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Growing a Human: The First 30 Weeks

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Reflections on the strange experience of growing a human from scratch, without any conscious understanding of how you are doing it

Table of Contents Table of Contents Assumed Audience Pregnant people, partners of pregnant people, people who expect to become pregnant at some point, and anyone curious about the experience of growing another human inside of you. I’m currently growing a human – my first. Having never grown a human before, and spent very little time around other people growing humans, the past six months have been a constant parade of surprises. This is a smörgåsbord of reflections on my first 30+ weeks of pregnancy, from holding space for potential loss, to our strange obsession with comparing babies to an es

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