The Book of Random

Pregnancy

Hey Guys,

Wow it's been awhile

Hope you had a great summer and the school year hasn't been too tough on you! I got a message from a reader who suggested pregnancy about 9 months ago (the irony is real), so I thought I'd do a short little page on random facts about pregnancy.

As per usual, the information is directly copied from other sources and it is not facts found or researched on my own. Let me know if you have any suggestions in the comment section or feel free to message me directly!

xxcece

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1. Nipple stimulation is the only scientifically proven method of legitimately bringing on labour.
2. The longest known pregnancy lasted for a year and 10 days.

3. Babies can taste the food their mothers eat in the womb.

4. There are more twins born in central Africa than in anywhere else in the developing world.5. And some people think it may have something to do with yams.

6. It's possible to fall pregnant through oral sex. In fact, one woman conceived after oral sex and a knife fight.

A girl from Lesotho born without a vagina became pregnant when she was stabbed in the stomach after performing oral sex on her boyfriend. Seriously. .

7. From the second trimester onwards, babies pee in the uterus. Then they drink it. Then they pee again. Then they drink it. You get the picture.
8. In fact, amniotic urine is the most sterile urine.

9. A baby starts making it's own poo at around 21 weeks gestation. However, it won't pass it until after its birth.

10. Pregnant woman and new mothers can lactate automatically when they hear a baby crying (even if it's not their own).
11. Baby girls are born with all the eggs they will ever use, but boys don't develop sperm until puberty.
12. Rabbits, dogs, pigs, whales, and humans all start as eggs roughly the same size (around 0.2mm).
13. The old wives' tale is true: Pregnant women who suffer with heartburn ARE more likely to give birth to babies with full heads of hair.

14. For every 2,000 babies, one is born with a tooth
15. Having a baby boy can increase the mother's risk of autoimmune disease, and make her whatsitcalled worse. Forgetfulness, that's the word.
16. Babies cry in the womb.

It's clear from 4D scans that babies frown in the womb, but scientists have also been able to tell from measuring their breathing patterns that . This, they say, isn't necessarily because they're upset - they're just practising.

17. A woman's uterus expands to more than 500 times its natural size over the course of a pregnancy.
18. When a pregnant woman is full term, her placenta will produce more oestrogen in a day, than a non-pregnant woman would produce in three years.
19. In addition to her uterus, a woman's feet and heart increase in size during pregnancy.

Pregnant women's hearts grow to handle the increased volume of blood in the body, and feet swell due to fluid retention and the stretchiness of pregnant ligaments.

20. A baby's fingerprints are set within the first three months of pregnancy .

21. Orgasms can cause contractions

Not true contractions, but or "practice" contractions. Don't get too excited, though, as simply having a full bladder can bring them on, too.

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Hope this was okay, please comment, vote and fan if you enjoyed! I'm going to try make more of an effort to publish more stuff.

xxcece