SHAVING 39 WEEKS

[Jessabby89]

Ladies please help!

how on lords earth do you shave your legs and vajayjay at 39 weeks pregnant!

Being in the bath is a struggle as I can't see where I need to shave and also can't get my legs up to shave them

Being in the shower is even more of a struggle trying to bend and shave blind cause of this huge stomach I have attatched to me haha.

I'm a single mam aswell so I don't have the luxury of having the dad shave me 😭😭

Haha please help before I have to rock up to give labour like a gorilla

Thanks x

Complain about him. That’s not okay. What a horrible person.

To the OP the answer is don’t.

Honestly, at this point I've just given up. If I wear a dress I'll shave my legs standing in the shower, but I've completely given up with shaving downstairs in the past couple of weeks. As others have said, it's not worth the risk of an infection or cutting yourself and no medical staff will care - they have seen it all. I'm also prone to ingrown hairs and I don't want to have to try and deal with that when I can't see past my bump 😂.

What I find depressing about this is the fact that women campaigned vociferously against compulsory shaving-and eventually the medical
stopped doing it. And now women are imposing this on themselves.

@Diddykong You absolutely MUST put in a complaint about that person. He was fucking outrageous.

Thanks for everyone's advice.

I know your saying don't cause they don't care but honestly I couldn't think of anything worse for my self than people looking at my lady area and it being un shaven!

so will deffo be getting a little mirror and trying again 😂

I didn't shave! Who cares?! The midwife isn't going be shocked at the sight of some public hair. She'll see it several times a day.

Don't. It's an infection risk

@Jessabby89 "I know your saying don't cause they don't care but honestly I couldn't think of anything worse for my self than people looking at my lady area and it being un shaven!"

That's just heartbreaking.😢

is this your first baby ? I can guarantee that you won’t care once labour gets going. The midwives won’t care. Any doctor or nurse which may be involved won’t care.

save your energy and go and have a nap instead

That's so sad. You're so conditioned by porn that you'd rather risk cutting yourself with a razor or infection than be seen with your natural hair.

Just get an electric razor or trimmer if you must and then you're not going to cut yourself
Put a trimmer on the lowest setting and it's virtually identical to shaving anyway

Not only will they not care but I would hazard a guess that it's much more common for women to have hair than be hairless at 40 weeks pregnant anyway.

Nobody can reach to do it themselves at that point and while some people might have their partners doing it religiously, a lot of people will have given up on it by then.

It is of course everyone's own choice what they do with their pubic hair but sometimes I think when people hear "they won't care" they're hearing it like they'd hear "it's ok that you have a hideous deformity because they're professionals so will pretend to be okay with your hideousness".

It's not that having fully grown pubic hair is unusual but they turn a blind eye to it. It's that its (I imagine) the majority of women they see all day every day.

Don’t.
lower chance of infection if you don’t shave.

Lovely soft warm entrance for baby 😂

I think its quite sad how many people are trying to make you feel bad because you wish to shave... I shaved for YEARS including when due to go into labour purely because I felt more comfortable. Not with being seen, not with other people noticing I'm hairy. But my sensory issues meant that I could not stand the feeling of hair down there. I shaved everywhere, arms, legs, armpits, privates. It was solely for me and my own comfort... I don't see why this lovely lady can't feel comfortable in her own body wanting to tidy up down there.

I have managed to get a bit more of a grip on my sensory issues as I've got older and literally had to train myself to feel comfortable with the feeling of hair down there and force myself to ignore it. I still shave arms, legs and armpits and probably always will!! Whatever makes you comfortable Hun, as I said I just used a mirror in the shower and didn't put myself into any risky positions where I could fall.

Best wishes in labour, hope it's a smooth one! Pun really wasn't intended 🤣

Love this thank you!!!

I've been feeling like shaving is such a bad thing but it's the only way I've known to be comfortable in my body so I don't wanna stop now just because I'm having a child I was purely just wondering how people do it cause the positions I'm trying to put myself in are deadly haha.

thanks for your support :)

So glad someone has posted this 😂 I’ve not to shave (down there) for a week before my section anyway so decided for the final few weeks I’d just shave once per week. I’d left it a bit longer than that and attempted it the other night. Literally no clue what I was doing or when I was finished 🙈 I just eventually had to go ‘that’s enough’ and leave it at that. I dread to think what kind of state it’s in! Couldn’t reach, couldn’t see, was just having to feel whether I thought I’d shaved a bit already or not 😂 came out slightly traumatised and haven’t tried again since

It’s the same as having your hair or nails done to make you feel nice etc so just because it’s one person’s priority and not another’s doesn’t mean it’s ‘sad’ that she wishes to shave 🤔 I’ve been with my partner for 7 years and he’s never seen me unshaven! The thought of him shaving down there for me.. omg, I’d rather die! But some people would be okay with that 🤷🏼‍♀️