a TMI post

*warning if you are of the male persuasion you probably shouldn't read*

since i have experienced the whole pregnancy thing and have a tiny experience with having a baby, here are some things i've learned so far (that NO one filled me in on)

~you can go through 8 months of growing a baby with no stretch marks on your big belly and then in the last month (or so depending on when your little one decides to grace you with their presence) you all of a sudden get purple little *clearsthroatBIG* ugly things on your s t r e t c h e d out belly.

~you can start your . within 5 weeks of delivering your precious bundle. even if your breast feeding. every 2 hours. and you have to go to your 6 week check up while your monthly visit is still around (traumatic for you AND your lady doc, i'm sure) because it decides to last for 10 days. and then not even 2 weeks later it comes around again (2 in 1 month no no NOOOOO) you realize you must be really fertile because you have 6 monthly visits before your babe is 6 months old. awessssome. (fyi-most women who nurse usually don't have their period {yes that is what i mean by "monthly visit" !shock!} for a while *maybe not even till they are done nursing* most people i've talked to it has been around 10 months are so before they realize their almost 2 year break is over....i am a little nah SUPER jealous of you.

~the beast that is HUNGER can overtake you at times. if your nursing you are always hungry...thus making it hard to lose the baby weight.

~your baby grows too too fast! oh wait, everyone says this...but seriously you never understand till it happens in your life.

~your once perking body...well not so perky anymore. seriously everything hangs like elephant ears.

~you are certain you will go bald soon. hair is falling out by the bucket loads!

~never in your life have you ever got excited to see poop (but when your little one hasn't gone in a few days and finally gets a dirty you literally do a happy dance). never have you had to inspect it. your baby's poop tells you a lot thus you must at least glance at the gross pile before disposing.

~speaking of poo, no one every tells you about blow outs. which are both funny and can bring you to tears. since b was about a month old, every time we take her ANYWHERE in her car seat...BLOW OUT!!! the worse time...i was by myself and on my way home from taking her to her 4 month check up (where she had a good size diaper mind you) i decide to run into target. i get the stroller out and pop in the car seat and go inside to browse. 10 min later (a record for me i am sure) i am leaving. i precede to get car seat out and as i am putting it in the base i notice a pile of runny poop. how could this happen?!?! as i drive home (with a completely happy baby because for some reason EVERY time your babe has a gross dirty diaper, she is just as happy as can be. she doesn't freak out like other babies, she just sits in her poop all over her as happy as can be...so weird) i am filled with terror at what awaits me. get home clean up the puddle of poo in the base *its cold and will freeze soon* then go inside, carefully pick baby up and undress her...it went out her diaper around the thigh and leaked out through the seat belt sliver and thus into the base. barely any poo in the diaper. it's pretty much like she took off her diaper and sat in the base to poo. many tears where shed bc obviously it was just one of those days. cleaning the car seat was the hardest thing due to all the little crevasses.


so there you have it. some of the fun things that i've experienced. but like everyone says, it's sooo worth it. and seriously it is. :)



(whooo me??? blow out my diaper?? nahhh)