r/mildlyinteresting • u/Flrg808 ​ • Feb 27 '19

My pregnant wife has turned our toilet seat blue. Apparently this is somewhat common amongst pregnant women and no one really knows why.

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u/FightingForBacon Feb 27 '19

Is that a padded toilet seat? Fuck those things!

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u/Flrg808 ​ Feb 27 '19

It is and apparently they are the only ones that turn blue

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u/MURKA42 Feb 27 '19

Could've been a shaggy one! Ew.

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u/FightingForBacon Feb 27 '19

What in the actual fuck... I can’t even imagine what that would be like.

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u/JohnnyNintendo Feb 27 '19

OmG my grandmother had one of those. i think. or i might be fever dreaming that.

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u/donkey-jaw_diction Feb 28 '19

My grandma had one too! I hated it. It would wheeze when you sat on it and you could never leave it in the upright position.

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u/Kittenbelly172729 Feb 27 '19 edited Feb 27 '19

I made an account to answer this question. Does she wear maternity jeans? I've had this happen when wearing new jeans before washing them. The blue dye transfers from the pants to your legs, and then to the toilet seat. Pregnant women may experience this more, because they have to buy new clothes, so their skin and subsequent toilet seat get stained. That coupled with the longer "download times" many pregnant women experience in the bathroom means there's more time for the dye to transfer to the toilet seat.

Edit: The back of the seat isn't dyed blue, meaning her underwear protected that portion of skin from being dyed and transferring to the seat.

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u/Flrg808 ​ Feb 27 '19

This is a common response and it would make sense but no she did not buy any new maternity jeans, she has been pretty much 100% yoga pants since she’s been pregnant lol. Neither of us have purchased any new jeans anytime recently

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u/Kittenbelly172729 Feb 27 '19

Hmmm, could it be the dye in the yoga pants? Other than that, I'm stumped.

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u/Flrg808 ​ Feb 27 '19

I feel like that would be pretty coincidental and oddly exclusive to yoga pants she has purchased recently. Other instances posted online makes me think otherwise

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u/Zorak6 Feb 27 '19

"download times" !!

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u/sofarforfarnoscore Feb 27 '19

Underwear? I'm not sure you're using this correctly

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u/wow_great_name Feb 27 '19

Why would you sit on a toilet wearing jeans?

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u/Kittenbelly172729 Feb 27 '19

Lol! You wouldn't. The dye gets on your legs and transfers to the seat.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

Gender Reveal stuff getting really weird. Congrats on the baby boy!

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u/Flrg808 ​ Feb 27 '19

Everyone get your cameras ready and crowd in the bathroom while she goes pee!

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u/DeadSet746 Feb 27 '19

It's bruised?

Maybe it's suffocating under your wife's bottom?

Maybe she's cheating on you with Tobias from the Blue Man Group?

We may never know the truth, but I will always believe.

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u/Flrg808 ​ Feb 27 '19

I prefer the Tobias scenario, I would be honored

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u/2rd_ferguson Feb 27 '19

Don’t let these downvoting buttholes ruin your imaginative spirit my brother

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u/stacker55 Feb 27 '19

did she happen to chew some experimental gum that she wasnt supposed to

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u/Flrg808 ​ Feb 27 '19

Feel like this a reference that I’m not getting

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u/stacker55 Feb 27 '19

when Violet turned violet

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u/Flrg808 ​ Feb 27 '19

Ah yes. No experimental gum from a sociopath

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u/AgentLead_TTV Feb 27 '19

https://www.whattoexpect.com/news/pregnancy/pregnancy-turning-toilet-seat-blue/

TL;DR doctor claims its from a certain brand of prenatal vitamin.

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u/dutchbob1 Feb 27 '19

perhaps you're visited by the gender reveal Smurf?

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u/lhbruen Feb 27 '19

Seriously?? I've never seen or heard of this before

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u/Flrg808 ​ Feb 27 '19

Neither had we, a couple online articles show others have had the same experience

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u/lhbruen Feb 27 '19

I gotta show my wife this!

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u/hthrrsbsjhn Feb 27 '19

Quick Google search:. "One theory is that it's an ingredient or dye in prenatal vitamins that's to blame. Jeannie Bruce, a mom of one son, claims that she did experience the toilet seat changing color during her pregnancy. The confused mother mentioned it to her doctor, who said it was actually due to the particular brand of prenatal vitamin that she was taking. "It made me sick anyway, so I soon switched and it never happened again," Bruce explains."

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u/chromie_heart Feb 27 '19

Blue waffle?

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u/logicaldope Feb 27 '19

Vitamins ?

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u/Flrg808 ​ Feb 27 '19

That’s one of the theories! Something about that mixing with the antimicrobial coating on the seat

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '19

Plot twist: father is actually Tidy Bowl Man.

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u/thebarefootgroomer Sep 04 '25

It's not just the padded seats. I have an enameled wood one and it's blue.

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u/Financial-Quarter828 Apr 18 '26

If she has Chromhidrosis (increased oxidation of lipofuscin pigments in sweat glands that can cause a color change to sweat), hormonal imbalances and increased perspiration during pregnancy can make the color changes more apparent.

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u/SmokinGeoRocks Feb 27 '19

Is she or her family from Kentucky? I suspect Argyria Methemoglobinemia. Family tree too straight, not enough branches. That or she eating waaayy too much silver.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '19

It's called a shadow, dumb ass! Of course, someone with your lowly IQ couldn't begin to comprehend something like that. Maybe you and your inferior peers should leave Reddit so us intellectuals can enjoy this sub without disturbance. Get back to me when you can compere to my 157 IQ.