May 2016 Moms
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Off limit searches!
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I think this discussion was the idea of @laurenmdrn16 ? But I thought we should put together a list of keywords to NEVER search for on Google! To help us all avoid the anticipation of pain and self-diagnosing, here's a few searches to avoid:
- Epidural injection
- Video of birth
- Pregnancy sex positions (thanks @laurenmdrn16)
- Cervix/effaced measuring
- Water breaking
If you are not easily freaked out by the thought of going into labor, something you can search for is the Try Guys on YouTube learning what it's like to feel contractions during labor (: grown men yelling and thanking their mothers is great!
- Epidural injection
- Video of birth
- Pregnancy sex positions (thanks @laurenmdrn16)
- Cervix/effaced measuring
- Water breaking
If you are not easily freaked out by the thought of going into labor, something you can search for is the Try Guys on YouTube learning what it's like to feel contractions during labor (: grown men yelling and thanking their mothers is great!
Re: Off limit searches!
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Married: Oct 20, 2013
BFP 1: Aug 31, 2015
EDD 1: May 12, 2016
DD1 Emma born May 12, 2016
An Honest Account of New Motherhood (with Postpartum Anxiety, Depression, and OCD)
BFP 2: October 07, 2019
EDD 2: June 20, 2020
Been married since 2009.
Unicornuate Uterus (yes I menstruate glitter)
Several MCs
DD born 2013 (our miracle "you can't have babies" baby!)
Mama to Three Girls:
Twins born March 2014 at 26 weeks due to preterm labor
and our 37weeker born May 9th, 2016!
Ya know, I think a lot of those things listed are things women need to see aren't as scary as we make them out in our brains. Normal birth where everything goes relatively smoothly... I think that dispels fear. You don't necessarily have to watch a crotch-shot birth video, there are definitely "tastefully" recorded births to watch. And I think it's important to educate ourselves about what water breaking looks/feels like (not typically the huge gush that everyone thinks of), how and why we measure cervical effacement and dilation. Knowing that stuff calms my fears and helps me feel a smidgen of control on the birth roller coaster. Maybe I'm in the minority!
I think I'll get a selfie with my placenta and post it here just for you ladies
ETA: And childbirth cakes.
Another one to NEVER google is "yeast infection around C-section scar". At one of my post partum visits my OB casually mentioned that you can get bad yeast infections around the scar if you have any flab. Considering I am a flabby lady, I looked it up to see what I should be on the look out for. Mind you, I am a nurse who has cleaned smegma from many an elderly man's penis, had patients vomit golf ball sized blood clots in my face, and digitally disembacted the bowels of both young and old alike. But those images shook me to my core and haunt me to this day.
There will also be lots of issues that come up in early infancy that you don't want to Google. I will leave those for another day...
Which reminds me of a story: One of my friends is a cadaver dog handler and around the end of last summer, I think it was August/September, somebody broke into her work truck and stole a lockbox out of the back.
Probably the thief figured it was guns or something else valuable that needed to be secured in a lockbox (this happened in Texas so I guess it wouldn't be that weird for somebody to have guns in a lockbox in their truck, and it does look like a truck that's been used heavily for hunting or off-roads outdoorsy stuff), but actually what was in the box was a human remains sample that she'd been decomposing for a while to get it properly aged for the training that the search dogs were about to do. Specifically, it was a couple of cadaver hands. They'd been rotting in there for like two weeks.
I would give so much money to see the look on that thief's face if he ever got that box open.