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Talk about every stage of pregnancy, from early symptoms to preparing for birth.

What things never went away after you were pregnant?

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Jacksmama · 11/04/2010 18:17

For me, it was the hyperactive gag reflex... I can still gag myself with my toothbrush. And the ridiculous sense of smell. And DS was two in February!!! Is this ever going to go away? I can still smell the tap water when washing my face (and no one else can, or at least, they say they can't ), and the other morning I woke up and smelled the water and apple juice I had standing by my bed.
And no, I'm not pregnant again.

What are yours?

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lotster · 11/04/2010 22:55

Chloasma
SPD symptoms/weaknesses
Thicker hair!

penona · 11/04/2010 23:00

Feet bigger
Fingers fatter, especially knuckle joints (had to have all my rings resized after a year)
Skin much clearer - adult acne finally gone (at nearly 40!)
Generally fatter - but that's all the cake and chocolate, nothing to do with pg!

gemcgem · 12/04/2010 09:14

yep ! fat feet ! i was a 4 an now a 5 . i used to have pretty feet !

Jacksmama · 12/04/2010 23:28

Just found another one. This one is not from being pregnant though... well, indirectly only... I have a dark spot on my belly skin, near the belly button, where the foetal monitor belt bit into my skin from being on for so long (and I couldn't feel it due to epidural) and left a scar. It is still there. DS is 26 months.

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SparklyGothKat · 12/04/2010 23:41

I can't brush my teeth without gagging, sometimes I have actually been sick. My mum thought something was wrong with me when we were on holiday together and I was gagging in the bathroom. This started when I was pregnant with Dd2 and she is 8 now

Poledra · 13/04/2010 00:00

A stomach that looks like a paper bag that's been crumpled up then someone has attempted to smooth it out again (and failed).

Varicose vein on the inside of my right knee

Great fingernails

newmomma · 13/04/2010 08:08

It all went... Everything.

Except for the blubber monster that pregnancy turned me into. I still cry ALL the time. I hate it.

twolittlemonkeys · 13/04/2010 08:17

Sensitive gag reflex
My large appetite
Massive stretchmarks and a couple of really dark purple threadveins, yuck

plum100 · 13/04/2010 08:45

Massive areolas - whats all that about? I used to have lovely little nipples - now theyre like flying saucers!!!!

Jacksmama · 14/04/2010 14:21

Skin is better, too (it was gorgeous while I was pregnant) but now I have more fine lines [sour emoticon].

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Threelittleducks · 14/04/2010 15:22

HUGE boobs - started at a nice dinky 34C, boomed up to a staggering 34 E! Having another now, so prob getting much bigger again - joy!

CS scar

Love of fizzy drinks (never drank them before was pg.

Ripply saggy granny tummy

Stretch marks on my calves

Jacksmama · 15/04/2010 04:25

Saggy boobs

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camflower · 15/04/2010 19:39

ridiculously overemotional now (mainly about babies/children) ... walking round a cemetery this afternoon and seeing gravestones of tiny babies and children who'd died aged 2 months, 3 years etc in 18-something and whatever. only managed not to blub cos i was with dh and he would have laughed at me ... for being ridiculously overemotional! the thing is, i was having a perfectly nice, cheerful day until then!

APassionateWoman · 15/04/2010 19:40

Tenderness in places, numbness in places and slight swelling around my c-section scar. It's a mystery, really, as I healed really quickly and never had any infections. Tum never the same, though.

orangehead · 15/04/2010 19:42

Im still off brocolli, although it doesnt make me sick anymore but still off it and Im 7 years on

thelittlebluepills · 15/04/2010 19:47

Orangehead - me too! used to love brocolli before PG - only can just bear to cook it now

at all those who ended up with bigger boobs

pre-kids I had alovely pair of 30G, they went up to 32K and now are a pathetic deflated 30d

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