Great you had such good antenatal care though! I never saw the same midwife twice with my 3yo. It was slightly better with my 9mo - I saw a couple of midwives more than once. I DO miss the excitement of it though. And I love the newborn stage!

I do but in a nice nostalgic way knowing I'll almost certainly not have to go through the sickness and heartburn (and labour!) again. I did love it but think I had fairly easy pregnancies compared to lots of people I know.

I'm pregnant with my first at the moment and absolutely loving it! Don't want this experience to end. Lying on the sofa and feeling his kicks and wiggles is magical. I have been v.lucky and not had any nausea/aches/trouble sleeping etc which has definitely helped.

Only in the sense that pregnancy was the pre-episiotomy-scar stage.

I miss both my pregnancies

I felt good and loved my growing bump

It was such an exciting time and despite the anxiety I still loved every moment (even with being or when the and giving birth during lockdown)

We’ve decided we won’t have any more so I think I miss it more

No! Loathed being pregnant!

Not at all. I had two pretty easy pregnancies, despite being type 1 diabetic and having a bout of bells palsey with my first, but I do remember wondering where the hell the glow I was promised was?

My SIL is 38 weeks pregnant today, she’s really struggled and watching her go through it all has confirmed the decision DH and I have reached that 2 kids is enough! While I like the newborn stage the further away I get from it the less appealing pregnancy & the newborn stage is.

I loved both my pregnancies (barring the nausea stage), but was lucky in that I was otherwise fit and well and carried small.
After the births, I felt really empty inside - it was so strange not feeling the kicks and movement.

Oh haha hahahaha

I’m 35 weeks with my third.

I know how lucky I am (I’ve also had a few MC along the way) but I hate everything about being pregnant.

My last two pregnancies, I’ve planned to get pregnant when I can basically write off 9 months of a year. I’m so, so ill with pregnancy that I can’t do a thing all the way though. I just feel awful all the time.

My babies don’t do lovely wriggles. They try to boot me to death from 20 weeks. This one makes me cry sometimes, I think she’s going to join the WWE.

I have massive age gaps because I hate it so much. My eldest is 18! I’m 40 now or I’d have left the last one longer.

Sick as a dog all the way though, complications galore (I’ve been at the hospital twice a week for three months now) and I’ve always been treated like crap by HCP.

I’ve now got the anxiety of my 3rd section looming over me in a few weeks.

I’m SO envious of women who enjoy pregnancy and those who glow.

The upside is, two difficult babies so far have been a fucking breeze compared to their pregnancies. I can take anything a newborn throws at me because I’m just so elated not to be pregnant anymore!

(I know I’m mad to have put myself through it again. Hate pregnancy - LOVE my children to bits!)

I had a lovely pregnancy with my first child - no sickness, I was glowing with great skin and hair and lots of energy, didn’t show for ages then neat bump, no aches and pains. Lovely regular gentle kicks. Couldn’t wait to do it again.

This time I’ve had horrendous sickness, nausea, acne, back and pelvic pain, bump is huge and I feel exhausted and disgusting. Baby kicks me to death at 4am every day and wakes me up. It’s only 2 years after my first pregnancy but feels like another world. Certainly won’t be missing this!

Nope! I like being able to breathe as deeply as I want....

Absolutely not!

I do, and I've had 6 😂

It's so special ( and I had dreadful sickness with 2 of the girls.)

I also loved the new baby stage.

My youngest is 6 now, and will be the last, but I look back and remember it all

I do. Never had sickness so I guess it's easy for me to say

Currently pregnant with twins - I'm half way there and this heat plus the exhaustion of having a toddler means I am sooooooo glad I will never be pregnant again!!!

I missed my first two pregnancies as they were very easy.

But the third and final I had constant constipation (ha!) and could never get to sleep comfortably added with needing to wee 5 times through the night. Then ended up with a sore coccyx which now 3 years on is now fucked!!