After you give birth there are a lot of things you might expect to see change in your body – stretch marks for instance. But for a lot of us, there have been very unusual changes. Things we never considered as a “side effect” of having a baby.
I can say for certain I didn’t know my feet would grow, or that my hair would begin to grey quite so early. If you’ve not already had a little one, here are some fun things that might be in your future.
(Besides of course an incredible little person.)
7 Unusual Ways Your Body Changes After Baby
1. Taste buds. I’ve spent my whole life never having real chocolate and sweets cravings. Those were things I never really ate much. After my first pregnancy though, I developed and have since maintained, a total sweet tooth. No brownies are safe around me anymore.
2. Body shape (not weight). I’m not talking about your body weight, I mean the shape. I lost all of my pregnancy wait within the year but none of it went back to where it belonged originally. Some women in our Facebook community say their shoulders broadened and their feet grew. My feet actually grew a whole half a size.
3. Hair texture. Straight to wavy. Curly to straight. A lot of women say their hair texture changed significantly after baby. Mine did not, but I do now have to actively fight all the greys.
4. Gotta go! For woman with vaginal births, you may now forever pee your pants when you laugh, run or sneeze.
5. A need for deodorant. Wearing deodorant was not a must for me prior to pregnancy. I rarely sweat and if I did, there was little to no odor. Now? If I’m not wearing it, you will know. Thank you to several ladies from our Facebook community who fessed up to this and made me feel a little less stinky.
6. Sleep position. I always fell asleep on my back prior to children and was very uncomfortable laying on my stomach. Now I sleep on my stomach and never my back. Many women mention they don’t sleep comfortably in the same position they once did.
7. Food allergies. I haven’t had this issue, but one women in our Facebook community became lactose intolerant, another became gluten sensitive, and one more developed an egg allergy. However, a couple of people said their food allergies went away!
Tell me, what body changes took you by surprise after baby?
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Grey thin hair (I’m 31) strechmarks, saggy boobs and stomache. Acne that makes me look horrible.
An urge to pee a LOT, and if I don’t it will drip anyway 🙁 I also got fat and have huge problems with losing weight for the first time in my life.
But it was worth it, I love my little boy more than life 🙂
My eye sight worsened big time. Most of the ones listed above also happened I found my skeletal structure changed. ( I think that could go with body changes)
How about granny hairs on your chin, And I swear I have a stomach ache everyday since I gave birth 5 years ago
With each of my 3 pregnancies, I shrank half an inch and gained half a shoe size :/
I wore glasses for nearsightedness since high school. My vision was pretty bad. While I was pregnant with my son, I would become dizzy and get headaches behind my eyes. I chalked it up to pregnancy. After my son was born, I went to my eye doctor. I was having trouble seeing with my glasses (I had given up on the contacts). I thought my eyes were getting worse. You can imagine my surprise when the doctor told me I no longer needed glasses! All those pregnancy hormones ‘fixed’ my poor vision. Makes up for all the morning sickness I had. 😉 Of course now, seven years later, I’m getting back to wearing glasses full time again.
Hair loss… weight loss from sz 18-20? 8-10… WAS lactose intolerant but not any more… look older(too tired…had twins)
I developed a metal allergy — especially with earrings.
I went from being able to wear contacts all day and all night to only being able to handle them for a little while during the day. I ended up getting dry eye syndrome and now have to hunt down those perfect contacts, if I want to wear them. I also got heartburn so bad that I ended up having every test known to man done to see if I was alright. It was and still is crazy. My oldest is about to be 13 and my youngest just turned 7. Having children will change you in so many ways.
my hips got so much wider after having my baby. I look like those toy hula dancers glued on to a trucker’s dashboard. I had an hour glass figure before but now it’s all just wide hips and a skinny waist.
Became suddenly allergic to penicillin. Never had a problem with it the first 35 years of my life.