Birth is a magical moment that you don’t really understand until you’ve gone through it yourself. We asked moms in the Preggie community if they had any childbirth and postpartum advice for new moms. Here are 24 real “surprises” they wanted to share.

1️⃣→ Hemorrhoids

💬 I’ve got one word for this, hemorrhoids. Either way you deliver, you don’t get out of it lol.

2️⃣→ How bad your hormones are after birth

💬 I had it really bad the first two weeks after birth. Felt like someone died and thought I w...

Waddling so bad tonight 😂 my hips hurt like hell.

Went back to the doctor today because I was still in pain. he took a sample to check for uti but that's bullshit because I know I don't have a uti. I get those pretty often and I always know when I have one and this ain't that so Yea. he says I'm in pain because he rubbed the swab against my bladder but why would u do that. I don't think the strep test required anything with my bladder. Honestly since he said that I have come to the conclusion that he made a mistake and stuck the swab in my pee ...

I just read a post of a mom getting bashed about how she sleeps on her back pregnant cuz she can’t sleep in her sides cuz of her hips and people are going off in her saying she is going to kill her baby 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️ seriously people! Slept on my back whole pregnancy with my son cuz my hips hurt so bad also and he turned out fine!

Once you become a mom, it’s wonderful to share your amazing birth story!👶

We asked moms in mom.life to share their unique experiences. Here are 52 moving birth stories!

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I was 38 weeks & 2 days when my beautiful girl decided to come. It was at 12:30am when I got my first contraction. I try taking a bath to be sure I was contracting & it wasn't Braxton hicks. When I realize how frequent the pain was coming I knew that it was the day she was coming. I called the hospital after two hours of cont...