7 postpartum realities you can't warn new moms enough about
by Becky Vieira posted in Pregnancy
Before I gave birth my biggest concerns were what would happen in the delivery room and how to keep my son alive once we got home. I also worried about sleep deprivation, but reassured myself that in a pinch I could sell my husband?s car to pay for a night nurse.
I figured the period of time in the hospital that spanned post-delivery and pre-discharge would be an easy time when I would bond with my son, rest, and heal from childbirth.
I was wrong.
Chaos is a better description. Why is it that no one told me" At one point I wondered if my friends hated me as not a single one had prepared me for what a uterine massage truly entails.
Just so you aren?t taken aback like I was, I?ve highlighted seven things you?ll probably be told about, and what they really mean. 1. ?A nurse will be checking your uterus to ensure it is becoming firmer and shrinking.?
What it really means: A nurse will be routinely conducting a procedure that feels a lot like a torture, by pressing and massaging your uterus. Don?t get excited by my use of the word ?massage,? this one will be the antithesis of everything you?ve come to know that word to mean. It will feel like someone has climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and dropped a bowling ball directly onto your midsection. Several times a day.
2. ?You are wearing a pad because there will be bleeding, and lochia.?
What it really means: You will be wearing an industrial-strength adult diaper and it wi...
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