Well nobody mentioned THAT!! Things I never thought about pregnancy until I actually got pregnant

[heylottie]

I consider myself fairly well read on all things fertility and baby, having been ttc for some time. But now I am pregnant there are things that I am still surprised about.

1. Drool - I am sure I never used to wake up in The Pool of Drool that now greets me every morning
2. Baby gender - was always adament that I would never want to find out the sex, but MY GOD the temptation to ask at the 20 week scan was nearly overwhelming! I didn't but golly...
3. That I would need panty liners some days (TMI? yes but still)
4. That listening to Matchstick Men and Matchstick Cats and Dogs on the radio had me wailing (I don't expect this one to be universal)
5. The amount of people who, when you tell them of back ache, gripes and pain, say 'well it will only get worse' triumphantly.
6. That when the baby kicks my first response is still (sometimes) 'Oh I need to fart.'

Any more???

entirely unexpeced: after not hearing for months from people, everybody calls/rings the door in end of 3rd trimester to ask how things are going JUST when toddler has fallen asleep and you have manhandeld your belly into bed and craddled it with 50 just-so arranged pillows but then have to get up to shut up madly barking dog and crying tod. I swear I'm not joking.

just remembered: huge bout of vitiligo and floaters in eye.

After birth expecting baby blues but instead gigantic week-long love-fest with me running around gooey-eyed and completley off the rocker, stroking everybody in sight. Then Baby blues.

No one has mentioned the unusual cravings - twiglets in gravy for me.

That you'd get ridiculously emotional at the slightest of things. I am sitting here balling my eyes out at a program where a family have 10 kids (2 sets of twins, then sixtuplets ) so no fault of their own but one of the little girls has cerebal palsy. I'm not crying because i am sad, just because i am amazed at how great the parents are for those kids. I'd never usually cry at anything like this, lol!

i am just wondering if i am pregnant or if it is too early to tell. My breasts are usually very sore right before my period is due, but they are not this time and itis due on september 30th. could this mean i am pregnant?

Im seven weeks pregnant and I have become very, very hair sore and I also have dandruff (ive have never had dandruff before)!! What is that all about? Has anyone heard of this before? I went to the hair dressers last week and my scalp felt as though it was on fire when I left! I have a DD (3 years old). With my first pregnancy I had sme MS and spots. No MS or spots this time - yet! Has anyone had comletely different symptoms with each pregnancy?

having such bad piles, that the midwives send for a physiotherapist who wheels in huge metal box type thing, rams it up against my huge grapey piley things (tmi?) and starts it vibrating. What was it? I never asked, as was too knackered. No one else seemed to ever had it, and never saw the lady again. Perhaps it was a post birth hallucination?

ohhh and uncontrollable acid induced loud old man burping. usually somewhere inappropriate (friends house, hospital waiting room, Tescos) and my mum refusing to walk down the street with me if I kept doing it..

Gas. Lots and lots of Gas.

Having to waddle.

Gaining the confidence to shout "WHAT??!" at people who stare in the street because I'm too grumpy to care what they think.

Going out in my pjs if I can't be arsed to get dressed.

Here here with the panty liners too.

That if you are pregnant, casual acquaintances feel that it perfectly acceptable to say things to you like 'Hello fat girl, you've put on weight'!

Or total strangers, Claire...

I absolutely love this thread!

Definitely agree with the gas and the leaking, more scary though are the sudden and violent mood swings - blissed out earth mother to deranged knife-weilding harpy in less than a nanosecond. Oh, and the tears... FOR NO REASON!

Anyone else get popping in their ears? I read somewhere that it can be a symptom, but when I mentioned it to MW she looked at me like I was a mentalist. It has been driving me loopy since a couple of weeks in!

YES, I'VE HAD THE POPPING!! I thought I was going mad.

