A pregnancy is a before and after in almost everything: life will never be the same when a baby enters the scene. Carmen Ledesma was clear when she became pregnant with her first child at the age of 27.

After each pregnancy she went to an ophthalmological check-up and wham!, half a point more in diopters for myopia. For Cristina García the surprise came in the form of a change in shoe size at the end of her first daughter's pregnancy.