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Pregnancy is a very delicate period of time in a woman’s life. After all, they’re growing a teeny-tiny human being inside of them who can’t fend for themselves and thus relies heavily on their mother making the right decisions in life.

And when you become pregnant and people find out (or eventually start noticing) about it, there’s also bound to be an expert or two popping up, giving you advice on how to properly be pregnant. Because people.

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Reddit user u/FuzzyTortoise asked the pregnant women and mothers of Reddit what was some of the worst or even craziest advice someone has ever given them about their pregnancies. And many women delivered.

Check out some of the worst advice anyone could ever give a pregnant lady in the neatly curated list below. And while you’re down there, vote, comment, and share some of the craziest advice you’ve ever been given on your pregnancy.

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#1

Currently pregnant, and currently dealing with my mother who became an anti vaxxer 13 years ago. I had no idea, just found out recently when I mentioned I got my tdap and flu shot and I asked if everyone in the family was caught up because the baby is due next month and flu season is right around the corner. She called me a [fudging] idiot for putting "rotting DNA" in my body while pregnant. She refuses to get a flu shot, so I refuse to let her see her first grandchild. Not taking chances with my kids life because you cant be bothered to do legitimate research or listen to me when I try and explain it to her.

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My adorable father in law told me I HAD to deliver vaginally. If I had a C section, I wouldn't love my baby as much because I didn't suffer for him. First of all, the kid was comfortably sitting and was NOT turning around, you utter [bung]hole. I was not about to risk my kid's life in a feet first delivery, no sir. Second, a C section is a major surgery and a pain in the ass, believe me, I did suffer. You try being cut open like that while awake and then deal with a feisty colicky new born while recovering from it. Third, really? I need to feel pain in order to love my child? I can't even. Fourth, you don't even have a uterus, old man. Zip it.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Actually it's true. As a father I found I was incapable of loving my child until I stubbed my toe on the way to the vending machine in the delivery ward. Until I felt that suffering I found it impossible to love. Science be crazy that way.

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#3

When I found out I was pregnant a 4th time (3 losses in row) I heard so many from strangers mine isn’t necessarily advice but more open mouth insert foot “Are you SURE this one is going to work?”

I was also told if I was on my cell phone or around my modem/router it would cause brain damage to my unborn child.

She’s 4, perfectly healthy, no brain damage and let’s just say it took a lot of medical attention to get her to full term.

What caused my miscarriages they said my hormones couldn’t sustain a pregnancy and after the 3rd I was told that with my hormone levels getting pregnant again wouldn’t happen. She was a surprise and the best one ever. It took an educated doctor that wanted the best outcome. Previous doctors just looked at my history and was like sorry for your loss maybe next time will go better..

The best day of my husband and mines life was finding out that she was alive, thriving and having an amazing doctor who moved heaven and earth to make sure she’d make it. He was at work when I found out he actually yelled and his entire office heard him he almost ran around the office he was more excited than me!

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My aunt (a pediatrician) went through a similar struggle. Their daughter was pregnancy 4 or 5 and it took 4 months in hospital to manage her medications and hormone supplements around the clock. Luckily their healthcare was good and they’d saved up for IVF if the fifth natural pregnancy didn’t work out. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Her mother told her to quit her job, because her body must smell she’s around so many sick kids and refused to add a child to that environment. You know, how we throw up when someone else does because our body fears we ate the same poison. She told her mom that that was impossible, incredibly cruel, but also that she didn’t care to be angry with her because any stress on the pregnancy was too much. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ She visited her former patients at the child wing every week and she believes it kept her calm enough to make it to 8 months. I’m so incredibly glad to hear you two got your precious healthy child. It’s something irreplaceable.

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#4

My labor should be painless because Jesus died and erased the “pain during childbirth” penalty humans got from Eve. If I feel pain, it’s because I don’t believe in Jesus’ redemptive powers.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wish it worked that way, but having a baby rip your vagina is gonna be painful.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Especially for us humans as our heads are technically too big for that

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You know those warning labels on toasters that say "Do not use in shower" ? This is who they have these for...

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whoever said that forgot the bit about women having to suffer childbirth as punishment for giving the apple to Adam.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So they want to convince all women that they don’t really believe in Jesus’ redemptive powers? Nothing here makes sense

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

yeah, I have a question about THAT .... why would god create the idea of sin, then send himself down to earth to do his 'thing', and then die to erase the very sins he created? Why not just say "Oh my bad. Yeah, just say a couple "Hail God" affirmations a day, that'll do.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I'll take an educated guess and say this was a man's advice.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Either that person has never had kids or they have no uterus (this isn't pointed towards all men you guys are cool )

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I had two big twins, 6-8 0unes and 9-4. I didn't feel any thing. They stretched everything out so nothing would contact. I didn't have pain but I'm a fallen away Catholic so he still loves me?.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In Scientology, women are supposed to be silent during birth (so I've heard)

