"I Developed A Large Red Bump On The Side Of My Forehead That Was Basically A Bubble Filled With Blood": These 34 People Are Sharing Their Oddest Pregnancy Symptoms, And Let Me Just Say...Wow

Every clip I larn astir things that tin hap during pregnancy, I get the overwhelming impulse to telephone my ma and profusely apologize for 9 months straight.

We recently asked you, our BuzzFeed Community, to stock immoderate of the astir unexpected and oddest symptoms you developed portion pregnant, and WOW, you each did not disappoint! Here are immoderate of the responses:

1. "Everyone tells you your areolas darken erstwhile you're pregnant, truthful I was expecting that. But excavation got freckles! That was six-and-a-half years ago, and they've lightened a lot, but I inactive spot them. I'm 95% Caucasian and bash person a fewer freckles elsewhere too, but I ne'er knew!"

—Anonymous, 46, Female

2. "A ringing of freckles astir some of my areoles that got thicker and darker arsenic my gestation progressed. They person lightened up a lot, but it is inactive somewhat disposable successful a fewer spots."

—Anonymous, 46, Female, Arizona

3. "My chemoreceptor got bigger. Thankfully, it went backmost to its mean size aft my children were born."

—cornysunflower825

4. "I went from ne'er having a cavity ever to having ELEVEN aft giving commencement to my firstborn. She stole each driblet of calcium from my body."

—Anonymous, 40, Female, North Carolina

5. "I can't devour spicy nutrient anymore, adjacent 4 years later. My [existing] sensitivity to odor worsened to the constituent wherever I'm present highly delicate to scented products similar candles, plug-ins, and perfumes. I utilized to emotion having candles lit passim the house, but now, 1 is excessively much, and my eyes go irritated, and it's overpowering."

—kkiley91

6. "First pregnancy: chicken. Could not get capable of it. Even dreamed astir it. Obsessed with it. As agelong arsenic it was cooked, I would devour it. Had 5 consequent pregnancies. No cravings."

—Anonymous, 65

7. "I hallucinated small pioneer children successful the location erstwhile I was large with my first, and I hallucinated children laughing with my second. I bash unrecorded connected an aged ranch successful Texas."

—Anonymous

8. "I got waves of euphoria similar I was high."

—Anonymous

9. "I experienced a broadside effect that my doc had ne'er seen oregon heard of before. I person had a mediocre consciousness of odor my full life, but astir eight-and-a-half weeks into my pregnancy. I woke up 1 morning, and determination was a weird sensation successful my mouth, and everything smelled somewhat strange. I rapidly discovered that thing I tried to devour oregon portion smelled aged and musty, truthful everything besides tasted aged and musty. It was disgusting; everything tasted aged and gross, and beauteous overmuch the lone things I could devour were acold foods (ice cream, popsicles, cereal with milk, etc.) due to the fact that they didn't person overmuch smell. This lasted for astir 5 months and got amended successful the 3rd trimester, though my consciousness of odor was inactive heightened. Everything went backmost to mean wrong days of my lad being born."

—clarafoshee

10. "When I was pregnant, I would burst into tears astatine the slightest provocation. One evening, portion my hubby was having dinner, helium decided to chopped his chickenhearted with a fork alternatively of utilizing a knife. And conjecture what? I couldn't clasp backmost my tears. It was a classical lawsuit of waterworks. Then determination was a movie that came retired that I wanted to see. I knew I couldn't beryllium done it without needing to usage the restroom. So that made maine cry."

—Anonymous, 33, Female, New Hampshire

11. "My feet grew fractional a size and person stayed that size since. It was precise bittersweet to donate immoderate large shoes aft that. Also, I could nary longer basal the odor oregon sensation of broccoli. The thought of it made maine nauseous. The astir uncommon happening that happened was my hairsbreadth getting highly oily. I mean, truthful oily that thing would adust it out. I yet had to usage babe pulverization connected my scalp to soak up the oil. Thankfully, that went distant close aft I had the baby; it lone happened successful my archetypal pregnancy, though. My 2nd gestation was fine. So weird."

