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genuinegirly · 05-25-2010, 08:47 AM

Ladies, what do you have to say about pregnancy?
Share your funny stories, horror stories, silly sayings, joyful moments, or ramble about your general thoughts.

I thought of starting this thread when I read Ring's post:

Quote:

Originally Posted by ring

The idea of being pregnant used to give me terrors.

I asked my mother, "weren't you scared and freaked by the idea of something
growing inside you?"

She calmly responded. "That's what the hormones are for honey, they help
you to relax & just eat all the time."

My sister said being pregnant was like having, "cow brain."

I couldn't have children, which was a okay with me.

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What shocked me the most when my sister was pregnant (4x) was how volatile her personality became. She would be enthusiastically happy one moment, depressed and deflated the next. The first two pregnancies were the worst, but apparently she became more comfortable with the experience by the last two - to the point where I nearly forgot she was pregnant until the last couple of months. She is one of those women that glows when she's pregnant, including a clearer complexion, and her nails would always grow long and healthy.

Idyllic · 05-25-2010, 10:00 AM

Ah, Pregnancy...... Weight gain, heartburn, pitting edema, allergic reactions to the point they had to biopsy my skin, stretch marks, vomiting, mask of pregnancy, glowing, happy, sad, happy, sad, huge...... tired, tired, glowing, hungry, sleep eating bags of cookies????..... truly, SLEEP eating..... swollen tender breast, monthly to bi-weekly to weekly visits to the finger dr., er I mean the OB/GYN..... something kicking you from the inside whenever you least expect it, peeing all the time, no coffee, no beer, no cheese, and then there's the birth, for me the 1st one was 36 hours hard labor ended in c-section and one tired and swollen mama, 2nd one was a placental abruption, close call, c-section and again one tired and swollen mama, did I say pitting edema???

I loved every single minute.... but I had waited a very long time to conceive and was way ready to experience it. I loved being pregnant, absolutely loved it, if I could, I would have another baby in a heartbeat, it really was that wonderful for me, even after everything above, it was wonderful.

Eilonwy · 05-25-2010, 03:12 PM

I've never been pregnant myself, and don't know if I ever wish to. It's not so much the idea of being pregnant that puts me off, but the idea of giving birth. I don't deal well with pain, and even if you get the epidural, most people still experience hours of labor pains... no thanks.

My mother didn't have any problems being pregnant... no sickness, no swollen feet or ankles, no big nose, no gap in her teeth, etc. I've since known people who've experienced all the pregnancy 'horrors', and still had more than one child. I guess, if it's something you really want, it's worth the hell you might go through and the pain of child birth.

Starkizzer · 05-25-2010, 03:31 PM

I wouldn't mind being pregnant if I could give the kid to someone else after the birthing part.

My grams said that while she was pregnant with my dad, her wisdom teeth roots went on a growing rampage. She had to have them pulled and the dentist said he had never seen anything like it.

When she was giving birth to my dad she wasn't dilating properly and she ended up beating my poor dad black and blue with the contractions. Later when the nurses went to give her my dad, she told them that it wasn't her baby. Apparently, his color hadn't returned to normal and looked like a different race, scandalous words were used too! My still gives her hell about being rejected at birth.

Grasshopper Green · 05-25-2010, 03:47 PM

My pregnancy was fairly uneventful, but I didn't like being pregnant. I know women who love it but to me it was 9 months of misery - nausea, heartburn, swollen hands and feet, a pinched sciatic nerve that hurt like a sonuvabitch, peeing every 5 minutes, rollercoaster emotions, neverending backaches...

My delivery was difficult though. I had so many tubes going in me and things attached to me my mom said I looked like an alien. I pushed for nearly 4 hours, at which point my son's blood pressure plummeted and they nearly had to do an emergency c-section. Had I literally not pushed him out the minute I did, they would have. I was so exhausted at that point that I didn't know what the hell was going on. But...it was all worth it in the end!

ZombieSquirrel · 05-25-2010, 05:58 PM

Funny thread to see since I JUST took a preggers test on Sunday. Negative and FINALLY got my period today...14 days late. yeah.

Best text to Cinna ever: "Funny story. Just took a pregnancy test in my mamaw's bathroom."

