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During my first pregnancy, I didn't expect just how much the hormones would take hold of my brain. By the middle of my second trimester, I felt incredibly depressed, and as a result, very confused.

I spoke with my...

Before I got pregnant for the first time, my hair was straight. Really, really straight.

I had suffered from a period of depression two years before I got pregnant. I took an antidepressant for about six months, then weaned off it and didn't need it any longer.

When I got pregnant the first time, my...

With both of my pregnancies, the third trimester was the worst. For my first, it was the middle of summer, and any sweat that accumulated (which was easy considering I was 8 months pregnant!) made the skin on my belly itch...

I remember how everyone told me I would be nesting at the end of my first pregnancy. When I said that I didn't think it would happen, they just smiled and said, "Oh, don't worry.

When I was pregnant with my first child, everyone told me that the first kicks would feel like flutters, as if a butterfly was fluttering inside of me. I kept waiting to feel those sensations, but never felt anything like...

My first two weeks after the positive pregnancy test, I felt great. I was so sure that I was going to breeze through my pregnancy.

The day after those two weeks, I woke up feeling exhausted and sick.

When I was pregnant the first time, I didn't expect the overwhelming fatigue that would come with it. I thought that I might be tired in the third trimester, when I was carrying around that large belly, but I didn't realize...

When I was pregnant with my first daughter in 2004, I was told to avoid fatty seafood due to concerns about mercury. Of course, you know I developed a craving for tuna salad!