For somewhere around three months, usually longer, you are invisibly pregnant. Your stomach doesn't yet betray the geyser of life involuntarily erupting within you, nor are you "supposed" to talk about it with anyone but your partner, and perhaps your family. Of course, your natural impulse is to talk about nothing but this profound phenomenon occurring inside of you, and yet we are unilaterally urged against it until the supposed "safe" zone of 12 weeks has been reached.
It's a pathological paradigm, belied by a culturally-enforced shame that holds hands with the extraordinary vulnerability [...].
