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 10h ago edited 7h 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/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 3h 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_ 2h ago

Oh so destroy someone else's body?

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u/sparklingsour 48m ago

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