Pregnancy Stories

A Right To Choose

Empowered, liberated, independent. The spirit of feminism empowered me to exercise my right to choose. I thought it would be over by now, but more than ten years later, it isn’t. I was 20, half-way through with college. “Promising” and “bright” are words they used to describe me. When I got pregnant, I hardly thought [...]

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Pregnancy Cravings & Aversions–Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Hummus

Hummus, chocolate, and peanut butter. Those three were the only foods that I really noticed during my pregnancy, although onions gave me some pretty impressive gas, at times. I craved chocolate and peanut butter more than usual (it’s one of my favorite combinations at any time—I’m something of a Reese’s devotee), and I couldn’t stand [...]

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The Response of Unborn Babies to the Music Around Them

For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been fascinated with music, myself, and just as interested in other people’s responses to music. In fact, I sometimes wonder, if I had stayed single, if I would have someday gone into some branch of music therapy. With that mindset, when my husband and I found [...]

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