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I don't know if this has been discussed at all. I can't find a search feature. For you ladies who have been pregnant. How did you find your pregnancy? Mine were awful. The thought of loosing my babies was constantly on my mind. If I felt not too bad I thought miscarriage was imminent. If I felt ill I thought miscarriage was imminent. All my anxieties and sensitivities were greatly intensified. I was as sick as a dog with both pregnancies. My skin was extremely sensitive to all materials to the point that it was all that I could do to stand anything against my skin. Someone could just think of touching my stomach and I would scream. Drs apointments were a nightmare. I could feel my kids fingernails scratching the inside of my uterus and it drove me nuts! Anyone else with similar experiences?

Not too bad-I am very ticklish around my ribs and I found out I was ticklish from the inside out too. My son also cracked my rib from the inside.

I was extremely nauseous during the entire first six months of pregnancy. I was finally put on motion sickness medicine. Mostly, it was fascinating. I read tons of books on pregnancy, so I could know how the baby was developing. I hated the summer months, because I was so hot all the time. But I didn't need a coat during the winter, either. The only things that drove me crazy, were heartburn, and bruised ribs from the baby kicking my insides.

I was sick the first morning after conception. I stayed sick until I was out of the delivery room and by then I was just used to heaving my guts up in the morning, so it took me a long time to 'unlearn' that behaviour. My parents refused to have anything to do with me and put me in the mental institution and I got pregnant in there. My parents found out I was pregnant and refused to have me back at home, and the mental institution didn't want me there so I had to leave because of my pregnancy and I was couch surfing and hitchhiking around the country - and my body was trying to pass kidney stones, and it would start labor from time to time. When I was five months along I was at the Woodstock Festival and heaved to the morning sounds of The Jefferson Starship and Ravi Shankar. I got really sick and was abandoned in the East Village in NYC living on rooftops in Alphabet City when I met the Zero Population Growth people . I made a deal to be fed and a place to sleep, so they could use me in their weekly demonstrations in Tompkins Square Park as a negative reinforcement. I kept feeling the baby kick inside my ribcage and I swore I was brusied inside. I hitchhiked across the continent, and met another girl that let me stay in her apartment in San Diego and had my daughter at Mercy Hospital there. She was adopted out at birth by I don't know who, (but it makes sense it was the State of California) and they took me in a wheelchair out of the hospital to the bus stop and I borrowed the thirty five cents from the nurses aid for the fare.

and that, was that.

I wasn't too conscious of much when I was that young, but I don't remember ever being happy or proud or sentimental or good about myself or being pregnant. When I read or listen to other women have dreams and plans and 'we' being pregnant, I feel like I must have been on Mars when I was pregnant, it was so different from other women. The worst is even though I have had this common experience with other women, I can never join in the convo because my experience was so rare and different they can't relate and I can't stand the pity.


Merle

I love the babies but hate being pregnant. My first son was easy to carry I was 19 and it all went smoothly until the birth he and I both almost died me from blood loss and his cord was compressed causing his heart rate to drop. By the time they were talking C section he was already crowning and was born very quickly I think I pushed for all of 3 mins and torn all the way it to my GI track. Thank God I live somewere that pain meds are given for childbirth. My younger and last child was hard to carry I was very sick for about the first 4 mos vomiting morning,noon and night. Then I gained a ton of weight because Jakes a very big kid from the very start everyone thought I was having more then one baby. At about the 5th month I had to stop working because I could not walk very well anymore my hips giving out under all the weight. The morning he was born I almost wasn't able to put my underwear on. but the brith was fairly easy about 6 hours of labor and almost not tearing. But he was a month early I couldn't hold any more weight he was already 8lbs 10ozs that was 2 full pounds on the nose bigger then his brother who was full term.

I did not know I had AS when I had my kids. Pucked all the time---but I do that all the time anyway. I was scared about the IV because I was restrained in the hospital as a child (the IV felt like it burned my skin). I had I good doctor who was willing to let me birth without an IV unless I went more than 12 hours. Childbirth was quick and painless for me--I mean like I've taken dumps that hurt more. I was actually warned that birth might be terribly painful because I learned in my early exams that I have sensitivity on my cervix (not supposed to happen, and the doctor made me feel like a bit of a freakshow about it--called in a nurse and asked have you ever heard of this......) I also have very sensitive nipples, so nursing was a pain--but I did it for a full year with both kids.

I friggin hate being pregnant! Love my children to pieces - but for me, pregnancy=misery. I was also obsessively concerned about miscarriage, although with good reason since I've had 5 (7 pregnancies, 2 children). But even with my successful pregnancies, I was so sick, achy and moody that I really couldn't enjoy them. I did like feeling the little wiggleworms in my belly, but only until about 7 months or so, then the kicks really hurt! Then after nine months of misery comes childbirth. My first was an emergency c-section and my second was an unplanned natural VBAC. Neither birth was any fun and both of my kids needed life-saving procedures.

I would still do it all over again, but I certainly wouldn't like it. I've heard that some women enjoy being pregnant, but I simply can't relate!

I disliked the physical issues like sore boobs, morning sickness, and all that, but usually I'd start to feel better when the baby got big enough that I could feel it moving, at which point, I was extremely entertained. I spent most of my time talking to my stomach and patting it. It was like a Christmas present and you had to wait to open it.

With my first pregnancy, I worked and went to school, so I had little time to really think about the crazyness that happens with hormones as I was always too tired to care at the end of the day.

My second pregnancy, I was a Stay at home mom by then, and had an IMMENSE amount of time to just go nuts on my husband and nuts I did well.

Pregnancy doesn't do well for me. While I want more kids, well at least one more, I don't want to be pregnant ever again, not to mention having 2 special needs kids doesn't make me want to procreate another. So when the time is right, we will look into adopting.

I loved my first pregnancy. it was like a fascinating study of another human coming to be inside of me. I rode my bike 5 miles to work each day until my 6th month, and I was very healthy. delivery was tough because I was really tired the last month and I opted for induction because I lived so far from the hospital. didn't take any drugs, but managed to make it through with bad back labor. I loved my son the instant he was born and I bounce back physically pretty fast.

second pregnancy was rougher, but I was 37. life was very stressful in general which made it worse. I had morning sickness for the first trimester and sensory overload most of the time. my ex was worse than ever, so when the baby came I had a hard time bonding and I had severe post-partum depression. it took a long time for my body to recover. I kept working at it though and fell in love with my little one, too.