There's definitely a wide "mileage varies" aspect to B-H; with my first, I didn't even know I was having them at all until a regular midwife visit where she was feeling for the size and commented that I was in the middle of one. With this one, I notice them a bit more, but still, they're nothing compared to the menstrual cramps I used to get.
Do you have access to a decent-sized mirror that you could put on the floor or in the bathtub or whereever you sit for nether-trimming?
Other things no one tells you:
1. The whole "the pounds will melt off while you're nursing" is true for a lot of women, probably a majority, but not all; some women can't easily lose pregnancy weight while they're nursing. (I'm recalling some study about this several years ago that suggested a genetic basis, with the need-extra-exercise-to-lose-weight-while-nursing genes being common among women with German ancestry, but haven't ever tracked down the citation.)
2. The first pee after you give birth, once you manage to get the muscles to let the urine out, may be the longest damn pee of your life. (I don't recall it hurting either time [the first crap was another story], but the *quantity* -- I've peed less after drinking four glasses of iced tea at lunch and being stuck in a thirty-minute meeting as soon as I got back to the office.) It's basically your body starting to unload all that extra blood volume and fluid that it's been retaining for the past several months; it's just a little disconcerting.
3. Menstrual cramps do not always go away or decrease after one has given birth, but it does happen pretty often (yay!).
4. Running for the bus while in third trimester is ill-advised. That said, it may beat waiting for the next bus in the heat.
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Date: 2012-08-30 11:39 pm (UTC)Do you have access to a decent-sized mirror that you could put on the floor or in the bathtub or whereever you sit for nether-trimming?
Other things no one tells you:
1. The whole "the pounds will melt off while you're nursing" is true for a lot of women, probably a majority, but not all; some women can't easily lose pregnancy weight while they're nursing. (I'm recalling some study about this several years ago that suggested a genetic basis, with the need-extra-exercise-to-lose-weight-while-nursing genes being common among women with German ancestry, but haven't ever tracked down the citation.)
2. The first pee after you give birth, once you manage to get the muscles to let the urine out, may be the longest damn pee of your life. (I don't recall it hurting either time [the first crap was another story], but the *quantity* -- I've peed less after drinking four glasses of iced tea at lunch and being stuck in a thirty-minute meeting as soon as I got back to the office.) It's basically your body starting to unload all that extra blood volume and fluid that it's been retaining for the past several months; it's just a little disconcerting.
3. Menstrual cramps do not always go away or decrease after one has given birth, but it does happen pretty often (yay!).
4. Running for the bus while in third trimester is ill-advised. That said, it may beat waiting for the next bus in the heat.