What was the hardest for you?

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So mine was definitely pp recovery just because I was prepared but I don’t think I could’ve been even if I tried. The pain was real. I only had a second degree tear on the inside just one and a hemorrhoid which I didn’t get during pregnancy. No one talks about pp recovery it seems like. I have friends that keep talking about how they can’t wait to have their babies so they can stop being in pain . I just tel them the pain doesn’t stop after you give birth one of my friends were absolutely clueless about it.

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All of the above were a breeze compared to the PPD that kicked in 4 months later 😕

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With my first, the only thing about recover that was the hardest was being constipated and the hemroids that came with it 😖. But this 2nd pregnancy is kicking my butt, I've literally have had morning sickness from the beginning im 36w now and still wake up everyday throwing up

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None of the above? I kept myself super fit and active throughout my whole pregnancy and it helped so much. I had a very smooth pregnancy, very quick and smooth labor and delivery and then postpartum recovery was just as easy. I was walking a couple miles a day in the hospital and was back to my old self within days of delivering. I was back in the gym a week later.

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PPD is a fucking nightmare...all-consuming, hard-to-breathe, want-to-die, no-escaping fucking nightmare.

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I have twins and I found the pregnancy to be the most difficult. Pp healing hasn’t been too bad. My abdominal muscles are still a bit sore almost 8 weeks after delivery (worse towards the end of the day) and I’m still not fully healed from the episiotomy but overall I’d say I’m healing well.

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My pregnancy was as close to perfect as it could have been. No complications whatsoever, gained the perfect amount of weight, no exhaustion or extreme emotions, and no stretch marks (haha). All I had was some nausea and vomiting the first trimester, but that wasn’t even miserable for me as it came and went quickly every day, and ended immediately during the 12th week. Even my labor started and progressed perfectly on my exact due date. 
BUT... We had a complication during labor that required an emergent C-section. I don’t know if it was the fear for my baby and myself, having to accept a C-section when I was terrified of having surgery, being awake and watching the monitors plummet while I passed out on the OR table due to extremely low blood pressures that required medications and flipping me on my head, then the rush of hormone changes and being unable to do things for myself or my baby right away as I had expected... my first week PP was misery. I thought I was going insane. I’m a pretty chill, level-headed woman and I work in critical care, yet I could not control myself emotionally or mentally that first week. It got better after that but was still hard. I didn’t feel like myself until my daughter was about 5/6 weeks old. PP was the worst for me, and after such a traumatic delivery and immediate PP period, I’ve decided that the 3 or 4 children I wanted will never happen. My one daughter is all we will have because it terrified my husband and me.

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Can I say breastfeeding? I had a relatively easy pregnancy and birth sucked but there was an end in sight. I did crack my tailbone during labor cause she was sunny side up and that SUCKED and had a couple second degree tears but they were nothing compared to the tailbone... however they all healed eventually. But breastfeeding with a reflux baby is sooo challenging... she rips my nipples when she arches her back when her reflux is acting up and there’s no end in sight. Reflux usually solves it self sometime between 6-12 months of age and so it just keeps happening even though she has a fantastic latch. Usually it’s fine but then they get damaged all over again when it flares up

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My pp recovery was way worse than pregnancy. I had a csection, which that was fine, but the operation itself put me at risk for other things, which I got. I had a superficial blood clot in one of my veins after delivery which meant a trip to the ER with a week old baby. Ugh!

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I couldn't sit down properly for 5 months after having my baby 🙈 they had to tear me & then my stiches wouldn't heal so in & out of hosp with different antibiotics! Hoping & praying that the recovery after this baby is alot quicker 🙏🏻🙏🏻

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I have 3 kids and one on the way and to me pregnancy is the toughest part..

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