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Oh Bump... you never fail to provide entertainment
You'll know it when you see it...
http://community.thebump.com/cs/ks/forums/thread/64656505.aspx
For imoan: 2nd trimester "Hospital Gown?"
ETA: Ok, the funny part wasn't as obvious as I thought. It was this poster:
Msbean22:
As much as I try not to, I am over-conscious to a flaw about how I look. The whole, "the doctors won't care they've seen it all before" reasoning (which is very logical, I know!) just does not work for me.
I understand it's irrational, but I will just simply be uncomfortable without my lady business neat-looking, legs shaved, toes done, and make up on. Make-up bag coming with me.
So, yes I will be buying something to wear that I feel confident it, not a hospital gown. I won't keep it. And maybe once I get to the hospital, I won't care about all this, and if that's the case then great! But it gives me a sense of stability to be able to prepare as much as possible before jumping into something so scary (this is my first.)
Re: Oh Bump... you never fail to provide entertainment
I loved that someone recommended a cheaper place and the website was called PrettyPushers.
People are fooking ridiculous.
Currently Reading: Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
My favorite poster is "I didn't even bring makeup with me".
The horror!
I didn't even know you could buy hospital gowns. I dont' get it - all of it. I brought comfy clothes, but as much as they were coming in and checking me at all hours of the night - it was much easier to just stay in their gowns they gave me.
I didn't care about looking "cute". I took a shower when they let me, and that was about the extent of my "looking cute" - I was CLEAN.
I just don't get some people.
~Benjamin Franklin
DS dx with celiac disease 5/28/10
100% This. The only thing I cared about was getting labor over with. I probably looked like hell, but I was so happy to finally HAVE the baby that I really didn't care. They think they will care, but they won't.
Hey, kudos to those who feel 100% confident 100% of the time, but I really don't find the part srs posted all that ridiculous.
I've never had a kid, but I can imagine feeling pretty fcuking vulnerable in a delivery room, with my most intimate body parts all exposed, feeling out of control and terrified, and knowing that however-many-people in that room are staring straight up my vagina.
In that situation, I'd probably feel more calm knowing that the things I *could* control, I did control.
So, if for that woman that means doing her makeup, and making sure she's perfectly waxed/shaved, and wearing a Pretty Pusher gown I give her that with absolutely no judgment.
ETA: All the "These poor first timers think they're going to care, but TRUST ME they won't!" annoys the shits out of me too. Of course (!) it's not going to to how we expect it to go. Of course we can't possibly be prepared for it completely, having never done it. That doesn't mean we shouldn't be given the chance to plan for it as we see fit. (And by "We" I mean people who haven't done it before...not me specifically.)
Pretty Pushers sounds like a drug dealer clothing store.
Are you serious???
This exactly.
If I were giving birth, I would want to look like hell. I want to be all sweaty and disheveled with a partially chewed hospital gown. I want it to look like I am doing some hard work.
I don't want someone to think - "oh look Erin just got here from work - oh and she had a baby."
I would want DH and all the family to think "damn - that must have been hard!" I would want some credit for pushing out a kid.
When you've been married this long, you need a ticker to remind you.
Baby Boy M - 08/01/2013
I didn't care what I wore, nobody else cared what I wore..
but if it's important to the OP, let her buy some happiness with $50 . I don't see any harm in it
I never thought about the fact that they would shave you. This is only for a Csection, right? I am having a hard time processing the fact that they shaved down your legs, but left a tuft. Surely, if you need the hair on the legs to go, you need the tuft gone, too.
I have so much to learn.
I am totally drawing a stick figure pube map when I get to my computer later.
To me, my own large, comfy sweatpants are 100% more comfortable than any medical gown, doesn't matter if I bought it or the hospital gave it to me.
I couldn't have cared less what I was wearing for delivery or right after. Actually, I didn't care what I was wearing until the next morning when people started to visit. And only then did I care because I didn't want to be bra-less infront of my dad and FIL.