There’s no shortage of creative nicknames for pregnancy’s more surprising symptoms – from “lightning crotch” to “baby brain.” But one term that’s been making the internet rounds is particularly quirky: “Lego hands.”
While it may sound like a playful exaggeration, anyone who has experienced it knows it’s a rather accurate description for the inflexible hands many pregnant people develop.
“Lego hands are a new and creative way of referring to the look and feel of swollen, rigid and numb fingers, joint stiffness, pain and the pins and needles discomfort experienced during pregnancy,” Dr. Sherry Ross, an obstetrician-gynaecologist, author and co-host of the Pair-a-Docs Podcast, told HuffPost.
“When medical terms like carpal tunnel syndrome and hand edema make little sense of common, yet disruptive symptoms of preg...
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