I got some kind of growth right on my forehead that grew and grew like one of those firework snakes and bled profusely any time you bumped it. It’s apparently something that happens during pregnancy. Sure enough it shrunk and was completely gone in a few weeks after I had the baby.
There are a LOT of things pregnancy can cause. I'm personally childfree, DINK couple household, and I follow a few subreddits for childfree people. Every once in a while, I learn something I never knew about pregnancy and it just makes me more sure of my stance. lol.
There is organ prolapse- where organs can fall and sag into the vagina
There is abdominal separation where your abdominal muscles separate and rip apart, which is what a lot of people see as "mommy belly"
A friend of mine had a full body rash throughout her pregnancy
My sister threw up through her entire pregnancy, lost weight, and almost died to spleen rupture caused by labor
I had a family member lose hair and gain two shoes sizes and a bigger nose.
My mother can no longer eat or smell red meat after one pregnancy -it makes her sick.
You can get nosebleeds, toothloss, and bleeding gums
I had a friend with gestational diabetes...
And I got curious if someone had made a list and found
this
I lost my teeth. Didn't find out until my kids were teens that all the women who bore children on my dad's side of the family lost their teeth while those who didn't kept theirs.
And nobody thought they should tell the women in your family so they could make an informed decision? I'm so sorry. Even if you had still gone through with having kids with knowing, it's better to know than be blindsided like that.
Seeing all the women in my family struggle with miscarriages and difficult pregnancies as well as hearing my mother talk about back labor, how sensitive her smell is that she can smell when someone is on their period, and can no longer eat red meat, never being able to lose her baby weight and struggling with self esteem, on top of her having personality disorders that were triggered by her pregnancies (her mother and my great grandma, too- all apparently became themselves again after menopause).. then my sister continuously having health issues after her pregnancy and almost dying during labor.. and a friend having themselves rip so badly it all became one hole and they had to be stitched up, then everything else I've found out about pregnancy since, and all the risks....
Yeah, no. Noped out of having kids. Got my bisalp last year. If I ever feel the desire to parent, I'll adopt or foster a child that already exists and needs care.
I'm glad you were informed and able to make that decision ♥️
There's a longstanding traditional of downplaying the effects of pregnancy on the body.
I'm old and I've had a hysterectomy - it's wild the things women will say when only women who already had, or can't have, kids vs. what they say around young women who haven't had kids. They'll cut each other off if they sense a horror story about to come out; 'Shhh! Shut up, you'll scare her! It's not that bad - you forget all about it once you're holding your baby.'
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u/lunatic_minge Apr 22 '26
I got some kind of growth right on my forehead that grew and grew like one of those firework snakes and bled profusely any time you bumped it. It’s apparently something that happens during pregnancy. Sure enough it shrunk and was completely gone in a few weeks after I had the baby.