How does pregnancy affect a woman's body after birth and are these changes permanent?
They say that being a mother changes you, and they aren't kidding. After birth, a woman’s body can display many physical changes. At no other time in your life will you grow a whole new organ, force your heart to pump 50% more blood, according to the National Library of Medicine, and have alien cells hijack your brain.
The hormone relaxin also plays a role, according to the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery . As its name suggests, relaxin helps relax ligaments and bones in the pelvis, so the body can be elastic during childbirth. But relaxin also affects ligaments all over the body, including in the feet, which can make a woman's feet looser and more spread out, said Dr. Leena Nathan, an assistant clinical professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
3. Vaginal changesThis one shouldn't be a surprise, given the average dimensions of a newborn's head, but women often have vaginal changes postpartum. While the vagina will contract down to almost its original size after birth, most women will have a permanently wider vagina, according to NHS UK .. Hormonal changes during pregnancy can also affect the bacteria population, or microbiome, of your mouth, so it's important to practice good dental hygiene during this time, Cackovic said.
But these larger breasts don't last forever."After a woman stops breastfeeding, that functional tissue atrophies, because it's not being used anymore," Cackovic said."And then it's not immediately replaced by fat, because the fat is already gone." 8. Lower breast-cancer riskWhile breasts may be losing their fight against gravity, here's one fact that may perk you up: Breastfeeding may lower the lifetime risk of developing breast cancer. For every 12 months a woman nurses a baby, her relative risk of breast cancer drops by 4 percent, according to a 2002 review in The Lancet .
10. Hair growthWomen often notice that the hair on their head is lusher and denser during pregnancy, according to the International Journal of Dermatology . But why does this happen? Women may also develop the"mask of pregnancy," known as melasma, which are brown patches that color the face. Freckles and moles can also darken during pregnancy.
If a woman has gestational diabetes, it's important that she maintain a healthy weight and diet, monitor her blood sugar, and get screened for diabetes in the years following her pregnancy so she can be aware if she's becoming prediabetic, according to the Mayo Clinic . Varicose veins and hemorrhoids develop because the uterus's heavy weight and pressure can reduce blood flow from the lower part of the body, ACOG said. In addition, increased blood flow and a weakening of the blood vessels' lining can contribute to these conditions, Cackovic said.
16. Abdominal separationOne surprisingly common, and ultimately permanent, change associated with pregnancy is a condition called diastasis recti abdominis, according to the journal Current Women’s Health Reviews . It's when the abdominal muscles separate, creating a gap between the stomach muscles. Rather, wider hips are"most probably due to the deposition of fat into areas of the body that have extra fat cells," he told Live Science. In other words, some women get bigger because of accumulating fat cells, not because their hip bones are actually wider.
"Dimensional changes of the feet in pregnancy". The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery . http://www.uvm.edu/~istokes/pdfs/footdim.pdf
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