*Nikki* · 06-15-2010, 07:53 PM

To me pregnancy is the best and worst part of being a woman.

I loved it and hated it at times but I would do it all over in a heartbeat. Too bad I am 35 now and feel like I can't go through it again after having two c-sections. I made the decision to have my tubes tied and part of me is sad about it now. I have a perfect girl and boy and I think I have become in love with "the baby phase" or the first year of their life. This is my favorite time of a child.

james1 · 06-15-2010, 11:29 PM

I am due sept 20th and i have only gained 18 pounds but that was just in these last two months i had maintained 140 the whole time the here is 18 pounds lol doc says im perfectly fine and to keep doing what i am doing cravings is ice cream all the time and thats about it.

ItWasMe · 08-08-2010, 07:42 PM

Hubby kept texting updates friends/family with his damn cell phone while I was in labor with our 3rd. My oldest daughter (then 15) still laughs at the last message from him "... mom a bit anti-social right now ..."

Magnolia · 08-15-2010, 06:13 PM

never been pregnant but have suffered through a few pregnancies along side my friends crazy behaviors, that was not fun .

constance79 · 08-31-2010, 08:13 AM

I got prego on my honeymoon. I was 22. I can say now that I'm incredibly thankful it happened before I could dread it. The changes are crazy, but when you're pregnant you just don't care or don't know. It's eveyone else's job to make you feel awesome.

ngdawg · 09-02-2010, 04:26 AM

Ten years of fertility doctors.
Twins. Full term, most of it in bed. Almost lost them twice, first to placenta previa, 2nd time to preterm labor.
Daughter changed her mind in 38th week, went head UP.
Induced two days. Emergency C-Section when it was discovered that I was pushing my son, who was breech.
Suffered severe depression to the point I thought I would harm my babies.
Three weeks later, I declared I want to do it all again.

They went to college last week-son is at Boston COnservatory, daughter is at Montclair State.

Worth every second.

genuinegirly · 09-03-2010, 12:40 PM

Today my Mother-in-law found out that I wasn't feeling too well.
It's not like I'm puking... I'm just off my A-game.

She suggested that I take a pregnancy test.

As if it somehow follows.

I think she's just hopeful.

NG - Sounds like utter chaos - and fun. I'm not sure how anyone could experience the workload of twins and think, "let's do it again!" But somehow my sister had the same mentality. I suppose that if you can handle two at once, a singleton seems like a breeze?

ngdawg · 09-04-2010, 06:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by genuinegirly

Today my Mother-in-law found out that I wasn't feeling too well.
It's not like I'm puking... I'm just off my A-game.

She suggested that I take a pregnancy test.

As if it somehow follows.

I think she's just hopeful.

NG - Sounds like utter chaos - and fun. I'm not sure how anyone could experience the workload of twins and think, "let's do it again!" But somehow my sister had the same mentality. I suppose that if you can handle two at once, a singleton seems like a breeze?

You would think, yet when I hear or see newer moms, I can only think how UNorganized they are! Anyone with multiples (and a lick of common sense) will tell you all you have to do is think about how to handle things in advance.
And first time moms many times think TOO much-they boil everything, they establish timed activities, they allow a little 10 lb blob of humanity to overtake their existence instead of conforming the kid's existence into their lives. There's a compromise most new moms don't see. Having a baby (or two or three) will change many things, but shouldn't bring anything to a screeching halt.

snowy · 09-04-2010, 07:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ngdawg

You would think, yet when I hear or see newer moms, I can only think how UNorganized they are! Anyone with multiples (and a lick of common sense) will tell you all you have to do is think about how to handle things in advance.
And first time moms many times think TOO much-they boil everything, they establish timed activities, they allow a little 10 lb blob of humanity to overtake their existence instead of conforming the kid's existence into their lives. There's a compromise most new moms don't see. Having a baby (or two or three) will change many things, but shouldn't bring anything to a screeching halt.

Ohhh, yeah. I see this all the time in my work.

What's fascinating is that I have one mom who was really on board with getting her daughter to develop as fast as possible, and was doing exactly what you described above. Then she took a new job that requires her to travel a lot, and so dad has kind of taken over on the parenting. Since that switch, Mom has been more interested in "keeping her baby." We've really struggled with getting this one potty-trained; we think she's grasping the concept but then she will backslide. And guess when that backslide happens? After Mom comes home from a trip, of course.

