Body Oddities

Nikki, from Chateau LaCar, wrote about her post-pregnancy hair loss.  This sparked my realization that I had my body oddities going on both ante-partum and post-partum.

1) Before I got pregnant, I would shed like a cat.  The slightest wind from someone walking past me could result in clumps of hair falling off my head.  When I would shower, I couldn't figure out how I didn't end up bald  because there would be what resembled a dead, wet mongoose laying in the drain trap.  During pregnancy?  Every single hair on my head stayed put BUT my leg hair quit growing AND my arm hair fell out.  What the flip is up with that?

2) Post pregnancy, I have resumed my cat-like shedding abilities to the point where Mike is frustrated that he will find not one, but many of my hairs in odd places.  Like laying on the bananas in the fruit bowl.  Or smattered across his eyeglass case that is sitting on top of the fridge.  In case you're curious, my leg hair resumed its uneven pattern of growth (I have never grown hair on the back of my legs and hair no longer grows from the area that I bruised when I fell through the deck last summer...plus, you can still see the bruise.  That can't be good) and my arm hair has just started to re-grow.  Strange, strange, strange.

3) I think I had a total of four, teeny, tiny pimples while I was pregnant.  Now?  It's like I'm thirteen again.  I go to bed and wake up with an army of zits across my jaw. 

4) On all ten of my fingernails, I have a slight bump in the exact same spot on each nail.  The bump is slowly ascending as my nails grow.  I'm wondering if any of you other moms out there noticed bumps on your nails after having your kids?  Or maybe the bumps have to do with the hematoma/anemia that I suffered from?