"Every 3rd trimester message board on the internet"
1. I’m 36 weeks and ready to EXPLODE, I need self-induction tips. I’ve tried rough sex, pineapple, bumpy roads, walking, evening primrose oil, castor oil, eggplant, nipple stimulation, the Coffee Potty, reflexology and I spend four hours a day on my exercise ball. Ladies, help!
2. Who else is getting their boy circumcised? NO NEGATIVE COMMENTS PLS.
3. Does this mean anything??? PIC INCLUDED
4. Very TMI: Pooping during delivery (different question than all the posts ive seen)
5. I went through my husband’s phone and he calls this one number whenever I’m out of the house, I’m going to call it. UPDATE ON PAGE SIX: throwing his shit onto the lawn
6. I’m GBS+, but I hear that putting a peeled garlic clove up there with some yogurt will protect my baby and is better than antibiotics, does it have to be plain yogurt? I only have strawberry-banana.
7. Is anyone still having sex?
8. Only to try to jumpstart labor lollll
9. No
10. CONSTANTLY I am wet 24/7
11. Is this my mucous plug? PIC INCLUDED
12. let’s all post selfies of how we REALLY look
13. I’m gonna be 39 weeks at Christmas but my parents-in-law expect us to make the six hour drive out to their farm, so should I still feel obliged to make my usual croquembouche?
14. MY DOCTOR WON’T INDUCE ME UNLESS I’M OVERDUE
15. I’m 1cm dilated and 50% effaced, is that good?
16. I was 6cm dilated and 100% effaced for six weeks, it doesn’t mean anything.
17. In Labor and Delivery: Round Three. Monday 3 am (48 hours into Labor)
18. I think my contractions are in my butt, is that normal?
19. MY CUNT SISTER STOLE MY BABY NAME
20. All six of my kids were preemies and spent a total of nineteen years in the NICU and you whiny-ass ladies need to suck it the fuck UP and wait until your stupid kids are born.
21. What’s the deal with evening primrose oil?
22. What’s in your hospital bag?
23. I AM FORMULA FEEDING BY CHOICE, no negative comments!
24. tips for moving things along? does anyone know anything about evening primrose oil?
25. I think I might be in labor HELP.
26. can u sweep your own membranes? can your husband sweep your membranes?
27. Do you put evening primrose oil in your vag or do you take it orally?
28. my back hurts, is this labor? help!
29. are you vaxx’ing?
30. you DO know that vaccines are made from aborted fetuses, right?
31. What’s the first thing you’re going to eat SUSHI FOR ME.
32. I’m going to have coffee, I miss coffee!
33. lol i’ve been drinking coffee this whole time
34. Well, I just couldn’t live with myself if I gave my baby autism or something.
35. Is anyone else still here? I feel like I’m gonna be pregnant forever.
36. Ladies, you all need to CALM DOWN. We’re all uncomfortable, but our babies will be here soon enough. Let’s just enjoy this time and not try to rush through it. Think about all the women who can’t even have babies.
37. Seriously, fuck you, lady.
38. If you put evening primrose oil in your vagina, do you poke a hole in the capsule first?
My friend linked this to me last night and I was laughing loud enough for H to be like "what's so funny?!" from the other room. Then I had to google Coffee Potty.
Post by DarcyLongfellow on Dec 18, 2014 15:09:16 GMT -5
LOL. So, so true.
And, this right here is why MMM is a beautiful place. You need a variety of different perspectives. You throw a bunch of women all in their third tri, most of them with their first pregnancy, and insanity is the only possible result. Blind leading the blind.
I remember when the Bump split the baby boards into Babies 0-3 months and babies 3-6 months. So much drama. Plus the drama about -- but, my baby turned 3 months TODAY, which board am I "allowed" to post on?
Ahhh. Just remembering all that makes me so happy for GBCN!
omg and all the "when does the second trimester OFFICIALLY start?"
YES! Then the people who would "yell" at you for posting on the second tri board when you were "only" 11.5 weeks because THEY PUT THEIR TIME IN ON FIRST TRI AND NOW YOU HAVE TO, DAMNIT.
Second tri really was the bitchiest. Over the early excitement of pregnancy, but not really into registering, planning nurseries, and waiting for labor signs yet. Were you there for the strict rules about how you were NOT to make the title of a gender reveal post "It's a ....." -- you HAD to say boy or girl in the actual title OR ELSE?
Post by stacyb1983 on Dec 18, 2014 15:32:23 GMT -5
I was looking for a message board after I found out I was pregnant with C. All of the ones I found were carbon copies of this. I stumbled across GCBN and am very glad I did.
And, this right here is why MMM is a beautiful place. You need a variety of different perspectives. You throw a bunch of women all in their third tri, most of them with their first pregnancy, and insanity is the only possible result. Blind leading the blind.
I remember when the Bump split the baby boards into Babies 0-3 months and babies 3-6 months. So much drama. Plus the drama about -- but, my baby turned 3 months TODAY, which board am I "allowed" to post on?
Ahhh. Just remembering all that makes me so happy for GBCN!
omg and all the "when does the second trimester OFFICIALLY start?"
I still think it should be 14w. Because you're not pregnant in weeks 1 and 2.
Oh, Lordy. Here it goes. Deep breath. NOTE: this is dumb.
