{"id":87547,"date":"2026-02-13T08:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=87547"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T08:18:08","slug":"when-my-pregnancy-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=87547","title":{"rendered":"When My Pregnancy Was"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fabb1-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/632820166_122171446652772984_3115998710647418296_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=127cfc&amp;_nc_eui2=AeFwCpJKFZ3zC27iK_DU2V3k2G__MxSSnDLYb_8zFJKcMptQBS0mXb68dOHySr1IDfgBwD69LSjKEyx28yd-bERg&amp;_nc_ohc=hRc8CE8vPXAQ7kNvwERxYd4&amp;_nc_oc=Admr5JzKZlU7-p1iKVjTylsbdwSRIua21DRhBUcNp7_KPZ9jL5TJk41jMA63xZJM5_Y&amp;_nc_zt=23&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fabb1-1.fna&amp;_nc_gid=sGyIwVCE1dHawwo0lvOGrw&amp;oh=00_AfsepyUoJ7DQxDiuyfQGuYhzWK7SJr2zXnZkWVsbd-TsLQ&amp;oe=6994BD9C\" alt=\"May be an image of text that says &quot;1 hour ago I asked my husband to carry the grocery bags. I was 8 months pregnant. MIL snapped, &quot;The world doesn't spin around your belly. Pregnancy isn't sickness.&quot; My husband just nodded. I dragged the bags alone. The next morning, a violent knock on our door. My husband opened it and went pale. Outside were&quot;\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By the time I reached my eighth month of pregnancy, my world had narrowed in ways I never expected. Every movement required planning. Every errand demanded more energy than I had. My body felt unfamiliar\u2014stretched, heavy, and sore\u2014yet deeply purposeful. I was carrying a new life, and while that filled me with quiet pride, it also left me exhausted in ways no one had truly prepared me for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That evening should have been ordinary. My husband and I had gone to the local market for groceries, nothing dramatic, just part of our routine. By the time we returned home, my legs trembled slightly and my lower back burned with a dull ache. The weight of the day pressed down on me. So I did what felt reasonable. I gently asked my husband if he could carry the grocery bags inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t said with frustration. It wasn\u2019t a demand. It was a simple request from a woman nearing the end of pregnancy, hoping for a small gesture of care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before he could respond, my mother-in-law\u2019s voice cut through the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe world does not revolve around your belly,\u201d she snapped. \u201cPregnancy is not an illness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=87545\">also read&#8230;..<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the time I reached my eighth month of pregnancy, my world had narrowed in ways I never expected. Every movement required planning. Every errand demanded more&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87548,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87547\/revisions\/87548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}