Apart from meeting your scrumptious newborn, what was your favourite thing about no longer being pregnant?!

[bettyboo83]

Mine was being able to sleep on my tummy after months of uncomfortable nights on my back!

Being able to put my own socks and shoes on!

being able to walk without crutches.

oh, and no more vomiting constantly.

Yep, sleeping on my front. And, both times on the postnatal ward feeling suddenly very svelte, despite still being the size of a house

Totally agree about sleeping on my tummy - bliss.

No heartburn, piles subsided.

With DS1 it was the end of heartburn/acid reflux.

Ditto sleeping on my tummy. Also just sleeping (I slept better with a newborn than I did in late pregnancy) and generally feeling comfortable again.

Being able to stand without being in terrible pain.

Oohhh yes, being able to put shoes and socks on! I lived in flip flops for the last 8 weeks of my pregnancy because it was all I could fit on my swollen trotters!

SLEEP! okay it was broken by getting up a few times to feed, but when I did sleep it could be deep not like that light uncomfortable pregnancy sleep

Not being sick. I had hyperemisis in both pg.
Wearing différent clothes.
Drinking wine!

No longer being pregnant. Just that really. I hated everything about it.

Massive amounts of guilt about that feeling of course, as DS was prem and in SCBU... I should still have been pregnant whilst I was skipping about with this huge sense of relief.

Eating pate, no more heartburn, tummy sleeping, freedom of movement, no more "ooh you are huge" or "not long now surely" comments

Definitely being able to sleep comfortably in any position I wanted!

Not having to pee every 15 minutes!
And no heartburn!

doing a massive, satisfying pee. And doing them lots over the following week until I'd lost nearly 2 stone

Well I could sleep on my tummy and then my milk came in!

YY not having to pee all the time, fantastic. Eating brie and pate.

Being able to walk up hills without having to stop for breath every few steps. Lying on my front.......or my back. Having a bath without getting a cold tummy. Eating dunky eggs.

On a serious note though, I had a lot of pregnancy related anxiety following a mmc last year, and it was as if a huge weight had been lifted once DD had been born safely and I no longer had to worry about the possibility of things going wrong.

Oh God, all of it!! Sleep- I didn't care if it was only for two-hour stretches, that was one hell of an improvement on twenty minutes. Being just about able to walk. Being just about able to get comfortable from time to time. Not being booted in the ribs any more. Not having restless legs as soon as I sat or lay down. No longer having the compulsion to eat five frigging trays of ice cubes every day. :(

oohhh it all sounds like heaven....still at 38 weeks

Not having to do a weird rolly thing to get out of bed to go to the toilet constantly, being able to see my feet, being able to put my own shoes on and take them off and best of all no strangers trying to have a feel of my tummy, really hated that!!

After DS, yet another vote for sleeping on my stomach!! Can lie nearly on my stomach with DS2 though, he must be positioned differently. My mum said she did right through pregnancy with all three of us...

Getting knickers and socks on.

Not having to taken iron tablets.

Heartburn disappears immediately.

Took a couple of weeks but swollen feet disappeared.

Being able to walk instead of waddle.

Having cute wee clothes in the wash as well and admiring teeny wee outfits on the washing line!!

No longer having to worry if the baby was moving enough. Counting the kicks drove me to distraction as my DD was so quiet in the womb. I am just so glad she is out safely!