Another wine one, I used to drink white wine, as soon as I was pregnant before I even knew I was I accidentally sipped someone else's at a group meal out and it honestly tasted like lemon juice and vinegar! This did not pass after I had dd either still can't stand even the smell of it!
Another hair one - I'm naturally curly/wavy it was VERY Curly until dd, stayed curly through the pregnancy but when I lost loads after the birth as can happen I lost a lot of the curl and it's more wavy than curly now. She has inherited the curly hair but had to be persuaded as a little girl that my hair used to be as curly as hers with photos of me before having her.
@Mummysgonetobed that's the relaxin the hormone that allows your ligaments to stretch and grow mainly to allow the pelvic girdle to prepare for birth but it also affects other ligaments, some think that the effect on feet is to mitigate the change in your centre of gravity due to the bump (didn't work so well for me as it worked too well! I had bad spd but feet didn't grow quickly enough at first and I had a few stumbles when bump got big. I was very slim pre-pregnancy and was "all bump" even quite late on. An ex colleague spotted me in the bank she was behind me in the queue, hadn't seen me for quite a while, tapped me on the shoulder and when I turned around with a huge 8.5 month bump she nearly fell over herself
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Pregnancy is seriously bloody weird!
The most annoying thing for me was not being able to fit into pre-pregnancy clothes, not because of weight per se as I dropped to lighter than pre pregnancy initially but boobs stayed big of course and hips are never the same size, again due to relaxin etc because the changes to the pelvic girdle are permanent, so if you were a bony arse like me and don't have fat to deal with which is more "adjustable" you're screwed!
I used to work in the wedding industry, the number of brides and bridesmaids I had to disillusion who got pregnant or were measured in early pregnancy for their dresses who insisted they could diet their way back to previous figure was quite astonishing.
One thought I was having her on and was quite determined not to believe me. Her mum was with her and it turned into quite the comedy sketch when at one point she was quite accusatory to her mum "why didn't you tell me?!" To which the mum replied "I did! I told you I used to have slim hips before you. You wouldn't believe me" but it was taking the mum and I to be quite...almost exaggerating...to get her to believe us! At one point I printed out some info from a medical website!
Nobody seems to tell women this for some reason. Not entirely sure why.
My dd has a condition which will likely mean she will have to be carefully monitored in pregnancy for exactly these sort of effects which she is well aware of, indeed in her case additional laxity of muscular cells increases her risk of a lot of complications, some quite serious and she already has issues with her heart etc. But she can't imagine not being a mum, she's going to have to actually learn to listen to the drs though and do as she's told! Not least as it's likely to mean total bed rest towards the end of pregnancy, and she is not one to sit still for more than about 2 minutes at a time!