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What's something weird that pregnancy did to you

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iwwntchocolate · 09/11/2020 04:49

Bored and just curious 😂😪 pregnancy made me despise any chicken when I used to love it it. made me turn from the messiest person in the world to borderline OCD. made me obsessed with the smell of bleach and cleaning products and hand sanitizers I'd be smelling it all day and also makes me crave boiled kettle water 🤔

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Mintjulia · 09/11/2020 05:01

It made wine taste metallic. I went off wine five weeks before I realised I was pregnant. It didn't taste good again until after I stopped bf.

KiriAndLou · 09/11/2020 05:02

Fanny daggers, arse javelins, weird and very vivid dreams, enhanced sense of smell, changes in vision, restless leg syndrome...

Oh, it's a laugh a minute. Grin

Mummyspider27 · 09/11/2020 05:09

Made my hair curly... and never went back again!! X

PriceEmUp · 09/11/2020 05:12

Gave me confidence.

I did however shut it out on the maternity ward and left without it, gained a baby though which is ok I guess. Wink

PriceEmUp · 09/11/2020 05:12

Shit it out*

PriceEmUp · 09/11/2020 05:14

Actually on a serious note - I woke up twice have a lovely orgasm. TWICE. I hardly hardly hardly ever orgasm at the best of time let alone in my bloody sleep.
debates being pregnant again

iwwntchocolate · 09/11/2020 05:16

@PriceEmUp maybe it was a ghost 💀💀💀💀

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Mummysgonetobed · 09/11/2020 05:21

Made my feet grow a size, which have never returned back to normal. My hairs gone curly. Made chocolate give me indigestion (still does). Coffee now smells like tuna. Very odd reactions that have never gone away!

PriceEmUp · 09/11/2020 05:24

@iwwntchocolate well he’s welcome back any time Blush

RubaiyatOfAnyone · 09/11/2020 05:53

First pregnancy made my feetgo up from a 6 to a 7 and never go down again, meaning i had to throw out all my shoes.

Second pregnancy reset my thermostat - i’d always been someone who feels the cold and bundled up in several layers. After being too hot throughout the pregnancy, i still go out in just a t-shirt quite happily a year later.

Graphista · 09/11/2020 06:00

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 Grin)

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!

TeddyBeans · 09/11/2020 06:05

@RubaiyatOfAnyone I had this! Last winter and the one before were a breeze! 2.5 years later it's gone back to normal and I'm freezing my tits off in a ventilated classroom 5 days a week 😭

NeonGenesis · 09/11/2020 06:11

Makes me eat spoonfuls of salt. I hate myself but the urge is overwhelming.

I have hypotension anyway, which is obviously exacerbated during pregnancy, so maybe that's why my body wants the salt... but you'd think some salty chips would be nicer than a spoon of salt by itself?!

iwwntchocolate · 09/11/2020 06:30

I also forgot to add chewing sponges in the bath or shower. It's like heaven to me

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MsChatterbox · 09/11/2020 06:32

It made me get really really upset if I hurt myself. I'm taking knock my arm on something. Floods of tears.

BUT it did make me go from horrendous acne to the most clear skin ever 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

frazzledasarock · 09/11/2020 06:38

I went off tap water. Was so so odd, I still can’t drink tap water it tastes like chemicals to me. When pregnant I could only drink San Pellegrino water, could actually tell if it wasn’t that specific brand and I’d be sick!

Thankfully I can now drink any old sparkling water but it has to be fizzy. I keep trying to drink tap water but I can’t bear the taste and it still makes me gag.

It’s so odd as pre-pregnancies I couldn’t stand sparkling water

BluntAndToThePoint80 · 09/11/2020 06:39

Went off Diet Coke - used to drink it by the bucket. Went off it in pregnancy as it burned, but afterwards, I now cannot stand the taste. I can drink other fizzy drinks now (although I don’t much), but I taste Diet Coke now and it just tastes weird.

SuperSange · 09/11/2020 06:44

It is bloody odd. Post pregnancy I now suffer from hay fever and urticaria, neither of which I'd ever had before. I'm also a size 7 shoe having always been a 6. Son is nearly 7 now, so I guess this is how it'll stay. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Millie2013 · 09/11/2020 06:46

Another one with feet a size bigger!
My sense of smell is still really acute, 7 years on, especially for horrible smells

Crimblecrumble1990 · 09/11/2020 06:48

Carpal tunnel, sciatica, bad gas, melasma on my face, swollen fanjo, my armpits went a shade of dark dark brown to match my now huge dark nipples. (Luckily armpits and fanjo have gone back)

Weirdly now since pregnancy I am very prone to stomach ache when I eat certain foods. Body has also changed shape but since it's still covered in about 2 stone of excess weight I'm not quite sure what my new shape is!

iwwntchocolate · 09/11/2020 06:50

@Millie2013 god the heightened sense of smell 😭in my first trimester it was absolutely awful from the second I'd wake up I would have to walk around the house with tissue up my nose all day everything smelled disgusting to me and made me Feel sick

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SwimSwim · 09/11/2020 07:00

@frazzledasarock now that I've read your post, I realise I had that too!! Tap water tastes of chemicals to me and I just can't drink it. DS is 16 months now and it still tastes like that. It has to be bottled now and fizzy especially 🤣

Natsku · 09/11/2020 08:59

Went off coffee. Used to drink many cups of it every day since childhood but got pregnant and it suddenly made me very sick and that hasn't gone away. Its been 10 years and still even the smell of coffee makes me nauseous.

Changeofseason · 09/11/2020 09:29

My feet grew two sizes and never went back. I also apparently grew an inch. How is that even possible??!

holyshitdude · 09/11/2020 09:32

I gained dark brown patches on my face which looked like birth marks, didn't properly fade for 3 years after ds was born

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