Small things you wish you knew before they happened to you.

[Enko]

I mean little things that surprised you when they happened to you and you wish you were pre warned about. Not personality traits 😁

For me I wish I had been prewarned that retainers can discolour and it's not due to you not cleaning them well enough.

@LastPostISwear did you go & see a physiotherapist?

Yes! She was brilliant

I'm going to look into , thank you

That you will be able to express milk a long, long time after your baby is weaned. I could express small amounts for years after.

To hang on to my sunglasses in a supermarket in Barcelona. Or to not drink As much beforehand. Expensive mistake

Another breastfeeding one - that the milk can start to leak out while you’re still pregnant. I think I was about 6m pregnant when my boobs started leaking and I didn’t expect that at all - didn’t think it happened until the baby was born.

Yes this was going to be mine too!

How to spot a narcissist. I hadn’t even been aware there was such a thing when I got married. I wish I’d known that what I thought was “interesting” and “charming״ were huge enormous waving red flags.

That having a back to back labor is more painful than normal labor and doesn’t give your body any signals to push. I could never work out why my labor was a long drawn out journey to nowhere. I don’t have bad memories about it, but I would have liked someone to have explained it to me

This. We’re sold a lie with the notion of post menopause. All that natural oestrogen isn’t coming back. HRT helps but for some it’s not the total panacea it’s made out to be.

@NF1Awareness it can do. Not for everyone, as @LastPostISwear said. Tbh I'm not sure anything could have broken through my 'it'll be fine' bubble, and I also hadn't fully taken in that both my mum and my MIL had not been able to breastfeed and were going to be worse than no help, because how can you know what that's like until it's happening. But maybe I would have paid for help or at least gone to drop-ins etc before we ended up back in hospital.

I was terrified that I was haemorrhaging after my first birth due to the amount of blood on the sheet. Had dp get the midwife to look, whereby she looked amused and said 'all normal'! Also that pooing yourself during pushing is normal, although to be frank I really couldn't have cared at the time. Second time I was well prepared for both 😂

That almost all chronic lifestyle diseases are able to be put into remission with the right diet.