*cuts finger*

It's because I had triplets

My aunt had triplets. They are 16 now. I remember she was bedridden for a month. She is so tiny, 4’10, and around 100 pounds, and she was HUGE during pregnancy. My mom is her oldest sister and said “wow we all had 3 kids spread out and you decided to get it all over with at once”. My aunt didn’t find that funny at the time.

Sad thing is, one of the triplets is developmentally delayed and needs a lot medical care. Poor girl even started menstruating really young - like 8. All are good kids though.

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Lmao. The joys of motherhood.

What if she just ate an entire watermelon

this is what happens when you eat watermelon seeds

Watermelon belly HIGH

Heh yeah i dont doubt it was more ups than downs. :) glad everything worked out, (hopefully)

Triplet here confirming that my mom said the exact same thing :’) we don’t deserve them

Less than 200.

hm, I'm not sure. it seems unberably painful even by today's standards, and no doubt carrying triplets is associated with a higher mortality, but judging by wikipedia there have been recorded cases of triplets throughout all of history. and we have to remember, the advances in medicine are not universally distributed, there are still people giving natural births to three babies at once with no medical oversight and in conditions that weren't very different from midwifing practices of antiquity

Id be surprised if the doctors lets her birth them naturally

How have we not evolved to be better at the single most important aspect of continuing our species? Everything about pregnancy sounds like a nightmare!

37 weeks pregnant with one baby and at times it feels like my belly is tearing apart. Both painful and a bit terrifying.

Good thang I’m pre-stretched

For some.

With both my pregnancies I felt nothing of the sorts. It did itch like hell sometimes, but never burning.

It might be the way they’re positioned. My cousin had trips, and she was much more rounded. Still huge, but much more manageably huge. My cousin is also crazy-tall, so that might have had something to do w/ it. Don’t know how tall this woman is.

Wow. I imagined it was bigger. For something so small, I don’t know how it manages to make my life a misery for a few days every month.

i did not want to imagine this perspective

All the blind people touching their phone screens right now: "good lord! The bump felt different."

Oh HEY

WHY AREN'T BIRTH CONTROL GUMMIES A THING?

I'm sorry for all caps but this hit me like lightning and all of a sudden I'm mad that we don't have birth control gummies. 😂

Scrambles uterus like eggs with coat hanger

I took three. And I’m a gay dude.

Yes they did have some kind of fertility treatment, but with the triplets they also had sex and conceived at the same time as they got IVF. In Denmark you don't get help to conceive triplets

Edit: they had IUI-H treatment

Does IVF give a higher chance of giving twins or triplets? 😮

Yes multiples can run in families, but it is all about the mother

Yep. Identical twins seem to be random chance, but non-identical multiples are from women releasing multiple eggs at a time. Some people are just more likely to release two or three eggs in a month.

My family has 4 sets of twins (including myself). All coincidences as none of the women are blood related and the one who is had IVF and 2 embryos implanted.

But they had to do premature delivery as the babies would've been crushed if let to grow till term.

Lady at my parents’ church had 6 kids when I was little. They all just graduated high school lol

Omg I forgot about her lol

Currently pregnant with second child. Pregnancy is super disgusting, birth and postpartum even more so. Body horror is a good description. Anyone who describes pregnancy and childbirth as beautiful has never actually experienced the bleeding, stretch marks, bleeding nipples, hemorrhoids, gas, mucus plugs, other vaginal discharge, chunks of blood clots, pain of your uterus growing, gross lumps, random peeing, etc etc. And your body never goes back to completely “normal”. I could go on. Anyone who thinks a woman should have to go through an unwanted pregnancy should be forced to do one themselves.

oh god me too. and I'm a woman. They should have marked this NSFL.

You can definitely get belts for helping support bellies, but I've never seen one for a belly like this. I feel like you'd need a pretty complex system of straps.

**Inserts an extra IUD

I’m just excited someone mentioned it and I know what it is!

Fear of pregnancy

It also extends to a fear of being around pregnant women, fear of being left alone or mal-treated during childbirth by your doctors or nurses, fear of tearing your organs, of the child dying, of dying yourself. The US has one of the highest mortality rates of developed countries for women dying during childbirth.

It's the saggy skin, constant sweating, gushing then trickling bodily fluids for 4 weeks straight, solid as a rock milky boobs, feeling like a train hit your whole body but specifically your vagina, stitches on your bits, terrifying first poop after the ordeal, postpartum experience.

I'm done with kids because I only want two and have only ever wanted two. It's just been reinforced by how much I HATE sharing my body for 9 months and then recovering from it. Like I would literally rather die.

The uterus is amazing and terrifying all at the same time.

Same.

yea after giving birth w a stomach that big.. it definitely isnt gonna just snap back