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emsned · February 2016

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!

kbrands7 · February 2016

Unless you absolutely want to know, I'd advise against looking up a diagram that depicts the degrees of tears or what fresh csection incisions look like. These were the only things that gave me chills when I was researching last pregnancy.

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TheThornBird · February 2016

Bloody show and mucus plug. Although in a few weeks I'm sure we'll get plenty of people posting their pictures. Oh, and placentas. Disgusting.

saladflambe · February 2016

Aw but I love birth videos!

wamam027 · February 2016

TheThornBird said:

Bloody show and mucus plug. Although in a few weeks I'm sure we'll get plenty of people posting their pictures. Oh, and placentas. Disgusting.

Omg, please no, people really do this? We believe you when you tell us you lost your mucus plug, don't feel the least bit inclined to post pictures.

thismakes4 · February 2016

TheThornBird said:

Bloody show and mucus plug. Although in a few weeks I'm sure we'll get plenty of people posting their pictures. Oh, and placentas. Disgusting.

After our first baby and I was home from the hospital glancing through pictures I noticed DH took a pic of the placenta. I had no idea and he thought it was pretty funny. It wasn't.

durbie92 · February 2016

I'm gagging over here

doozer1345 · February 2016

Yeah mucus plugs pretty much look like you blew your nose in your panties. Got it? Good. We don't need a picture.

jenashawn · February 2016

I'm with @saladflambe, I love birth videos!

businessmama · February 2016

Hemorrhoids. Or however you spell it. Always saw it as a symptom so I googled it. Big mistake.

dsmith211 · February 2016

TheThornBird said:

Bloody show and mucus plug. Although in a few weeks I'm sure we'll get plenty of people posting their pictures. Oh, and placentas. Disgusting.

DH made this mistake today. We learned about it at our class last night and he thought it would be a good idea to google it today. In my defense I warned him not to...

allisonmunson94 · February 2016

Oh no. I have this really bad thing where if someone says "don't google" something, I have to and I cannot stop myself. Please no.....

kami09 · February 2016

& your mucus plug can regenerate so if you lose it early that's still no excuse.

mumbolino · February 2016

I love birth videos, too! I can never stop watching them.. and there are really lovely ones out there, too :-)

rlworzalla · February 2016

Can we all make a pact to not post the bloody show or mucus plug pics? We don't need that....

rlworzalla · February 2016

thismakes4 said:

TheThornBird said:

Bloody show and mucus plug. Although in a few weeks I'm sure we'll get plenty of people posting their pictures. Oh, and placentas. Disgusting.

After our first baby and I was home from the hospital glancing through pictures I noticed DH took a pic of the placenta. I had no idea and he thought it was pretty funny. It wasn't.

TBH I would be interested to see what it looks like out of curiosity and then likely regret it but I won't be making a request to have one taken..

yogahh · February 2016

@kbrands7 I never thought of looking up tears but not I can't help myself.

JennyS86 · February 2016

This may also be a good UO, but I think placentas are cool! If I was having a vag delivery, I would ask to see mine. I won't requesting that in the operating room, and I won't be keeping it for my own use (no judging if you are!), but they really do look amazing - it is like a tree with branches of blood vessels.

Bltbear82 · February 2016

Birth videos make me queasy and anxious. Even after experiencing labor, I can't watch them. We watched one during a class last pregnancy and the instructor asked me if I was going to pass out and it was just the first few minutes.

araecasey · February 2016

@yogahh She warned you!

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

rlworzalla · February 2016

I caved and looked up the placenta pics. Not as bad as I thought!

LemmyRN · February 2016

AliciaD39 said:

Hemorrhoids. Or however you spell it. Always saw it as a symptom so I googled it. Big mistake.

@AliciaD39 You had me laughing soooo good at this. I could only imagine the mental scarring, images you'll never forget.

kbrands7 · February 2016

yogahh said:

@kbrands7 I never thought of looking up tears but not I can't help myself.

-----------Qbf---------
No! Seriously, I advise against looking up too much detail on tears or incisions. Seeing diagrams and pictures of those made me gasp (not even birthing videos did that).

Looking up preventative measures and care is a good idea for just in case, but pictures just aren't necessary.

araecasey · February 2016

allisonmunson94 said:

Oh no. I have this really bad thing where if someone says "don't google" something, I have to and I cannot stop myself. Please no.....

