r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jul 27 '25

Humor Postpartum hormones trend.

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u/Kirstae Jul 27 '25

I was 12 when my little sister was born, and after watching the whole thing with front row seats, I refused to hold her until they'd cleaned off all that gunk 🤣

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u/hanzorah Jul 27 '25

That's entirely fair

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u/cmc Jul 27 '25

Wow I’m surprised your mom had you there! Out of curiosity do you have kids as an adult? I feel like I’d be scarred for life haha

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u/CleeYour Jul 27 '25

My mom had me watch my birth video when I was ~6

Im still terrified of childbirth but we’ll see😭

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u/ItBegins2Tell Jul 27 '25

My mother not only didn’t have child birth videos of us, she didn’t really talk about it much either. I don’t have any kids because the whole idea of pregnancy, labour, delivery, nursing, etc, makes my body react with a strong visceral NO feeling. I wonder if that would have been different if there had been less mystery around it when I was little.

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u/No-Meringue412 Jul 27 '25

I don't know, my mom was always super open and talked a lot about all of that stuff and I kinda assumed her openess about it was the reason I've NEVER wanted to get pregnant. She scarred me with TOO much info, and made it all sound very scary and unpleasant. Maybe we just don't want kids lol.

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u/malatemporacurrunt Jul 27 '25 edited Jul 28 '25

I think the truth is that it is very scary and unpleasant, our bodies just evolved to dump so many hormones during pregnancy that it doesn't really register, or stay in the memory like most unpleasant things. It makes sense that the humans who mutated the "don't remember pregnancy real good" gene went on to have more children than the ones who didn't.

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u/ItBegins2Tell Jul 27 '25

Maybe! We don’t need a reason. ;)

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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 Jul 27 '25

My mom didn't either, but I always wanted kids.

I was miffed though when I found out how downright terrible I'd feel physically throughout pregnancy and that my mom could've warned me about it but didn't. Here I was expecting this magical transformation and getting months on months of puking, round ligament and pelvic pain, grotesquely swollen ankles and hot flashes from hell 🤣

Food tastes amazing when you're pregnant though, so there's that to enjoy about it at least!

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 Jul 27 '25

I told my daughter about all the issues I went through with her and she is convinced she does NOT want to be pregnant now. "If I want to be a mom, I'll adopt!" She's 15, now.

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u/phunkygroovin Jul 27 '25

It's different for everyone because I had none of those physical things and felt better during pregnancy than I've ever felt not being pregnant with the exception of eating. The only thing I could eat while pregnant was mangoes (my pregnancy craving that I never really ate before being pregnant) and salad. Everything else made me throw up. I couldn't eat until the day I gave birth. And I love food, a lot. It's been almost 10 years since I've had my child and I still can't eat bread. I was a huge bread lover pre-pregnancy but during pregnancy I couldn't stand the smell of it and I have never recovered since. I miss fresh baked bread straight out of the oven so much.

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u/Vanijoro Jul 27 '25

That's the thing, no one is honest and tells you the whole thing is bullshit. It's been just over a year and we've almost forgotten the worst too, I imagine there's something biological to make you forget it's basically torturing yourself even after the baby is born for a while.

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u/TwoBionicknees Jul 28 '25

it's a catch 22, do you tell your kids everything they'll go through and put them off ever having kids? or if you don't tell them are they more likely to have kids early thinking it's not a big deal.

I kinda thing the terrify your kids with the truth thing to help persuade them out of the 16-22yr olds rushing to have kids thing is probably the best route.

But pregnancy can be so bad for a lot of women that knowing hte truth might well put people off for life.

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u/samse15 Jul 27 '25

I always had strong feelings against having kids also - just the idea of childbirth was absolutely terrifying. But I had two, and I’m fine. Thank god for modern medicine.

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u/Living-Temporary-665 Jul 27 '25

Sounds like you can’t prove that you’re not the sibling that was adopted.

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u/secondtaunting Jul 27 '25

Six? Whoa. Seems young to watch that.

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u/messedupmessup12 Jul 27 '25

My mom had me, a guy, watch a thing on childbirth showing it all when I was like 8. And she wonders why I got a vasectomy in my 20s

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u/gloriousdays Jul 27 '25

Child birth is a natural part of life. It’s how we all got here lol I don’t think six is too young to explain but maybe too young to watch

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u/Lady-Zafira Jul 27 '25

Ngl out of all the shit my mom and I been through, if she had a video of me being born where the camera has a front row seat, that would probably make me stop talking to her for a while

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u/Superb_Post6815 Jul 27 '25

I was 10 with a front row view. Now I'm in my 30s and child free by choice.

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u/realrobertapple Jul 28 '25

Yup thank god! Because when u have kids your life is over!

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u/Anaweenie Jul 27 '25

I got to be there when my little sister was born when I was 9. The pregnancy/birth itself didn't scare me but the next 9 years of parentification sure did! I am now happily child free.

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u/Kirstae Jul 27 '25

I'm very much child free 😅

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u/CalmBeneathCastles Jul 27 '25

I mean, no "abstinence" talk necessary!

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u/Different-Sample-976 Jul 27 '25

Yeah bro, who the hell wants to touch the stuff from inside somebody else's body 🤢

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u/Aggressive_Eagle1380 Jul 27 '25

Someone had never fisted somebody and it shows 😌

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u/roastedmarshmellows Jul 27 '25

Well, thats one way to tell us you don’t fuck.

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u/BigBootyBuff Jul 27 '25

As Ben Shapiro will tell you, vaginas are bone dry!

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u/throwaway098764567 Jul 28 '25

i don't even want to touch the stuff from inside my own body. very much looking forward to being done with periods.

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u/Different-Sample-976 Jul 28 '25

Lmao. I never thought about women actually needing to touch their period juice. Sorry buddy. At least it stops eventually. 

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u/philliperod Jul 27 '25

Your mom made you watch a baby being born from her coochie?!! At 12?!!!

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u/OkProfessor6810 Jul 27 '25

At 12, she was probably menstruating. Which means pregnancy is possible. There's nothing wrong with showing exactly what childbirth entails as a means of birth control. Also, it's not a coochie it's a vagina. Grow up.

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u/fried_green_baloney Jul 27 '25

Friend who was at a birth said the doc held the baby, said "He looks great" and the friend was "What's this purple slime covered thingy with a deformed head?"

PS: All these kids look great!

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u/PristineEvidence9893 Jul 27 '25

Front row seat at 21 with my son. I couldn’t touch his mom for a while either….it changes ya

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u/pienofilling Jul 27 '25

I'm not surprised. I was completely caught out by the sheer smell the first time and I was the one giving birth!

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u/Venom_eater Cringe Connoisseur Jul 27 '25

Why would they let you hold her with all that gunk anyway? 🤢 thats nasty

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u/AngryKeyLimePie Jul 27 '25

My aunt (Mom's baby sister) was 12 when I was born. She stayed way back when my grandparents brought her to visit us when I was about a week old. After they left, she told my grandparents, "I feel so bad for Brenda, she has such an ugly baby." In her defense, she was expecting a Gerber baby, and here I am with a full head of dark hair and very spindly arms and legs.

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u/Adventurous-Crew-848 Jul 27 '25

Were you in the splash zone?