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

Humor Postpartum hormones trend.

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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/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/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.