What you SHOULDN'T google, is placenta teddy bears.

ETA: And childbirth cakes.

Merciel · February 2016

Placentas don't bug me. I've been raw feeding my dogs too long to get easily grossed out by things that just look (to me) like big chunks of animal organs. Although I guess it'll be a little weird if I'm so loopy from pain medication that I ask to take the dumb thing home as dog food. Then again, given some of the stuff other people do with their placentas, maybe not...

arj14 · February 2016

AliciaD39 said:

Hemorrhoids. Or however you spell it. Always saw it as a symptom so I googled it. Big mistake.

I just looked it up on Wikipedia... that was bad enough.

JessicaB0627 · February 2016

kbrands7 said:

yogahh said:

@kbrands7 I never thought of looking up tears but not I can't help myself.

-----------Qbf---------
No! Seriously, I advise against looking up too much detail on tears or incisions. Seeing diagrams and pictures of those made me gasp (not even birthing videos did that).

Looking up preventative measures and care is a good idea for just in case, but pictures just aren't necessary.

This goes for the aftermath of your own tear too. You'll be curious, but don't do it.

Pascal86 · February 2016

STDs. NEVER image search that. I did that once when I was freaking out about what turned out to be an ingrown hair, and it scarred me for life. Not that this is really pregnancy related at all, but while we're warning of each other of stuff, stay away from that one! Even if you are sure you have an STD, don't search that.

thismakes4 · February 2016

araecasey said:

allisonmunson94 said:

Oh no. I have this really bad thing where if someone says "don't google" something, I have to and I cannot stop myself. Please no.....

What you SHOULDN'T google, is placenta teddy bears.

ETA: And childbirth cakes.

QBF.

Umm. That's got me curious. I've heard and seen everything else listed so far but that... I'm like wtf.

michellabanana · February 2016

Did anyone see that birthing video in the river?! Lady was pretty much giving birth on rocks! (Well she did have a mat). It was the first birthing video I watched. It wasn't that scary at first, but then the husband started pulling the baby out by the head! Luckily the baby was ok. All her kids were around too, and I couldn't help imagining there were campers on the other side of the river lol

TheThornBird · February 2016

Merciel said:

Placentas don't bug me. I've been raw feeding my dogs too long to get easily grossed out by things that just look (to me) like big chunks of animal organs. Although I guess it'll be a little weird if I'm so loopy from pain medication that I ask to take the dumb thing home as dog food. Then again, given some of the stuff other people do with their placentas, maybe not...

Well, you can donate it to search & rescue k9 teams to help them train dogs to find human remains......I'm trying to convince MH to let me donate ours, but the idea of it creeps him out.

laurenmdrn16 · February 2016

emsnedds said:

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!

Love it!

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...

jenashawn · February 2016

@michellabanana I saw that weird birth video too! I'm all for natural birth, and i've watched a ton of videos on youtube and such, but that one takes the cake. Seems like a good way to get some sort of terrible infection!

Merciel · February 2016

TheThornBird said:

Merciel said:

Placentas don't bug me. I've been raw feeding my dogs too long to get easily grossed out by things that just look (to me) like big chunks of animal organs. Although I guess it'll be a little weird if I'm so loopy from pain medication that I ask to take the dumb thing home as dog food. Then again, given some of the stuff other people do with their placentas, maybe not...

Well, you can donate it to search & rescue k9 teams to help them train dogs to find human remains......I'm trying to convince MH to let me donate ours, but the idea of it creeps him out.

Oh, yeah, I know.

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.

TheThornBird · February 2016

Merciel said:

TheThornBird said:

Merciel said:

Placentas don't bug me. I've been raw feeding my dogs too long to get easily grossed out by things that just look (to me) like big chunks of animal organs. Although I guess it'll be a little weird if I'm so loopy from pain medication that I ask to take the dumb thing home as dog food. Then again, given some of the stuff other people do with their placentas, maybe not...

Well, you can donate it to search & rescue k9 teams to help them train dogs to find human remains......I'm trying to convince MH to let me donate ours, but the idea of it creeps him out.

Oh, yeah, I know.

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.

Ha! I can imagine for weeks he was terrified a pissed off serial killer was going to track him down and harvest his body parts. Hopefully it taught him to never steal again

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