Crazy sh*t they didn't tell me,,,

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about being pregnant.

Just how absolutely knackered I would feel during the first trimester.

That the contents of my nose (snot) would be all bloody.

That some of my freckles and moles would grow and become darker

How anxiety inducing and worrying this whole business is.

What were your suprises?

ha ha i agree you may well in the momnths to come "pee the bed"" ha ha isnt it funny the stuff we don't get told aye!

Glad you're all having a good giggle over my discoloured lady parts, countScoutula good to know I'm not the only one, the rest of you will have to report back

firsttime I also get very protective in the pool, tried to grab a man's foot the other day luckily he was too fast for me as it could have been very embarrassing.

Has anyone mentioned Restless legs??? The fuckers!!

I aim to read this thread in full later so apologies if someone has already mentioned RLS.

It's not just Denise Van Outens feet that grew permanently. Been there, got the t shirt.

The heartburn that has never gone away....

I have it now, poxey heartburn, awfull. And the pulsating boobs that feel as though they are literally throbbing ...booo hoooooo

That you will either have heartburn/indigestion or be hungry all the time; and that it is possible have both at the same time.

SerenaJoy I remember sharing poo info with him last time actually, not had the constipation this time so far luckily! Touch wood!

Also after the birth, you think it's ok to talk about piles/use the word cervix liberally to anyone who will listen!

Loving this thread! I second everything related to peeing yourself, vivid dreams, out-of-control boobs/nipples, and needing a forklift to get up.

That attractive linea nigra that looks as if your toddle took a dark brown marker and drew down the front of your belly... and that it might not fade for (what seems like) aaaaaaaaaages after the birth.

That's toodler*

Ffs

Baby brain. Anyone mentioned baby brain? It's bloody real.

toodler!

That you can easily fall over your own feet and even a very short car journey makes me nod off at the moment.

Also it isn't tiredness in pregnancy, it is exhaustion.

That you an absoloutly exhausted to the point of almost falling asleep on the loo bit when you actually get to bed you lay awake for hours and hours and hours.......

That you make involuntary noises every time you get up but don't actually notice you've said anything until you look up and all of your colleagues are staring at you.

An that I will cry at almost anything and I mean anything even the fact that the daffodil my 9yo DS has been growing has just flowered.

Now I'm off to get out my mirror and see if I can tell what colour my downstairs bits are, that's I I can see though the undergrowth!!

The tiredness in the 1st trimester nearly killed me.

When thought i had no symptoms i was actually suffering from pre-natal depression.

That morning sickness can start after 12 weeks and last for ages.

That I would sometimes vomit and wet myself at the same time.

The uncontrollable gagging reflex not always followed by vomiting.

That i'd slowly turn into an old women with mobility problems and incontinence!

Horrific rib pain as my uterus grew.

Heartburn when i'm full, when i'm hungry, in the middle of the night, first thing in the morning ...

You live your life according to your gestation and that every week is a milestone.

The relentless worrying and anxiety.

Waking up at 5am every morning without fail and not getting back to sleep- natures way of preparing me for the morning feed me thinks.

That after 8 months of pregnancy and getting use to the idea of having twins, i still don't feel ready to be a mummy.

Horrendous wind. DP says it's like living with a goat.

Lack of sleep and total exhaustion (I'm on 3rd pregnancy and I swear I get more sleep when the baby actually arrives).

Acid indigestion. Constant, esp at night when I'm not sleeping anyway.

Spots - on face and bottom - please tell me I am not alone!

It certainly ain't glamorous...

That people will actually smile and look at you knowingly when you cry for absolutely knowing... and when it happens for the third time in a day they will actually point and laugh. I'm a teacher, and seriously need to stop crying, the kids are going to start to wonder what the hell's going on!

Also, tiredness doesn't even start to cover the feeling that you can't get up. (I'm only 6 weeks, and genuinely worried about whether I can sustain this level of work for the rest of my pregnancy)

thats crying for nothing.

Maybe I should add accidentally saying the wrong words all the time, making it impossible to seem like you are a sensible human being. Baby brain doesn't even go half way to describing the bumbling idiot I am turning into!

Oh yeah the spots are bad, Ive got them on my back in my lady parts and well found a huge one behind my ear that really hurts, makes me feel really dirty! But Im not Im in the bath or shower every day!

That the 2ww is actually the easy part. Waiting 9 months is the hard part (am 12 weeks!).

That the baby would completely and totally take over my life within 4 weeks of conception (exhaustion & vomiting all day every day).

That you get so used to hiding your pregnancy that when you actually decide to tell people it seems odd and wrong.

Yes to bloody nose, constant congestion, heartburn, nausea that comes to nothing, peeing myself and being so bloody exhausted that getting off the sofa to turn the lights on was too much like hard work last week so I just went to sleep.

Also analysing toilet roll, dry skin, and the production of Relaxin to prepare the pelvis leading to old ligament injuries playing up so when I walk around my right knee and elbow spasm and stop working from time to time.

Oh I'd forgotten about baby brain, had that dreadfully first time - in the middle of a course I'd delivered MANY times, would suddenly forget the second half of a sentence I was in.... - and if you haven't had it (I haven't 2nd time around) you just don't get it - cue pitying stares!!

All of the above and an increase in Vaginal Discharge , I thought I had some kind of disease and rushed to the midwife just about accusing DH of having some sort of affair .
No one ever mentioned that one .

And bloody restless legs, the bottom half of body seems to have developed a life of it's own.

Oh yes, loads of discharge and CM, to the point where I often find myself rushing to the loo as I'm convinced I'm bleeding...

that instead of wanting to display a 'baby on board' badge and proudly claim a proferred seat on the tube, I would find it profoundly embarrassing if anyone even noticed I was pregnant (and I had an obvious bump at 10 weeks).
And that despite this embarrassment and trying to hide by the doors, I would still feel infuriated if no-one noticed I was pregnant.
Irrational? Me? Never....