All the things they should have told me about pregnancy and having a newborn

So I admit - I watched a birth story and looked at youtube videos to try and prepare myself for my child's birth. However, I feel very bamboozled about what I was expecting for my pregnancy experience. I don't have any regrets but there are many things that people just don't tell you when you are getting pregnant. Here's my running list so far :

1. Morning sickness / vomiting is bad - but having 12 weeks of dry heaves and the urge to vomit is even worse!
2. Pelvic Girdle Pain is real and hurts like all hell. It feels like someone is pulling your pelvis apart from the middle. 
3. You  can bleed for up to 8 weeks after your delivery. 
4. Epidurals do fail - and if you're on pitocin, the contractions will feel like death. 
5. Having your water broken is not painful or uncomfortable at all. 
6. Once your water breaks, you'll be oozing hot fluid until your baby is born.
7. Your baby can poo in your amntiotic fluid - and that can give your baby a trip to the NICU if it affects their breathing.
8. There's an unholy mixture of meconium, amniotic fluid and blood that can come out of you after the placenta passes!
9. The midwife / nurse may massage your uterus to push it down after the delivery. That massage does not feel good.
10. You may be put on pitocin for up to 12 hours after your delivery to help your uterus cramp down.
11. Breastfeeding is incredibly painful - and can send knife-like sensations up your breast. 
12. When your baby is born, you'll only have colostrum coming out of your nipples and it takes a lot of work to get the colostrum to come out. 
13. Pumping colostrum is a joke, at best you can hope to get 20 drops at a time. You may have to finger feed your baby that colostrum.
14. Breastfeeding after birth can give you very painful cramps in your uterus. This is normal.
15. If you sleep when your baby sleeps - you'll never have time to pump milk.
16. Having a cerclage removed can be an incredibly painful experience. 
17. It's possible for your cervix to grow over your stitches in your cerclage. 
18. Progesterone-in-oil injections can be incredibly painful 
19. Betamethasone / celestone steroid shots burn like all hell - but if you need them you'll only need 2
20. 17p shots don't hurt that bad - even though they use a horse needle
21. You can tear during delivery - but its not that bad. 
22. Your first poo after a vaginal delivery is the scariest poo you will ever take.
23. Even if you don't believe in co-sleeping, your baby will find their way into your bed - if nothing else out of frustration from the late night cries.
24. With your newborn.. you may have to do up to 15 diaper changes a day
25. Don't make a birth plan - you're just setting yourself up for disappointment