What are your most random pregnancy side effects?

[DirtyDancing]

Second baby and I have had all the 'unique' ones this time. Including...

My nose has grown
Skin tag
A pregnancy 'tumour' on my gum

Last time I swelled up like a ballon around this point (38 weeks), so waiting for that one too. Attractive!

[ExpatMrs]

Very vivid dreams (so vivid that I genuinely thought I was on the loo and woke up whilst peeing the bed)
Have slept on my side for as long as I remember with my knees touching - now I can't bear it and must have pillow between them.
Shredded chicken (even just a pic of it) makes me want to heave.
Got the skin tags too.
Utterly joyous hahaha!

[lljkk]

how do you know Ur nose has grown?? (R U made of wood, har har)

[sherbertlemon17]

Twitchy eye! I got it in my first pregnancy, went away after DD was born and now it's made a come back for DC2 in the exact same place!

[IndianaMoleWoman]

Massive amounts of excess saliva. I had to constantly spit in a tissue. I walked round literally carrying a box of cheap tissues everywhere I went. It was disgusting!

[ExpatMrs]

IndianaMoleWoman - oh me too! Forgot about that as it was waaaayyyy early on in my pregnancy. DH regularly found me sucking on these bland rice cakes in a vain attempt to stem the flow.

[FusionChefGeoff]

I had a great one - my urticaria (weird allergy to everything and nothing that made me break out in hives unless I took daily antihistamines) completely vanished!

[DirtyDancing]

Expat- that is random, not heard of that one before!!

IIjkk - ha ha! It just seems so massive!!! Like it's swollen. It's the strangest thing. I tried to slim it with some bronzing powered today but I just ended up highlighting it more I think!!

[EssentialHummus]

I've basically gone vegetarian, with outbreaks of McDonalds. Can't stand meat that looks like meat.

[DirtyDancing]

Fusion you've had a kind of pregnancy reversal then!

[haveacupoftea]

Bits of my teeth crumbling off

[Mummybear8]

Wanting to eat bleach and shower gel...only Radox green though. Never did it but I imagine it would be vile and not at all citrusy fresh as I'd hoped.
Or
A trapped nerve in my lower back. The sort that make your legs drop from underneath you, not from the pain, but just the feeling of complete jelly-legs unsteadiness. Fun times!

[thecatsarecrazy]

I had weird smell cravings. Potatoes, petrol fumes, musty wet mornings, white spirit, furniture polish

[norbert23]

Super sore ears! so much so that I thought I needed new pillows and could hardly sleep. The joys!

[Waitingonasmile]

Always thirsty and no amount of water satisfied it.

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Dribbling a lot. Like, wet pillow in the morning sort of dribbling.
The pregnancy dog nose - I once sniffed out a small pool of water that was collecting in the cutlery drawer and going musty; I felt like a bloodhound
I had a brown patch over my face, like a butterfly. I managed to get away with it because it was summer so it looked like I was really tanned, but it took 6 months to fade and is still there a bit now after 18 months. In the hospital the head midwife brought all the student midwives round to see my face as it's quite unusual apparently.

[NonsensicalNonsense]

So many! Dribbling whilst sleeping A LOT, cannot sleep without pillow between my knees and ankles too, craving fruit and chocolate, cleaning the windows obsession. So many more that i cant think of right now!

[thenewaveragebear1983]

^^ my tanned appearance was unusual, not my actual face. Or at least not so unusual that students needed to witness me!

[ExpatMrs]

OP do you know if you're having a boy by any chance?
Only because one of the recent old wives tales I've been told was....
"Oh you're definitely having a girl cos your nose gets bigger when you're having a boy and yours hasn't changed"
I'm due any day now so I'll let you know if that wisdom comes true as I don't know the gender of our baby! Hahaha.

[harrietm87]

waiting I have the extreme thirst too - keep waking up in the night so thirsty!

[namechangingisgamechanging]

The nosebleeds! They were epic. I sneezed once in the shower and it looked like the scene from Psycho.

[FartnissEverbeans]

I bought a sponge just so that I could chew it

[JonSnowsWhore]

Nosebleeds, dry mouth, but still managing to dribble at night I get a random fast/hard heartbeat that no one has an explanation for.

Pain. Just bloody pain absolutely everywhere! Incontinence, that's a bloody fun one I tell ya, My bit need a bloody good airing from the amount of pads I've been wearing 🙈 it's a wonderful time...

[NonsensicalNonsense]

Oh yes the palpitations!! Such fun !

[Notsure1234]

New baby hairs. Loads of them. Not only has my hair got generally thicker/glossier but I have so many new baby hairs around my hairline that I can't pull my hair back to tie it up. They just stick up and look ridiculous. I can't wait for them to be long enough to wear my hair up but I imagine by then I'll have had the baby and they'll all fall out again!

[hopsalong]

Nose so blocked with disgusting crusty bloody bogies all the time that I can only breathe (through nose) properly if I clean it with neti pot or pick like crazy. Blowing just gives me nose bleeds. Also my nose smells slightly grim inside a lot of the time. (Not same as hypersensitive sense of smell which passed around 20 weeks). And the tip looks swollen.