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...

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Took a preg test and it was NEGATIVE! Yay! 🎉🎈

How many of those posts do you see on here? Lol. I just have a positive OPK for the last week. That's one hell of an LH surge. Just to be sure I took a test and now I can rest a little easier. I may test again next week.

*I'm taking OPK to AVOID pregnancy without the use of birth control. Natural Family Planning. I had my Mirena removed 3 weeks ago and so far no period, so I'm just trying to get a sense of a legit cycle, the first in almost 3 year...

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When you're pregnant, weird food cravings just comes with the territory. And they are unstoppable! You’ll drive miles to get that burger with those grilled onions🍔, or you'll have no shame in forcing your SO to go out for that midnight donut run.🍩

We asked moms in the mom.life community to name their most intense pregnancy cravings. They spoke of all sorts of crazy combinations of sweet, salty, umami, crunchy, sour and everything in between.

Here are the top 27 pregnancy cravings from the mom....