“I wish more people talked about it so I wouldn’t have felt like such an alien.”
Reading through them was a rollercoaster ofemotionsfor me.
Here is what some shared:
1.
“What your first period can actually look like!
Finally told her, she had a look, rolled her eyes and said it was my period.
I thought period blood was only red until that point.”
“My uterus not going back to its usual spot after I gave birth.
About 1cm in, I felt my cervix!
My bladder prolapsed a bit, and I brought everything down with her when I was in labor.”
), except that I can no longer wear a menstrual cup.
rohonhonhon
3.
“About six years ago, I started having debilitating pain in my lower back and groin.
After the first MRI, my labrum was torn.
I was so lucky that the top hip surgeon in the country was at my practice.
It is generally female and the firstborn due to the mother’s initial trauma to the birth canal.
Pediatricians are checking babies now and can provide early intervention.
The surgery I had was Periacetabular Osteotomy (PAO).
Allie, 36
4.
“I wouldve considered myself a healthy 33-year-old at the time.
I worked out a few times a week, ate a healthy diet, and worked a non-sedentary job.
He diagnosed me withGraves Disease.
Shanae, 35
5.
“Your risk of developing liver complications or tumors significantlyincreasesif you take birth control for more than five years.
They can also be removed in the process of vaginal childbirth, though not always.
Vaginal childbirth can also create hymenal tags.
vent456789
7.
I was promised that would not happen to me!”
“That your hair texture can change with menopause.
I now have curly hair.
It’s not a remotely tight curl, but it has curls.”
cr1stalfairie
9.
“After my first vaginal birth, sex hurt for more than six months.
I was ‘cleared for takeoff’ after the usual six weeks, but I had no libido.
It felt like something was broken or raw inside me for a very long time.
It wasnt anything anatomical, it was thehormonesfrom birth and breastfeeding.
I couldnt believe how much they impacted my sex life!”
She didn’t tell me that only the bleeding would dissapear.
rnd13001
11. emostar31
12.
“That not everyone can use tampons!
Fast forward to when I was 19, I tried them for the first time!
I tried the smallest tampon, and it ended up absorbing my urine.
When I went to the bathroom, I couldn’t pee till I pulled the tampon out.
I thought something was wrong.
I ended up googling it and found out some women justcan’t usetampons.
Physically, it just doesn’t work for some of us.
So I’m still a pad girl and love my reusable pads.”
n48656c421
13.
“Nobody talks about how violent a miscarriage can be or how it can take months to recover.
I had a miscarriage at almost 12 weeks and ended up in the ER.
The emotional trauma was bad enough, but I was not prepared for how much my body would change.
“I went to the doctor about the migraines I was having (at least once a week).
The bloodwork showed my thyroid wasnt producing enough hormones (hypothyroidism).
I got some more meds, and I decided to look up hypothyroidism.
Things have vastly improved since being diagnosed and getting medication.”
hovanmolly
15.
“When I hadgallstones, I also got pretty intense menstrual cramps.
They didnt go away.
I had them for a full month.
tmc1234
16.
“Every woman has a different experience while pregnant, and each pregnancy can be different.
My second baby is also much more mellow than my first regarding movement in the womb.”
But blood draws arent supposed to hurt, right?
I had to get stitches in the back of my arm when I punctured a hole through it.
I was told it wouldnt hurt because I had been numbed up.
It hurt like hell!”
“In short, Im extremely sensitive.
jcismybestfriend
18.
“No one told me aboutafter-labor pains!
About a week after giving birth, I started getting these random cramp-like pains.
It increasingly got worse until the point of thinking I was in labor again.
I knew my uterus would have to shrink back to size.
I intellectually understood that muscles have to contract.
But I did not put together that to shrink, the uterus goes through literal contractions!
I thought I had an infection or something causing pain.
I talked to a friend, and she said, ‘Oh yeah, that happens.'”
barriv
19.
I felt great, except for my periods.
lobster_lemon_lime
20.
“I did not know that women couldorgasm in their sleepuntil it happened to me.
It first happened to me when I was pregnant 13 years ago, and it continues to this day.
Usually, it happens when I’m having a sexy dream, but not always.
hollyskittlesb
21.
“No one prepares you forperimenopauseor menopause.
