Our very own third trimester tmi thread

[eilonwy]

I think it's about time, eh? Besides, I had a tmi moment that's just too funny not to share.

So Wednesday I had a really long day, and I came home and ran for the toilet (surprise, surprise). I got there, sat down, started to pee. . . and it sprayed everywhere *but* into the toilet!! Seamonkey's head is so low in my pelvis that everything has been shifty down there, and I guess he was putting pressure on my urethra so that it wasn't pointing down. : Worst of all, I can't really bend over anymore at all so I had to send mike in to clean it up! He did so with good nature and aplomb.

Can't say I've got anything like stink going on-- I smell really good when I'm pregnant, and the fluid leaks have smelled super yummy, just like new baby. But yeah, random peeing-- and to think I've been reminding BeanBean to aim! He'd have given me so much trouble if he'd been home.

[Writerbird]

I went shopping with a really good friend today, and for a change, I got some warning that I was going to emit gas. I ducked around the corner, and allowed the emission to occur. The eye-watering aroma is something I've become accustomed to, but I don't expect others to not react.

Then I realized in horror that I had just gassed off in the exact part of the store we'd been looking for, and sure enough, my friend came around the corner in excitement. Her face looked like she'd run at full speed into the wall of stench.

[flapjack]

I just posted my embarrassing moment to it's own thread, but I'll share it here. I told the whole universe that Skye had a poopy nappy to cover up my flatulence :

[birthmommom]

what a great idea...

I am already LMAO at this.

Now for something TMI to happen, sure it won't be long.

[nolonger]

I think this is worse than anything to do with bodily fluids or gaseous emissions.

:

One morning I threw some beans and seasonings into my crockpot as usual and took my tutee on a homeschooling ( in our case "independant study through a public charter school") field trip followed by our weekly volunteer job and came home about fifteen minutes before I had to leave for my night job to find......

.....I had forgotten to turn on the crockpot, there was absolutely NOTHING in the house to eat, and I would have to make the bowl of oatmeal I'd had for breakfast suffice for at least 24 hours.

I broke down and started crying like a baby.

ds asked what was wrong and volunteered to run to the store and get me something for dinner. We managed to dig up $2 and he came home with what a teenaged ex-street-kid considers a healthy meal for a pregnant lady:

A can of generic root beer
A Lipton cup-a-soup "Souper meal"
A chocolate chip bagel

As if that wasn't bad enough, I scarfed down every bite and thanked him profusely.

[justmama]

Originally Posted by noordinaryspider

I think this is worse than anything to do with bodily fluids or gaseous emissions.

:

One morning I threw some beans and seasonings into my crockpot as usual and took my tutee on a homeschooling ( in our case "independant study through a public charter school") field trip followed by our weekly volunteer job and came home about fifteen minutes before I had to leave for my night job to find......

.....I had forgotten to turn on the crockpot, there was absolutely NOTHING in the house to eat, and I would have to make the bowl of oatmeal I'd had for breakfast suffice for at least 24 hours.

I broke down and started crying like a baby.

ds asked what was wrong and volunteered to run to the store and get me something for dinner. We managed to dig up $2 and he came home with what a teenaged ex-street-kid considers a healthy meal for a pregnant lady:

A can of generic root beer
A Lipton cup-a-soup "Souper meal"
A chocolate chip bagel

As if that wasn't bad enough, I scarfed down every bite and thanked him profusely.

That is the sweetest, most beautiful thing I've heard all day. What a great kid to do that for mom!!!!!

[the elyse]

i think the gas leaking out of me would keep sharks away. serioiusly, what am i eating??

[lincap]

ah I have been waiting for this thread! TMI HERE I COME!!!!!!!!!!

Gas... my word! And it is noisy! I stand ***toot***, I sit **toot**, I pee ***toot***... what is this??????????

I stink too... and I hate it.. enough for me to google "FDS" to consider using it....

I can't see my who-ho... and it needs a good trim... actually it needs more than a trim.. but I can't bring myself to take care of it.

I leak pee. I have tons of discharge. I am a mess in that area!!!!!

I am sure there will be more later!

[smokeylo]

The baby often likes to stretch out in an ROA position, jamming his (or her) butt up under my ribs and head down by my right thigh. When he's like this, I can't bend over to wipe when I go to the bathroom. I have to stand up and do a big reach around, which makes me feel ridiculous and is hard to do in a bathroom stall if I'm out and about.

[Writerbird]

NOS: Mmm... bagels.

Lauren: I would laugh if I hadn't just performed this exact maneuver for the exact same reason. Okay, NM, I'm laughing. What do we do in a month, use a sponge on a stick?

[Dea]

oh I love TMI threads.
I've been lucky and no nasty gas, although I can't say the same for DH! I have no idea what that boy eats at work, but golly it must have been alive and died in his colon only to haunt me at night, and damn my super sense of smell. (not really the super power I envisioned as a child) it wakes me up and I have to fan the duvet so I can sleep again.

As for trimming my girly bits, ohhh it needs it, but I'm a little worried to get anything sharp where I can't see what I'm doing. I'm a little clumsy and I know I would end up bleeding. DH tells me to use his clippers, but that just seems icky to me.
Then to make it all better, I am perpetually warm, so always kinda sweaty and damp, which ends up with me being chafed. So I wipe more when I go pee, but that just irritates everything, leaving me extra tender and chafed, and really irritable, and just icky feeling.
Fun fun fun!

