How good did you look for your baby's birth?

[Hobbermittens]

You've just been sweating naked for hours with random people sticking their hands up your hoo-hah and probably pooping on the bed while pushing. Is it really the time for vanity? Seems silly to me.

I have to agree with this! I looked pretty puffy and exhausted. I never thought I was supposed to look "good" during labor.

[sixhappysons]

I always look super rough after delivery but never cared too much either.

[Typical_Jules]

this reminds me off when i was laboring with Ds 2 the nurse and the stupid DH suggested thast i brush my hair!!!i was in alot of pain and it really pissed me off at the time

[DoulaMama]

Mine were all born at home and well, I think that I looked good - I had just finished giving birth to a new person! But I'm sure I wasn't all dolled up and looking ready for a photo shoot

I have a pic of me looking at the camera, beaming, after the UC of my third child I LOVE that pic. DS2 and DS3 were born at home. DS1 was born at the hospital, I hadn't slept well the night before, they'd slipped an IV into me with me without me knowing and I was puffy from the fluids...I looked like hell in those pics....but I still like them. I like how raw they are.

[Zivic-Bubac]

You've just been sweating naked for hours with random people sticking their hands up your hoo-hah and probably pooping on the bed while pushing. Is it really the time for vanity? Seems silly to me. (I don't mean "you" in the personal sense, of course).

I always braid my hair to get it out of my face. But makeup would be a lost cause. Maybe the women that do this are the ones who get the epidural at like 2 cm and sleep through their labors. I'm told such people exist.

and sooo true!
Oh guys, all your answers are so great and so real!
I brought make-up with me to the hospital 1st time, but after unmedicated birth, I just gave up.
Second time I was wiser and I didn't do anything for my looks

[SugarSpice&EverythingNice]

For my first DS, I looked horrible and fat in all my pictures. LOL I was mortified. So for DS2's birth, I put on a face full of makeup before I let anybody take my pictures. hahaha!

[Roonarpia]

I looked like death warmed over all 3 times!

[Betty Draper]

Wow a gown? I am picturing the scene from Carrie with the blood all over the prom dress. Childbirth is a bloodbath! I had a water birth on the second birth, and the only thing I insisted on beforehand is that my DH keep a tank top on me so I wasn't filmed flailing around naked. I think the pics of me right at the birth look nice - the beauty of childbirths. But that next few weeks - whew - nasty bloaty hell.

[Cinss]

I did put make up on while i was at home, then 12 hours later after my daughter was born i looked horrible in photos, all the make up dissapeared. I watch all the shows on tv where they give birth and still look fresh... i don't get that at all.

[nicnee1976]

I looked sweaty, greasy, messy hair, like I hadn't slept in 3 days, fat, haggard and pretty much like I had been dragged through a bush backwards!! But my babies looked beautiful!!
I have to add I looked like all the above for several weeks after too!!