AIBU to consider having a Brazilian before giving birth?

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Im 37 weeks. My ladygarden is a mess. I cant even see it anymore. So, am I?

who are you going to be doing it for?

i like to look as best i can AFTER giving birth, too.

i feel like hell, but it boosts my mood to look nice, FWIW.

You fancy a Brazilian? Which particular Brazilian? Is he lovely?

I think you're recommended to trim around the edges in case a hair gets caught in a stitch. Get a bikini razor and use a mirror.

loobeyloo- No, I'm not your midwife!

Just a mum who's been there and done it. Twice. The first time, I didn't even realise until DH dropped it into conversation a few months later. Which was kind of him

I have been amazed by how many women completeley rid themselves of pubes (by whatever method) for labour and birth. And there seems to be a cultural aspect to it too. i.e. Asian and non-British European women are more likely to do it than white British women. (In my Trust anyway). It makes no difference to the delivery, but I would avoid it personally due to itchy regrowth reasons!

Got my DH to do a short back and sides.

ahem i would tend to avoid spending a lot of time looking down there after giving birth anyway...so pretty irrelevant what it looks like

OP why not get a nice haircut instead? hair on your head that is...

a brazilian does not rid you of public hair entirely.

that's a 'hollywood'.

OK, some dumbie questions here:

What's a bikini razor?

Waxing fills me with unspeakable terror - but if I shave underneath, do you get the same itchy bumpy stuff as around your bikini line?

all round really

I was thinking of doing this too but the itchy re growth is putting me off. I would feel happier if my ladygarden was neat instead of a forest though. I would get DH to trim it but last time he cut me with the sissors.

i agree about re-growth if you have not been a regular waxer in the past.

i've been waxing since i was about 15 so i don't have itchy regrowth issues anymore (i'm nearly 38) and do all my waxing myself, although i did go to professionals for many years.

Ouch. You will have stubbly regrowth at the same time as recovering from birth-related-sore-fanjo. You are a nutter!

I would definitely be doing it for me. DH thinks am nuts already after he caught packing hair (head hair!) straighteners in hospital bag

Pedicure a good idea. Guess will spend fair amount of time staring at toes!

i had grazes this time round, so 6 weeks on i'm still lady shaving that part quite carefully.

but i had stitches from ventouse delivery with 2nd degree tear and have no problem waxing around there now.

hair straighteners? are you serious? LOL

My SIL wouldn't have any photos taken after she had her baby until she had completely redone her make-up

i won't have photos of me taken at all unless i've fixed out my hair and put on makeup.

Expat - ditto - I have waxed since age 12, that is what being a hairy Mediterranean does for you, barely feel a thing.

However I disgaree with all this itchy re- growth chat. That happens when you shave in my experience but hair that grows back after a wax is pretty soft. You might get in growing hair issues if this is the first time you have waxed so would not recommend. Aloe vera is great for that by the way.

I had a wax at 40 weeks, made me feel a lot better I hate being overgrown.

Dont worry, I know I am being ridiculous!

Im not this vain in my day to day life I can assure you! Not sure what is going on with my head, I have convinced self birth will be less unpleasant if dont feel like a total moose

Off to try and acupuncture my baby out. Shall check the thread later and go with the majority

I had booked a Brazilian at 38 weeks with DD1 as I stupidly thought it would matter.

Anyway she came early so had to cancel the wax and cue me in shower before going to hospital waters broken tidying myself up.

I too am struggling with being the (not so) proud owner of a full bush, for the first time in years, at 38 weeks.

At one of my midwife appointments halfway through my pregnancy, just after I'd given up shaving down there for fear of giving myself an antenatal episiotomy, I was up on the bed and she pushed down the top of my trousers to listen with the Doppler. I thought no more of it, until afterwards DP commented on how I needed to sort myself out down there, and how he felt a bit embarrassed for the midwife having seen my pubes!

I gave him the look of death and said "I'm sure the midwife has seen far worse than a few pubes in her time, love".

He's not mentioned it since, but he has offered to shave it for me when I've complained about it. I'm not sure his intentions are completely innocent though.

Couldn't bring myself to have a waxing, mind. I cry when they wax my eyebrows, I'm not letting them anywhere near my fanjo.

yes I've heard you don't feel a thing if you've got tidy pubes SoE

good luck anyway
with the baby that is...or possibly the waxing...

Oh no, no, no no!

God Lord why? I had seventies porn bush when I was pregnant - you could have stuffed cushions with it.

Worry more about pooing, that's infinitely more humiliating.

eeek no to the waxing (too sensitive) but get your dh to give you a lil tidy up

my dh is on bush and leg duty once a week for a month pre due date.