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Mindaugas Balčiauskas

94 Wild Facts About Pregnancy, Birth, And Postpartum That Might Make You Rethink Your Life Choices

Pregnancy is a wonderful and magical thing. Like, what do you mean a woman can just grow another human being inside her in nine months? Unfortunately, that magic often comes with many side effects: some irritating, others outright bizarre.

In a recent survey of 2,000 UK women who have given birth, many reported how uninformed they felt about such pregnancy side effects as big feet and the infamous "lightning crotch" (a sharp, surprising pain in the pelvis).

One netizen wanted to gather even more anecdotal evidence, so they asked women, "What's something that they never tell us about pregnancy and childbirth?"

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