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There’s no question concerning it: Pregnancy is merely a weird time for women. Your physique is growing in means you didn’t believe was possible, hair shows up everywhere, and you’re excited-slash-terrified at the pointer of raising yet another human being.
But pregnancy can easily likewise transform otherwise sane women in to superstitious believers in points that don’t truly make any type of sense. Why? You somehow grab the pointer that something seemingly random may affect your pregnancy, so…you merely go along with it.
We got women to spill on the weirdest, craziest points they did throughout their pregnancies, every one of in the name of “merely in case”:
“I was stunned that it took me a year to grab pregnant and I was thrilled once I finally located out that I was. I had a box of tampons sitting in my tiny bathroom cabinet at the moment Yet didn’t wish to position them away for fear that it would certainly trigger the pregnancy to go away and I’d necessity them. It wasn’t until I was four weeks away from my due date that my husband pointed out that it wasn’t seeing make a difference, and could he please usage that space in the cabinet now?” —Katy
“My baby was breech (her butt was closer to the birth canal, which isn’t great for delivery) and I was told that I’d have actually to have actually a C-section if she didn’t transform about prior to my due date. So naturally, I looked in to every naturopathic remedy I could locate to make her turn. I hung off the edge of a couch upside down until my face turned red, position frozen vegetables on the best of my belly, burned herbs by my toes, and got acupuncture regularly. She did end up turning and, while my doctor said the majority of babies do anyway, I’m still fairly convinced that the various other stuff helped.” —Meghan
“It took my sister permanently to grab pregnant but, once she did, she was putting on this gemstone necklace. She ended up putting on it throughout her pregnancy and, once she located out I was attempting to grab pregnant, passed it on to me. I got pregnant ideal away, which I swore was as a result of the necklace…so I wore it throughout my pregnancy. We the 2 knew it was type of crazy Yet did it anyway, merely to be safe.” —Bethany
“I’ve constantly loved seeing the gym, Yet the second I located out I was pregnant, I stopped going. Despite the fact that I had no complications, I was somehow convinced that twenty mins on the elliptical would certainly trigger this tiny little pea-sized thing to no longer wish to be in my body. It wasn’t until my second trimester—and my doctor pointing out that I was gaining weight at a rapid pace—that I finally started going again.” —Sara
“I have actually friends that have actually had miscarriages and the pointer of obtaining excited concerning a baby just to shed it terrifies me. So, once I located out I was pregnant, I would certainly begin sentences by saying ‘If it functions out…’ and ‘Offered every little thing goes OK… .’ I caught myself saying it once I was seven months pregnant and at my baby shower, and realized it was probably OK to chill on that one.” —Kaye
“I constantly took a residence pregnancy test until I was showing merely to confirm that I was, in fact, still pregnant. I still have actually no pointer exactly what possessed me to do that various other compared to the honest truth that I apparently enjoy throwing your hard earned cash down the toilet.” —Britt
