What they never told you about pregnancy

genniemg · February 2010

I was hoping you could help me. I'm want to put something together for things in every trimester that they didn't tell you about before you became pregnant, in high school or from your mom.

This is mainly the fun stuff or the joking stuff.

Ex...your new best friend would become the potty becuase of morning sickness.

Going three hours between peeing is no longer an option.

Does anybody have any they'd like to add?

one_more_girl · February 2010

I have always wanted to write a very candid book about this subject myself

LCB34 · February 2010

Panty liners are a necessity due to constant discharge.....

Skyqueen737 · February 2010

When you pass gas your husband might question whether it was you or the dog!

kjg5445 · February 2010

your face looks worse than it did in your teenage years and when you try to use cleaners it dries out your face like a prune. Where is the happy medium!?!?

**Octoberbride09** · February 2010

I.just.blogged. this.

JhawkCE · February 2010

You worry every time you go to the bathroom that you'll see blood.

genniemg · February 2010

**Octoberbride09**:
I.just.blogged. this.

I LOVE YOURS!

Wendmarie · February 2010

that I would be both horrified and impressed by my the size of my boobs

JillAly · February 2010

No one told me I would be so exhausted that I could fall asleep anytime, anyplace - even in the middle of a room full of people.

kgrogan16 · February 2010

That your hormones actually make you crazier than they even warned you about. You may or may not tell your mother you kinda feel like punching her in the face for aggravating you. Just sayin'.

GBCK · February 2010

That producing enough saliva that you could drown in your own spit is a side effec.t

historychick79 · February 2010

GBCK:
That producing enough saliva that you could drown in your own spit is a side effec.t

This! I feel like I'm swimming in my pillow when the insomnia wakes me at 2am, gross!

veebug22 · February 2010

That I will want to fall asleep constantly during the day, but come 2 am I'm staring at the ceiling.

That the internal controls that monitor my manners and self-control will be almost non-functioning. Yesterday I almost told someone off. She's nice enough, but she constantly talks about herself. I said one thing about something related to myself and she spun off on a vaguely related tangent about herself for like 30 minutes. Every time I tried to get a word in and explain that wasn't quite what I meant (since she had taken the statement in a different direction), she cut me off. By the end of it I was being openly cold and a bit rude, and I literally was on the verge of telling her off. I made eye contact with another friend (when talking person was out of view but still talking) and threw my hands up and gnashed my teeth. I was THIS CLOSE to telling her to shut the **** up and that it is not all about her. That is totally out of character for me, but she is so rude! She'll yammer on about herself for ages, ask you a question about something related to her, and then walk off while you're mid-sentence in answering her! Normally I can take rudeness with a grain of salt, but right now... no.

LuckyVaCpl · February 2010

You finally understand what your H must have felt like as a teenager dealing with wet dreams?

And you'll feel like a kid again receiving constant lectures from friends, family and strangers about your health, your diet, your weight and your bed time?

atlynch81 · February 2010

JillAly:
No one told me I would be so exhausted that I could fall asleep anytime, anyplace - even in the middle of a room full of people.

This plus - your waste disapears.. I knew you got a belly, but did not realize that you lose your waste before then. Hmmmm.....acid reflex is a nice touch too. Just me, but Morning sickness feels like motion sickness to me.

Chiperelli · February 2010

GREAT BOOBS THAT NO ONE CAN TOUCH!

bride456 · February 2010

You should read "Belly Laughs" by Jenny McCarthy. It is hilarious and tells the ugly honest truth about the gross stuff no one talks about. It is a super quick read; maybe 2 hours on the couch.

julybaby23 · February 2010

That it is actually 10 months. Why did no one tell me this?

pamela41208 · February 2010

JillAly:
No one told me I would be so exhausted that I could fall asleep anytime, anyplace - even in the middle of a room full of people.

seriously- there are days when i think i could fall asleep standing up.

ShanaNChris · February 2010

My nips would get darker everyday, finally turning a very dark shade of brown and itch terribly.

The *glow* people speak of - it's actually sweat

That your milk can actually come in before you have your baby and you could be pumping it.

How alone you feel when you can no longer see your who-ha...and how great it feels to get to see it again afterward.

kg_08 · February 2010

Your boobs will sometimes hurt when you're not even touching them, when you DO touch them, it feels like you're running a cheese grater over your nipples.

Acne will reappear from your early teen years. Not just your face, but your neck, chest, back, and who knows where else.

Say good bye to ever getting a good night's sleep again.

You will bloat up like a baloon, and it's not baby. You're just fat.

jgal84 · February 2010

That even if you've never been a "crier" before, you will find yourself tearing up at the smallest of things (i.e. commercials, compliments, songs on the radio)

Someone else said this, but, yes, that you will worry that everytime you go to the bathroom you will see blood. Or, that you feel like you are bleeding, rush to the bathroom and find that it's only a massive amount of discharge (whew!)

You get acne and yet, you can't use anything to treat it (awesome.....)

That all of your previous ideas and daydreams of how you THINK your pregnancy is going to be like can be tossed out the window in a microsecond.

brown_bride07 · February 2010

This reminds me of "The Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy". Its pretty good too.

Let's see- your exhausted but can't sleep. DEFINITELY

That you'll be starving but are scared to eat anything all at the same time

That your excited when you have a bowel movement. It means your not constipated.

joolz425 · February 2010

That I'd be so tired I'd fall asleep during premier of Lost.

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