Pregnancy does some weird things to the body — it can make your hair and nails grow faster, change your shoe size, and increase your flexibility. And of course, you have to go to the bathroom a lot more often, and you get the strangest food cravings, or sometimes, aversions.
Of course, it's one thing to hear about the changes pregnancy and its accompanying wash of hormones can bring — it's another thing entirely to experience them and see them up close.