Did you enjoy being pregnant?

Poppy523 · May 2014

I was listening to my brother and his wife complain about being pregnant the other day, they are 30 weeks and having their first baby, and it reminded me of when I was 30 weeks with DD. I absolutely LOVED being pregnant. My pregnancy was pretty easy, and I know not all women are that fortunate. But even when my back was killing me at the end and I could barely stand up without help, I absolutely loved being pregnant. I could seriously gestate for ages without minding. For the record I would totally skip the first trimester, but beyond that I thought it was a blast. I did not even mind peeing every 10 minutes. I get anxious to meet my new LO towards the end, but it does not make me want to rush the pregnancy. I carried two weeks overdue with DD and I considered it bonus time, except that it almost risked me out of the birthing center, which made me a little stressed. Like I said, however, I was lucky enough to have a smooth pregnancy. Is that weird or are there others out there like me?

brachysira · May 2014

Worst time of my life. Seconds after M emerged, I was well again. She was in the NICU, and I always dressed up and combed my hair in some neat way because I'd been too terrible-feeling to shower or wear anything but sweats for a long while. I was cheerful and loved going to the hospital. I'm sure the other NICU parents thought I was insane because it's pretty scary, but I just felt so much better I couldn't be anything but thrilled.

holly321 · May 2014

I love being pregnant. I don't think of it as having hard pregnancies, but I sort of didnt have it too easy either. I threw up all the time. Also, I bled for about 5 weeks of the first trimester each time. And with Dd, I had constant contractions for the last 5 weeks. I was 6 cm dilated and not in labor.

But I loved it. When my water broke at 38 weeks with DS, I was disappointed. I didn't want to stop being pregnant yet. I felt beautiful, feminine, strong. I loved having my baby with me at all times. I loved feeling their kicks.

Puck1182 · May 2014

I loved it. I had an easy pregnancy and felt pretty normal through the whole thing once I worked out my issue with the iron in my prenatals. When DD was 5 days late I was the least anxious out of everyone because as long as I didn't need to be induced I was happy. I knew I'd sort of miss being pregnant, so as much as I wanted to meet DD, I also wanting to savor my last days as a pregnant lady. I was more bothered by the fact that I came down with the mother of all colds three days before she was born!

PhieryBFly · May 2014

I didn't care for it. I was pretty healthy and in control before I was pregnant but that first trimester just put me off my game and I've never been able to get it back. Also, people were much ruder to me while pregnant that otherwise. I've never had so many people cut in front of me in line as when pregnant.

artroyer · May 2014

Eh... not a fan. I have been fortunate enough not to really have much morning sickness with either pregnancy either. With DD1 I had lots of pelvic pain, yeast infections, a painful cyst and just uncomfortable in general... not to mention my placenta was anterior so I barely even got the joy of feeling her move. This time around I've felt completely different, but not good either... I've had pubic pain for awhile now, some sort of depression like symptoms during the winter, ugly baby bump bc of saggy skin left from pregnancy 1... BUT I get to feel her all day long which is wonderful. I know for sure I will miss that!!! It's the ONLY thing I enjoy about pregnancy :-)

tamarar5 · May 2014

I can't say I love being pregnant, but at the same time I love my children and want more. But for me, it's constantly feeling awkward, huge, and mostly, FAT. I gain fast and everywhere. I'm huge. Like I have a hard time in the bathroom because I can't reach, huge. But I also love the no period and the baby in the end.

I could easily do without the aching legs, the swelling feet, the hormones, the sickness, aversions, cravings, and exhaustion.

jesuisfatiguee · May 2014

I LOVED it. I went to 42 weeks, too, and honestly felt like I could go longer despite PUPPS. Like Holly said, I felt so feminine and beautiful. I loved having a baby inside me, I loved feeling him move, I loved the belly - all of it. The rest of my life was pretty much a disaster while I was KU, so I feel like it was a blessing that I enjoyed it so much.

I also had a pretty high libido while pregnant, and some of that increased sensitivity was nice (TMI?)

colinsfebmommy · May 2014

I had such an easy pregnant, but I still didn't like it BUT recently I'm getting the itch and have started missing it.... Maybe I didn't dislike it as much as I thought lol

lbonga1 · May 2014

I was starting to get pretty uncomfortable around that point. I had gnarly heartburn constantly. Also, my back is already screwed up from a bad car accident about 6 years ago, so it was always hurting. I'm already at that point this time too….I had to call out of work today because I threw out my back picking up DD. #-o. I kind of feel like an old person. But, to look on the bright side, I'm glad I haven't had to deal with a high risk pregnancy, and I'm really glad my labor experience with DD was fast and easy.

