Embarrassing: What is ettiquette re grooming of lady garden?

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I know I sound bonkers but when it comes to giving birth what sort of state should my lady garden be in?! Don't want to look like I don't pay it any attention like some hairy earth mama but equally don't want to give it full strim and look like I'm prepubescent!!!!

I've asked my friends but basically we all end up screaming laughing and not really getting a straight answer!

Clip it to just less than 1 cm all over. Makes it vey easy to keep clean post birth, but neat and non-itchy.

When people talk about getting it waxed, what are you left with, what do most people go for. A landing strip, nothing, just a bit in off the edges, heart shapes??

We really don't have much to go on apart from hairless pornstars and hairy housewifes.

Do most people go for something in between, just to make it look less like a hairy beastie or do most of you leave it to do its own thing.

Prior to going in I got DH to shave along the top as I had a premonition I was going to end up with a section, perfered DH with a Wilkinson diamond thingy than a nervous student going in dry with a blunt bic.

enough off the sides so you dont get spiders legs out the sides and top of your pants (just a couple of cm or so then?) and a trim to keep the hairs short

any more is just personal choice

Thats kind of what I am going for now that I have discovered the stuff to stop me getting as many ingrowing hairs. I use an epilator as I am dead tough .

When I could no longer see my garden, I got DH to tend to it for me - something that he was not overly keen on doing but after a few goes he really got into making sure I looked "even"
That said, I still have no idea what I looked like down there when I went into labour.

Skribble -- enough round the sides so it makes a high leg swimsuit look decent, not that I wore a hugh leg swimsuit when I was pregnant !! But you know what I mean

At last some detail! I'm going for a 1 cm crop all over and the usual trim down sides and top to avoid pant beard! Thanks so much everyone feeling much more confident that I'm not gonna look like wild woman of Borneo now!

I know what you mean - everyone thought I was mad continuing getting my monthly waxing done at 38 weeks! I didn't want to look a complete mess in the delivery suite. As it was, it really is the last thing you'll be thinking of at the time, but it's nice not to have to worry about it at the time!

Eveninng all,
I'm 36 weeks and I haven't even been able to see my ladygarden for the last couple of months! I feel I really ought to give it a trim in preperation for the big day but tbh am a bit scared of snipping around blindly with a sharp pair of scissors! It may just have to stay au natural!

ask your dh to veet or shave the lot off
good luck
xxx

hunny by the time the aby comes out your genital region wil look like an explosion at a blognaise factor so i really dont think the midwife will be worried about the hedge row!

PMSL at the idea that MW's chat about the state of their patients ladygardens...

MW1 "Oh, I had a very neat fanjo today, could see the head crowning right from the outset."

MW2 "Ah, not like my Mrs Jones yesterday, she looked like she'd been dragged through a hedge, legs akimbo. Shocking"

MW1 "Yes, Mrs Smith last week had a shockingly overgrown ladygarden, I didnt know where her minge started and her french bun finished"

vvv at least there wont be any dandruff to be skitted about

minko, get your dh to do it

Is it very embarrassing to get it done in a salon? I think this is something I need professional help with but I'm too ashamed!

I always get waxed in salon, and first time is a bit embarassing because you don't know where to put your legs, but after that its fine. Therapists alwasy seem totally unfazed but make sure you get one who does it all the time - if they're not experienced it can hurt like hell. I had waxes before DS was born and will do the same before my next one is due in a few weeks simply because could not face having a student nurse coming at me with a dirty bic in the event of a CS.

If you can't face it, get DH to give you an immac?

a beauty salon i go to says keep your pants on, and then just pull the side of your pants up to wear you would like to be waxed too

or wear your bikini bottoms, and that way you can just say you want to be waxed so that you have no pubes poking out the side

or words to that effect!

up to where

I have had a really good laugh reading this it has made my day this is the first time I have posted anything on here but had to reply to this one.

I'm a midwife (so my id badge says!!!) and we honestly and truely dont take any notice of your lady gardens as you say we have seen all sorts.

as someone said just forget it and pick your dignity up when you walk out of the door.

At least you dont have to work with the people who deliver your baby

Helen

ps have to ask how come some of you go for waxes etc and are not worried but worry about what midwives think??

Cornrows. That will keep it neat and tidy, enhance the impression that you are someone who looks after herself, and avoid the discomfort of post-natal stubble.

PrettyCandles.. what a cool image! I wish.

Loving this topic!

I have never done very much with my lady garden (just trimmed the edges in the shower). However, I joined a posh gym last year and it was communal changing and became very aware that I was the ONLY person with uncared for pubes!

Everyone else was v short, or landing strip or all off - I felt very out of fashion!

I mentioned it to my mate one drunken night (who uses same gym) and she said that she'd had the same experience and now has a landing strip!

I've got a landing strip too now but now I'm worried that the midwives will think I'm into kinky sex! (lol! chance would be a fine thing, my husband is a missionary man!)

I once tried to use a heart shaped pastry cutter to shave round for Valentines day.
PMSL.
It so didn't work.
But boy did we crack up laughing gor ages after over it!!!!!!!

I wonder if being totaly devoid of hair looked to kinky for smear test etc, but decided against it anyway.

Me and my friends have nicknames based on our ladygardens, I am duncan goodhew, my best mate is helena Bonham Carter!