I refuse to get pregnant, because even though no one will admit it, I'm pretty sure that fetus controls you from the inside like I'm a mech suit for it.
It secretes various hormones into the maternal circulation. Some of them raise your blood pressure (so that more nutrients get to the fetus), and some women have to be hospitalized for dangerously high blood pressure. There's also a fetal protein that binds insulin and prevents the mother's cells from sensing it, so that she'll have higher blood sugar (again, more for baby), and so gestational diabetes is a thing.
@RickiTarr
Early in my pregnancy, I apparently wasn't getting enough calcium, so the fetus took it from a tooth. Cracked. Right in half, dentist said he'd seen it before with pregnant women. I also got fatty liver syndrome, pregnancy related and both of us almost died. There's a reason I only had one.
@RickiTarr honestly? Both times all I wanted to do was sleep. If I could have hibernated for nine months and woken up after delivery it would have been perfect.
Oddly I had sleepy babies too. Even brand new they’d stretch a bit, nurse and fall back into a dream. I’d wake up and check them the first few weeks for fear something had happened but they were only sleeping in whatever cloud babies float in.
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