pregnancy regrets

Tula214 · January 2013

Anybody regret, wish they'd done, or not do something?

Today I gave up my dream I'd scrapbooking Jayson's first year. If I get to it in the future, great. I bought a baby book that is pretty simple, and so cute!

The author of the book also makes a pregnancy journal. It looked amazing, and I wish I had seen it when I was pregnant. I never made a pregnancy journal.

I wish I'd gotten maternity pictures done, even if they weren't professional. I wish I would've taken more pictures in general during pregnancy.

Mrs. Rohde · January 2013

I wish I had gone out more often with DH, finding a sitter for DD was WAY easier than finding one for both kids.

MommyMelRN · January 2013

I started a pregnancy journal, but that's about it. I have very few pics of me pregnant...I barely looked pregnant until like 32 weeks. Even then my midwife was like "Wow, with the right clothes, I wouldn't even know you were pregnant..." Sigh. I do have one really good pic from the day before I went into labor though...

twoitalians · January 2013

I kinda had a pregnancy journal. I only wrote in it for a few months but I wish I had been consistent and wrote throughout my whole pregnancy. At the time I didn't have the time to write in it because I had been working 60-70 hour weeks training to get a promotion and was too exhausted when I got home to do more than eat and sleep. I found the journal a few weeks ago and started reading through it and was tearing up reading about the emotions and things I felt.

I wish I had my maternity pictures done a month earlier. My photographer suggested to have them done the end of July. I was HUGE and it was 110 degrees and I did nothing but waddle and sweat. At least if I had them done a month earlier I would have had a cute bump and maybe sweated less.

I wish I didn't obsess so much over learning how to breastfeed. I read books and did google searches. I thought that the more I knew, the better prepared I would be for making it work. It just didn't work for us. What I felt should have felt natural was very awkward for us.

Andreabks · January 2013

wish i'd journaled more. i'm really bad at it, and after 2 m/c i was affraid to do too much just to have another journal hidden in the closet.

JayandEmm · January 2013

I wish I would have gotten professional maternity photos done.

Msbean22 · January 2013

I wish I would have insisted I be checked by the doctor sooner, and insisted on a fourth ultrasound. We knew she was breech at 28 weeks and no one was concerned but me. Every appointment I was the only one worried, and every appointment I expressed how much I wanted a med-free birth. And everytime the nurse checked me, she said she couldn't tell if babygirl was head down. I wish I would have asked the doctor, "are you sure?" It's unsettling to me that he checked me twice and thought she was head down both times, and was wrong. Especially upsetting that he wanted to induce me at 40 weeks when there was no reason to (we were perfectly healthy.) I know there is no guarantee we could have flipped her, but at least I would have the peace of mind that we tried and someone gave a damn about my wishes. I wish I could stop being so bitter about this.

phq2011 · January 2013

I wish I would have gone with my gut when I was 41w2d. I started having incredible pain and even though the determined it was not labor, I knew something was up. I may have been able to deliver vaginally if I had insisted on an induction then.

brandyleighxx · January 2013

I took baby bump pics all through out but I wish I'd religiously done it each week wearing the same thing. The pics were so random and a lot of them are taken by myself in the bathroom with my phone.

I also wish I'd made a video in the hospital (pre and post birth - not of the birth) and gotten the classic picture of me in a hospital gown holding DS in the hospital bed with DH. The only pics of the 3 of us are on the day we left - I was in a maternity dress and DH in his dirty work clothes!

amaite · January 2013

I wish I had not gotten the flu shot. I was really hesitant to get it while pregnant, but the OB's office insisted it was riskier not to get it than to get it. Fast forward...I was contacted by the Department of Public Health and my baby and I are now part of a research study about particular batch numbers of the flu vaccine and birth defects. I can't say that this is what caused his heart defects, and I'll likely never know, but I regret getting it.

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