Drea926 · May 2014

I wouldn't say I LOVED being pregnant, but I didn't really hate it either, at least not until the bitter end. However I did adore the second trimester. I feel like that's the best part. You have the cute bump and the glow and I did love all the attention I got. :P

ericalee27 · May 2014

Loved it for the first 30-33w (depending on the pregnancy) , and then I developed pre-e with both kids. I can't even describe how I felt with pre-e, it's awful. And I was constantly worried about delivering too early and/or having a stroke. So yeah...my pregnancy enjoyment definitely didn't last the whole pregnancy.

TarheelMama202 · May 2014

I absolutely adored it. I loved the bump and my body in general. After the first trimester, I had so much energy. I loved maternity clothes. I loved feeling the baby move. There really wasn't anything I didn't like past the first trimester.

Thus why I am anxious to have another.

kleigh926 · May 2014

I wouldn't say I love it, but I don't necessarily dislike it either. The first trimester is no fun. I didn't throw up this time like I did with DD but I still felt nauseated and sick a lot. Around 10-12 weeks I always start to feel a lot better so I enjoy it more then. My pregnancies have both been very smooth and complication-free, so I feel like maybe I should've enjoyed them more. At the end I just get kind of annoyed with being so big. I hated not being able to shave my legs comfortably or tie my shoes without struggling, and I didn't sleep well in the last couple of months. I'm not at that stage quite yet with this one

kelly321 · May 2014

The only things I liked about being pregnant were feeling the girls move and not needing to suck it in. Otherwise, I don't like it at all. I don't like dealing with the restrictions I have especially when I have some medical issue (my TMJ was so bad with DD2 that for 5 weeks I couldn't eat anything but yogurt and soup and couldn't take NSAIDs to relieve it). I don't like feeling uncomfortable and fat. I don't like not knowing whether my body is going to do something crazy at any second (1st pregnancy - irritable uterus and then HELLP, 2nd pregnancy m/c, 3rd pregnancy beginning uterine rupture). I don't like worrying about whether I'll have a m/c or whether I'll have another preemie or whether something will happen to me and my girl(s) will end up without a mom.

Nope, I'll be happy when we're done.

babywisher · May 2014

I loved it. I was sick during the first tri. Also being it took 6 years to conceive I was scared until the end of the second tri. I was lucky and only gained in the belly so I felt beautiful. I was so blessed with an easy pregnancy. I can't wait for another go at it.

Puck1182 · May 2014

babywisher said:
I loved it. I was sick during the first tri. Also being it took 6 years to conceive I was scared until the end of the second tri. I was lucky and only gained in the belly so I felt beautiful. I was so blessed with an easy pregnancy. I can't wait for another go at it.

I only gained in the belly, too. I definitely thing that was a matter I good genetics, because supposedly my mom was a super cute, tiny pregnant lady. I got some weird comments about it though. There was the somewhat expected "You look like you're snuggling a basketball," but a family friend described my figure as "a cotton ball attached to a pencil." Um, ok? But I definitely liked the way I looked, particularly late second and early third trimester.

TarheelMama202 · May 2014

babywisher said:

I loved it. I was sick during the first tri. Also being it took 6 years to conceive I was scared until the end of the second tri. I was lucky and only gained in the belly so I felt beautiful. I was so blessed with an easy pregnancy. I can't wait for another go at it.

Same. I think I gained 21 pounds total and it was all belly. I loved it.

singingsea · May 2014

There were things I loved about being pregnant and things I hated. I LOVED feeling Kieran kick. Probably my favorite part was feeling his movement.

