Which was the hardest part for you?

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Feel free to explain why!

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We lost 7 babies before having our rainbow June baby, she was extremely high risk and had an 85% chance of being stillborn. She is the absolute light of my life and I’m so glad we risked it all to have her.

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Where is the button for all of the above 😂cant decide. Miscarriages, constant nausea and vomiting, heartburn, pre-eclampsia, 3 failed epidurals, postpartum prolapse and diastasic recti, postpartum hormones. None of the above has been very enjoyable.

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Postpartum depression and self esteem has been so hard on me

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For me it was postpartum.
First off- the postpartum nurses did not treat me that well! Could have just been all the crazy hormones making me feel that way, but you think they’d be extra nice knowing that our emotions/hormones are all over the place after birth.
Second- I was a crazy rollercoaster of emotions for about 8 weeks (give or take) crying every single day. Sometimes I still think something is a little off with my emotions.
Lastly- the recovery part was really hard for me. I had a 2nd degree tear (I know it could have been worse) but it hurt a lot. Couldn’t sit or even lay comfortably without hurting. I definitely didn’t give myself the adequate time to rest which made it worse on my body. I could barely walk at times because I wasn’t resting enough. 
I had no idea postpartum would be the way it was.
Pregnancy was a breeze for me (which made me want to be pregnant again soon after) but then postpartum life changed my mind real quick 😂 not ready to go through that again any time soon. And I’m too busy focusing on my baby girl ❤️

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I’d say both being pregnant and giving birth. I had complete placenta previa, was high risk my entire pregnancy, horrible morning sickness and reflux. I had to go to high risk a ultrasounds alone and had a couple bad bleeds. I had hypertension my whole pregnancy and got preeclampsia too! Rough pregnancy. My birth story is rough to I went through 48.5 hours of labor and that was horrible, to an emergency csection bc her heart rate would drop with each contraction. She had a cord wrapped around her neck. As soon as I got to the operating room the nurse yelled the baby is crashing. It was terrifying. When they got her out I saw her for one second and she wasn’t breathing. They took her away right away. She spent time in the NICU for breathing issues. 
However, it’s all worth it because I have the most amazing healthy beautiful little girl now!

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I would say being a stay at home mom. & doing the “daily  task” managing two babies 16 month & a newborn was definitely a rough start. Sleepless nights turning into morning was not so hard but mentally exhausting ￼AND NO SUPPORT! Nursing on demand.
The pandemic keeping us in more often then we like. 😞
But we made it six months this week & big boy almost two. 🤎

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Trying to conceive for sure! It took us a year to conceive after our miscarriage and then a chemical pregnancy in between. I was taking my basal body temperature every morning, charting and using OPKs- so it was incredibly stressful.
I LOVED being pregnant, and honestly loved postpartum despite my extreme anxiety mixed with sleep deprivation, especially at the start.

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My labor and immediate PP experience was awful, it definitely makes it hard for my to want another baby. I labored for 25 1/2 hours with 5 1/2 hours of pushing, I had two failed epidurals, I ended up with a 2nd degree and labial tear, I became so anemic that they were discussing a transfusion and I also ended up with TWO infections as soon as we got home. 
Plus my in laws, whom I love, stayed at our house while we were in the hospital to take care of our dog but they also stayed over for three days after we got home and honestly I hated it. I hated coming home and having them there. It definitely wasn’t how I “envisioned” our first few days at home.

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Being pregnant was hardest. I didn’t have a complicated pregnancy but my emotions were all of the place. By the end, even I was tired of my own bs. Damn pregnancy hormones 😂

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Ups and downs over here!
Ttc required ivf so that sucked. 
Pregnancy was mostly great!
Delivery was 5.5 hours of pushing with no epidural, vacuum assist, third degree tear, lost 700cc of blood... no fun. 
Recovery started strong with losing all the baby weight fast - yay!
Turns out I healed poorly and now need surgery to repair some bits... possibly a pacemaker after being done with babies. Whee! 🥴

Which was the hardest part for you?

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