What’s something nobody told you about pregnancy until you experienced it yourself? 😭🤰🏽💕

You cry so much, more than you can ever imagine!!
I did anyway 🥲 still do now when I see how fast shes growing!!

The Braxton hicks hurt! People lie and say they don’t. You can get sciatic pain constantly. Your feet can go up a shoe size.
Morning sickness is basically a lie, it’s all the time but lemonade helps

That contractions feel like period cramps on steroids!

The third trimester is a repeat of the first but times 10 😭.

Mine was nausea in the first trimester i always assumed.morning sickness was just vomiting

That you would need to go to OB appts all throughout pregnancy

For me it was crazy vivid dreams

This might seem a bit harsh but coming from a good place. So many people tell you to only look up positive birth experiences so you don’t freak yourself out and I 100% understand that so that’s what I did! But then I ended up giving myself a completely unrealistic expectation. Looking back now my birth experience was fine and my baby girl and I were healthy, however because it didn’t feel as straight forward as all of these stories I’d read it ended up being very stressful. I have a c section and watch so many videos of girls getting up and walking around a few hours afterwards which is so realistic for most people but then when it wasn’t the case for me it broke my heart. Seems silly looking back, I should have given myself more grace. So my honest advice is while pregnancy and birth is a blessing and is beautiful, it is also not always easy AND THATS OK!! Hope you’re having a wonderful pregnancy ❤️❤️

I literally have a list of things I learned from YouTube during pregnancy that nobody told me about in my notes app. Here’s some of them.

- All the bloodwork you have to do. people with needle phobia or just hate bloodwork should be aware before conception 😭 I literally said during pregnancy that this might be my only baby because of all the bloodwork and panic attacks it caused me.

- the gestational diabetes test, you have to drink a sugar drink and then get bloodwork done an hour later. So you just sit at the doctor for a whole hour, and can’t leave the building (at least at mine you couldn’t leave the building) They couldn’t get my blood after i drank it so they let me do a finger prick after every meal for a week. Nobody told me that was an option BEFORE they tried to get the blood.

- 36-38 wk GBS test……. Swab in your gine AND your bootyhole.

No one told me you’d have cramps while breastfeeding or pumping.