20 advices about labor time

1. Your water doesn't break in a ceremonious splatter at your feet, unlike all scenes in the movies.  It's a slower, more gradual flow feeling like peeing yourself.

2. And it's actually amniotic fluid, not water. It protects your baby, during pregnancy.

3. A doctor breaks the "water" for you, with a super-long hook-like thingy, if it doesn't break on its own. It just feels “uncomfortable”, no pain at all.

4. When water breaks, don't panic and rush at the hospital, just like in the movies. It could still be hours before contractions start.

5. You can’t sex once your water broke. Without an amniotic sac protecting him/her, the baby can get an infection.

6. Contractions may be the worst part. You’d think pushing a baby out would be the absolute worst. But for many people, contractions are the deepest circle of hell.

7. The barbaric agony of contractions evaporates within minutes, with epidural measure. It can affect the mother to be like she was taking ecstasy.

8. You feel like you have to "number two". You feel an intense desire to run to the bathroom and "number two". The baby is pressing, that's why. Getting ready to push out the baby is pressure and “discomfort”, unless you take the God's blessings called epidural.

9. In some cases, your doctor splits hospital rounds with three partners, so it just might be the same doctor who will help you deliver. But at that moment this will be irrelevant, since you will just want to get through with it already.

10. The doctor may cut “just a snip”. It is called an episiotomy, to help get the baby out. Some who used an epidural did not even feel their episiotomy. Or maybe it was adrenaline.

11. The doctor may “vacuum” your baby out. It is used to suction the baby out more quickly. Then the baby will get a temporary conehead.

12. You have to deliver the placenta. Someone may casually say “one more push”.

13. There will probably be stitches, due to - go see #10. Vagina stitches dissolve in a week or s. Thus, imagine them like a silky gossamer spun by a master seamstress.

14. Some blood. A small team of people wadding up blood-soaked medical gown-like papers.

15. You’ll probably wear a “mommy diaper”. It's either a maxi pad or an actual diaper packed with ice and tucked into your underwear post-birth to provide some relief.

16. You essentially have your period for a good six weeks after birth.

17. A “peri bottle” — short for perineum irrigation or squirting water onto your taint. Use it to squirt warm water onto your intimate areas after going to the bathroom to ensure the area is truly clean, without roughly wiping yourself with toilet paper.

18. Meanwhile you'll be wearing disposable gauze-like boy shorts which keeps your mommy diaper in place.

19. Memories about delivering are quite vague. What remains is the baby you love so much.

20. Any birth giving is unique, so any conclusion is just relative.