Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Pregnancy brings on remarkable physical changes. I’ve experienced a good number of them. I had the classic early pregnancy nausea, some select cravings, and my torso widened before my belly, indicating a higher blood volume, lung capacity, and overall expanded infrastructure that’s required to support another person.
But plenty of people have griped about swollen feet and an intensified sense of smell. What I have found really interesting and novel is that my physical changes have helped me identify with people who have very different body types from mine.
By nature I’m a sturdy but healthy weight for my modest-to-diminutive height, I’m more sensitive to cold and more welcoming of heat than most people around me, I have a high-efficiency metabolism so I can do a lot with a little bit of food, and while I wouldn’t consider myself an athlete, I … Read the rest
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