Just plain Rivka (@logicandmorality): "Very true and one of the odd things about being nine months pregnant."

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Very true and one of the odd things about being nine months pregnant.

I worked up to 38 weeks with my last baby, 12 hour shifts in the hospital, taking care of women who hours before had just had their own babies and the babies themselves.

There was a real convivial spirit in most of the interactions I had with those women, who could look at my swollen belly and see that we had at least one thing in common…

It is a cheap cliché, but nevertheless true, that you typically have no idea what someone is going through. It is a refreshing change of pace in this regard to interact with a woman nine months pregnant; you know exactly what she is going through; there is at least one struggle, even one so personal, familial, and embodied as the expectation of a new child, that is not a secret struggle.

Esther Berry

Feb 19

5:05 PM

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