—mushypear51

12. "I ended up getting carpal passageway successful some my wrists. I've ne'er adjacent heard of that. I besides had an aversion to chicken. It smelled similar bedewed dog."

—jordanc4db95e665

13. "Vertigo, carpal tunnel, my eyes began pulsing owed to humor measurement increase, and lastly, sometimes erstwhile I would prevarication down, it would consciousness similar an earthquake."

—Anonymous, 38, Female, Canada

14. "Your outer labia volition swell, particularly astatine the extremity of pregnancy. I felt similar my underwear could not screen everything!! I was NOT expecting that and was acrophobic it was permanently similar that. It went distant beauteous rapidly postpartum and is backmost to its mean size, LOL."

—Anonymous, 26, Female

15. "I suffered from excruciating headaches since I was a young child. For the full clip I was pregnant, I ne'er had 1 headache. About 2 to 3 months aft I delivered a steadfast boy, my headache returned. Did my assemblage spell into protective mode? Maybe!"

—Anonymous

16. "As I got bigger and bigger, I would get a heavy echo successful my receptor truthful I would perceive myself speaking arsenic if I were listening to my dependable connected a recording. It was precise jarring, but I benignant of attributed it to my body/inner ears having mode much fluids than usual."

—Anonymous, 50, Female

17. "During my archetypal pregnancy, my fingers shrank, and my wedding set fell off. Yes, I cognize they usually swell. I besides developed a dairy allergy and PUPPP (Pruritic Urticarial Papules and Plaques of Pregnancy). My 2nd gestation resurrected my puerility asthma."

—Anonymous, 40, Female, Toronto

18. "With some pregnancies, I got a pyogenic granuloma, which was fundamentally a reddish bump connected my articulator (kind of similar a acold sore). Apparently, they are reasonably communal successful pregnancy, and I had nary idea. Totally related to hormones, too, due to the fact that with my first, it conscionable went distant connected its ain a fewer weeks aft the babe was born. But man, some times it was embarrassing and annoying."

—Anonymous

19. "No 1 warned maine astir however gestation affects your teeth. I didn't announcement the changes successful my gums oregon that my teeth had moved around. I went from a consecutive teeth grin to thing else. Take other attraction with your teeth erstwhile pregnant, ladies!"

—Anonymous, 57

20. "Not during gestation but postpartum — my thyroid wholly stopped functioning. I present person to beryllium connected medicine for the remainder of my life. On the positive side, my eczema wholly cleared up from the clip I got large until I stopped breastfeeding."

—Anonymous, 33, Female, Illinois

21. "My lactose intolerance wholly went away! I had 8 blessed months filled with pizza, crystal cream, food boards, and food earlier I had my baby, and the lactose intolerance came crashing backmost into my life. I'm readying to get large again conscionable for the dairy; the kid volition beryllium a bonus."

—Anonymous, 36, Female, Massachusetts

22. "Carpal passageway syndrome. It was perfectly debilitating. I couldn't slumber owed to my hands simultaneously burning with nervus symptom and besides feeling numb. I couldn't unfastened jars oregon usage tools to enactment unneurotic nursery furniture. The peculiar braces I was instructed to deterioration lone made the symptom worse. I would aftermath up successful the greeting and beryllium capable to consciousness my wrist tendons grinding against each other. Occasionally, they would get 'stuck', and I would person to vigorously hitch and shingle my hands. It didn't spell distant for 8 weeks aft I gave birth. I'm a bundle engineer, and I unrecorded successful fearfulness of processing it again."

—Anonymous, 34, Female, Pennsylvania

23. "I was not expecting the magnitude of discharge……like aggregate undies a day."

—Anonymous, 30, Female, Chicago, Illinois

24. "My archetypal pregnancy, I was ace sick the full clip and developed an allergy to poppy seeds. I besides had specified atrocious nighttime terrors that I started mounting an alarm to aftermath maine up each 3 hours to effort and debar them. It got to me, mounting my alarm each 30 minutes and sleeping successful the surviving country truthful arsenic not to aftermath my husband. I would aftermath up having panic attacks from these nightmares. In my 3rd pregnancy, I didn't person those things, but my ft grew fractional a size, and I similar bluish food now. Actually crave bluish food erstwhile I've ne'er liked it."

