In the era of social networks, everything is shared with millions of individuals and even small disappointments… Among the people who assiduously document their daily lives on Facebook, Instagram or TikTok, future mothers who regularly report on the progress of their pregnancies.
Food cravings, nausea or even acne, these pregnancy symptoms are common to most women. However, another feature much rarer related toupcoming baby arrival has recently been emulated on the Web because of the comic air it can give to those who experience it!
The nose of pregnancy makes the buzz
Would TikTok have become the new Doctissimo? Indeed, through powerful hashtags, users of the social network the most popular at the moment are able to create some “panic movements”. Last victims of these testimonials that can send shivers down your spine, future mothers.
On the other hand, others might see in the emergence of hashtag #Pregnacynose a way to normalize a surprising but completely natural phenomenon. Under the latter, young mothers reveal photos of their noses before and after their pregnancy. Slight changes? No, appendages that sometimes seem to have doubled in size! These transformations, for once, having nothing to do with the scalpel, currently accumulate nearly 30 million views on TikTok.
@alexjoelenejacobson # stitch with @savannalynnbeauty #greenscreen my big pregnant nose ???????? #pregnancy ♬ original sound – Alex
Testimonials from affected mothers
Moreover, the highlighting of these curious symptoms of pregnancy brought back memories of the few former concerned. Thus, Aurélie, 36, testified: “I remembered that for several months, I felt discomfort in my nose, as if it were swollen from the inside, blocked. I had trouble breathing, especially at night. I always got up to do enemas, otherwise I couldn’t sleep”.
So what is the origin of this impressive swelling in the middle of the face? Dr Thiers Bautrant, gynecologist, explained to Marie Claire: “On these tissues full of edema, the inflammation and the normal bacterial proliferation of the skin are accentuated. Depending on the anatomy, this can sometimes lead, in a significant way, to the level of the face and particularly of the nose, swelling by edema and redness by inflammation..
Also read:
A temporary phenomenon
However, there would be no reason to be overly concerned if his face changed like this. And for good reason, as soon as the childbirth is over, the affected tissues deflate within a few weeks at most.