I hope I'm not alone in when ever I think something is wrong with me I google the crap out of it. If the symptoms and pictures match what I'm sure I'm seeing or feeling I decide that is what is happening to me.
That is what happened with me thinking my uterus was falling out... Turns out it isn't.
I am not a very shy or modest person, but something changed in me after having my daughter (first child) and made me nervous to have any doctor poking and prodding my downstairs.
Needless to say, going into the doctor to find out if what I felt (and in turn had to see for myself) was in fact my uterus falling out made me slightly uncomfortable. I finally did it though.
I hesitantly popped my feet up in the stirrups and waited for he inevitable jabs, and fortunately found out that my uterus is in place. With just having a baby three weeks ago, it's still a bit bigger than usual but it's definitely not falling out.
Now thats the good news...
The not so nice to hear news is what the doctor thinks is going, my "vagina stretched out so big that it over lapped my anus and now when ever there are bowels down there the vagina will bulge."
I can't say it's the worst news possible, but no woman wants to hear that her vagina is so big that it ate up her anus!!!
How long will this last you ask? Good question. I asked the doctor over and over again and she vaguely answered over and over again that it could be something that heals and fixes it self or it could be something that never fixes it self. Pretty reassuring, eh?
What she was really telling me is that she had no idea but if it didn't go away we would have to discuss possible physiotherapy or even surgery.
On that note i need to ask, who knew that there were special physiotherapists for your vagina?! I had no idea!
So good news, although my vagina is so big it over took my anus, I get to keep my uterus!
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Oh the stretch marks!
I love all the Hollywood moms who weeks after having their babies look like barbies. I totally hoped that would be me, and although I can gratefully say the weight has been leaving quickly again (I lost a bunch of weight fast the first time around too), my body is a wreck!
Besides my uterus poking out, I have stretch marks and saddle bags and spider veins and I can literally hide my fingers under the flap of extra skin around my once super sexy stomach.
While I'm still wearing my maternity pants and can't help but wonder how in the world the Hollywood moms fit back into their skinny jeans so soon after having their babies?!
But really,who cares about the Hollywood moms, they aren't like us. They have people who cook for them and watch their kids so they can be exercising twelve hours a day. They have a certain image to maintain, while I'm feeling lucky if I can maintain my hair one day out of the week!
I was so appreciative that when I hadn't daughter, my first baby, my stretch marks kept to my hips and thighs and kept my belly clean. I figured that was just how my body was going to handle being pregnant and when I got knocked this time I wasn't as worried about where i would be wearing my stripes.
A tricky thing about being pregnant is not being able to see anything under your belly button. I thought i was doing great until I actually had my son and was able to really see the full extent of the stretch mark damage that will be with me forever.
Oh the stretch marks! They will be a constant reminder that I will never be the same kind of sexy that I remember being or see in Hollywood... I guess my image of sexy is going to change cause this momma, stripes and all, will absolutely be donning her bikini again one of these years!!
Besides my uterus poking out, I have stretch marks and saddle bags and spider veins and I can literally hide my fingers under the flap of extra skin around my once super sexy stomach.
While I'm still wearing my maternity pants and can't help but wonder how in the world the Hollywood moms fit back into their skinny jeans so soon after having their babies?!
But really,who cares about the Hollywood moms, they aren't like us. They have people who cook for them and watch their kids so they can be exercising twelve hours a day. They have a certain image to maintain, while I'm feeling lucky if I can maintain my hair one day out of the week!
I was so appreciative that when I hadn't daughter, my first baby, my stretch marks kept to my hips and thighs and kept my belly clean. I figured that was just how my body was going to handle being pregnant and when I got knocked this time I wasn't as worried about where i would be wearing my stripes.
A tricky thing about being pregnant is not being able to see anything under your belly button. I thought i was doing great until I actually had my son and was able to really see the full extent of the stretch mark damage that will be with me forever.
Oh the stretch marks! They will be a constant reminder that I will never be the same kind of sexy that I remember being or see in Hollywood... I guess my image of sexy is going to change cause this momma, stripes and all, will absolutely be donning her bikini again one of these years!!
Sunday, August 26, 2012
And there goes my uterus!
