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Maternity Waxing

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  • 05-10-2010 2:32pm
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    xzanti
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    Just wondering if anyone here has had waxing done during their pregnancy? I'm planning to get 'everything' off a few weeks before I'm due so I won't have to worry about shaving etc.. (plus it's getting harder to 'reach' down there with the razor lol)

    Can anyone recommend any places that specialise in waxing pregnant women in Dublin or Kildare?

    Cheers :)


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    crazy cat lady
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    Anywhere that waxes a non pregnant woman should be able to wax a pregnant woman. They will use different positions to get to the awkward spots, but its not something that will be new to them!


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    Nevyn
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    Ring and check I do know that one of the salons local to where I am refused a few years back, something to do with it being too close to the due date and not wanting the responsobility if the waxing brought on labour.


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    How Strange
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    I've never had 'down there' waxed but it was something I was thinking about in preparation for labour/post labour.

    I'll never forget my mam and her friend telling what the nurses/midwives did to them years ago. If it was your first and you hadn't done it in advance they would dry shave you!! And they weren't gentle. You soon learned to diy for the next babies!


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    Squiggler
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    How Strange wrote: »
    I'll never forget my mam and her friend telling what the nurses/midwives did to them years ago. If it was your first and you hadn't done it in advance they would dry shave you!! And they weren't gentle. You soon learned to diy for the next babies!

    What? and Why? That makes no sense. Sounds like a case of sadistic nurses as there is no medical reason why a woman can't give birth 'au natural'. It's not like the baby is going to get tangled in the pubes and choke or something.

    I always thought it was a personal choice.


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    January
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    They don't dry shave you anymore haha, only your bikini line if you're having a c section, and even then they'll give you the special treatment and wet shave you.


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    xzanti
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    adrieanne__x wrote: »
    They don't dry shave you anymore haha, only your bikini line if you're having a c section, and even then they'll give you the special treatment and wet shave you.

    Sounds luxurious :D


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    Das Kitty
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    If you never had a wax before, getting one when you're 9 months pregnant mightn't be the best idea. Getting an ingrowing hair and not being able to reach is my idea of hell! :D

    I didn't give a flip about my "thicket" of pubes near the end, they didn't get in the way either.

    Whatever you do though, don't shave just before because if you cause any damage to the skin at a normal c-section site and they have to do one they have to make the incision higher or even laterally.


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    January
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    xzanti wrote: »
    Sounds luxurious :D

    Hey, you know when your epidural has worn off and the contractions are coming thick and fast you don't really care about luxery haha


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    Penny Dreadful
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    Squiggler wrote: »
    What? and Why? That makes no sense. Sounds like a case of sadistic nurses as there is no medical reason why a woman can't give birth 'au natural'. It's not like the baby is going to get tangled in the pubes and choke or something.

    I always thought it was a personal choice.

    Throw in the forced enemas too and you're set for a right laugh. My mum was shaved by the nurses and was given an enema with each of us. Horrible. This was in the 1970s and early 1980s so I'm sure things have changed lots since.
    My poor Mum:)


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    Squiggler
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    My mum had my brother and me in hospital in the 70's. They didn't shave her and no forced enemas - The Coombe for me and Wicklow for my brother. I guess it just depended on the hospital. Knowing my parents it would have been more than anyone's life was worth to try either.

    Mum had home births for the last two. That way there was nobody telling either of them what to do :D


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    xzanti
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    Right, what's this 'forced enema' thing??????? :eek:


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    Penny Dreadful
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    xzanti wrote: »
    Right, what's this 'forced enema' thing??????? :eek:

    Just realised after posting it how dramatic that sounded. When my mother had us the norm (in certain places, although we were all delivered in the Coombe) seemed to be that a woman was shaved and given an enema and there was no choice in the matter.
    Still not the done thing any more so am really really sorry if I scared anyone:)


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    metrovelvet
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    xzanti wrote: »
    Sounds luxurious :D

    Yeah. Just wait for the enema.


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    January
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    They don't do enema's anymore... policy in both the Rotunda and the Coombe as far as I know.


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