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Oh, I don't like being reminded of my poor swollen fat feet. Ha! After LO was born I used to stare at my legs and just marvel at how skinny they were.

I bought size 9.5 fake uggs from Old Navy (it was dead of winter) and it took three of us to get my feet back into them when it was time to go home! My feet were unrecognizable!! I had an IV for more than 48 hours straight so I had a ton of fluid in my body.

I wore cheapie Old Navy flip flops too! I had like 5 pairs so I didn't care if I got them bloody or not. My feet were too swollen to fit into any other shoes.

@chopsuey119: are you kidding me? that sounds awful! do most people bleed that much afterward? were you not wearing a pad yet?

I wore my TOMS thinking that my feet would be perfect and normal just like they were all throughout my pregnancy. Wrong! They were so swollen and unrecognizable. I had to stuff my feet into my shoes because I didn't have another pair with me.

@yin: so feet get swollen AFTER delivery? I thought all that was supposed to go away!

@chopsuey119: There are a few people who said they bled on their shoes! Goodness gracious....DH thought someone had died when he turned around and saw the look on my face as I was reading that part haha

@chopsuey119: Hahaha I'm laughing now but I think it's just so that I don't cry out of terror. At least you're not sugarcoating anything

@yin: a few weeks??? Now i'm starting to get scared...i too thought the worst would be over after delivery.

@betsyboop: I didn't expect it either, and the swollen feet made recovery a tad more difficult.

With my winter baby, I had on uggs, with my summer baby, flip flops.

I didn't bleed all over my shoes though because I didn't put them back on after giving birth I had on hospital socks!

I bled a lot too soon after both births. This is why I was so thankful to the nurse and nurse assistant who helped me those first few hours after my births. They were like angels helping me go to the bathroom, get cleaned up, and get back to bed, etc....

I feel like a lot of moms don't talk about this stuff afterwards!

I wore my clogs. We were in a hurry, and i couldn't bend over to put on tennis shoes. Plus it was snowing. I'm pretty sure my water broke all over them though considering it soaked pretty much everything in the room.

@mrs. wagon: I feel your pain. I had an IV for 5 straight days. People kept staring at my feet and legs and just saying, "WOW!"

I wore some flats after I flooded my sneakers when my water broke. When I came on I had to wear a pair of Adidas sandals that were super loosen so I could get my Shrek feet in them. I also covered those bad boys with socks because I was sick of all the stares.

Thank goodness I read this, cheap throw away flipflops for me! hopefully it's not cold in the beginning of October

I'm so stressed about footwear now!!! I want to wear flip flops based on the use of the words "bloody mess"... but that might be uncomfortable in late November!!

I'm hoping it will be warm enough here for flip flops! Most of my shoes are too tight now.

@MamaMoose: You can always switch into the flip flops at the hospital!

I wore flip flops too! It was December but in sunny CA!