I had complications though. I ending up having preeclampsia and had to be induced. So I dealt with swelling of epic proportions which made me miserable. I hope my blood pressure stays under control with my next pregnancy. I'd really like to not be induced and to go into labor on my own.

mishka29 · May 2014

I liked it pretty well but some parts not so much. The worry, the heartburn, insomnia. I did really love the bump and the kicks. Labour was not as bad as I thought it would be. I can only hope this pregnancy goes as well.

sjames2 · May 2014

I loved it. I never felt too uncomfortable, my belly really wasn't in my way, I loved feeling the movement. I slept great, and I didn't have any weird cravings. I didn't like the PgAL brain (ectopic with loss of tube 6 months prior). And even though GD wasn't fun it kept my weight down. In the end I gained 11-14lbs total. I actually lost weight. I have baby fever soo bad right now. Hoping in a couple of months we can cure the fever.

wifeofadam · May 2014

Overall, yes. I feel very fertility mother goddessy while pregnant and love the belly, feeling the baby kick, and the anticipation of adding another life to our family. The whole thing is miraculous and makes me feel closer to God. And the birthing experience is my favorite thing in the whole world. I love it.

But the physical discomforts are pretty miserable. With my first I had Bell's Palsy and that sucked. With the last three I've had prodromal labor for the last month. With the last two I've had aching veins in my legs and SPD towards the end. And with the last one I went two weeks overdue and was pretty miserable during that period.

I feel like the emotional and spiritual high I feel while pregnant overshadows the physical stuff, so overall, I love the experience!

Puck1182 · May 2014

I wouldn't go so far as to say I LOVED being in labor. But it wasn't awful either, and I think knowing that there was an end in sight made it easier to deal with. I remember the L&D nurses being really surprise and impressed with how well I was dealing with it, and I didn't even consider an epidural until my labor stalled and my doctor recommended some Pitocin to move things along. At that point I hadn't slept in nearly two days and needed a damn nap, so at that point it wasn't even about avoiding pain so much as wanting to be able to sleep through it for a bit. :-p

singingsea · May 2014

DC2London said:

@singingsea, try baby aspirin with your next pregnancy. I took it daily from BFP to 12 weeks (or 14 maybe?) and my BP was great the whole time with Rhys.

I'll look into that. I've also been trying to get into shape. Don't exactly know if that's going to help my blood pressure but it's worth a shot.

jesuisfatiguee · May 2014

Is it bad that a good chunk of the reason I want another LO eventually is to hopefully have a natural labor? Not 4 hours of drug-induced uterine hyperstimulation? I'm a little jealous, not gonna lie, but I mostly just crave that experience. I feel like I missed out.

TarheelMama202 · May 2014

je+suis=fatiguee said:

Is it bad that a good chunk of the reason I want another LO eventually is to hopefully have a natural labor? Not 4 hours of drug-induced uterine hyperstimulation? I'm a little jealous, not gonna lie, but I mostly just crave that experience. I feel like I missed out.

I could have written this word-for-word. Only mine was 25 hours of drug-induced uterine hyperstimulation. I was ten days past my EDD and was induced. My labor and delivery was a comedy of errors that really began as soon as I got an epidural. I wish I had never received one. I labored for the first 12 hours on pitocin but med-free. During that time, my labor was progressing. At about the 12-hour mark, the nurse was sort of like, "Well, if you're going to get one, now is probably the best time to do it" ::shrugs::. Long story short, when my epidural was placed it was only effective on my right side. Instead of taking out my epidural and replacing it, they had me flip from side to side to have the anesthesia drip to the other side and kept giving me boluses of medication. In that flip-flopping process, LO's heart rate was all over the place and he flipped OP. I was at 8 centimeters for a long time. Because he flipped OP and I have a really narrow pelvis, he got stuck in my pelvic cavity. Every contraction was squeezing his 99th-percentile head, causing his heart rate to go nuts. Eventually, I had a c-section.

I have every intention of having a natural VBAC with number two, that's how awful labor was for me. And I fully blame my decision to have an epidural for it.

TarheelMama202 · May 2014

I should add that he had a massive cone-head when he was pulled out during the c-section. Blessings.

khaze · May 2014

I loved the 2nd tri - feeling alive again after the coma like 1st tri exhaustion. 3rd tri was terrible to the point I'm not sure my body could handle it again. I got SPD around 32 weeks and I could barely walk as the pain was so terrible. I carried my baby so low around that same time his head found a comfy spot right on my sciatic nerve going through my left leg. Pretty much I was in constant pain the last 2 months.