So its been a while since I have written anything. I had our boy, our second baby, on 08/05/2012 and have had company pretty well every day since. My mom left on Sunday and i am adjusting to being alone all day with the two kiddos. It's not bad, I'm doing much better than I thought I would be and I'm enjoying having two kids so much more than I was enjoying being pregnant with a toddler... My body just doesn't want any more kids and I'm not going to make it.
Speaking of my body with kids, good times... My uterus is falling out! From reading online it looks like ever are four stages of your uterus falling out and last night I was a stage three. I could literally see my uterus bulging out of my vagina!!! You can imagine that scared the crap out of me and I had to consciously talk myself off a ledge cause I was about to lose it! I have been kind of ichy and scratchy and a bit burney down there for a few days and just thought it was part of my healing process. A week or so ago I decided I needed to see what my vagina was looking like, I wanted to know if I could see the stitches and I couldn't but what I did see was a vagina that was a good inch and a half bigger than it should be! It grossed me out and I wish I hadn't looked, but it was nothing like what I saw last night! I had been uncomfortable down there long enough to figure something was up and since I already knew I was stretched out more than any woman should be (this is, I'm sure, where the term a hot dog down a hall way came from, and yes one of the first thoughts that popped into my head was how in the world I was going to have sex with this going on!) I was a little concerned something got in there and was infected and I needed to know if it was. Ugh, it is still burned into my brain this morning. Where there should be a little hole with some flaps of skin covering it, there was a bulge of pink tissue. Now, I should tell you I tend to exaggerate bad things in my mind and sometimes when I tell stories, and I know this, so when I saw this I (like I said before) had to tell myself it was no big deal or even that I was imagining it. The funny thing is as soon as i saw it I knew it was my uterus falling out even though i had never seen a uterus falling out before. I googled pictures of a uterus falling out and it had confirmed what I already was sure was happening to me!
Okay, so now I know what's going on with my body... How do I sleep when I think by morning I will be wearing my entire uterus on the outside? I call my wonderful brother in law who just happens to be an obgyn. He told me that this is actually quite common and will probably fix itself. I don't need to worry and I don't even need to contact my dr until I see them for my six week follow up. Phew, I'm not going to have to have immediate surgery! I'm probably not going to have to have anything happen, I'm just going to Keegle the crap out of my vagina and maybe one of these years it might be back to somewhat normal. ;)
Speaking of my body with kids, good times... My uterus is falling out! From reading online it looks like ever are four stages of your uterus falling out and last night I was a stage three. I could literally see my uterus bulging out of my vagina!!! You can imagine that scared the crap out of me and I had to consciously talk myself off a ledge cause I was about to lose it! I have been kind of ichy and scratchy and a bit burney down there for a few days and just thought it was part of my healing process. A week or so ago I decided I needed to see what my vagina was looking like, I wanted to know if I could see the stitches and I couldn't but what I did see was a vagina that was a good inch and a half bigger than it should be! It grossed me out and I wish I hadn't looked, but it was nothing like what I saw last night! I had been uncomfortable down there long enough to figure something was up and since I already knew I was stretched out more than any woman should be (this is, I'm sure, where the term a hot dog down a hall way came from, and yes one of the first thoughts that popped into my head was how in the world I was going to have sex with this going on!) I was a little concerned something got in there and was infected and I needed to know if it was. Ugh, it is still burned into my brain this morning. Where there should be a little hole with some flaps of skin covering it, there was a bulge of pink tissue. Now, I should tell you I tend to exaggerate bad things in my mind and sometimes when I tell stories, and I know this, so when I saw this I (like I said before) had to tell myself it was no big deal or even that I was imagining it. The funny thing is as soon as i saw it I knew it was my uterus falling out even though i had never seen a uterus falling out before. I googled pictures of a uterus falling out and it had confirmed what I already was sure was happening to me!
Okay, so now I know what's going on with my body... How do I sleep when I think by morning I will be wearing my entire uterus on the outside? I call my wonderful brother in law who just happens to be an obgyn. He told me that this is actually quite common and will probably fix itself. I don't need to worry and I don't even need to contact my dr until I see them for my six week follow up. Phew, I'm not going to have to have immediate surgery! I'm probably not going to have to have anything happen, I'm just going to Keegle the crap out of my vagina and maybe one of these years it might be back to somewhat normal. ;)
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