“I look over to see someone damn near elbow-deep treating my wife like a sock puppet.”
If you don’t want to read about those right now, give this a miss!
“First-trimester miscarriages are way more common than most people think.One in four pregnancies terminatebefore three months.”
u/Fit_War_1670
2. u/Hungry_Elephant_536
3.
“No one f*cking told me that the first time.
u/ChampionSignificant
4.
“Your baby will come home witha huge gnarly scabattached to their belly button.
My boyfriend wasn’t prepared for this one.
He thought that cutting the umbilical cord made it somehow detach from the baby right then and there.
u/jeanneeebeanneee
5.
It was so jarring.”
“Mothers are so damn tough dude, it’s unreal.”
u/realhollywoodactor
6.
“I broke my tailbone pushing.”
u/ThatGirl_Tasha
7.
“I’m currently pregnant.
I havepregnancy rhinitis, which is effectively like a cold resulting from being pregnant.
I also have morning sickness.
Have you ever had uncontrollable sneezing while blowing chunks?
Not bucket list-worthy, I promise.”
u/Haunting-blade
8. u/Lovrofwine
9. u/PinkCupcke007
“This was going to be my comment.
u/Novel_Librarian_6828
10. u/Ok_Vast_3753
11.
“I had the exact opposite.
I would wake up absolutely frozen and I HATE being cold.”
u/yourshaddow3
12.
“Oh God,the smell!
I didn’t realize I would stink from all the hormones, I felt so gross!”
u/UltraDucks895
13.
“They go wild pushing your stomach after birth to check that everything is out.
I read some books but no one prepared me for that.
It was like having another baby.”
u/YEGStolen
14.
“Postpartum incontinence is no laughing matter.
No seriously, dont laugh.
Itll make you pee.”
u/donnamatrix79
15.
“Passing clots the size of rocks.
And bleeding for weeks after.”
A GOD DAMN LEMON.
I was a little horrified.”
u/thisisariel
16.
“The leading cause of death in pregnant and postpartum women in the USis homicide.”
u/CrystalQueen3000
17.
“Contractions dont finish after labour.
You havethe after-birth painsto look forward to when your uterus returns to its usual pre-pregnancy size.”
u/Aussiebiblophile
18.
Somehow it’s even grosser than you would think.”
u/jeanneeebeanneee
19.
“You will need to prep yourself for the second birth.
It’s when you have your first full bowel movement after.”
u/H2OBond007
20.
“Cant believe this hasnt been mentioned hemorrhoids.
Often women dont know they have themfrom labourdue to the swelling, but add it to the list.”
u/RockCave25
21.
“Preeclampsiacan lastup to six weeks postpartum.
You’d be amazed at how many emergency personnel don’t know this.
steps off of soap box”
u/JustGenericName
22.
“Postpartum depressioncan be extremely dangerous and can last for months after their birth.”
“After my twins were born my wife had a complete personality change.
She became suicidal, and at times abusive to me.
At one point she ran away from home.
I found her two states away.
Her brother had to bring her home.
Things got really, really bad.
The twins are five now and she’s the person I married again.
She doesn’t like to talk about those times.
The only thing she’ll say is it was the darkest time in her entire life.”
u/TheMeanGreenGoblin
23.
“When you get a C-section theymayhave totake the section of intestinescovering your uterus out of your body.
Usually it’s just pushed to the side, though.”
u/TrainwreckMooncake
24.
“The umbilical cord is dense, tough, and sinewy.
When you cut it you end up sawing a little with the scissors.
I don’t know what I expected but that was weird.”
u/CriticalKnick
25.
“There’s a very high chance that you will poop during the birth.
If you don’t poop, then it means you are in for a bigger poop afterwards.”
u/kitskill
26.
“If you don’t have adequate calcium intake, your body will pull it fromyour bones.
Medieval European peopleassumedthat women would lose a tooth for each pregnancy.”
u/LadyAlexTheDeviant
27.
I thought I was losing my twins but it was just the effects of puking 30-70 times a day.
Did that for five months while sitting on my couch hooked up to an IV."
u/braveenoughtofly
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