Everyone joked that my pregnancy bed rest sounded like a dream. In reality, it was the hardest 3 months of my life.0

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• September 4, 2026

In my 30s, my self-worth was still so connected to how much I could accomplish in a day that I named my business “do communications.” Then one night, as I sat reading my 2-year-old daughter a bedtime story while 24 weeks pregnant, I started spotting and cramping. When I called my obstetrician, she advised me