Being pregnant felt utterly unreal in a way that I still couldn't fully wrap my mind around or explain to anyone else, as if my body had suddenly transformed into its own separate, mysterious world overnight without any warning at all.
I am still a very young woman, who hadn't seen the whole world—not even lived her life. Yes, I am a very successful woman—both in love and career. But this was a total unchartered area.
One moment I had been just me, navigating my everyday life with all its familiar rhythms and struggles, and the next I found myself carrying a tiny new life inside that made every single fear I harboured feel impossibly sharper and more urgent, while every fleeting joy burned brighter than ever before, and even the smallest physical sensation became impossible to ignore or brush aside.