I really think having children requires three kinds of resources: emotional, social, and financial. Personally, I'm waiting until all three converge to take that step, and it might be a while if my husband goes to graduate school.

ShaniFaye · 09-05-2010, 08:41 PM

I suppose I could tell on myself lol My one and only child turned 17 last month, so its not quite as embarrassing as it used to be.

On the day I gave birth to Manda, I woke up after a full nights sleep, it was the first time since (and the last time) I'd gotten preggie that I slept straight thru the night. It was two days before my due date, and on the way to pee I realized I was having contractions. YAY me, it was a sunday which meant neither hubby or I were working. After a few hours of talking with the doctor over the phone and making sure I'd pigged out on breakfast (they'd told me no food once I got to the hospital until after I'd delivered) we drove to the hospital and they put me in an out patient room while they tried to determine if I was really in labor.

I was having contractions, but they were all in my back and the contraction machine wasnt picking them up. They gave me some drug and told me if I quit feeling the contractions I would be sent home. They left me in that room for about 4 hours trying to figure out if I was going to deliver or not lol

At one point towards the end of that 4 hours I had to make one of many trips to the bathroom to pee....when I got there (after stopping twice with contraction pain) I looked down and saw blood running down my legs, at which point I got completely hysterical and started screaming for someone to come save me...because...(and this is the embarrassing part) I thought I was having a miscarriage.

Thankfully nobody laughed at me and shortly thereafter they decided I was really in labor and moved me to a regular room and I had her 4 hours later

ngdawg · 09-07-2010, 04:30 AM

After all I'd gone through, first to actually GET pregnant (took 10 years), then having placenta previa, then having preterm labor, the gods decided that they weren't done with me yet...
Since the chemical induction didn't take (Dr. said I was like an overblown balloon-no muscle left to contract), he broke my water the second day and labor started almost immediately, however...
Since I'd been in bed most of the time, I never went to any labor classes and had no idea how to react or anything. I became a groaning screaming shell of my former self. Insisting on an epidural, the nurse replied, "Not yet. You have to be 7 centimeters and your labor just started", looked and...whoops! time for the needle!
Soon after the shot, it was time to put the monitor on the first baby's fontel (sp?)(the soft spot on their head). An intern came in, went to reach for what was assumed to be my daughter and declared to the nurse, "Get the portable ultrasound, I'm not getting a pulse." OK, you don't say that out loud. I got really scared.
He kept his hand up there while they brought in the machine, looked for his hand and lo and behold, he wasn't getting a pulse because it wasn't Catherine's head he was holding, it was Daniel's scrotum.

Seems Catherine had a change of heart and turned head back up, causing daniel to be the unwitting first born. My doctor, who by now had gone through just about all he ever saw with just one patient, came in laughing pretty hard. "Twins, full term, happens. Twins, full term, induced, very rare. Twins, full term, induced and one flips back up in the last week and now you need a C-section, never saw this." A man with 40 years in the field...
To end the story, I brought them home 6 days later in a raging ice storm.

05-25-2010, 10:00 AM	#2 (permalink)
Idyllic Psycho Location: My House	Ah, Pregnancy...... Weight gain, heartburn, pitting edema, allergic reactions to the point they had to biopsy my skin, stretch marks, vomiting, mask of pregnancy, glowing, happy, sad, happy, sad, huge...... tired, tired, glowing, hungry, sleep eating bags of cookies????..... truly, SLEEP eating..... swollen tender breast, monthly to bi-weekly to weekly visits to the finger dr., er I mean the OB/GYN..... something kicking you from the inside whenever you least expect it, peeing all the time, no coffee, no beer, no cheese, and then there's the birth, for me the 1st one was 36 hours hard labor ended in c-section and one tired and swollen mama, 2nd one was a placental abruption, close call, c-section and again one tired and swollen mama, did I say pitting edema??? I loved every single minute.... but I had waited a very long time to conceive and was way ready to experience it. I loved being pregnant, absolutely loved it, if I could, I would have another baby in a heartbeat, it really was that wonderful for me, even after everything above, it was wonderful. __________________ you can tell them all you want but it won't matter until they think it does p.s. I contradict my contradictions, with or without intention, sometimes.

