hard. I remember calling and confronting my girlfriends—"Ladies, why didn't you tell me the truth?" Or maybe they had, and I’d just chosen to hear the laughter.
This idea that it would be all the wonderful things that I feel most people eulogize felt elusive. Pregnancy is many things for sure—a joy, a privilege, even a calling.
But it's also full of side effects that few utter a word about until you're in the thick of it. (To the superwomen out there reading this thinking, "Really?
Pregnancy was a piece of cake for me!" For you, I have no wisdom—only applause.) Tina TurnbowFor many of us, the experience goes far beyond the usual morning sickness and back pain symptoms.
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