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...

Tomorrow is the first day alone without my mom to help out and babys been screamy around everyone not just me the past two days :/ dreading it. What to do with a grumpy baby for 8+ hours alone?! :/ I went for a four hour walk with him last week just to keep him sorta happy that killed my legs though

My husband and I got married in Oct. Quit my full time job in Aug. Been doing temp work but mostly SAHM. He does industrial work and is also 7 yrs older than me. Well he thinks I don't do anything all day or being a SAHM isn't stressful. Feel like the romance is gone. He's always grumpy and never wants to do anything with the kids and I. I take care of 2- 6 kids, depending if kids have school. Our kids are 16months to 10yrs old. My 4 yr old is high functioning and 3 are toddlers. I cook, clean, ...

Just sharing a picture of my little grumpy bean who has made me super grumpy by getting up and stripping naked at 2.30am "/ not at all a tired mamma right now :(