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...

Sorry I havent posted an update on whats happened. I finally.had my baby boy, Noah Jesus Zamora 😍 So I went in Friday night due to small contractions, once I made it to the hospital they had become regular & I was almost 2 cm dilated. They kept me for 2 hours before sending me home because my contractions werent causing any dilation. So my bf & I spent the night at my mothers just incase something happened. I tried to fall asleep around 1 something in the a.m. after timing contractions that were...

Dinner

What's for dinner, ladies? I'm making baked ziti with a salad because I had the urge to make sauce from scratch. What's on your table?

My triplets were born via emergency c-section.... on Monday I had an appt with my ob at 6pm and he said I was still 2cm dilated, then I went home and was having servere pain that came and go and would wake me up from sleep, they were coming from 2 to 17 min apart, and I couldn't walk, and I had an extreme urge to pee, and that was new, so my mom came and took me to the hospital, and they hooked me and the babies up to the monitors and I wasn't contracting as much as I had thought, come to fi...

What is everyone craving?

Ive been doing pretty good up until today. Craved a taco salad so of course had it, then ran errands and suddenly had a real urge for a bic mac. I think I can say I should be done eating for today. First time Ive been like that