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The best part about writing this blog is that I don’t often have to make stuff up. RSS is a wonderful source of fodder for this page, and it certainly hasn’t failed me today. I give you the following article<\/a> on The Register, which is part of a series of “ask a doctor” type of articles.<\/p>\n

It describes the strange condition of Gigantomastia, which is Latin for “a visit from the booby fairy”. Apparently it is a very uncommon condition (1 out of every 28,000 to 100,000 pregnancies) for pregnant ladies to wake up to find a sudden and rather permanent, uh augmentation shall we say.<\/p>\n

“A 24-year-old woman, pregnant with her second child, had a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153massive bilateral breast enlargement\u00e2\u20ac\u009d during her 19th week of pregnancy. After the baby was born, it took 6 months of medical treatment for her breasts to reduce back to their normal size.”<\/p>\n

Not to make fun of what probably was rather traumatic experience (ok I’m making fun of it a bit), but I recall a scene from Bruce Almighty similar to this….<\/p>\n

Anyway, that fun aside, there’s just a gold mine of information up there:<\/p>\n

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