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Huh. Maybe my nurse was a scientologist, then. During labor she leaned into my face and said "yOu DoNt HaVe To Be So LoUd". I should have punched her in the face.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

especially since all they do is thump it. Ever notice you never see them actually read it

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And it’s because of stupid comments like that, that today I am a very happy atheist… being a good person because I am and not because I’m afraid a an all loving god sending me to burn in hell where his greatest enemy do his bidding.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If that were true at leat 70 per cent of women worldwide would have converted out of sheer defense and self preservation. Would be the very first objective proof that Christianity ist more subtantial than any other of the thousands of other religious options on the buffet. One hell of a potential incentive!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Huh, I never heard about this, even though I had Catholic religious education at school. However, it makes total sense in the way of how the bible makes sense. Jesus erased Adam and Eves sin, original sin, with his sacrifice. That also means that men shouldn't have to work anymore. Or at least not sweat at work, if you take it literally.

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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He didn't erase our inherited *tendency* to sin; He erases our individual/personal sins. We are still born into this world with a fallen nature, which will not be completely restored to its original perfection until the general resurrection. At that time, those who have conformed themselves to the pattern of Christ will receive their glorified bodies, while those who have conformed themselves to the pattern of Satan will not.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

nothing to do with the head sticking out don't worry

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The Bible does not teach that it worked like that.

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Lex
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Somebody misinterpreted what Jesus'sacrifice was for.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Now here's a religious hypothesis we can disprove in a nonce

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So every dingle one that feels any pain in their lives, irs because of not believing?? Ridiculous...you are supposed to feel pain, that's how the pain receptor works.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Translation "you're a woman and deserve the pain because you don't love a man enough" name religious people wonder why more and more people are leaving religion.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Either comes from a man or a woman who was so doped up she can’t remember a thing.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We will suffer the pain of this world until we are in the next. These people who say that christians shouldn't feel pain, get sick, suffer from depression, have troubles in this life obviously have never read the Bible!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My first stage labour’s were painless, I’m Atheist, cue twilight zone music

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wherever someone got this, it's *NOT* from the teachings of historical Christianity! The only person said to have experienced a naturally painless labor is the Virgin Mary herself.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

oh i do wish they would shut up and come and face the real world

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So he can remove the pain from every woman's childbirth, but doesn't. Sounds like a real vindictive piece of work.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

He could potentially cure the disease leprosy, but supposedly chose to heal just a few lepers. What a c-u-n-t!

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Then the world is full of sinner. What a load of crap is this? I suppose this was also a man telling her this crap

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#5

My MIL said it's ok to drink mixed drinks... she went on to say that my husband was a margarita baby. I now call him that when he gets on my nerves.

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#6

I had a co-worker tell me that eating peanut butter (I was eating an apple with peanut butter on my lunch break) would give my baby cancer. I already thought she was the world's greatest idiot so that nugget of wisdom was just confirmation.

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#7

Oh! I was told that I need to shave down there or the baby will get carpet burn. Like.. Wut?

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#8

Not to drink hot tea because then I would boil my baby.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

NO- NOT THE HERBAL TEA THAT HELPS FOR PAIN MANAGEMENT FOR SOME PEOPLE-

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#9

Someone told my SO not to bathe because the baby would drown.

Edit: the reasoning for this advice was that the umbilical cord acted as a sort of snorkel from the baby to the mothers navel. If the navel was submerged the baby wouldn't be able to get air.

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#10

According to my mother, everything can cause miscarriage.

Coffee?

Miscarriage

Tea?

Miscarriage

Too much meat?

Miscarriage

Not enough meat?

Miscarriage.

Sewing?

Miscarriage

Paddling the school canoe

Oh, you better believe that's a miscarriage.

Had two miscarriages before finally having my daughter. Just bad luck chromosomal abnormalities... but she made sure to remind me not to do all of those things again next time, you know... just in case.

Thanks for the subtle blame, Mom.

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#11

Not me but my sister. She had to have an emergency c section when she had my niece. Her mother in law said she wouldn’t be a “real woman” unless she had a vaginal birth.

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#12

My mom was talking to my paternal grandma while pregnant with me then winced because I was kicking her ribs. My grandma told her "swat it so it'll know!" She wanted my mom to spank fetus-me through her own belly for kicking her. After my mom told us that story, "Swat it so it'll know" became a common response any time someone was complaining about something.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

So I guess you will just slap yourself? Grandma knew EXACTLY what she was doing.

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My grandmother made a comment about my weight gain with my first pregnancy around month 5. For reference, I started severely underweight at 87 lbs and was closely monitored by my doctor because of it. At this point, I was nearing 125. When I told her that the OB/GYN was happy with where I was, she told me of her own doctor's advice (in 1956), "Smoke a pack of cigarettes per day to keep your weight down. The baby can gain it's own weight after birth."

