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Stuff you think must happen to other people - but can't risk asking?

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IMissFrance · 03/02/2021 11:21

Anyone else have stuff happen to you that must happen to others.

But you can't really ask because what if they say "NO! How weird!" And then you can never talk to that person again. Wink

So I'm bringing it to the anonymity of Mumsnet.

I'd love to hear other peoples. And will start off.

  • whenever I wash my hair in the shower (I have long hair) loose hairs wash down my back and end up in my bum crack. End of my shower I have to check there's no hair left.

I can't be alone in this grossness! (Or can I)

OP posts:
mistermagpie · 03/02/2021 13:09

I get fanny ache when I have my period too! But only since I had children.

On the 'pooing in labour' thing @1sttimemumtobe2021, based on my own personal anecdotal evidence, I pood during two of my three labours. I'd say about half of my friends did too, so there is certainly a chance I'm afraid. To be fair, in the moment I couldn't have given a shit, so to speak, and my husband couldn't either.

Baublebox · 03/02/2021 13:09

Does anyone elses vagina store up bath water and then release it at some time after you have gotten out of the bath (usually just after you have put clean pyjamas on)?
Or do I just have a massive fanny?

ItStartedWithAKiss241 · 03/02/2021 13:13

The bath water thing is so annoying! Always over my nice clean clothes! 😂

oakleaffy · 03/02/2021 13:13

Re long hair..
I used to have waist length hair and it never ended up in my bum!?
Maybe water pressure helps ?
We don’t have very high water pressure maybe that’s the reason?

Georgyporky · 03/02/2021 13:13

@1sttimemumtobe2021

Did you poo whilst giving birth? Key thought of mine being due in April with first baby. The stats are high for this from what I hear but I can't really ask haha!
I was given an enema when birth was imminent; is this not done now? Also shaved, which seemed quite unnecessary.
Rainbowandscarlett · 03/02/2021 13:14

Im putting this one out there-and if I’m the only one,I’m going to die of shame

Period farts

I swear the smell can kill at 50 paces-my fella jokes it’s worse than mustard gas

A sharp pain-then a fart-then the pong-oh my god the pong

Thankfully it only happens about once a year as I’m on the coil but it used to happen every single month when I was younger

Please,someone tell me I’m not the only one…

ememem84 · 03/02/2021 13:15

@MisiSam

Sometimes I will get a pain like someone has stabbed me up the bum, only lasts a second and it's really sharp!
yes! bum daggers! not fun
SignOnTheWindow · 03/02/2021 13:15

@Baublebox Oh yes. When I started swimming again after a long break, I used to have to take pads to put on afterwards otherwise it was like waters breaking. Also quite embarrassing when you're walking to the changing rooms looking as if you're merrily pissing away...

AmelieTaylor · 03/02/2021 13:16

My hair has grown so much this past years, it gets trapped in my bum crack & under my boobs whenever I'm naked and moving around. Very annoying!

@MythsandSparkles.

That was a good few years ago wasn't it. Good times ....

NanuNanuM · 03/02/2021 13:16

Sometimes I remember an event from the past and I physically inhale with the shame of it. Nothing bad, just mortifying things where I was a knob. They bring me physical pain.

I do this!!! And sometimes I talk out loud as if it distracts the thoughts

oakleaffy · 03/02/2021 13:17

@Baublebox

Does anyone elses vagina store up bath water and then release it at some time after you have gotten out of the bath (usually just after you have put clean pyjamas on)? Or do I just have a massive fanny?
No, BUT.. Had a sinus infection that was agony. G.P suggested a nasal rinse like Neil Med where saline is jetted into sinus cavities.

Duly bought it...
But 15 mins later bent down to pick something up and a torrent of warm water poured from my nose.

It was gross.

Since learned to lean forwards a few times over the sink to get rid of extra rinse.

It worked for sinus infection, too🙂

AllTheCakes · 03/02/2021 13:18

Defiantly get javelin arse, it makes me drop to the floor in pain and then goes a second later.

