Thursday, 15 April 2010
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Embarrassing Accidents During Your Pregnancy?
I'm currently 32 weeks pregnant with my little boy and I decided it was about time for a baby shower. I wanted to go get my nails done for the occasion so I did my research and thought it was totally safe to go and do so.
Well, I get there and everything was going fine but sitting there for longer than a few minutes made me a little bit uncomfortable yet I thought nothing of it. All of the sudden an overwhelming dizziness came over me and I asked the man doing my nails to hold on a second while I sat back trying to relax. I got extremely hot suddenly and then thought I was going to pass out and then BAM! I threw up all over the place.
I was so embarrassed and had no idea why this had happened because I have not been sick from being pregnant since my 3rd month. The people there treated me really nice and got me water and ice and fans and made me feel a lot better, but I was still humiliated that everyone had seen me get sick while getting my nails done.
Has anything like this ever happened to you? Or any other embarrassing accidents in public? I'd like to know I'm not the only one.
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I pretty much gave up on having bladder control after 32 weeks. Every time I laughed or sneezed, even if my bladder was barely full...I had an "accident". I just got use to going to the bathroom every hour and took extra clothes with me everywhere I went! I was very relieved when things got back to normal!
not this pregnancy..at least not yet. with my daughter though before i even knew I was pregnant I passed out at thef ront of this little store, and woke up with the owner yelling "call 9-1-1 this girl's on drugs" I didn't have the skills back to talk yet so it took a moment before I was able to say whoa wait a minute i'm not on drugs, and i'm ok just don't call 9-1-1...turns out i was pregnant and i'm sure my blood sugar was low. it was kind of crazy. I'm assuming she thought i was on drugs because I was only 17 but still that was REALLY embarassing. I have passed out with this pregnancy too but luckily in my own home wiht my husband to catch me, much less embarrassing
I peed myself several times, especially often toward the end... Every time one of the babies moved, I peed. And not just little trickles. I started carrying around extra pants.
I have one embarassing moment, that I will probably remember for the rest of my life and it was while I was preparing to give birth to my daughter. I was having some really bad contractions and the nurse suggested that I get on my hands and knees to try to practice pushing as if I I had to do the number 2. This was to help relieve some of the pressure and pain. As she was standing behind me, guiding me, I accidently let one rip. And the most embarassing part of it all, I know it didn't smell so pleasant. She, however, was so sweet and understanding about it and told me to go ahead and keep practicing despite the fact she probably wanted to run out and get as far away from the room as possible.
So, you're not alone ;]
@babixk1umzy@xanga - At least you didn't poop. I think hearing a 'plop' from behind would have killed me.
I had quite vivid dreams during my last pregnancy ( usually about spiders!!) One night I had such an intense dream I jumped out of bed - my husband woke to find me leaping off the end of the bed - I managed to break my foot in the process - it was quite embarassing explaining to people I broke my foot while sleep walking! It wasn't easy being pregnant, having a toddler and a broken foot all at the same time!
With my first pregnancy nothing embarrassing happened. I never peed myself or anything like that.
So when I got pregnant again, I thought it'd be the same. Uh no. I peed myself SO much. Usually just little trickles, like when I was bending over the sink to brush my teeth. I didn't even know I had to pee. And then towards the end when I sat down on the chair, I started peeing myself a lot. I tried to hold it to make it stop for a second, but it wouldn't. So I hopped up and then what do ya know..it quit. I think it just depended on what position I was in.
With my first pregnancy, I was lucky. Hopefully, I will be lucky with the next.
I had the exact same thing happen to me when I got my blood drawn during my pregnancy! I've always been a little queasy around needles, but this time I thought for sure I was going to faint. I suddenly got so hot and the room started spinning but NOPE. I threw up everywhere. I tried to aim for the garbage can, but ended up puking all up the side of it and all over the floor. It was so humiliating that I burst into tears. Nothing like a sobbing, vomit-covered, pregnant lady.
So no, you're not alone!
I'm at 17 weeks and if my bladder if full and I sneeze I have an "accident" I know it will only get worse as this baby gets bigger! If I keep up on going to the bathroom A LOT. There are zero problems.. I'm just not used to going every hour....
when i was pregnant...during that first trimester i was soooo sick! i threw up all the time. and i kid u not every time i threw up i peed on myself. and im talking u could deff tell i had peed myself. i carried around extra clothes from then on!
You're far from alone!
I was sick A LOT. Our toilet seat lid has this 'Church' brand-stamp on the inside/bottom of it. I'm really familiar with it...between that and that whole, "Praying to the porcelain god." thing? "Church" became the hubby and I's code word for my frequent vomitting, so that we weren't over-sharing with other people but he'd know what was going on and that I was okay. He called work one day and I was in the bathroom (tossing my cookies) so one of the other girls took a message. I call him back, he asks if everything was okay... "Yeah, I was just in church again..." ...hang up and the new girl practically bursts... "I'm sorry! I couldn't help but over hear...! I am so glad that someone else here enjoys going to church, too! I quit my last job because they wanted me to work Sundays and I just...no! That is my day to go to church!" I almost died, but I didn't want to explain...so I just smiled and nodded. She looked a little confused when someone else mentioned that I was Atheist a few weeks later!
