I would have to say...no one ever talks about what it can do to your teeth. I guess it is the obvious...but when you vomit everyday for the better part of 9 months (including while pushing ur child out) that it will seriously screw your teeth up! No matter how much you brush them, the stomach acid just starts eating the enamil on your teeth!
2007-03-09 18:49:38 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
Ripping & stiches are pretty obvious! The question isnt whats the biggest problem. The question is something no one ever told you....ripping and or stitches is very known!
2007-03-09 19:00:52 · update #1
I wish someone had told me about the empty feeling you have that first night or so after you have the baby when you actually miss the kicking or expect to feel it. I remember waking up feeling like there was something wrong because I hadn't felt the baby move. Forgetting that I had given birth!
2007-03-09 20:01:07 · answer #1 · answered by Wicked Good 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
1 "It will all get better in the second trimester." Like that's some sort of guarantee. I'm still exhausted and can't brush my teeth without retching.
(Side note: pregnancy is a good excuse to buy a Sonicare toothbrush.)
2 That obstetrics is full of bad ideas. High c-section rates, episiotomies, inductions for no reason (and, inductions presented as risk-free); utterly normal things being 'high-risk,' etc, etc, etc. The high rate of iatrogenic complications possible with a hospital birth amazed me.
3 That "What to Expect When You're Expecting" is garbage.
4 That the average piece of maternity clothing is not terribly stylish, made from artificial fibres, and of generally poor quality.
5 Okay, you only asked for one, so I'll shut up now...
2007-03-10 08:55:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wish I would have known about this constipation. Man, I never realized how good a Bowel Movement could feel!
You are right about the teeth thing as well. After severe morning sickness I had to have an emergency wisdom tooth extraction because all the vomiting made the tooth so brittle it just started breaking off in to pieces
2007-03-10 02:54:06 · answer #3 · answered by hollilynn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How hungry one could really get. I didnt have morning sickness. But I started eating one minute after conception and didnt stop untill much after ( a year) after my baby came out. I would eat 8 solid meals a day and yet feel like I would pass out with hunger in the ten minute gap between my next meal. Ugh, horrible. I had gained 40 lbs and it took me 5 years to lose all of that. That and the fact that my shoe size changed. I cannot wear any of my pre- pregnancy shoes.
2007-03-10 03:01:04 · answer #4 · answered by Hopi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
for me it wasnt the NOT KNOWING, it was the sugar coating of pregnancy symptoms.
i knew about morning sickness but i didnt know how BAD it could FEEL!
i dont mind vomitting but the upset stomach and the incurable nauseousness is the worst! i have been nauseous PLENTY of times in life but NEVER has it felt like that! it was 10x worse than any illness i have ever felt. i thought i was goin to die.
oh and the "baby blues" is such a cute way to describe DEPRESSION. another way to make a very real and potentiallly harmful symptom seem like nothing.
i used to want a big family but i have SERIOUSLY reconsidered having ANY more children.
2007-03-10 05:35:51 · answer #5 · answered by jean grey 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After 9 months of seeing the same doctor, and the same one who delivered by baby, I guess didn't seem to think to tell my that my cervix was tilted upward. And it wasn't till after pushing for like 13 hours, he finally said "she's not going to be able to make it through with how you are. We need to get you some help" To this day, I don't know if it ties in with it, but my back hurts like you would not believe.
2007-03-10 03:04:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the thing I wished someone had told me about pregnancy was that you have a higher chance of gall stones and gall bladder problems during pregnancy. I was popping antacids my first pregnancy to no avail and didn't find out until after my son was born that I didn't have heart burn I had gall stones and they were painful! Three aunts and a 2 friends and a couple cousins all had this same surgery after giving birth and not one told me about it!
2007-03-10 03:10:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I never did vomit, sure felt sick though. I guess I am pretty lucky because I didn't have any complaints except nasty leg cramps. Maybe a warning that it actually hurts when the baby moves, at least when you are getting close. My son liked to hit my cervix....knocks the wind out of you!
2007-03-10 02:56:03 · answer #8 · answered by Angie G 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The teeth thing I heard, it would have been nice if someone had mentioned how annoyed a fetus can be by a full bladder. I swear the little buggers just can't stand a full bladder.
2007-03-10 03:06:40 · answer #9 · answered by Huggles-the-wise 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hhheeeaarrttbuuurrrnnn!!! omg do i ever wish i was warned just how bad it would be! i have to take zantac 300 2x a day! oh and just how uncomfortable you can get when the baby is REALLY moving around. no matter what position you get in the babe finds another way to make you horribly uncomfy!!!
2007-03-10 02:54:14 · answer #10 · answered by angel_eyes_91086 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