Anyone else find little bits of toilet roll on their flaps that have broken off while wiping? Occasionally in the bum too Blush

oakleaffy · 03/02/2021 13:19

A resounding YES to remembering cringy things and inhaling sharply with shame.

ememem84 · 03/02/2021 13:19

@Baublebox

Does anyone elses vagina store up bath water and then release it at some time after you have gotten out of the bath (usually just after you have put clean pyjamas on)? Or do I just have a massive fanny?
dh was horrified the other day when this happened to dd. she's only 18m and he was a bit like "she's just peed on the carpet..." i did point out that sometimes this happens and its not wee.
Nottheduchessofcambridge · 03/02/2021 13:19

Bum hair trap yes, defo.
Pooing in Labour, not on my first but yes on my second which I’d never have known if my husband hadn’t brought it up afterwards.

Pain in arse? Sometimes I get muscle cramp so bad up there I have to take cocodamol, it’s called something Fugax.
Anyone have large nipples that they accidentally trap when turning over in bed? I have to wear a soft bra as many a time I’ve woken up in pain as they’ve been pinched.
Also yes to trapped wind doggy style, sometimes we have to stop as I’m sure it creates too much pressure and my womb will inflate like a beach ball!

Gliblet · 03/02/2021 13:19

One of the things I've found reassuring on MN is the conversations about who you are in your imaginary life Grin I genuinely used to wonder if anyone else had a fairly carefully crafted fantasy life alongside their normal one but it's not really something you ask over coffee at work...

Baublebox · 03/02/2021 13:20

Thank god I'm not the only one with a water retaining vag.

Yes to the period farts too @Rainbowandscarlett
Aren't out bodies a wonder?!? Blush

Whyistheteacold · 03/02/2021 13:21

@1sttimemumtobe2021

Did you poo whilst giving birth? Key thought of mine being due in April with first baby. The stats are high for this from what I hear but I can't really ask haha!
Twice Blush and the bloody midwives were really un-subtle about it...
oakleaffy · 03/02/2021 13:21

@AllTheCakes

Defiantly get javelin arse, it makes me drop to the floor in pain and then goes a second later.

Anyone else find little bits of toilet roll on their flaps that have broken off while wiping? Occasionally in the bum too Blush

Yes re loo roll .. Loo roll is so fragile these days. It goes into fragments far too easily.

Bring back Bronco tracing paper loo roll..
No chance of that happening.

Thisisworsethananticpated · 03/02/2021 13:21

I don’t think anyone gives birth vaginally without shitting !!! Happy to be proved wrong !

TheSpottedDog · 03/02/2021 13:21

Yes to the bath water gushing out 10 minutes after putting clean pjs on

Yes to the satisfaction of pulling a good bogie out of my nose

I also like to pull eye snot from my dogs eyes ... especially when I can see it upwrapping from around the eyeball.

Whyistheteacold · 03/02/2021 13:22

@MisiSam

Sometimes I will get a pain like someone has stabbed me up the bum, only lasts a second and it's really sharp!
Oh my god me too - what is this??
besos21 · 03/02/2021 13:22

100% yes to the inhaling with cringe. I sometimes get really bad build ups of solid wax in my ear, feels like I've just got off a plane, had to put one of those melty solutions in once, said to leave it for about 12 hours. Off I went on my merry way to work, (this was when I was at uni and worked on checkouts in a supermarket) was halfway through serving a man when there was this sudden shift in my ear, I kind of startled with the sensation and the whole lot just plopped out onto the conveyor belt Blush

starfishmummy · 03/02/2021 13:23

@LightDrizzle

Worrying I’ve got a defective bum crack now, as that’s never happened to me.

Arse daggers is definitely a thing, I get it sometimes when on my period. It’s fucking awful!

No, I think you and I are the normal ones.

Weirdly my hair moults everywhere but has never ended up there!

vivariumvivariumsvivaria · 03/02/2021 13:24

Breastfed 3 babies in a row. Weaned them each at a year.

Still could produce a decent squirt of milk for SIX YEARS.

GP did some blood tests, found nothing and suggested that I must be either still feeding the babies...or my husband.

I changed GP, I mean, I ASK YOU! but, am none the wiser about why my boobs kept busy.

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