Growing a human is no joke and these 28 pregnancy memes understand that completely

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  via mommy.labornurse

• Nobody sits you down before pregnancy and gives you the full picture. You get the broad strokes, the timeline, the milestones, the general idea of what's happening biologically. What you don't get is the granular, day-to-day, completely unfiltered reality of what it actually feels like to grow a human being inside your body for nine months while also being expected to function normally in society.

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  via strictlyforwomen
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  via mmfpregnancyfitness
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  via scarymommy
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  via mmfpregnancyfitness
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  via mytherapistsays
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  via daily_medical_meme
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  via imamom2be

• Pregnancy has a marketing problem. The version that gets promoted, the glowing skin, the serene expression, the tasteful bump photos, is real for some people some of the time. But it coexists with another version that is equally real and significantly less photogenic. The version where your body has opinions about food at 3am that cannot be negotiated with. The version where the first trimester feels like surviving something and making it to the second is genuinely an achievement worth celebrating. The version where the pregnancy app tells you that you've made it to a new week and your body responds by making sure you know exactly how hard that week was.

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  via fem_ed and corporatebish and femed
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  via pregnantchicken
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  via thesleepybelly
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  via pregnancywords and someparentz
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  via mmfpregnancyfitness
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  via iamtakeaslynn

• Then there's the third trimester, which operates on its own timeline and its own logic and has very little interest in your plans or your comfort level. The baby clothes shopping that happens immediately after the positive test, months before any rational preparation is needed. The sudden awareness of every pregnant person around you. The complete transformation of your relationship with sleep, food, your own skeleton, and the concept of "almost there." Partners, meanwhile, are doing their best. They are also, by definition, experiencing a completely different version of events, supportive, present, and occasionally saying something well-intentioned that lands exactly wrong. This is not their fault. This is just the gap between witnessing pregnancy and living it, which cannot be fully bridged no matter how many parenting books get read.

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  via gestational.diabetes.nutrition
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  via yourgirisfavorite and ExileWRLD
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  via mmfpregnancyfitness
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  via imamom2be
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  via mommy.labornurse
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  via coachedbyclaire
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  via lipsticks_and_crayons
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  via cringelers
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  via pregnantlover_
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  via mmfpregnancyfitness
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  via explaining.animals

• I hope these memes find you in, whatever part of your pregnancy you are going through, and give you the amount of realness, and hopefully, a good laugh, to feel like the power woman you are. Nothing is as comforting as good as memes created from people who were in it and found that the only reasonable response to certain moments was to make a joke about them later. The exhaustion, the hormones, the unsolicited belly touches, the glow that turned out to look nothing like the magazines promised. Growing a human is genuinely extraordinary. It's also genuinely a lot. Both things are true.

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  via postpartumtips_
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  via mmfpregnancyfitness
• 28
  
  via christine_lavopa

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