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What Do You Wish You Knew Before You Gave Birth?

by Momversation on May 12, 2009 — Comments (6)

In honor of Nancy O'Dell's guest spot on Momversation, and her book Full of Life: Mom-to-Mom Tips I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Pregnant, we decided to ask our Twitter followers what they wish they knew for their delivery. Here's what some of them said:

What do you wish you had known?

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6 Comments

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Wed, 2010-03-03 18:41

bwankel

I wish I had known what contractions were supposed to be like. I kept reading you felt a lot of it in your back. Mine, to start, were all in the front and consequently I thought I just had bad diarrhea, I had NO IDEA I was in labor. I think it would have been smoother and less panicky if I had known.

I also wish I'd know what the recovery was like. I had this image if me 6 weeks post partum, my old happy self again. And I was disappointed that I was not. For like 4 months.

And I knew I'd lose some pelvic floor control, but I wish I could have mentally prepared to pee my hospital bed 3 times a day. That was horrible.

Tue, 2009-05-12 14:44

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Tue, 2009-05-12 10:09

lousymom

I wish I had known really what would come after. The whole baby thing threw me for a loop. I had no idea how much would change.

Tue, 2009-05-12 07:43

starrlife

I wish I had absorbed the realness of it, I wish I had been able to watch someone else first. Wait- I take that back. I might not have done it! Alot of the reading talks about the spirituality of birth and neglect the acute physicality of it.... I guess you can be told and it just isn't real until you go through it. Also, how much peeing would hurt afterwards, lol.

Tue, 2009-05-12 05:18