A difficult pregnancy is a lot like living with chronic pain, something to be quietly endured, because no one likes to talk about it
A difficult pregnancy is a lot like living with chronic pain – something to be quietly endured, because no one likes to talk about it
I was also told that I would struggle to get pregnant. In the face of my unrelenting pain, this advice, and the warnings, would be given to me repeatedly by health professionals over the next 20 years. Initially, I did not realise I was pregnant. I still experienced bad premenstrual pain at the time my period was due. But it never came and, at two days late, a faint second line appeared on my pregnancy test. This was good news and bad – it confirmed my pregnancy but foreshadowed that my new circumstances would not be a cure for my pain.
The thing is, I was so happy to be pregnant. The baby was very wanted. I feel lucky that I was able to get pregnant easily, when I’d been warned it would be difficult. I feel lucky that my baby was healthy the whole way through. It is confusing to be so incredibly unwell during pregnancy. The image we’re sold is that pregnancy is a beautiful time, the most natural thing in the world.
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