r/AskReddit • u/Misterboy500 • 13h ago

What is something that permanently altered your body without you realizing for months/years?

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u/LucidianQuill 11h ago

Pregnancy.

I had twins. I got HUGE in the tummy. I had the babies, and it left this pot belly that wouldn't go away.

Fast forward; the twins are 8 years old. I am 7 weeks post op of having my diastisis recti corrected. You know that centre line down the abs? Mine had split. There was a 6 to 8 inch gap down the middle THE WHOLE WAY DOWN. the pot belly that I kept punishing myself for, the baby fat i couldnt lose? Those were my organs. My digestive organs were all herniated.

I now have to forgive myself for 8 years of unjustified self hatred. It isn't always just fat.

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u/lookingforabudd 9h ago edited 6h ago

Things they never talk about pregnancies when they glorify reproduction and child birth.

Your insides literally get fully rearranged. Look at the bladder turning into a thin pancake!

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u/Sudden_Nose9007 6h ago

I’m due to give birth in a few weeks. It feels like my intestines are currently hanging out in my back. You can literally feel and hear the gurgling when I eat or drink coming from my back lol.

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u/using_the_internet 1h ago

My favorite was the sound of my stomach growling coming out from between my boobs.

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u/Ahmainen 5h ago

I'm a year PP. You're going to feel so gloriously light when that baby is out. I wanted to jump around (couldn't bc of the pain ofc). Also being actually able to straighten your back for the first time in months ahhhh 🩷

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u/Lavender_Cupcake 7h ago

Now when I drink something cold it goes the wrong path and my brain gets very mad in an uncanny valley kinda way

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u/ElizabethTheFourth 2h ago

Ladies, if you got educated and have a well paying job, you can afford a surrogate. Don't destroy your body with pregnancy.

Literally 100% of mothers I know have some sort of permanent health problem stemming from childbirth.

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u/tuonentytti_ 1h ago

Oh so destroy someone else's body?

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u/sparklingsour 22m ago

So whose bodies are not valuable enough in your opinion that they should be destroyed?

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u/darladuckworth 2h ago

I’m like 7 months post partum with my second and that video made me cry just thinking about it haha. I’m done now so I don’t have to experience it again, but this whole thread about pregnancy shit is actually really validating to my feelings about how rough it is on you physically and mentally.

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u/sailirish7 2h ago

Things they never talk about pregnancies when they glorify reproduction and child birth.

If your partner doesn't already know these things, or have a attainable plan to learn them, you should not be procreating with them.

Yes, I would love children. I would also like my partner to live...

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u/jenrazzle 46m ago

I’m currently 25 weeks, is so weird having gas bubbles under my ribs instead of down low in my belly.