My boss was less than understanding (having had two kids herself, one of which she once told me she had such bad morning sickness from that she ended up in the hospital, dehydrated...so, you'd think she would "get" it...she didn't) and would have a cow any time I asked to go home because I really wasn't feeling well or ran to the bathroom too often. Eventually, I got tired of hearing her whine and moan, so I'd just tough it out until I couldn't - absolutely couldn't - anymore and then run for the bathroom.
I was SO glad when a few weeks passed without getting sick. Yay! And then? The A/C in our building broke. In Florida. In JULY. It was down for at least a week. The other girl that was supposed to be working with me called out for whatever reason one day, so I was alone. Sweating away. (I took my work shirt off and worked in my tank top, daring the wicked witch to say anything!) I started feeling BAD. Dizzy, sick...everything. Right then, I get a line of customers, after an hour of nothing, mind you. One of the other managers was like, "Are you okay? You don't look okay... I'm going to call [the weekend girl] and see if she can come in so you can go home..." He no sooner said that than my stomach turned inside out, I swear. I was able to get my head in the trash can behind the desk/counter, but I still had to get up at some point and had all these people staring at me. It was awful and the heat did nothing for the smell!
The nice [to your face - I miss VERY few people from that job] manager let me leave right then and took over my job until the weekend girl could get there. The poor new guy [turn-over blew there, for all the obvious reasons and then some] got to take the trash bag out after I bailed; I had to get out of that hot building! I felt so bad and so embarassed even though everyone was super nice about it!
A few weeks later it was another really hot day and I was getting in my car to go to work when the heat and my stomach disagreed again... Sick in the yard with the neighbors' landscapers coming over to make sure I was okay. "Yeah...just pregnant!" I learned to go out and start the car/A/C about 20 minutes before I had to leave after that.
I had bladder issues for a while after our daughter was born. Like, occasionally, I'd have to go...so I'd head to the bathroom and be two steps away from the toilet and...forget it! Time to change pants and mop the floor! Thankfully, it only ever happened to me at home and cleared itself up by about three months. Since it seemed to happen mostly while the hubs was at work, he just thought I was keeping the bathroom really, really clean. It was only a few months ago that he was really embarassed about something, so I clued him in to why the bathroom was really so clean for a while there!
No, I'm not having anymore kids... LOL
I had horrible morning sickness, so going anywhere was a risk for me. Every time I threw up, I would pee my pants. I remember one time, we were driving back from california, with a friend, in his nice SUV and suddenly, I felt sick. Thankfully I had my trusty ziplock bags, but I still ended up getting some on the seat belt. I'm sure it smelled awful and I'm sure the driver was imagining me getting puke all over his car. We stopped at a gas station so I could completely change clothes. I was sooo embarassed.
@SeeBeeWrite - Haha! If that were the case...then I know she probably would have headed for the door!
Happened to me at school I was eating a poptart and all of the sudden BAM! I learned by then thankfully to sit by a garbage can. But some snob walked by and said "i dont know why they dont just send her home" My friend got in her face and said "SHES PREGNANT NOT SICK ITS NOT LIKE BEING NEAR HER IS GONNA GET YOU PREGGERS!" I was still in the process of puking at this point but still one of the fonder memories lmao.
@SeeBeeWrite@xanga - Yeah I would too. I would be on the ground cracking up in laughter til I can't breathe.
With both of my pregnancies I did not have morning sickness but I was always farting. Like when I was pregnant with my daughter this one night we had a couple over for supper and a game of Scrabble. So while playing the game I let out a loud big one and I quickly blamed my daughter and said it was her not me even though the sound came from me. I was laughing so much and so was my husband and the couple that was with us. The husband was turning red in the face. I was trying not to laught to much just in case I fart again.
I had horrible complications from tonsils that needed to go a long time ago and major allergy issues. During my first trimester with my daughter, I wasn't sleeping very well and woke myself up snoring at night. I was so tired, but didn't really realize it until I tried to drive home for a visit with our son. I fell asleep at the wheel and woke up because I heard the rumble strip on the side of the highway. It was a miracle that we didn't flip and didn't hit anything. Very, very scary and super embarassing, because I will never live it down!
hahaha. probly having "little accidents" everytime i laugh or sneeze or cough or i move suddenly. i remember a really bad one when i was sitting at a friend's new couch. she said its alright but the look on her face says otherwise. i was not invited to her place till after the baby was born.
I threw up in the manager's office at the bank and in line at the movie theatre. For me, I had absolutely NO warning. If I was going to puke, it was happening RIGHT THEN. Postpartum, it took me 7 months to regain full bladder control. Oh the joy! :)
Oh, also, I drooled in my sleep like ridiculous amounts. My husband was deployed which I found kind of a relief because he wouldn't see the drool. He got home when I was 38 weeks and I didn't know how to hide it. He was forgiving, of course, but I'm pretty sure it grossed him out. I was semi-mortified. But at that point in the pregnancy I was just so ready to have the baby and so grateful to have him home, I kind of gave up worrying about it.
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lol!
I'm reading all of these comments and I sit and wonder, WHY THE HELL ARE PEOPLE PUTTING THEMSELVES THROUGH THIS?!
Adopt a kid or something!
Jesus, people are crazy. I'm not going to get pregnant and have to worry about pissing myself everytime I like blinked. Jesus...