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"In case I haven&amp;#x27;t mentioned it lately, I&amp;#x27;m about 400 months pregnant (read: due in 5 weeks). Although I feel great, things aren&amp;#x27;t going entirely smoothly. At least not in the grooming department. I mean that quite literally. Read on for the uncomfortable details. Even though I&amp;#x27;ve been through this once before, I&amp;#x27;d forgotten about [/deliberately repressed the memory of] one particularly embarrassing beauty challenge that comes with pregnancy. We&amp;#x27;ve talked about the seriously weird things pregnancy does to your hair and some other things nobody tells you about how pregnancy affects your looks. But here&amp;#x27;s one pregnancy-related grooming challenge we haven&amp;#x27;t discussed before: There is a high risk of inadvertently ending up with a full-on 70s bush. When you&amp;#x27;re 8+ months pregnant, you can barely get a good glimpse of your toes, let alone your lady parts. That makes shaving your bikini line a rather uncomfortable, not to mention potentially dangerous, proposition. And while lots of my friends continue to get bikini waxes straight through their pregnancies (and right up until their due dates--gotta look nice for that close-cropped birth video! Shudder ... ), I just could not take that kind of pain right now. I&amp;#x27;m uncomfortable enough. Not to mention I&amp;#x27;d feel like beyond a beached whale rolling up and onto a waxer&amp;#x27;s table. So for now I just do what I can by contorting into really weird positions in the shower. I&amp;#x27;m sure things are looking far from symmetrical down there but ... whatever. My OB can go ahead and judge. (And she probably does, as a high-maintenance Upper East Side lady herself.) Fellow moms in the house, how did you get around the bikini-line grooming issue when you were preg? Or did you just kinda give up? Did any other grooming/beauty issues arise that nobody had warned you about? Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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