The Side Effects Of Pregnancy And Childbirth 

Between the good, the bad, and the ugly, pregnancy is most certainly a wild ride. And anyone who has gone through childbirth knows there are plenty of things you can never be prepared for. What's a side effect of giving birth that people don't talk about?" Here's what women said.

1. "The night sweats for those first few weeks. Buy new sets of sheets so the daily bedding changes are more manageable."

2. "How brutal sleep deprivation feels. Navy Seals deal with sleep deprivation. It is a brief eternity of misery. Good thing for kids "

3. "All stretch marks you gloriously avoided during pregnancy could come AFTER. PFFF"

4. "Bleeding nipples, especially for baby number one, before they’ve figured out their latch,"

5.  You can keep getting contractions for a couple of days after birth. And that they can get stronger with subsequent births.

6. "The overall confusion of breastfeeding. So many breastfeeding things. What’s normal (production, latch, etc) and what’s not (oversupply, undersupply, oral ties, etc)?

7. "Some people will have a fourth-degree tear. Being in pain while not supposed to be very mobile, and losing a lot of muscle tone/control down there. During the healing and physical therapy, it was not uncommon for someone not to be able to make it to the toilet. It's embarrassing as all hell, too. Some people need longer maternity and paternity leaves  to heal."

8. Some mothers lose their strength! 

9. "Postpartum carpal tunnel. For some will not go away until  you quit breastfeeding."

10. "This is a strange one, but some will suffer from digestive pain in a certain spot. It feels as if food gets stuck there sometimes. 

11. "The week after birth, some people will find the intestine way back to the original place, 

12. "Your entire identity and understanding of yourself changes in one single moment."

13. "Some people will smell so bad postpartum. 

14. Some mothers say, It was anger. No one warned me how intense and sudden it could be. I expected sadness or anxiety, but the rage caught me off guard. Loud noises, constant touching, no sleep, it all built up and made me feel like I was losing control. I felt ashamed and alone in it until I realized so many moms go through the same thing but don’t talk about it. Knowing it was normal helped me stop blaming myself."

15. "Some mothers say they feel like all my joints and muscles came loose and worn out, especially in my pelvic area."

16. "Some mothers say their hair is falling out so badly right now. I’m surprised I have any hair left on my head. It’s everywhere, five months postpartum."

17. "Some mothers say I am really upset that no one told me about the lochia process. I might've been abnormal, but I swear I bled for like 3 months. I thought I was done bleeding, and a few days later, I started bleeding again, I'm assuming for my regular period. I just broke down. It was so mentally draining to feel like my 'period' would never end, and I just kept asking, 'Why didn't anyone tell me this would happen?'"

18. "I had terrible lower back pain from about two weeks before I gave birth until 11 months after, right around the time I stopped breastfeeding. The breastfeeding hormones, I guess, kept my ligaments all 'pregnancy-ash' and it was like a switch when my baby weaned."

19. "I experienced mom's brain for years after giving birth."

20. "The scariest part I realized is that your body will never be 100% as it was before. I don't mean just the stretch marks and loose skin, even internally, your physiology kinds of changes."

21. "The hemorrhoids. I’ve started giving everyone hemorrhoid cream as a shower gift, and everyone laughs at me. My response is, 'Oh, just you wait until you can’t sit down for two weeks.'"

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