05-25-2010, 03:31 PM	#4 (permalink)
Starkizzer Hi floor! Make me a samwich. Location: Ontario (in the stray cat complex)	I wouldn't mind being pregnant if I could give the kid to someone else after the birthing part. My grams said that while she was pregnant with my dad, her wisdom teeth roots went on a growing rampage. She had to have them pulled and the dentist said he had never seen anything like it. When she was giving birth to my dad she wasn't dilating properly and she ended up beating my poor dad black and blue with the contractions. Later when the nurses went to give her my dad, she told them that it wasn't her baby. Apparently, his color hadn't returned to normal and looked like a different race, scandalous words were used too! My still gives her hell about being rejected at birth. __________________ Frivolity, at the edge of a Moral Swamp, hears Hymn-Singing in the Distance and dons the Galoshes of Remorse. ~Edward Gorey

05-25-2010, 03:47 PM	#5 (permalink)
Grasshopper Green ...is a comical chap Location: Where morons reign supreme	My pregnancy was fairly uneventful, but I didn't like being pregnant. I know women who love it but to me it was 9 months of misery - nausea, heartburn, swollen hands and feet, a pinched sciatic nerve that hurt like a sonuvabitch, peeing every 5 minutes, rollercoaster emotions, neverending backaches... My delivery was difficult though. I had so many tubes going in me and things attached to me my mom said I looked like an alien. I pushed for nearly 4 hours, at which point my son's blood pressure plummeted and they nearly had to do an emergency c-section. Had I literally not pushed him out the minute I did, they would have. I was so exhausted at that point that I didn't know what the hell was going on. But...it was all worth it in the end! __________________ "They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings; steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king" Formerly Medusa Last edited by Grasshopper Green; 05-25-2010 at 03:53 PM..

08-08-2010, 07:42 PM	#9 (permalink)
ItWasMe But You'll Never Prove It. Location: under your bed	Hubby kept texting updates friends/family with his damn cell phone while I was in labor with our 3rd. My oldest daughter (then 15) still laughs at the last message from him "... mom a bit anti-social right now ..." __________________ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Ok, no more truth-or-dare until somebody returns my underwear" ~ George Lopez I bake cookies just so I can lick the bowl. ~ ItWasMe

08-31-2010, 08:13 AM	#11 (permalink)
constance79 Upright	I got prego on my honeymoon. I was 22. I can say now that I'm incredibly thankful it happened before I could dread it. The changes are crazy, but when you're pregnant you just don't care or don't know. It's eveyone else's job to make you feel awesome. __________________ I will not site plug in my signature.

05-25-2010, 03:12 PM	#3 (permalink)
Eilonwy Tilted Location: NJ	I've never been pregnant myself, and don't know if I ever wish to. It's not so much the idea of being pregnant that puts me off, but the idea of giving birth. I don't deal well with pain, and even if you get the epidural, most people still experience hours of labor pains... no thanks. My mother didn't have any problems being pregnant... no sickness, no swollen feet or ankles, no big nose, no gap in her teeth, etc. I've since known people who've experienced all the pregnancy 'horrors', and still had more than one child. I guess, if it's something you really want, it's worth the hell you might go through and the pain of child birth.

06-15-2010, 07:53 PM	#7 (permalink)
Nikki ~~~~~~~ Location: Charleston, SC	To me pregnancy is the best and worst part of being a woman. I loved it and hated it at times but I would do it all over in a heartbeat. Too bad I am 35 now and feel like I can't go through it again after having two c-sections. I made the decision to have my tubes tied and part of me is sad about it now. I have a perfect girl and boy and I think I have become in love with "the baby phase" or the first year of their life. This is my favorite time of a child.

06-15-2010, 11:29 PM	#8 (permalink)
james1 Upright	I am due sept 20th and i have only gained 18 pounds but that was just in these last two months i had maintained 140 the whole time the here is 18 pounds lol doc says im perfectly fine and to keep doing what i am doing cravings is ice cream all the time and thats about it.

08-15-2010, 06:13 PM	#10 (permalink)
Magnolia Upright	never been pregnant but have suffered through a few pregnancies along side my friends crazy behaviors, that was not fun .

