Which was worse for you?

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Currently laying here in my hospital bed miserable. 
My 1st baby I had HG so my pregnancy was by far the WORST for me. 
This time around my after birth is terrible. I have the worst cramping, my whole body is so sore, I can’t stay awake for the life of me, and I’m still bleeding pretty bad. 
Just curious as to how others have felt about their experiences wether you’ve had one or five.

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The after for sure bc not only is it the no sleep newborn stage but the hormones are awful for me afterwards with the crying and all... I dislike the first couple weeks after so much. I’d rather be pregnant still and uncomfortable lol

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My mom had ten kids and she taught me after my second baby to massage my uterus as soon as I feel the cramping starting, and to stay on top of taking motrin like clockwork for a few days. I massaged my uterus as soon as I would start to cramp, it would feel like a hard knot, until I would feel it relax again. Helped tremendously with the afterpains!

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I took such good care of myself during my pregnancy, I prepared for my natural birth. No one prepared me for how hard the recovery was going to be, I felt so frustrated with my body, I pushed myself when I shouldn’t have and made the recovery longer

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I have hyperemesis gravidarum with all three so I'd say the pregnancy is the hardest for me. I'd have many babies if I didn't get so sick for weeks on end. Sometimes I get a break in the 2nd trimester but it comes back in the 3rd.
Post partum healing was hard. I always tear and have loads of stiches...  but the hyperemesis gravidarum is what keeps me from wanting more babies. I waited 11 years before having more children. Inhad more because my now husband is amazing and I wanted part of us in this world to hold and have. But man.. this pregnancy will be my last. I just can't take the sickness.
You did great Momma. As hard as it is try to rest. Eat up on some good foods to gain a bit of strength back. 💜

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Postpartum has been the most difficult stage for me. Recovering while caring for a newborn is the hardest thing I've ever done in my life. Also passing massive blood clots and STILL bleeding almost 9 wks pp really sucks. I'd pick pregnancy and L&D over this any day.

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For my first it was all pretty bad. Bad morning sickness, a complicated pregnancy so a lot of stress, hard long labor and then botched epidural with epidural headache after that took weeks to go away. Honestly I’d probably say after was worst because of the epidural headache.
My second was all pretty good. I guess the pregnancy because I was big and uncomfortable at the end, but wasn’t that bad. Labor was short and without meds needed and healing was a breeze.
Taking care of a newborn I’d say was worse than any of these things together lol.

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I had morning sickness basically the entire pregnancy, so that was awful. My labor kind of was miserable because it took so long to progress and I was being stubborn about getting an epidural, so I was in excruciating pain for a few days. Post delivery is the worst for me though because I got hemorrhoids from pushing and they are awful and you can't even kid of distract yourself from them for a minute. They are all consuming and I hate every second of them 🤷🏼‍♀️

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My first the whole pregnancy and after sucked I ripped really bad. With my second the after sucked because I had a horrible hemroid and I got a horrible stomach bug and was having horrible diarrhea for a week which made the roid worse. It sucked. But after the first week I have felt back to normal.

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Thankfully with my first all three of those were pretty easy for me. My pregnancy was so simple. My labor and delivery was short and sweet. And I was never in a huge tremendous amount of pain after delivery however I’d definitely say if I had to pick that after deliver was the toughest. It’s hard caring for a newborn when you have a hard time even sitting and getting up. Not to mention I bled for 8 straight weeks after and man was that a pain in the ass everytime I needed to use the bathroom. I swear it took a solid 15 minutes just to pee because of all the clean up. So far this pregnancy (I mean I’m only going on 9 weeks) has been harder than my last. I have had quite a few days with morning sickness (mainly just nausea, no vomiting 🤞🏼) and so that’s been a little crappy but hoping the rest of this pregnancy and delivery can go smooth too.

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