(1) Rib pain
Not all women seem to get this infliction. I don’t recall my sister or my mother telling me about this. Rib pain during pregnancy starts right on top of your rib cage. It feels like an achy sore muscle. It gets worse if you sit or stand for a while. I had it all of my last trimester and it made me miserable. Po-po!
(2) IV- The source of nutritional fulfillment after a major surgery.
READ: A long ass needle the nurse sticks into your WRIST to prepare you for a long starvation. Hurts like a mother-
Seriously hurts so bad, it made my wrist ache like crazy. I immediately called up my sister and asked her if it’s suppose to hurt this much.
She said yea.
Sucks.
(3) C-secti0n
I had an emergency c-section. I was all prepped for a normal labor and delivery until a nurse felt that the baby’s heart rate was dipping. She sent for a few other nurses and suddenly eight women were surrounding me, one rubbing on my hand, another pushing my stomach, yet another screaming at me to relax my legs so she could feel for the baby’s head. I started to cry, it hurt so much but still honestly tried to relax my legs (one of which was being held up by someone else) and let the nurse do her job. A few minutes of extreme pressure followed and before I knew it all eight of the nurses were wheeling me into an operating room. One was holding my hand and rubbing it, repeating over and over again that it would be okay.
I was still crying when they starting preparing me for the c-section. A pair of kind blue eyes stared at me and said, “I’m going to give you anesthesia, you will be asleep soon.”
I felt something cold on my stomach. Panic and naked fear. I was going to be cut open while I was still awake, my mind screamed. Please let me go to sleep soon God.
I woke up to Omar’s smiling face.
The End.
Eh, it doesn’t end there.
C-section hurts. I haven’t gone through normal labor and delivery but I’ve seen enough movies to know it’s probably not much fun. The difference between vaginal birth and a c-section is that c-section hurts for a lot longer than a vaginal birth would. I realized the next day (that morphine!) that my c-section was vertical instead of the normal horizontal. Later on I found out that the physicians do vertical incision during an emergency c-section to get to the baby faster. I didn’t know then. For the first three days I couldn’t move without relying on my arms to pull me up and around. The followup procedure required me to use the bathroom (why don’t they use bedpans for us new mothers I don’t know) the second night. The pain across my midsection was searing. I got up very s l o w l y, inch by inch to get to the bathroom. Using the bathroom hurt too, very badly like the worst bladder infection you can imagine. After that I still had to use my arms for moving. They got sore pretty quick so I ended up a sore, achy miserable mess who never wanted to use the bathroom ever again.
Then comes the baby, he who is all cute smiles, dimpled elbows, teethless gums, stubby little nose, wide forehead and gray eyes. What a sight for sore arms.
masha’Allah! 