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

y'all i thought pregnancy was a thing that made you gain weight, you know? since you're growing a human inside you? turns out, that baby don't need no weight

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-sitting with my legs crossed wil cause miscarriage.

-don't take a bath, itll cause a miscarriage.

-lifting more than 5lbs will cause a miscarriage.

-wearing tight fitted clothes will cause a miscarriage.

-spicy food would cause a miscarriage

-I worked retail. A stranger informed me that morning sickness and smell sensitivity isn't real, while I was heading to the bathroom to throw up.

-also had a customer tell me that the baby isn't actually affecting my bladder.

-had a third customer tell me to not drink tap water. Can't remember why. Probably causes miscarriages.

-my cousin tried to tell me that I had morning sickness because its Gods way of telling a woman she isn't ready for a baby.

-I had an anterior placenta, so we couldn't feel kicks until close to 30 weeks. My mom was said there's no such thing, and the reason we couldn't feel kicks is bc I was fat.

Tldr; literally everything causes miscarriages and morning sickness is a lie.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

i would not be able to have a child then, i don't know how to sit with straight legs

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#15

My friend's dad was a chiropractor. She told him I had had miscarriages. He told me, "No wonder. You will lose every pregnancy with a pelvis like that."

Freaked me out SO MUCH and I guess I ruined the party by crying and leaving, and my friend was mad at me.

I have back trouble, yes, but I have three children living.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Wow, your friend got mad at you for leaving the party that she ruined by telling her dad about your miscarriages causing him to say something completely inappropriate, which caused you to, understandably, freak out.

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Oh I’ve got this: the lady at the counter in the village bakery told me that I should smear my face with SEMEN to counter pregnancy acne. It was the first time I’d ever met her.

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Frozen cabbage leaves in the bra to help with swelling and pain due to breastfeeding. While it felt awesome for the whole minute or so they stayed frozen, they eventually turn to mush and make a mess.

Advice I wish someone had given me - get a mattress protector. Not just for when your water breaks. Carrying a big baby next to your bladder means just the act of rolling over in bed can cause leakage. And if you are too tired after the birth to take the baby to a changing table or the floor, you're gonna want a layer of protection on your mattress. Soon as that diaper is off, baby will projectile poop. Sheets and walls can be washed, but mattresses can't be. Poopsplosions are real. Prepare yourself.

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My very first OB visit (first baby) handed me a book about month by month pregnancy and said that if I had any questions to just refer to the book. Then I said well what if the baby...she cut me off right there and pointed to the book and said “ah, ah, ah, it’s in the book.” I changed OBs.

For those who are asking my question was not in the book. I had questions about the baby being premature (my brother and I were born very premature) and I was going to ask her about it.

And my baby ended up being born 3 and a half months early and I had a lot of complications prior to that. Being high risk is not fun! But he’s healthy now :)

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#19

While pregnant with me, my mom was told that drinking beer would help her baby develop and be nice and chubby.

I was five weeks early and barely six pounds.

Yeah, it could have been substantially worse. Apart from being an early small baby, I don't have any fetal alcohol related health conditions.

Conversely, when my grandma was pregnant with my mom (her first) in the 50s, the accepted wisdom was that smoking while pregnant was a good idea for first time mothers because it lowered the birth weight. Which was supposed to make labour and delivery easier. But low birth weight is extremely dangerous and makes the process harder. My mom was born two months early and weighed about two or three pounds. She was so tiny that my grandma dressed her in baby doll clothing and my mom spent her first month of life in the hospital's NICU.

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#20

That if you try really hard and stretch a lot, you too can have a vaginal birth. Not actually a bad plan, as long as you don't wind up not freaking dilating after 30 hour and have an emergency C section due to fetal distress. Because I just didn't try hard and stretch enough.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do people hate so much on a c-section? I'm glad I didn't have to push an 8 pound baby out of my area. It was an emergency one so don't over judge me, I didn't choose it. Just glad now.

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#21

Don't eat spicy foods or stand under the moon.. ugh..

As someone pointed out in the comments, it's the full moon, not just the moon in general. This was a decade ago, and my memory sucks.

The spicy thing comes from the superstition that spicy foods will give your kid a birth mark.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

so my mom ate lots of spicy food? that's why i have a birthmark?

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I was about 8 months pregnant, i said something at family dinner one sunday about how i was scared of labor, my gram shouts out “ you know you should smoke a blunt”. now my family’s open about their pot use, most of my family will smoke from time to time but my grandmother has never smoked in her life so i was a bit confused.

I just looked at her and keeps going “ if you smoke blunts well your in labour it will keep you calm and help with the pain, i’ll find you some weed just smoke in the bathroom of the hospital..... but wear socks you have ugly feet and the doctor won’t want to help you if he sees your cracked heels”

my grandmother is something.

