I need all new mums to know what happens to your smell after you have a baby – no one talks about it but it’s real
A WORKING mum has confessed a shocking revelation about her postpartum journey that no one prepared her for.
The mum-of-two says she couldn’t believe how badly she smelled after having her second baby.
Sarah Biggers-Stewart said: “So this is just a PSA that you will smell after you give birth.”
The mum confessed her armpits smelt like onions.
She said: “What smells, you ask? Almost everybody I know says that their sweat smells very different.”
“I’m not gonna lie to y’all. My underarms smelled like onions.”
This was despite the fact that usually she was someone who didn’t need to wear deodorant.
The mum-of-two said: “And I’m not someone who usually smells like. I usually don’t wear deodorant, but you best believe I’ve been lathering that sh*t up postpartum.”
Sarah also nobody prepares you for the lochia smell
“But most importantly, you have the lochia, I think it’s called. That is the bleeding and, like, tissues that come out after you have a baby.”
“Nobody prepares you for the smell. So allow me to paint a picture.”
“Take the stank at the end of your period, where things are just, like, musty and gross, times that by 100. It’s, like, earthy, but rotting, but kind of sweet.”
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Sarah explained the smell is something you just can’t get away from.
She said: “Let me just say it’s one of those situations where, at the end of the day, even if you’re wearing a diaper, the cross your pants are gonna smell.”
“If you pop a squat, bending down to get something, picking up your baby, you are going to be met with grotesque smells.”
Sarah’s video gained over 383,000 and she received hundreds of comments for stunned followers.
One user said “Maybe it’s nature’s way of trying to keep our men away from us for six weeks.”
An expecting mum said: “Now wait a minute, I’m struggling with BO during pregnancy. You’re telling me there’s going to be MORE smells afterwards?!?”
Another user: “The bleeding smells like a rotting carcass, I had a good friend give me a heads up tho.”
But it seems postpartum stink doesn’t affect all mums.
One user claimed: “I must be weird. Two kids. Didn’t notice any smell.”
Another said: “I’ve had 3 babies and not once have I had foul order postpartum. . . So maybe not everyone experiences this.”