and it looks like they are in some dive. i like that

omg that second friend!

oh, I feel like I'm not alone. it seems that here and among my friends every talks bout having a raging sex drive during the second trimester and although my partner is very wonderful and never feels like he is owed sex, i did feel a little bad that it was basically 6 months of freeze out, when you add on the 3 months…

im 32 and want to hang out with them

can i ask you...did you have sex when you were big showing, like 6-7 moths and beyond? I didnt. I couldnt. i took on this Mother Earth feeling when I became large preggo and could not feel like a sexual being anymore for a while. I just felt very maternal, like something switched off.

you know what it did, though? it made me so uninhibited. when i go to the gyno for my exams, I don't give a fuck if I am shaved, if it's a man or woman, nothing. i gave away all my fucks when i gave birth. during my last exam, the doctor asked if some students could come in and see how my IUD was placed. i said sure.…

i brought a ball to squat but i went to an unenlightened hospital and they didnt let me use it. they didn't even let me play my tori amos cd. i was pissed.

i also shit all over the table. in front of 5 health care professionals and my partner.

lactation really stood up for me. and she was this tiny ancient woman but she was getting all up in those doctors' faces. they are worth their weight in gold. she was my only advocate.

omg, I had a vacuum too! they applied it and were pulling while i was pushing and they pulled so hard it popped off and bloody bits went flying everywhere so I thought he was out! then the doctor removed her gloves and said, "let's prep her for OR" and i started crying. i tried SO fucking hard.

oh fuuny, someone else on this thread feel the exact opposite. birthing is cray

omg!!! oh so you will be having your baby at the same hospital you were born at?

interesting. much pushing?

i certainly have never looked down on anyone who had medicated births or c-sections. I just had this perfect little plan in mind. hilarious.

yeah! then i had really bad PPD for 3 months and wanted to kill both of us. HAHA. i can laugh now, it was 7 years ago

wow! that's incredible. basically because i am such a wiener and wanted every comfort in the world when I was giving birth so i think it's awesome to just drop trou and do it. amazing

i dont have an ethical problem with meds, i do take them when i need. i just always think it will magically go away

Dude, that's what happened to me! 22 hours then a c-section! I was furious. like, goddammit i went through all this, i want to have a baby through my vag. and it was embarrassing because i bragged for months that i would have an unmedicated vaginal birth. lol!

yeah, i'm too scared to do it again. im kinda ashamed to say that birthing my son was the most miserable days of my life. no beauty, no joy. only pain and uncertainty and doom and fear

this is terrifying for me as a person who could not tell contractions from gas. how would you know? that is a crazy story. how does one even get placenta out of upholstery