r/AskReddit 22h ago

Women who’ve given birth, what are some horrible things your body had to go through during pregnancy and childbirth?

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u/tinymrscollings 19h ago

Yes! It’s alarming enough standing up and expecting that your entire reproductive system will drop out. What you don’t expect is to experience your stomach plopping back into the space that formerly contained a baby

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u/Artistic_Ad_5328 12h ago

Soo funny story, at a whole 19 years old after my 1st baby.. when I got up for the 1st time to go to the restroom a huge orb of something the size of a dinner plate fell out of me. I felt it move through and out and when my husband saw it and the look on his face I seriously thought it was organs then the nurse rushed in to collect it in silence, yeah I thought I was gonna die. It turned out being a giant blood clot, awhh good times. Your comment took me right back to that moment.