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

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heylottie · 26/06/2009 15:38

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???

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LauraI1978 · 04/08/2009 13:18

That sobbing for any reason under the sun becomes a fact of life. Last week I was crying uncontrollably in the car after my husband had just gone through a yellow light, saying 'you don't love our child as you obviously want it dead!' .

arolf · 04/08/2009 13:42

That anytime I see a picture or advert or anything with a dad holding his/a baby, I will bawl uncontrollably.

That baby clothes would suddenly become so fascinating, and, again, leave me bawling uncontrollably every time I pick any up.

That feeling my baby kick is the most fantastic feeling in the world. Until he starts doing it all night long, when I'll wish I could reach in there and slap him, except I'm so bloody tired I wouldn't have the energy to do so.

That babies kick a LOT.

That I would become incredibly irritable at the most minor things, and try and pick a fight with anyone who dares to disagree with me (actually, I may have been like this before pregnancy, but now people tell me I'm like it all the time - not sure if this is me changing, or other people becoming happier at pointing out my shortcomings).

That my mother would be totally useless with advice, and actually reduce me to tears fairly often with her stupid insensitive comments. I expected it from my father (and he didn't disappoint), but was hoping that this baby would maybe improve my relationship with mum, rather than worsening it. Oh well.

mama2leah · 04/08/2009 15:34

love this thread

Mezley · 04/08/2009 17:16

See my post above...
I went to see the doctor to check on my symptoms. Thankfully I don't have bowel cancer or heart disease, just too many hormones, not enough red blood cells and a seriously over active imagination.
Oh and copious amounts of tears - where did all these bloomin' emotions come from then? didn't see that one coming.

newarrival · 06/08/2009 20:11

yes Good topic this one! I've always been a super organised person (well I like to think so) but the forgetfulness during pg is amazing...
And all the leaking as someone has already said...

laydeebyrd · 07/08/2009 16:55
  1. the thirst.
  2. feeling really ill and incapable of doing anything other than lie on a sofa (hoping this will end in second trimester... please).
  3. the increase in hairs on my stomach?! only noticed it today, but i'm not normally hairy. weird.
GentlyDoesIt · 07/08/2009 17:15

Had a new and interesting one today (I'm 37 weeks). Been feeling extra blah the last few days and decided to ask midwife for a check-up.

Turns out I have a UTI. Very hard to detect this in oneself at this late stage, since the symptoms are a sore fanjo & frequent desire to urinate. Insist on your urine tests, everyone!

Unfortunately this puts the overdue-proofing shagathon on hold for a bit...

GentlyDoesIt · 07/08/2009 17:18

also SNORING is now in full force. I keep waking myself up

katendmom · 07/08/2009 17:23

GentlyDoesIt, it's so funny you say that! I was driving yesterday and all of a sudden I heard a soft wheezing noise. I could not figure out what in my car could be making it... 5 min later after opening and closing windows, checking everything around me I realized - IT IS ME breezing through a very stuffed up nose!

GentlyDoesIt · 07/08/2009 17:30

ketendmom Glad it's not just me. I lie in bed and start to drift off, but suddenly wake with a start, thinking "Why has some f*cker chosen this moment to play the guiro in my face?!"

No, no, dear. That would be your conk.

GentlyDoesIt · 07/08/2009 17:41

AND...

  • no-one told me that I would get a kind of pressure sore on my left bumcheek, due to only having one available sleeping position that allows for not puking, not refluxing, not snoring, still breathing, minimising restless legs and not having dead arms.
  • that my dreams of a gently tanned & glowing pregnant body would be thwarted not by the British weather, but by a complete inability to usefully lie down (except as above, which makes my boobs vanish into my left armpit and shin area and only exposes one arm/leg to the sun). Finally, that trying to get off the sun lounger would take upwards of 4 minutes and actually make me cry.
  • That the only way to pick something up from the floor now is to do so in the manner of a giraffe drinking at a waterhole.
GentlyDoesIt · 07/08/2009 17:42

OMG LOL - I meant chin area

heylottie · 07/08/2009 20:15

That sometimes you really really want a nurofen...
That you wail "I want my mum' more than is necessary...
That you (or maybe just me) spend quite a lot of time thinking 'but I don't know HOW to make toes, or eyes,' and you worry your baby will have a face like the back of a spoon...

