Things people dont tell you about pregnancy....

[Letsallscreamatthesistene]

Just for fun!

My ribcage has gotten wider
My hips have gotten wider
I can only get good deep breaths if im sat straight up or standing

URGH

Nose bleeds , especially at night. I got these constantly with both

Itchy nipples breasts and RESTLESS LEGS

You breathe like an old goat and even walking up the stairs makes you feel as though you've run a marathon.

Iron tablets make you very loose and your poo is black

Your nipples constantly stick out and could cut glass

You have fanny daggers which makes you feel like someone has shoved a sparkler up your foof

Baby’s hiccups which can be felt in your hoo-ha when you’re 30+ weeks

Oh god yes the restless. Legs!!!! I have restless toes, just one foot and it wakes me up every single night.

How much it would destroy my concentration. I was in a real fog for the last trimester, I took annual leave and started my maternity leave almost 2 months before his due date (he arrived 3 weeks early)

That there's quite a lot of injections required and blood to be taken. I have a negative blood so had to have two further injections for that

Just that also men don't understand remotely how you feel

@lovelytobehere - thank you for mentioning mood swings and depression! I can identify - far too many tears, far too easily.

When in labour someone can put their whole hand in you and you don't feel it

Clicky ribs and jaw when chewing because of the hormone that makes your pelvis relax.
The aching hips.
Being awake from 1:30am every night from 30 weeks until baby arrived.
Waking up choking on your own spit.
The knitting needle up the arse/fanny pain.
It looking like you’ve committed murder in the bathroom every time you brush your teeth.
The constipation and piles.
The thirst and weird dry nasal passage feeling.
That too much pineapple (in a bid to get labour started) makes your mouth very sore.

Oh, and how painful and nauseating hunger can be.

Don't be so smug if you've got no stretch marks.... them fuckers can arrive after the birth has happened

You'll never sneeze without worrying about the contents of your bladder.

Insomnia in the third trimester!

You might not sleep properly ever again

Seriously painful nipples when you get cold!!! Seriously nearly cried walking round the chilled section in Asda one day lol

That you as person become invisible. Ppl only want to talk about how bump is and dont ask you how you are and how your feeling...

@crystal1717 Another one here with the heartburn!!! never experienced heartburn before or after but was constant during my pregnancy... drank bottle upon bottle of gaviscon. Got out of bed desperately at 4am once when I was 7months pregnant, crying and drove to Tesco to buy Gaviscon in my bloody pajamas.

That and the constant, continuous, unrelenting urge to pee!

Horrendous cramps after an orgasm anyone? Almost like labour pains. The one time you're not worried about getting pregnant too 🤷🏻‍♀️

I came to say .. bladder weakness .. knowing without a doubt that the upcoming sneeze, laugh or cough is going to make you pee yourself ... only to be made to pee myself laughing at some of these posts.. thank goodness for my tena lady's!!

Iron tablets did the total opposite of making me constipated! I had to cut the dose down as I was having to rush to the loo so frequently!
Carpel tunnel - vanished right after birth.
Calf cramps. I get these as a runner but oh boy these were something else!
"Hot rocks" when my milk came in.
Didn't change foot size.

The stabbing pains up the foof, I'd forgotten about those 😂
Heartburn - 8 tablets a day, spread out at intervals hahahahahahahaha 8 packets more like - it goes instantly when the baby comes out though so hurrah!
Pelvic girdle pain - that wasn't fun

I think I got off lightly tbh

Oh, after giving birth, lochia. I wasn't expecting it to be so..globulous...😑

Dry, very dry, eyes

Shoe size getting bigger and staying that way.

Nipples, moles and sun spots getting darker.

Skin tags.