09-02-2010, 04:26 AM	#12 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	Ten years of fertility doctors. Twins. Full term, most of it in bed. Almost lost them twice, first to placenta previa, 2nd time to preterm labor. Daughter changed her mind in 38th week, went head UP. Induced two days. Emergency C-Section when it was discovered that I was pushing my son, who was breech. Suffered severe depression to the point I thought I would harm my babies. Three weeks later, I declared I want to do it all again. They went to college last week-son is at Boston COnservatory, daughter is at Montclair State. Worth every second. __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.

09-03-2010, 12:40 PM	#13 (permalink)
genuinegirly Eat your vegetables Super Moderator Location: Arabidopsis-ville	Today my Mother-in-law found out that I wasn't feeling too well. It's not like I'm puking... I'm just off my A-game. She suggested that I take a pregnancy test. As if it somehow follows. I think she's just hopeful. NG - Sounds like utter chaos - and fun. I'm not sure how anyone could experience the workload of twins and think, "let's do it again!" But somehow my sister had the same mentality. I suppose that if you can handle two at once, a singleton seems like a breeze? __________________ "Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq "violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy Last edited by genuinegirly; 09-03-2010 at 12:45 PM..

09-05-2010, 08:41 PM	#16 (permalink)
ShaniFaye Submit to me, you know you want to Location: Lilburn, Ga	I suppose I could tell on myself lol My one and only child turned 17 last month, so its not quite as embarrassing as it used to be. On the day I gave birth to Manda, I woke up after a full nights sleep, it was the first time since (and the last time) I'd gotten preggie that I slept straight thru the night. It was two days before my due date, and on the way to pee I realized I was having contractions. YAY me, it was a sunday which meant neither hubby or I were working. After a few hours of talking with the doctor over the phone and making sure I'd pigged out on breakfast (they'd told me no food once I got to the hospital until after I'd delivered) we drove to the hospital and they put me in an out patient room while they tried to determine if I was really in labor. I was having contractions, but they were all in my back and the contraction machine wasnt picking them up. They gave me some drug and told me if I quit feeling the contractions I would be sent home. They left me in that room for about 4 hours trying to figure out if I was going to deliver or not lol At one point towards the end of that 4 hours I had to make one of many trips to the bathroom to pee....when I got there (after stopping twice with contraction pain) I looked down and saw blood running down my legs, at which point I got completely hysterical and started screaming for someone to come save me...because...(and this is the embarrassing part) I thought I was having a miscarriage. Thankfully nobody laughed at me and shortly thereafter they decided I was really in labor and moved me to a regular room and I had her 4 hours later __________________ *I want the diabetic plan that comes with rollover carbs. I dont like the unused one expiring at midnite!!*

09-07-2010, 04:30 AM	#17 (permalink)
ngdawg peekaboo Location: on the back, bitch	After all I'd gone through, first to actually GET pregnant (took 10 years), then having placenta previa, then having preterm labor, the gods decided that they weren't done with me yet... Since the chemical induction didn't take (Dr. said I was like an overblown balloon-no muscle left to contract), he broke my water the second day and labor started almost immediately, however... Since I'd been in bed most of the time, I never went to any labor classes and had no idea how to react or anything. I became a groaning screaming shell of my former self. Insisting on an epidural, the nurse replied, "Not yet. You have to be 7 centimeters and your labor just started", looked and...whoops! time for the needle! Soon after the shot, it was time to put the monitor on the first baby's fontel (sp?)(the soft spot on their head). An intern came in, went to reach for what was assumed to be my daughter and declared to the nurse, "Get the portable ultrasound, I'm not getting a pulse." OK, you don't say that out loud. I got really scared. He kept his hand up there while they brought in the machine, looked for his hand and lo and behold, he wasn't getting a pulse because it wasn't Catherine's head he was holding, it was Daniel's scrotum. Seems Catherine had a change of heart and turned head back up, causing daniel to be the unwitting first born. My doctor, who by now had gone through just about all he ever saw with just one patient, came in laughing pretty hard. "Twins, full term, happens. Twins, full term, induced, very rare. Twins, full term, induced and one flips back up in the last week and now you need a C-section, never saw this." A man with 40 years in the field... To end the story, I brought them home 6 days later in a raging ice storm. __________________ Don't blame me. I didn't vote for either of'em.