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When you become pregnant, or really if you are just thinking about becoming pregnant, just about every women purchases the pregnancy bible What To Expect When You’re Expecting, which covers just about every aspect of conceiving, carrying a baby, and even the first 6 weeks post giving birth. With 90% of pregnant women reading along, it was a no brainer to turn Heidi Murkoff’s book into a film about the trials and tribulations of pregnancy.  Read more >

When you’re pregnant, you have all these expectations of what those first moments with your baby will be like. The joy. The tears of happiness. The smiles that never seem to end. I had all of those thoughts floating around in my head. But for me, the reality of those picture perfect moments were clouded. I became numb. The expectations of joy and tears of happiness and endless smiles quickly turned to fear and doubt and worry. And 15 hours after giving birth, I was alone in a hospital room as my husband followed an ambulance up the highway to a children’s hospital, and all because of stridor and trouble breathing and aspirating while trying to eat. She was stable, and I was numb.  Read more >