I didn't mind being in labor until it was time to push. He was OP so I pushed for 1.5 hours until he finally came out. I am just thankful his heartrate was fine through the whole process and that he didn't rip my uterus out with him

Rynleigh · May 2014

Nope. The first time around was alright (aside from the six months worth of puking), and I didn't really have any complaints about the L & D part - but after my first pregnancy it was like playing through a game you've already played or watching a movie you've seen too many times.. It was like, dude, I've done this part already... do I seriously have to do the first 9 levels over again? Where's the skip-intro button? Kan I haz baby now?

wifeofadam · May 2014

Sagen said:

I also feel prettier when I am pregnant

I feel prettier with boys. But not with girls.

The old wive's tale about girls stealing your beauty has been true for me. I'm a hot, pimply, swollen mess when I'm pregnant with girls.

(ETA: This could be because I was younger when pregnant with my boys.)

I love labor, too. Love. I dream about it. When I think about not having more kids that's one of the things that makes me weepy - thinking about never getting to give birth again

singingsea · May 2014

krystynad said:

DC2London said:

@singingsea, try baby aspirin with your next pregnancy. I took it daily from BFP to 12 weeks (or 14 maybe?) and my BP was great the whole time with Rhys.

I'll look into that. I've also been trying to get into shape. Don't exactly know if that's going to help my blood pressure but it's worth a shot.
Quote fail This time around I was told to take a baby aspirin to lower Bp and I couldn't believe what a difference it has made!!! I was around 160/90-110 with Evelyn and this time I have been 125/73 and it has been getting better with every appointment. It really is worth checking into!

I think my annual is coming up soon. I'll bring that up with my OB.

DublinMama · May 2014

It had it's ups and down for me. First tri was about 14 weeks of stress and worry that something would go wrong. I loved the baby dances and movements, and lying on my bed watching him go to town in there. I was never too uncomfortable and I only gained 23 pounds, but I also had some weird vibes about "sharing my space" so to speak. Some days a girl just wants a lunch meat sandwich and a couple glasses of wine, ya feel me?

DublinMama · May 2014

I should also add that I looooved labor, but not for any of the reasons yet mentioned haha! My water broke at around 3:00 a.m. I sat in the jetted tub at the hospital and had back massages from nurses, got my epidural at around 2:30 p.m., and then couldn't feel a blessed thing for the rest of the night. I was on amazon.com buying things and facebooking at 9 cms lol. It was calm, quiet, and peaceful (not that unmedicated births cannot be). Nurses were bringing me water and popsicles. It was sort of like a weird spa experience haha!

babywisher · May 2014

I loved l&d also. It was such an amazing experience. People would ask me how I was able to do it naturally and I would say it wasn't bad. My mom on the other hand would say it was horrible and so rough on me. She and dh were in with me. She saw me in the intense pain of pushing for an hour and a half because she was op. I saw my body doing this amazing thing.

mediaperuana · May 2014

no. and i am not currently enjoying it either. neither pregnancy has been bad, but i feel like a whale, i miss wine, and i hate going to the doctor all the freaking time. when i'm not pregnant i am a frequent pee-er, so now i feel like i spend half my day (and night!) in the bathroom.
i'm jealous of women who enjoy it.

Rosebean · May 2014

I have a love/hate relationship with being pregnant. Honestly, I still wasn't really over the things I disliked about it the first time before getting pregnant the second time. I disliked the fact my legs were so swollen, I couldn't bend over to put shoes on without assistance. I hate the fact that my back fat accumulates to unattractive rolls... it feels like they came back sooner this time around. I am just not looking forward to how swollen my face gets either. It's just so unattractive. I have a enough body issues without being pregnant, that I just feel meh about the whole thing.

On the other hand, I am so blessed to be low risk. In fact, I am so low risk, my doctor barely sees me. At 27 weeks, I have seen him twice so far. That's it. My next appointment isn't for another 2 weeks. My back is definitely worse this time around and it makes it hard to do simple tasks like vacuuming or picking DS up. So I am just plugging away. I never complain to anyone when they ask, but internally there are enough things that irk me that I just don't feel mushy gushy about being pregnant. Needless to say, I will be happy to get my body back... next year sometime....

wholenewworld · May 2014

I didn't like it at the time, but now I yearn for it. Like others have said, the worry really did me in and tainted what was otherwise an almost perfect pregnancy. To cut myself some slack, though, I did have a LOT on my plate in general and I did not get a maternity leave. My goal for next pregnancy (and life in general) is to breathe more, calm down, and enjoy what will likely be my last pregnancy!

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