So. Last time I totally pooped during pushing. But here's the thing--I knew I needed to poop much sooner than I was ready to push. But, since the labor pushing and the pooping pushing are basically the same, I didn't want to poop for fear of pushing the baby too soon. So I just held it.
So, I guess, the question: Is it OK to poop during the non-pushing stages of labor?
(I feel like this is going next to my name on the spreadsheet. I might delete for just sheer embarrassment.)
You just brought me back to the worst part of labor!
I felt such intense pressure and called the nurse in and told her there was no way I could hold it in any longer. She told me to just wait wait wait until the next check and not to push anything out. By some miracle, I think I held it in for the next hour when I was confirmed to be at 10cm (my epidural was really good though, so maybe I didn't?). But yeah, that's how I know technically it's not okay to poop before pushing but I can't imagine no one has ever done it before and sometimes you just can't hold it in.
Oh, Lordy. Here it goes. Deep breath. NOTE: this is dumb.
So. Last time I totally pooped during pushing. But here's the thing--I knew I needed to poop much sooner than I was ready to push. But, since the labor pushing and the pooping pushing are basically the same, I didn't want to poop for fear of pushing the baby too soon. So I just held it.
So, I guess, the question: Is it OK to poop during the non-pushing stages of labor?
(I feel like this is going next to my name on the spreadsheet. I might delete for just sheer embarrassment.)
My answer is hell yes. Poop whenever you want. It's totally natural to poop the whole time and during. In my opinion there no such thing as pushing the baby out too soon and chances are if you went to poop you would be able to go without much effort at that point. Not even a gross question!
Oh, Lordy. Here it goes. Deep breath. NOTE: this is dumb.
So. Last time I totally pooped during pushing. But here's the thing--I knew I needed to poop much sooner than I was ready to push. But, since the labor pushing and the pooping pushing are basically the same, I didn't want to poop for fear of pushing the baby too soon. So I just held it.
So, I guess, the question: Is it OK to poop during the non-pushing stages of labor?
(I feel like this is going next to my name on the spreadsheet. I might delete for just sheer embarrassment.)
Are you *sure* that you had to poop? Because labor makes you feel like you have to poop. SO, the nurse probably told you that because she didn't want you to try to push the baby out, thinking you were trying to poop.
If it happens again (and you're sure you really have to poop), I'd tell the nurse that you know that labor can feel like you have to poop, but you really and truly have to poop, and can she tell you what you should do?
I mean, I can't see any reason why the actual act of pooping would matter if you're say, 7 cm or whatever. It's the pushing. Isn't chilerellanos a L&D nurse? I'm sure she could tell you!
Jen I attempted to poop and maybe did within 45 minutes of pushing. I spent a lot of my transition petiod on the toilet. Tmi sorry everyone. I would try to poop this time if I were you. Don't hold it in.
Poop whenever you feel like it. Once I entered transition, I couldn't tell wtf was going on down there and I didn't care what came out of me as long as I got a baby in the end.
Also, they forgot to add "I had my baby a week ago and I've returned to bestow all my newfound wisdom on you lowly pregnants."
Poop whenever you feel like it. Once I entered transition, I couldn't tell wtf was going on down there and I didn't care what came out of me as long as I got a baby in the end.
Also, they forgot to add "I had my baby a week ago and I've returned to bestow all my newfound wisdom on you lowly pregnants."
This. I was on and off the toilet during labor (didn't poop, but peed a lot) however, come transition I was a writhing, crazy-eyed mess glued to the bed. I couldn't have logically decided I needed to poop and get myself to the bathroom. And after that I was fully dilated and ready to push. So I say if you are coherent enough to articulate that you need to poop, and are not fully dilated- go poop
It's missing all of the, "omg, my baby is breech!!!!!" and a million debates on the safety of cytotec.
OMG...so much this. I BURNED in flames of glory over cytotec when I was pregnant with my first. My Dr. gave it to me, had very valid reasons why (basically it was a stillbirth, didn't really matter in regards to the fetus at that point and it was the fastest means to an end in his eyes, worked the best with the other combo of drugs he was giving me and a lot of other reasons). When I mentioned this I got 462642364 reasons why it was awful, that my dr. was an idiot, my baby was going to be more harmed than it already was (How the F*ck was that even possible?)
When I used my common sense and politely pointed out that basically my OB was well respected, well researched and I trusted him I got all sorts of "But we know about this! Why are you not believing the internet! My OB would never....?"
It was awesome.
I took a long break after that.
And shockingly. I'm still here. I've had two kids then and he didn't use Cytotec either time just as he said why he wouldn't.
Damn OBs and their medical school degrees thinking they know something.
Poop whenever you feel like it. Once I entered transition, I couldn't tell wtf was going on down there and I didn't care what came out of me as long as I got a baby in the end.
Also, they forgot to add "I had my baby a week ago and I've returned to bestow all my newfound wisdom on you lowly pregnants."
i think this is my favourite. especially when it's things that are so subjective.
I had a patient the other day with a 7 PAGE birth plan checklist printed off from the bump. I almost wanted to ask her what her screen name was.
LOL. My OB outright banned those forms and anything that came off the internet...lol. He has a 1 page form and your wishes better fit on it.
He once had a near tragic case after someone had a someone had a birthplan involving lavender candles, dim lights and like 43634643 people in the room. He almost couldn't do his job when she had to be rushed out to OR and it shook him bad.