OMG fiziwizzle It's SO annoying isn't it?! Showing no signs of quitting either, I fear the only cure may be childbirth! [hmm}

Popping ears here too! Usually happens together with stuffy nose. Must be sinus related.

I surly know about the mad dreams, being it scared to laugh, sneeze or cough and leg cramps but it was the dry nipples that got me. being so tender as they always seem to be, is not the kind of thing you want to be continuously be peeling/washing off.

longtalljosie i agree completely. i found out i was pregnant monday and by tuesday i felt crap! havent slept through the night since

no sickness yet but tender boobs, stomach tender even shower water hitting it hurts, pains down below and i feel funny when i bend down.would you believe the more symptoms i get the more i love it, it reassures me that i am actually pregnant

Never realised that:

1. My smug ideas of eating healthily would go flying out the window to be replaced by dinners of bread, butter & jam followed by a doughnut chaser.
2. I'd actually start taking notice of the Tena Lady adverts with a view to a purchase.
3. 10.30pm would be classed as a 'late night'.
4. I'd get terrible pains in my buttocks.
5. I'd look 6 months pregnant at 14 weeks.
6. It really was possible to go to the loo every half hour.

Reading through this has brought back the memories of my first pregnancy and re-warned me of my now 9 weeks in 2nd pregnancy, oh the joys to come. What i wish i had been told was that when your waters break, when i was induced, that until you actually gave birth you would have to wear double thickness towels to mop up all the jelly like mucus, sorry to be crude, lol but all the ones i had packed for after the birth i ended up using before the birth, and horrible throw away disposable knickers!!! argh.

Having my boobs grow 2 sizes in just the first 8 weeks, but the horrible tingling and pain my nipples would create. Crying at anything and everything, being hungry every 2 hours, and feeling faint if i didn't eat. wanting marmite with everything, and weird combinations like marmite on toast with strawberries. getting knackered from just walking down the road, a simple short journey would feel like the final showdown on gladiators, oh and it taking 4 buses to get into town, and not just 1, for sickness. but its worth it.

...the number of items of crockery it is possible to break because spatial awareness has disappeared. Today was a bowl of tomatoes, and tomatoes are hard to sweep up as they roll (can't bend down to pick up 30 tomatoes all over kitchen floor, sweeping only way!). We're running out of china!

tinitus? or is it just me? ear splitting, sudden, painful and drowning out all other noise!

Poor toast. That's the auditory equivalent of my eye floaters.

Nobody ever mentioned the weird squashiness of your belly right after baby evacuates it. Quite freaked me out!

oh lordy this is just about the best info I've come across on pregnancy-I've been gleefully reading them out to my OH who is quite terrified Some others that I don't think I've seen:

• that bras above a D cup are all revolting beige or tan contraptions that look like something your granny might wear.

-you can sail through first trimester with no sickeness whatsoever only to have it hit you at week 16

-not only would i get blubber-over-nothing emotional, which i expected as it happens monthly, but that i would also become extremely aggro. Not great when you work with the general public.

-and finally my own personal fave TMI: feeling constantly horny but then not wanting to after all because orgasm makes you feel like you need to poo

No food cravings- but cravings for smells- notably creosote. I am walking round covertly sniffing fences, and when I find a nice creosotey one I am almost orgasmic with pleasure.

Sudden psycho fits of temper; I should have seen the need to avoid Trago Mills (other residents of Cornwall/Devon will know EXACTLY what I mean) at closing time; normally I can handle their "unique" take on customer relations, but this last time had me in a fit of hysteria so extreme I could hardly breathe, and calling the floor manager a f**g c*t. Now I feel I can't go back unless I'm wearing a fake beard and dark glasses...help!

Getting teary, especially at the mention of birth...went to see a film on birthing, there must have been at least 10 pregnant women there. Loads of footage of babies popping out; you could hardly hear the dialogue for the snivelling.....

And finally, losing every last pathetic scrap of work ethic I ever had, and spending all my time on Mumsnet instead of doing any work!