TMI tues

[daisylola11]

Share your pregnancy, postpartum and baby tmi's here!!

[daisylola11]

A week postpartum and let me just say them stitches down there must be scabbing or something cuz all of a sudden they are itchy!!!

[daisylola11]

So I've had latching issues and my nips were bleeding and I still had to nurse. There was a few times baby looked like a zombie when she spit up and there was blood 😶 freaked out DH

[cosmicav]

Mar 14, 2017 10:53:53 GMT -5 daisylola11 said:

A week postpartum and let me just say them stitches down there must be scabbing or something cuz all of a sudden they are itchy!!!

My vagina is so itchy. It is driving me crazy. Dermaplast can only help so much, and I am scared to scratch, so I just sit here and scream internally.

[cosmicav]

Additionally... my belly button is still horrifying. My whole belly actually is kind of scary. Doesn't stop DS from lifting up my shirt and happily saying, "mama belly!" Lol

[kaits8]

Varicose veins continue to be so gross. Everything is so swollen it feels like I've already given birth and/or my vag has had enough of this and is just trying to pack up and leave. Just reminding myself that whether this baby is early, on time, or late, this time next month I will be well on my way (hopefully) to healed postpartum!

[meggypoo1]

Mar 14, 2017 12:49:15 GMT -5 Fearsy said:

I shaved my legs and the lady bits this morning. I went into labor the following day when I did this at the end of my last pregnancy so FX!

How in the world can you see your lady bits! ...I need to get on doing this. 38w today!

[britab]

No bleeding for 24 hours, so I tried switching to panty liners. Yeah, my underwear got kind of ruined.
#largepadsforlife

[madameovary]

I clogged the toilet with my massive, painful post surgery brick poo this morning.

[amacbaby]

daisylola11, I remember that happening with my girls, only I freaked out and called the Pedi when their spit up was pink!

Not a whole lot going on here at 38weeks, just the usual swamp crotch.

[erinshelley21]

My bleeding was very light when I left the hospital. It's gotten heavier since being home and I feel disgusting.

Thankfully I've pooped every day since Thursday, including Thursday before she was born. I have not pooped today despite the 2 stool softeners and bowl of oatmeal.

[skk]

I have to keep checking if I'm just having swamp crotch, peed myself, or am leaking fluid. Guessing game every time I go to the bathroom!

[cosmicav]

Mar 14, 2017 12:21:57 GMT -5 @amc25 said:

DS2's cord stump fell off several days ago. I offered it to my dog, since I'm pretty sure she ate DS1's when that fell off (I never saw it anywhere, it just disappeared when he was 1 1/2 weeks old, so who knows...), but she wouldn't eat it. I then felt like a huge weirdo for offering it to her. 😳

This is a super gross story, so I'm spoilering it

SPOILER: Click to show

My mom kept my umbilical cord stump taped in a photo album because she is the type of parent that kept literally everything, even the garbage. My younger sister was playing with the photo albums, about 18 months at the time, and she found the stump. 

She ate it.

[cosmicav]

Mar 14, 2017 13:59:36 GMT -5 @justinslovo said:

Mar 14, 2017 13:13:29 GMT -5 madameovary said:

I clogged the toilet with my massive, painful post surgery brick poo this morning.

H asked me why there was disposable fork taped to ruler next to the toilet...

I am really disappointed in myself for not thinking of this idea. 

[meggypoo1]

I think T is super super low. Every time I move a certain way my vag is in pain. I felt around and it's super swollen. Not really that bad of a TMI but MH is very concerned every time I move.

[obi]

I think my bowels are breathing a week long sigh of relief now that they are no longer crushed/displaced. Ever since my first PP poop, I have been poopin like clockwork every day and in sizeable amounts.
As someone who usually only goes every 2nd or 3rd day at best, this is madness!

Also, I am getting some night sweats and the BO is coming in strong.
I remember being much stinkier last time though.

[kristhegirl]

britab ugaqueencity I just switched to panty liners this weekend, so about 4 weeks PP. I had several days where I'd have basically nothing, and then BOOM, so I kept the heavy pads until I had I think two or three days in a row of no huge surprises. So far, so good with a liner.

