.. we all moan quite a lot about the negative health stuff that goes with being pregnant, but has anyone got any positive ones?
I've got three main ones:
No hayfever at all this year. I've been a sufferer since I was a kid, really badly - usually have acupuncture to cope with it, and medicated from late April until end September. This year = nothing. Yet anyway.
I have a wheat allergy. Last year I was going through all the checks for coeliac etc, and while I came back negative, my dermatology consultant and the gastro bods just said 'give up wheat, it's clearly an issue for you'. I'd been off wheat (apart from when I had to eat it prior to biopsy stuff) for almost 4 years. Now I can eat it all with no effect. No major rashes, no stomach problems. The bread aisle is SO exciting... I'm making plans about what I want to eat for the next 12 weeks. Brioche... loads of granary bread, fruit loaf.. mmmmm...
My skin is lovely. One of the first things I noticed when I got pregnant (probably the thing that gave me the idea), was that I didn't get the normal pre-period breakout of tiny spots on my nose. I haven't had one spot or rash or cold sore or thing on my face for months. Lovely.
Basically my immune system seems to be working at a shit hot level. Ace.