I have long been genuinely stumped by the alternate universes women experience in pregnancy and childbirth. Some women seem fundamentally calm and happy with their growing bellies; others seem fearful, insecure, worried. Given that birth is the seminal experience of being human for us all, it is troubling that these universes are so disparate and so wid…
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