I didn’t take my grandmothers advice, and the doctor delivered my baby even with my cracked heals, and once i had the baby and could reach my feet again i made sure they weren’t cracked anymore.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I was high as a kite when I gave birth to my first child. I was high on gas not weed though.

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To not drink water because it causes nausea.

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#24

Well i am the husband/father but a doctor told my 38 or 39 week pregnant wife that her condition was no excuse to not keep me sexually satisfied.

Not even sure why it was brought up. She was just getting a regular checkup. I wasnt even there. Doc busts out with this. (Not her regular doctor. Her regular doctor was also off pregnant).

She was NOT impressed to say the least.

So theres the advice. Being pregnant is no reason to not please your SO.

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Don’t raise your arms above your head, it will tangle the baby’s cord and the baby will die.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

just file this one next to "the uterus just sometimes wanders around the body and that's why ladies get upset"

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got severe itching all over the body during 7th mo.

did the routine test for liver function.all normal

Colleague advises, rub your husband's underwear which he has left for wash/laundry all over ur body as remedy for itching.

No. I DID NOT FOLLOW IT.

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“Don’t worry about the swelling and high blood pressure, thats normal.” -my midwife days before being induced due to preeclampsia

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I was told that heart burn during the pregnancy meant that the child had a lot of head hair.

Had a [crap] load of heart burn.

Kid barely had hair.

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When I found out I was pregnant a nurse friend of mine felt the need to rattle off an endless list of [crap] that could potentially be wrong with my baby. Another friend of mine, when I started telling people I was pregnant after the three months and was accused of telling people too early, said "It doesn't matter when you tell people, you could have a miscarriage at any point during your pregnancy." They both meant well, but really guys lol shut up!

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

One of the reasons why I chose the hospital I gave birth in. Hospital one: this could happen, then we do that and also that could happen which is handled as followed ... and so on. Hospital two: That's the breakfast room, choose to eat what you like, open from ... to ... etc. One woman asked about c-section and the doc answered: "Yes, of cours that may happen, but it is not that often and we are very good at it." I went to hosptial 2, of course.

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Not to sit on stairs because it will cause you to have a miscarriage... people are crazy.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

isn't sitting on chairs and stairs the same thing? you're just on something else, it doesn't change anything

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That I should drink her [crappy] MLM aloe vera juice every day... It's not advisable for pregnant women...

Turns out it was indeed herbal life.

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my entire family was super judgmental/against breastfeeding for some reason, it was really strange. ‘how long are you going to do THAT for?’

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

for as long as the developing human needs? i mean... you can't just feed meat to an infant with no teeth

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Do not go to the zoo Bc if you look at a monkey your baby will be ugly

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When I was pregnant past my due date a co-worker advised me to drink cod liver oil mixed with vodka. Apparently this mixture would upset my digestive system, give me horrible diarrhea and thus trigger labor contractions.

Edit: I did not drink this combo to help with being overdue. I ended up several days later being medically induced and labor/delivery was swift and baby healthy. He is a grown man now.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have heard of women drinking castor oil to bring on labour but not vodka and cod liver oil.

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Not allowed to sew either using sewing machine or hand. It will cause the umbilical cord to tangled.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yes, because the umbilical cord will sense that you're using string to sew, and it will try to mimic the string, tangling itself up because it's not sewing string. Obviously XD

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#36

Taking a bath can cause a miscarriage.

To be fair, it was from my husband's (incredibly sweet) grandmother, who meant well. She was 92 years old at the time and hadn't been pregnant in a very, very long time! She also had a good number of miscarriages (my father in law and his sister are 15 years apart in age), so I think she was coming from a different place than most.

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My mom only had one miscarriage, and my sister was supposed to have a twin. However, I think that if she did have a twin, my mom wouldn't have had me. But my brother that's closest in age to me is 9 years older, my oldest brother being 16 years older, so that'll be an interesting story to tell my future children.

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One person told me I would never be able to fit a baby out of my body because I wasn't big enough "down there" and to just get a Csection....not a doctor. A random person who had literally never seen "down there." No I'm not going to get major surgery just because you don't think I'm large enough.

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So not really about pregnancy advice, but someone told me to put baking soda in a cup and piss on it first thing in the morning. If it fizzed, I was pregnant with a boy. If it did not fizz, I was having a girl.

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#39

One of my work colleagues was obsessed with recommending that I eat citrus fruits, especially the easy-to-peel Cutie tangerines. She was convinced it would give the baby a higher IQ in the long run.

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#40

My grandma constantly told me not to argue with my husband because it would cause the baby to be “fussy” and “difficult.”

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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Hey, telling people not to argue with you because your kid will be demon spawn is kinda genius

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