1. Stretchmarks and C-section scar…
2. Heartburn like you wouldn’t believe. Almost would rather not eat than have to deal with it.
3. Gaining weight/bloating: even if you do manage to lose ‘baby weight’, your body will never look like it did BB. “Before Baby”
4. Memory loss: I thought I was going crazy until I read it’s a common thing. If you give me a list of things to do, you lose me at #2.
5. Constipation/hemorrhoids…always ask for the prenatal vitamins with ‘stool softener’. You’ll thank me for this piece of advice.
6. Breasts making a run for the border…the southern border.
7. Breasts sore…or other problems. (thrush, vasospasm, blocked duct, cracking/bleeding, etc.)
8. Hair falling out in clumps. Last time I was in the shower, I had to move the clump to the side for the water to drain. No exaggeration. I don’t need to.
9. Surviving on 3 hours of sleep a DAY. (which probably leads to #4…and possibly #8, too.)
10. Fractured tailbone…you have to sit on a donut, get steroids injected directly into your spine, or surgery.
I list all these not to bellyache about motherhood. In fact, I list these to illustrate how MUCH I love my son.
If I had to do the pregnancy all over again, and knowing these were in store for me…ALL OF THESE and more, I’d do in a second…to have my baby.
How crazy is that? Must be love.

I had all that stuff too, AND for 7 of the 9+ months I was in Bed trying like hell to keep him in my belly and alive. Then we get him out and I then get 27 stitches in my whohoo…I loved my donut…and THEN 5.5 months later I was PG again! OMG, I would do it all again too…pure misery, and I don’t know whose body this is any more, it looks like it came from the sctach and dent store….I love all my boys. I’d totally do it again for them. Great post.
I’m totally with you on this one. Ditto to eery single entry on the list. Sadly so. However, like you said, I’d do it all over again for the joy and happiness and cuteness that is my son. Boobs going south bites though…