الأربعاء، 24 أغسطس 2022

The pregnancy prescription: ‘I was told a baby might cure my chronic pain. I was sold a lie’

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 14 the first time a doctor told me that having a baby would be the solution to the debilitating, menstrual cycle-centred pain that consumed me every month.

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.

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from Pregnancy | The Guardian https://ift.tt/UZTgPbN

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