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Mini_kilt
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It would have either been the first couple of month when I was so sick I couldn't eat and thought I would starve to death or the last month when I felt like a beached whale in the middle of summer and they couldn't put me in labor fast enough...ha ha
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I was lucky and didn't have any morning sickness, but my travel sickness was quite bad, esp. because I used to travel for a living, but the worst of all was not being able to sleep on my stomach. Such a simple thing, I had never even noticed I had spent 20 years sleeping on my stomach until I couldn't any more... :)
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This is not QUITE the question you asked, but I'll tell you what's awful: most ob/gyns use cute baby pics all over their offices, even in the exam rooms. They have NO REGARD for how this affects women who are there for miscarriages, fertility problems, or cancer. Bad enough that these women are stranded in the same waiting room as the pregnant women; but putting baby art in EVERY SINGLE exam room is just thoughtlessly cruel.
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Heartburn. I had "morning" sickness all the way through both of my pregnancies, which was bad enough, but I'd have to say that the worst part was in the last month or two I felt like a fire-breathing dragon. Nothing helped - and I tried it all. It burned so bad I couldn't sleep and was afraid to eat. Another really annoying thing was that I decided not to find out the sex of my second child during my pregnancy - and everyone had an opinion about how to tell whether it was a girl or a boy. Some of them were just plain stupid!
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Un-learning all the hype I was fed all my life about normal pregnancy and childbirth being a "medical condition", and being horribly painful and nearly impossible without drugs. I conquered it, though, and had a wonderful, natural, peaceful birth.
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I was very sick the first 4 months; I had lower abdominal pain in the next 5 months; I went into labor on November 4th and stayed in labor for the next few weeks. I had to go to the hospital 5 times to stop the labor and then it only slowed down; it never really went away. I had to take a drug that made me very jittery. I was on bed rest for the last 4 weeks of my pregnancy. My body does not respond well to progesterone and I had to take Paxil or I would have killed someone. When I finally got far enough along to have the baby I had to be induced to make the labor progress. I went from 2 cm dilated to 10cm dilated in 20 minutes. My labor pains came every 2 minutes and went completely off the chart. When my water broke my cervix shrunk back to 8 cm and I was able to have an epidural. The rest was smooth sailing except that my pelvis is malformed and the doc had to pull my son out with the forecepts which ripped me to pieces and took 1 1/2 hours to sew back up. But other than that I had a wonderful pregnancy.
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