—Anonymous, 37, Arkansas

25. "During pregnancy, I mislaid astir of the hairsbreadth connected my arms and legs. After pregnancy, my hairsbreadth went from wholly consecutive to wavy with my first, and past got curlier with each baby. I present person curly hairsbreadth and nary clip oregon vigor to larn however to support it."

—Anonymous, 40, Female

26. "Truly disturbing, aggravated nightmares each different night. Before pregnancy, I ne'er truly remembered dreams and ne'er had nightmares. As a horror movie lover, too, these were connected different level. Ari Aster, devour your bosom retired lol."

—Anonymous, 29, Female, Canada

27. "When I was large with my archetypal child, I developed what I thought was an ingrown hairsbreadth nether my near breast. When it didn't spell away, nary substance what I did, I made an assignment with a dermatologist. I showed him the mark, and helium said, 'Oh, you grew different nipple for the baby." I started laughing due to the fact that that indispensable beryllium a joke, right? Nope. Apparently, accessory nipples are a happening that tin hap owed to those beauteous hormones. Lucky me."

—Anonymous, 34, Female, New Jersey

28. "Early successful the pregnancy, I woke up due to the fact that I smelled rain. It had been raining each day, truthful it was not this beardown 'first drops connected lukewarm stones' rainfall smell. It was conscionable my enhanced senses!"

—Anonymous, 33, Female, Belgium

29. "The congestion was insane! Couldn't slumber the full past period because, connected apical of mean gestation discomfort, I virtually couldn't respire done my nose. This is aft sleeping propped up connected 3 pillows, utilizing a chemoreceptor strip, and a humidifier. Literally the time aft coming location from the hospital, I was 100% better, and my chemoreceptor was clear!"

—Anonymous, 34, Female, Wisconsin

30. "Several moles connected my backmost scabbed implicit and wholly fell disconnected during pregnancy! I thought I had tegument cancer, but nope, conscionable hormones."

—Anonymous, 41, Female, California

31. "Before I got large with my 2nd child, I was a size eight-and-a-half oregon 9 successful shoes, but towards the extremity of my pregnancy, each of my shoes were abruptly excessively tight. I had to commencement wearing a size nine-and-a-half oregon ten, depending connected the benignant of shoe. Now I'm stuck astatine size nine-and-a-half. Never knew this was a happening until it happened to me."

—Anonymous

32. "OMG, wherever to start? Definitely had a larger ft size, wholly disgusted by poultry and meat, but the strangest happening that happened was I developed chronic hives!! At 36 weeks pregnant, I broke retired successful hives with nary known cause, reasoning it would spell distant aft birth. Nope, my assemblage decided it's staying. Many appointments with the derm and galore much with an allergist, lone to beryllium told they person nary thought wherefore it happened, nor bash they cognize erstwhile oregon if it'll ever stop. My babe is worthy each azygous hive, though."

—Anonymous, Female

33. "Lightning Crotch. That abrupt feeling similar your babe installed a tiny cattle prod straight connected your cervix and occasionally tests it without warning. One 2nd you're walking normally, the adjacent you're doing an exigency flamingo airs successful the market store due to the fact that your pelvis conscionable got deed with a astonishment electrical zap from the inside."

—Anonymous, 41, Female, Canada

34. "Near the extremity of my archetypal pregnancy, I developed a ample reddish bump connected the broadside of my forehead that was fundamentally a bubble filled with blood. It would bleed a batch (like humor dripping down my face) each clip it got scratched oregon bumped, similar erstwhile I dried myself disconnected aft a shower. I judge the doc called it a 'pyogenic granuloma.' In the days aft the delivery, the bump went down importantly and is present conscionable a non-problematic tiny reddish dot. With my 2nd pregnancy, this did not hap astatine all. So weird."

—Anonymous

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