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josiejo79 · 08/08/2009 16:42

That pregnancy actually lasts for closer to 10 months - 40 weeks does not fit into 9 months!

That when you say leave me alone you mean it otherwise you might start throwing things and sxcreaming like a teenager who has been told they can't go out on Friday night.

That you know when you are being irrational and when you aren't but no normal person would possibly be able to tell the difference.

Rolling around in bed every morning trying to get up, before you wet yourself!

Realising that you are going to have to use sanitary towels for probably the first time in at least 15 years, and they are the super neppy like ones.

I've still got a couple of weeks to go though so i am sure that i will find a few more things between now and then.

LoveBeingAMummy · 08/08/2009 20:49
  1. That I would be waking up in the middle of the night EVERY from about 8 weeks
  2. That when the midwifes said you should ahve a look you SHOULDN'T cause it looked like a car crash 3)That things that start happening during being pregnant can carryon forever - I never used to burp and now I don't stop! 4)That I would cry at stupid things, things on TV in the paper
  3. That I wouldn't be able to bend over to put my socks on 6)Still feel hot all the time

To name just the first 6 that came to mind

kat360 · 09/08/2009 13:44

Random people touching your bump in public. Just wanna shout leave me alone!!! I don't randomly walk up to people and touch them so why do they think its ok???

I'm 23 weeks btw.

comeonbishbosh · 10/08/2009 13:14

1)nose bleeds, obsessively examining tissues every time I blow my nose.
2) yeah yeah yeah, 2nd trimester everything gets better rubbish. Feeling worse than ever at 14 weeks and still without a shred of energy for doing anything nice.
3) Shooting pains across stomach still agonising (though at least by now I'm not terrified that I'm having a MC ever time it happens).
4) welcome to grumpy, irritable, emotional wreak me. Can't keep it together.
5) I get really nervous about telling people. Especially getting in contact with old friends who not sure whether they are going through good times or bad times at the mo.
6) And really worried about friendships with my friends who don't have children... I feel like I have deserted their 'club'.
7) Rabbit poos!
8) My mum going on and on about every media story to do with swine flu.

Phew. Great to get all that off my chest!

itwascertainlyasurprise · 10/08/2009 17:13

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tinglee · 11/08/2009 18:05

This thread has really cheered me up after a horrible week.
My worst symptom was definitely my super sensitive nose! The smell of clean washing, detol, deodorant, perfume etc all made me feel really really sick for the first 15 weeks or so! I even smelt things that weren?t there! And weirdly I could smell dirty nappies everywhere! Very odd! My lovely sister kindly bought me a fragrance free deodorant which I could not have lived without!
Thankfully i?m now 21 weeks and all of a sudden feel fab, although more emotional than usual.

grin · 16/08/2009 14:10

I have just laughed my head off. Brilliant. I am preg with number 2 (15 wks) and have spent the last few mins reading this going 'oh man yes!!! I remember that' and then 'oh no, I'd forgotten I was about to get that!'. The nipples thing, I'd forgotten how they could feel litle they were being stabbed by thousands of tiny evil nipple-hating goblins just at the thought of a baby, or indeed the thought of anything. The smell thing I absolutely agree with tinglee, I have had to change our soap countless times, DH laughs at me that every time he comes home there's another variety sat there undergoing trials. Ahhh and the wind...it's a glamorous life, that of the pregnant woman...

theDMplagiarisedLeonie · 16/08/2009 14:25

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flamingtoaster · 16/08/2009 14:34

I wish I had known that pregnancy brain makes you do strange things ... I didn't know that I would carefully start packing the breakfast washing up into the fridge .... even though I didn't have a dishwasher!

My friend didn't know she would boil the potato peelings having thrown the potatoes out!

SmallScrewCap · 16/08/2009 22:33

39 weeks here. Two new things happening this week...

  1. Going upstairs, admiring baby clothes, stroking Moses basket, gazing at bump in mirror for a bit, then ambling back downstairs.

Then, reaching the bottom 2 steps and remembering that you actually went upstairs for a wee. Bugger. Return upstairs repeating "Wee. Wee. Wee." to yourself.

  1. Putting small items of dirty laundry in the recycling bin. DD keeps running out of socks.
sunangel88 · 17/08/2009 20:03

oooh... @theDMplagiarized, you've just made me put 2 and 2 together. Have been thinking a lot more about sex. Much. much more than normal. DH looks worried each time I eye him with "that" look.

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