FTM's: something i didn't know about the birth experience.

CousinVicki

if you get an IV/ epidural-- you will take the LONGEST PEE OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE after giving birth.   honestly, record breaking.    and, do not look in the toilet after you go omg

 

 

mrambo3

The cool mesh panties you get to wear with the monster size pads because you will bleed A LOT after the birth!!!!!

CousinVicki

really i am still in awe at this pee experience. my husband was like "what the hell is happening"  and then i started laughing like crazy.  the nurse was like tone it down lady lol

 

 

chicsahm

The lack of feeling down there after! Everything numb for a week, and I didn't even tear!!!

yesthisiskim0401

How effing cold I would be for hours!

Lhand11

quartermisses:

I don't remember having a pee experience like that. I do remember that when they had me start pushing, I peed a

yesthisiskim0401

RedheadBaker:

My hospital bathroom looked like a crime scene after I pee'd. And holy crap I had a superficial labial tear didn't n

bkeane619

I had a catheter so I didn't have the pee episode.  The weirdest thing for me was the "shakes" after.  I never knew that would happen.

danandkam

Lhand11:

quartermisses:

Mae208

Hmm no huge pee for me. Just crazy diarreah like I couldn't believe! My body was not happy!

RunningGal900

I didn't have a huge pee, but my nurse was amazed at how much I could fill when she came to relieve me with the catheter. My first pee experience was me peeing all over the floor because I didn't realize I would have zero control as I walked to the bathro

ejs207

That I weighed more leaving the hospital after delivering a 9 lb 13 ou baby than I did going in. Holy moly they pump you full of fluids for an induction/c-section.

The shakes from the epidural being so bad none of my monitors actually stayed on m

yesthisiskim0401

RunningGal900:

My first pee experience was me peeing all over the floor because I didn't realize I would have zero control as I wal

Sketchipyro

yesthisiskim0401:

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CousinVicki

i had a catheter too! i don't know wtf was going on lol

mandiroo

Ugh, yes, the shakes from the epidural were terrible! My mouth was even chattering like crazy, I probably looked like a psycho. No bad pee episodes for me.

I do remember while I was pushing I had the WORST cottonmouth! I kept trying to talk to MH

blueeyedrose86

Holy ***, all of this makes me want a natural birth even more lol

kirbabe

I had to leave the catheter in for a day or so after the c/section because the Drs thought they might have knicked my bladder.  I didn't experience the massive pee. 

I did get the shakes when they took me in the OR.  DH thought I

LJPatrick

Not gonna lie, reading all of these comments is freaking me the hell out. Wahhh! FTM

ClaireOtoms

blueeyedrose86:

Holy ***, all of this makes me want a natural birth even more lol

Yes, this is exactl

Kittymom6

LJPatrick:

Not gonna lie, reading all of these comments is freaking me the hell out. Wahhh! FTM

This!!

LauraSF16

blueeyedrose86:

Holy ***, all of this makes me want a natural birth even more lol

Me too!!! 

Fetish

Kittymom6:

LJPatrick:<

Shayliz

I'm a dirty lurker (whoops )but had to chime in. I totally had the shakes after my epi and thought I was broken so I'm glad to read here they are normal. Nobody told me and none of my other mom friends even talked about shakes after an epi. It was w

Roseallen112

CousinVicki:

i had a catheter too! i don't know wtf was going on lol

Me too!! But when I got to my

andthatmakes4

I had an induction followed by a csection and didn't have any of the problems listed in this thread. Not sure why but glad I didn't.

ja9zimm

Fetish:

Kittymom6:<

RhodyMomToBe

CousinVicki:

if you get an IV/ epidural-- you will take the LONGEST PEE OF YOUR ENTIRE LIFE after giving birth.   honestl

RhodyMomToBe

blueeyedrose86:

Holy ***, all of this makes me want a natural birth even more lol

Not all of these th

shelley1002

I never had the shakes or a massive pee after.  I did have a catheter 3 times because of the epi and being so weak after.

I never thought I could poop so much and not care.

I never thought I would faint when I stood up after giving birt

RhodyMomToBe

shelley1002:

I never had the shakes or a massive pee after.  I did have a catheter 3 times because of the epi and being s

topofthepeek

Wowsers!