How would you describe the feeling of being pregnant?
vanityy99
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If someone were to ask me,
I’d describe it as having major bloating with pressure on the lower abdomen.
You?
I’d describe it as having major bloating with pressure on the lower abdomen.
You?
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Which stage of pregnancy? Early, trimesters, labour, birth.5
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Early to me feels a bit crampy mixed with exhaustion and nausea (like all day hangover). First trimester feels like I'm at the end of a bulk and always tired. Then second tri is alright energy comes back, slowly I start to feel more uncomfortable and bigger, pressure on the lower parts, constant need to go to the washroom. Third trimester I feel so heavy and large and sleep sucks. Baby is kicking everywhere all day and night. Yay. Early labour feels like a bad period. Then active labour is alright kind of exciting since baby is coming. Transition..uchgh.. feels like freefalling from an airplane. Then birth.. well won't get into it but there's a certain Johnny Cash song that sums it up well. Then baby is here.
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Early stages- no discernible differences for me, no nausea etc.
First trimester - see above
Second trimester - feeling good, loads of energy!
Third trimester - I’m short so by this time I’m pretty damn huge! (Less distance between pelvis and diaphragm means outward bump is bigger!). Getting harder to sleep, pelvic pain if on my feet too long due to gravity.
Last month - Get this thing out of me! Can’t sleep, can’t eat, pretty uncomfortable!
Labour- first stage - controllable via breathing and kneeling on cold tile floors! 😂
Transition - sheesh! Give me the gas and air now!
Birth - ouch! But soon over and so worth every minute! 😊
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I'm in my second trimester.
First trimester, I would say fatigue definitely.
Second trimester? I forget that I'm pregnant. I just feel normal.4 -
It sucked. The entire thing sucked. I'm glad she's here, and healthy, but I'll never go through that suck again.9
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Like I had a symbiot living inside me. I loved it. By the end, it felt more like this.
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have no idea - I've never been pregnant and am pretty sure at this point in my life I'm never going to be. But you do have my sympathies on the experience!4
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It sucked. The entire thing sucked. I'm glad she's here, and healthy, but I'll never go through that suck again.
Haha pretty much this. 1x not toooo bad but after the 5th, I hated all of it.
Especially that “burning ring of fire” mentioned above 🔥
But NOtHINg beats holding that sweet babe for the first time. Makes it all worth it IMO
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I loved being pregnant. I did go through most of the symptoms early on in pregnancy then as the pregnancy went along they subsided. My last pregnancy was completely different. My symptoms lasted all 9 months and my skin broke out so bad the first 3 months. I never had heartburn though.5
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I loved being pregnant too! All 4 times. I remember being crazy exhausted for the first trimester, with a little nausea, weird cravings like Nestea Iced Tea and Chef Boyardee Beefaroni(YUCK!). Then I felt great the rest of the time and ate like there was no tomorrow.
The last month was always challenging because there was no comfortable way to sleep except on my side with pillows supporting my stomach. I also remember walking the duck waddle. I miss the pregnant feeling, especially baby movement. That was the best feeling. Labor was challenging; I knew my body was doing what it needed to do and you just breath through it. I became very good at focusing on 1 object and numbing my brain to everything else, except when my dh and the midwife started a conversation about meatball subs. Lol Birth was always kind of scary but by then, very welcome. My 2nd baby came so fast, his birth was extremely easy and quick. My 4th was the hardest to push out; you'd think by the time #4 comes along it'd be whoosh but she was almost 10# and what a difference. 7 -
Morning sickness all day long every day for nine months X 26
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conniewilkins56 wrote: »Morning sickness all day long every day for nine months X 2
This times 6. 😫7 -
It's so different for everyone.
Baby 1 - I felt fantastic, glowing. Seriously, it was like I was bathed in golden light. People were so nice to me and I felt like a goddess. I felt glorious and strutted around in high heels and cute maternity clothes the entire time. Ate ridiculously healthy. I had some wicked round ligament pains toward the end, which made walking more than 20 yards at a time painful. I would have to pause on the sidewalk and double over in pain, which caused many people to think I was going into labor on the sidewalk.
