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Sometimes Jokes Aren’t Funny*
I had a conversation with a friend yesterday that has stayed with me. She’s pregnant and due soon, and posted a photo of her beautiful bump a few days ago. In between the messages of excitement and congratulations were a few comments about the size of her bump. Comments that I’m sure were said as a “joke”… but they weren’t very funny. So, she spoke out about it. I was SO proud of her. The whole thing took me right back to the end of each of my pregnancies, when mixed in with the excitement of meeting our new baby, I was feeling bloated, enormous and anxious about the impending…