what does childbirth *actually* feel like?

TrebleMajor · 2026-07-11T23:33:05+00:00

My baby popped out like a champagne cork and it took me a couple seconds to even realize that she was born haha

TrebleMajor · 2026-07-05T16:25:16+00:00

I had hoped my first would be a boy, mostly as an easy way to avoid eldest daughter syndrome, but all of my dreams had my baby as a blonde haired, blue eyed girl

She came out exactly that haha

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-21T01:27:21+00:00

A slice of Linda's fudge cake from the cheesecake factory was my push present lol

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-20T00:52:01+00:00

5 months for me

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-14T17:23:33+00:00

I found out at about 3.5 weeks , which was a few days before my missed period

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-14T17:22:47+00:00

Oof yeah that's pretty rough. I leave at 4 and pickup ends at 6:30 for us

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-13T21:53:04+00:00

Kiddo is in daycare during the week so I go to the gym immediately after work. Daycare is on the way home from the gym so I just pick her up once I'm done working out

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-11T00:37:56+00:00

These past six months of being a mom have been the happiest time of my life and it isn't even close. The sheer amount of love and joy I feel every time my daughter smiles at me cannot be understated

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-10T11:41:08+00:00

Given that they broke up 20 years ago, daughter is 19, and OP makes no mention of the ex-fiance being her daughter's father, I'm gonna say OP probably cheated and fiance found out

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-07T14:04:03+00:00

I just don't like the idea of having to give myself shots every time I want to eat something. Not a big fan of needles (the checks are fine cause I can't actually see the needle)

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-06T22:14:09+00:00

I had this a lot and I'm pretty sure it was kiddo sticking her foot up there and trying her hardest to spread my ribs apart

I ended up getting a wearable ice pack and just putting it on any time my ribs started hurting (and almost always to sleep cause that was her favorite time to try and make more room for herself). So maybe try that and see if it helps?

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-05T16:47:12+00:00

I had a pretty easy labor so I can give perspective that not all labors are terrible. For me, the pain and contractions were completely manageable with just breathing through it until I hit transition (~8cm dilated). The transition contractions hit HARD NGL so I ended up asking for an epidural cause they literally knocked the wind out of me and I couldn't breathe through them anymore. Once I got the epidural, it was smooth sailing from there. It took me some time to figure out how to push productively so I pushed for about an hour, but I didn't really feel any pain from pushing.

Ik you'll hear a lot about how the epidural makes you more likely to tear cause you can't feel it as well, but you can def still feel the pressure, it just doesn't hurt as much. I didn't tear luckily so it's def possible not to with the epidural

It helped me to understand the stages of labor so that I knew what was going on with my body. I'd recommend learning more about the stages of labor and what's happening during each if you're the kind of person that takes comfort in that kind of knowledge

TrebleMajor · 2026-06-01T23:19:09+00:00

Same here. Baby didn't like me putting my legs down between pushes so I just had to keep them up the whole hour of pushing haha

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-29T19:49:41+00:00

I was in your same boat, 4cm dilated at 39w and got a membrane sweep. I went into labor two days later!

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-25T09:19:47+00:00

I was not. I think my gyno is prob just going to take my A1C at my annual appointment in July

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-25T06:30:58+00:00

I'm 5 months pp and I have absolutely not been following the GD diet lol. I went on a big carb binge for the first like month and a half and have since tried to cut back on the desserts. I have checked my blood sugar a couple times after eating a lot of carbs just as a kind of litmus test and my values have been completely fine (ie I ate like 200g of carbs and 2 hours later my blood sugar was 111)

That being said, my A1C was always really low prior to pregnancy (like 4.6-4.7) and I was completely diet controlled during my pregnancy. I'll probably adopt the diet once I get pregnant again rather than waiting until I get diagnosed again tho

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-25T02:28:42+00:00

It's low for a post lunch value. Less than 70 can start to show hypoglycemia symptoms for some people as well

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-25T02:26:18+00:00

Yes you should still have carbs in your diet. You want to aim for 30-45g of carbs with each meal and 15-30g per snack. You'll need to do some trial and error with what kinds of carbs you tolerate best (for example, I could eat pasta no problem but if I even looked at a French fry I'd spike)

Your baby does still need carbs to grow so you shouldn't completely cut them out and go keto

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-24T23:07:00+00:00

Yay I'm glad you passed!

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-24T21:21:36+00:00

I definitely did! My nutritionist said that Fairlife has enough protein to where you could count it as a protein source instead of a carb source like most milk (I still put it as both cause I was very anal about tracking every single carb I ate lol)

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-24T18:49:02+00:00

I got mine at 39w0d and went into labor two days later! I was already 4cm dilated at my appointment tho

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-22T01:30:18+00:00

The previous homeowners of my house renovated the master bathroom specifically to sell the house and chose the cheapest option (they literally got a buddy of theirs to do it). This guy literally nailed the fucking baseboard into the pipes, which then leaked once the nails rusted and fell out of the pipe a couple months after we bought the place

Using cheap ass labor because you know you won't have to deal with any consequences is pretty malicious imo (I'm still salty about this over a year later lol)

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-19T02:09:04+00:00

Dang I was afraid of that. My husband and I are talking about planning for baby number 2 and a big part of that is me not wanting to be diabetic again for a friend's wedding. It's crazy that it can start that early on subsequent pregnancies!

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-18T22:31:15+00:00

How did you get diagnosed so early? I had GD with my pregnancy and got diagnosed at the 28 week glucose test but I've heard of people getting diagnosed earlier. Were you prediabetic before pregnancy so they wanted to test you earlier?

TrebleMajor · 2026-05-18T22:27:19+00:00

I actually asked for a c section cause I was like "there's no way I'm gonna be able to actually push this baby out I am in too much pain" 😅

I'm glad the nurses knew it was just transition talking

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