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Feet
I used to have really pretty feet. They were slender and nice and looked good in heels, which I used to wear. Something went terribly wrong. I now have fat, wide Shrek feet that get all swollen and achy when I wear anything other that a pair of Danskos or sneakers. WTF? Has this happened to anyone else?
Seriously, I wore a pair of dressy flats yesterday and my feet hurt. IN FLATS!
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Re: Feet
My mom's grew with each pregnancy (3) but she had small feet to start out. I do not.
They can. When you are pregnant there is a hormone that causes all of your ligaments to loosen up. That's good for pushing a baby out of your pelvis but it can also cause your feet to "grow" too. My feet didn't change much with my pregnancy; before I was a size 8 to an 8-1/2 and now I'm a solid 8-1/2.
Kristen, my feet have done this crazy thing where they have gotten to look like flippers-- narrow heels and then widening up to the toes which somehow have rearranged themselves to all be the same length. Hence: flippers.
I used to have beautiful arches and straight toes. Now I have mangled flippers. I cannot wait to see what happens when I get pregnant!
And yes, my feet hurt in anything other than danskos or sneakers-- even with support socks and compression hose.
I have all these shoes I can't wear anymore without crippling myself.
I declare that we need a pedicure day to rectify this as best we can!
Jumping in late. I love the Shrek reference. That is what I referred my feet as when I was pregnant, but ultimately it was after I delivered I discovered what Shrek feet truly were. I couldn't even put on my slippers the were so swollen.
Anyhow, my feet also went up about 1/2 size. Some shoes still fit (they were a little big), but some of my favorites don't anymore. I have never been a heel person since I am so tall, but I miss some of my shoes. I currently can only wear really flat shoes, or something with a rubbery type bottom with no more then 1/2 inch lift.
I already told DH that I need a pedi since I Haven't had one since the day before the wedding....almost 2 years ago.
I am going to tell him that my Mothers day gift should be a day at Lucinda's for a mani and a pedi!
So far, I can still fit into all my shoes, but seeing as I just got into 3rd tri I'm not really holding my breath. I have a bit of a shoe problem (my father calls me Imelda Marcos), so I'm going to be really sad when the day comes that I can't fit into some of them.
I used to have really cute feet w/ well shaped toenails (thanks Mom!), but years of dinghy sailing and general barefoot shenanigans have reeked havoc on them and they are more hooves now. I had a split big toenail for the past 6 months or so and it just finally grew out, so I'm thinking of treating myself to a mani while up in BBH over Memorial Day. Besides, it's getting harder to reach my feet these days, and I don't trust DH with polish!
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This is scaring me. I've never been pregnant but I already have very unpretty feet. They're really wide, I have no arches to speak of, and my toes are all kinda funny shaped. I still attempt to squeeze them into high heels pretty frequently and stilettos on special occasions which hurts like hell but somehow I manage. When I was 12 or so, my brother jumped on my foot and broke my big toe on my left foot and the nail never grew back in right. I've had it surgically removed twice in the hopes it would grow back in normally but no such luck. They're surgically removing it again in a few weeks and this time they're going to cauterize the skin under the nail so nothing will ever grow back. Does that perhaps make a few of you feel slightly better about your own feet? I get crazy jealous of people with cute feet.