[kristhegirl]

Max was very spitty yesterday and got me good three different times. I never changed my shirt and then slept in it. No brain power to pick out a different night shit.

[cosmicav]

When we did our newborn pictures, the photographer told us to take off our socks/shoes and sit on the bed to make family pictures look all relaxed and whatnot. I haven't maintained foot care or grooming recently so I'm sure it was all my toe hair captured in high def

awkward

[moutonrouge]

I changed the sheets today, then I took a nap and sweat and leaked so much I had to change them again.

[Deleted]

Mar 14, 2017 13:06:00 GMT -5 meggypoo1 said:

Mar 14, 2017 12:49:15 GMT -5 Fearsy said:

I shaved my legs and the lady bits this morning. I went into labor the following day when I did this at the end of my last pregnancy so FX!

How in the world can you see your lady bits! ...I need to get on doing this. 38w today!

You do it by feel.

[Deleted]

I was under the impression that my breast weren't leaking while drying up and I had been showering with my bra on cause of my mastitis fears.

I was wrong. That bra was absolutely disgusting.

[sms2524]

Mar 14, 2017 13:59:06 GMT -5 skk said:

I have to keep checking if I'm just having swamp crotch, peed myself, or am leaking fluid. Guessing game every time I go to the bathroom!

Total +1

[obi]

Mar 14, 2017 17:19:25 GMT -5 @priss08 said:

I was under the impression that my breast weren't leaking while drying up and I had been showering with my bra on cause of my mastitis fears.

I was wrong. That bra was absolutely disgusting.

Related confession:
I thought the same thing so I left the same boob pads in my bra for 2 days. Mostly I just forgot about them. I just took a much needed shower and the pads were basically rock hard when I took them out. Ew.

[mosdub]

@priss08 and obi can you explain the boob pads/bra in the shower? I've never heard of this.

[mosdub]

I'm embarrassed about this, but after cosmicav's spoilered one I'll share. Don't judge.

When I got home I peed and when I wiped I saw brown. I got confused/concerned thinking it was old blood, so I wiped again and discovered nope, it was coming from somewhere else. I've been going to the bathroom all day and didn't see/notice this so I'm now wondering if I'm dealing with some slight bowel incontinence #glamorous. Cue coffee break, poop, and shower. Now I'm feeling fresh.

[obi]

Mar 14, 2017 19:43:24 GMT -5 mosdub said:

@priss08 and obi can you explain the boob pads/bra in the shower? I've never heard of this.

I should clarify, I took the pads out of my bra and removed my bra before the shower. I seem to have dried up really quickly again, aside from a bit of leaking.

Wearing the bra in the shower is just an extra cautious step to help dry up. Keeping your breasts snug in a tighter fitting bra helps stop your milk production. I assume wearing it in the shower is to help counteract the good-for-milk effects of warm water. Correct me if I'm wrong, priss!

[mosdub]

Mar 14, 2017 19:52:04 GMT -5 obi said:

Mar 14, 2017 19:43:24 GMT -5 mosdub said:

@priss08 and obi can you explain the boob pads/bra in the shower? I've never heard of this.

I should clarify, I took the pads out of my bra and removed my bra before the shower. I seem to have dried up really quickly again, aside from a bit of leaking.

Wearing the bra in the shower is just an extra cautious step to help dry up. Keeping your breasts snug in a tighter fitting bra helps stop your milk production. I assume wearing it in the shower is to help counteract the good-for-milk effects of warm water. Correct me if I'm wrong, priss!

OH that makes so much more sense.  I thought your pads got hard IN the shower and I was so confused.  

Yes, when I was trying to dry up last time after my loss I learned to avoid putting my chest under the warm shower water.  Didn't think about wearing a bra - that makes sense! 

[amandamh2]

daisylola11, and cosmicav, sitz baths! Best ever for itchy stitches. I was going crazy over the itching with DS and it saved me.

[Deleted]

Mar 14, 2017 19:43:24 GMT -5 mosdub said:

@priss08 and obi can you explain the boob pads/bra in the shower? I've never heard of this.

I wasn't getting the bra wet I was just scared (until this morning) to take of because I'm scared of getting mastitis. Maybe it was overkill but...i was scared to take it of till they hurting.