[flapjack]

NOS, your boy sounds like a super sweetheart My first mothers day on my own, I got brought breakfast in bed- chocolate and a can of coke. By my 3yo It's just his way of reminding you that he'll always be your baby.
I just randomly hacked away at the yeti yoni. I don't care what it looks like, but when I start wondering about toe hair when I wipe, then something has to be done. Is it ridiculous for a 8.5mo pregnant woman to consider booking herself in for a Brazilian just to do away with the problem for a while?

[lincap]

Originally Posted by flapjack

NOS, your boy sounds like a super sweetheart My first mothers day on my own, I got brought breakfast in bed- chocolate and a can of coke. By my 3yo It's just his way of reminding you that he'll always be your baby.
I just randomly hacked away at the yeti yoni. I don't care what it looks like, but when I start wondering about toe hair when I wipe, then something has to be done. Is it ridiculous for a 8.5mo pregnant woman to consider booking herself in for a Brazilian just to do away with the problem for a while?

HAHAHAH! I LOVED getting Brazilians when I lived in Miami! But in Maine... I am not so certain I will find someone I feel confident in doing them! Really, how often do they do them in Maine?? I am really really considering it though.. But you have to trim first down to a 1/4 inch... not certain that is a skill I have right now!

[suzywan]

Originally Posted by Dea

Then to make it all better, I am perpetually warm, so always kinda sweaty and damp, which ends up with me being chafed. So I wipe more when I go pee, but that just irritates everything, leaving me extra tender and chafed, and really irritable, and just icky feeling.
Fun fun fun!

BLOT!! blot blot blot. I cannot wipe too much or I get really really chafed - thought I had open sores on my vulva -now I just blot, and it's worked wonders.

[LaurenB]

Anyone else just finding out about the joys of hemorrhoids? It's just.... wow. : I hate my butt.

[nolonger]

Originally Posted by flapjack

NOS, your boy sounds like a super sweetheart My first mothers day on my own, I got brought breakfast in bed- chocolate and a can of coke. By my 3yo It's just his way of reminding you that he'll always be your baby.

Yea, he is and he genuinely meant well. He told me that the root beer was to get my blood sugar back up in a hurry so I'd stop crying and feeling like it was the end of the world and all the white flour was because he only had $2 already.

It hurts my heart to know he was eating like that while he was living on the streets.



/ hijack

[smokeylo]

Writerbird: I don't know what we'll do. Foot up on toilet? Seems like a recipe for disaster.

As for the yeti yoni, I have it on my "list of things to do before baby gets here" to have DH do it for me. The last time I did it, I used his hair clippers (which worked great) but I couldn't see anything and almost caused myself bodily harm. DH can handle it.

This isn't TMI, but I'm also getting a pedicure at about 37 weeks - for fun! When I get to see my feet again, they will be pretty.

[shanniesue2]

The moment I entered my first trimester, I became the world's most disgusting woman... I have heartburn and reflux so I'm constantly upping digestive juices. I burp and fart uncontrollably (thank God I work around 2 year olds). Even my dh complains about my poots being so smelly. I just tell him, "well at least I have a good excuse."

And yesterday... I didn't even feel the need to pee. And I had just peed like 30 minutes earlier, but I'm sitting in my classroom at daycare folding laundry and I sneezed and peed ALL over myself and the pillow I was sitting on:. So there I am at work, with no change of clothes, and no car b/c dh took me to work that day... and I have got pee all over myself. My only saving grace was that my mom had the day off work and, although she was unable to got to my house and get me a change of clothes, she did bring me a pair of her undies and pants and a pad (just in case). The thing is that my mom is... well let's just say she's shaped differently than I am... and she wears these awful up-to-your-boobs granny panties... OMG, I looked so frumpy with pants and underwear that were about to fall off of me. But I guess at least they were dry.

[Mindi22]

Morning sickness -

Hmmm... let see... third trimester, not even morning and yep, me still vomiting... added to that we now have some incontinence, so I never know when I vomit if I'm going to be peeing at the same time...

I'm starting to develop a list of foods that I just shouldn't eat at all during pregnancy because they taste so darn nasty coming back up....

My current list includes just about anything dairy, rice/pasta (they manage to swell up some, and even if you thought you've chewed well, still manage to be quite bulky on the return trip), chinese food (probably the rice factor, but still some types of their sauces don't taste well partially digested....

Foods that aren't too bad: Chewy Fruit Snacks - mmmm... still fruity coming back up, flavored ice cream besides vanilla can be okay, fruit juice... basically fruity is a common theme for taste holding up well after spending time in a gastric bath...

I'm open to other foods to add to my not to bad list, since I can't ever predict when it's coming back up!

[slgt]

Ohhh, Mindi, I'm so sorry you're still sick! That's so miserable.

Knock on wood - so far - my body has been pretty well behaved. My one major area of discomfort suffered a great deal. I have a rather painful sharp/throbbing kind of thing going on in my labia, like a line of pain that starts about 3 inches above pubic hair and ending in my labia.

We went for a longish x-country ski with dear friends this morning, and I was barely shuffling by the end. I couldn't bring myself to be truthful when they asked why I was moving so funny - and just blamed it on general pregnancy fatigue. It only hurt when I kicked with my right leg - glide - ow - glide - ow - glide - ow - glide - ow - glide - ow.

Needless to say, this afternoon found me holding an ice pack to my nether regions...DH is NOT happy about this turn of events!