Baby 2 (3 years later) - Huge, exhausted, stressed out. Just like a massive, tired cow. Stuffed my face with peanut M&Ms all day. Wore husband's sweat pants for most of it and gave zero effs.6 -
As a man, I can honestly say....I have no comment whatsoever that I can contribute to this thread.
Carry on! 6 -
Also imagine that all of your internal organs are pushed up so far into your chest you feel like you might choke on them. That's pretty much what the last month feels like.7
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I was totally uncomfortable with the first one and wondering when it would end and then honestly believed I would die giving birth it was so long and bad. He was being born back the front so way worse than normal. Second one I am still waiting for the pain 23 yrs later because it was all so easy and pain free. Right now I think anyone nuts for making a baby though. We don't know how the world is going to be next year.4
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Positively and lovingly humbling from start to finish.3
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In a labour where a baby is laying back to back with the mothers own back "the labour tends to be more protracted and can prompt a c-section". Midder texts.
I for one agree its a nightmare, i even had the attending obstratician appologise for all I went through. He had not realised the size of my baby this was in the years before scans and things.
How can someone disgaree with another womans experience of pregnancy?3 -
In a labour where a baby is laying back to back with the mothers own back "the labour tends to be more protracted and can prompt a c-section". Midder texts.
I for one agree its a nightmare, i even had the attending obstratician appologise for all I went through. He had not realised the size of my baby this was in the years before scans and things.
How can someone disgaree with another womans experience of pregnancy?
My guess would be because of the comment on getting pregnant at this time. I don't know, wasn't me, but that's the only thing I see that might ruffle a feather or two. Could have also been an accidental hit. Who knows?5 -
I became more healthy, why I don't know. My hair and nails grew like crazy, my skin cleared up and I looked wonderful and I gained 19 lbs. The morning after I gave birth I was 124lbs, I was 139lbs when I got pregnant. No, I wasn't dieting, I was very healthy and my labour was short, 6 hours the first time, 1 hour the second.
This was in the early 80's, I always joked that I would be the perfect surrogate mother for a couple.3 -
My first pregnancy I felt great from month 1 up until delivery day. But my second one? Jesus grab the wheel. It was so bad I couldn’t even workout. The first trimester I felt so sluggish and bloated. The 2nd trimester, was better than the 1st but I kept eating weird things. The 3rd trimester, dragged by SO SLOW! I was ready to slash everyone’s throat who passed my way. But then I got induced 2 weeks past due date and felt so relieved to hold my baby girl Arya Rose 😍 Both of my birth we’re natural and I ripped for both as well so stitches and discharged the next day and it was like nothing ever happened 😍 but I have a very very high tolerance for pain.4
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First 3 were girls and I felt fine but big, pregnancy was a green light to me to indulge 😈 last 1 was my only boy and I was sick as a dog the first 3 months, the smell of meat made me sooooo sick! I actually lost weight at first and the fatigue, felt like I took a sleeping pill every day all day but that finally cleared and I craved Taco Bell followed by a milky way everyday, the strangest thing was I craved the sour cream on the TB not the actual food, loved that time in my life the 90's rocked cuz I had all my loves💗2
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Simple. Some people are not nice oh and they weren't there feeling like they were about to die any second. Lovely people they are.1 -
I enjoyed the experience, I had pain with my back but I was the happiest I had been in years.1
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Early stage, crampy and constant vomiting
First trimester, fear, pain, vomiting
Second trimester, terror, pain, vomiting
Never made it past 25 weeks even with medical intervention
So labour is pain, had a cervical stitch rip though my cervix with my last pregnancy
Also fear, grief, praying to any deity available and then the long wait to see baby as usually once out they rush them away to get on a ventilator and stabilised
I have two living children, not having any more6 -
It's interesting to me how different it is for everyone.
For me... first trimester: crippling nausea and vomiting multiple times per day. So much vomiting that your back and abdominal muscles are sore and you get black eyes from the pressure of the heaving breaking blood vessels. And that's WITH Zofran, a medication they use for cancer patients to control symptoms of chemo.
Second trimester: gradual relief of vomiting. Some good days some bad days. Able to function almost normally on the good days. Weight gain begins.
Third trimester: weight gain accelerates. Then if you end up having 9+ lb babies like me, it's just feeling heavy, streched out and uncomfortable all the time.0 -
It *kitten* sucks. That’s all.1
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