To think the midwife will not give two hoots about my bikini line?

[IneedAsockamnesty]

I'm going into hospital in just over a week to be induced, I can not see my bikini line and am disinclined to brandish a razor and any sharp bladed object near something I cannot see.

So will the midwife even notice let alone care?

notthefirstagainstthewall

I don't know why the OP posted, as I'm not the OP.

I think it's sad that some women are concerned about their pubic hair when going birth as clearly there are more important things to worry about. However, I do find it sad that a number of women have judged those who choose to wax/shave/trim.

I shave but I do not give a damn what anyone else does, their vagina, their choice. Frankly, it's none of my business.

DP is ashamed of his hair and keeps trying to shave it off. It's annoying me because I love his hair!

I twiddle it

....and the too much information on the thread award goes to Strumpetron

"However, I do find it sad that a number of women have judged those who choose to wax/shave/trim."

It's a bloody sight sadder to judge those that don't.

Oh hang on a sec, I started this thread because I wanted to ask if others agreed with my "lets not bother" stance on the matter not because I'm fraught in anyway shape or form.

I agree curlew

I just don't see why anyone would judge anyone for keeping or getting rid of their pubic hair! It's mind boggling

Well I am a bit fraught but only because I dropped my sherbet fountain nothing to do with pubic hair

Sock you don't strike me as the fraught type! Enjoy the baby.

Sock, you really don't come across as being fraught! I hope my posts haven't insinuated I thought you were.

I don't think anyone on this thread (haven't read it properly so forgive me if I'm wrong) has judged anybody for choosing not to shave/trim/wax their body hair.

Plenty on here have judged people that choose to shave/wax/trim though.

And to whoever that asked how body hair can be uncomfortable.....

Sorry if its tmi but if my pubic hair gets too long it gets itchy, as its fairly wiry and cause it irritates my labia and inner thighs! Same with my leg hair, if I have bare legs it irritates my skin to have the hair rubbing together.

• coarse not cause

fakebook all this talk of fanjos and twiddling hair is TMI?

I'm with lj8893 - the only people who I see on this thread who are on the receiving end of judgement are those who do choose to wax or shave.....

I'm a midwife and have never heard, or made, or even thought of a comment about someone's pubes. Totally does not register, why would it? Of course you notice if someone has a bush or is bald, but it just passes across my brain landscape like any other passing thought. I would think that any midwife or obs who did mention was bloody odd, to be honest.

I work in probably the naicest hospital in the country with a huge proportion of middle class mums and I have noticed more full bushes than not. Younger working class women and certain ethnicities are more Likely to have taken it all off.

I was a student midwife for 7 months, i didn't notice or pay much attention to what it looked like, i was far too concerned in making sure baby was born safely and that i was paying attention to the machanics of labour and birth!

I'm not sure if it is, just an association that I have noticed! I can say with total certainty though that Arab women take it all off and Japanese women leave it all on!

2 things -

Firstly i started shaving in the mid 80's as a teen. It wasn't because of porn. I hadn't seen any! It was, i think, because it felt nice, and because i found it cleaner to deal with my periods.

Secondly i must take issue with this giggling about bodies business. I have never had to see lots of folks pubes, but am a trained bra fitter (since my late teens) and have seen billions of sets of boobs. Big boobs, small boobs, mastectomies - the lot. I have never once giggled about anyone's body. The only time i and my co-workers have ever passed comment is on a really dirty/smelly body. Even then it's not giggling. It's more - :(

My impression is that, like many aesthetic choices, there is some correlation with class, zzzzz.

Germans loved hairy people and found it very sexy. Left there in 1998 so don't know if it has changed. Hairy armpits were also valued, which is all I saw except on their many popular nudist beaches.

What is a "last turkey " mean?

Skinny and plucked-looking.

No Strumpetron, just you twiddling your dh's pubic hair! .

fakebook I do tend to over share but a good twiddle does the heart good

No.
I was so glad I did no more than a wee trim (what I do normally), because my fanny was really sore after wards, and the thought of itchy regrowth with a bruised fanny and possible wounds makes me feel sick.

and there was me thinking exercise and healthy eating did the heart good. All these years I've been doing it all wrong!

Why don't you all just agree to disagree, and maybe realise that everyone has their own personal preference to do what they wish with their 'PRIVATE' parts