Part One: What I Saw Happen When my wife got pregnant, I didn’t realise how much of it I would be watching from the sidelines. I knew pregnancy was hard, but seeing it up close was different. The first trimester was rough for her. She had a lot of nausea…
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I Thought I Was Having a Stroke
Rylie, A First-Time Mother’s Journey I was 35 when I became a mother for the first time. Pregnancy had always felt like something I might never get to experience. Not because anything was wrong, but because life simply moved in other directions. There were career changes, delays, and the constant…
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Mavis, Mother of two
Pregnancy. It’s such a simple word for a journey that’s anything but simple. For me, it was nine months (and almost 5 extra days) of carrying a little life I hadn’t yet met but already loved fiercely. My body became a vessel of change: the aches, the excitement, the endless…