I was being exposed to hormones that my body had never experienced before, some that didn’t even have a name. Science had so ignored and overlooked the female body, not to mention the pregnant body, that it was hard to get a handle on what was happening. At the time, I had no idea that a number of hormones had increased in levels by 200 or 300 times. The tiredness was unlike anything I had experienced before. I would get home from work and immediately fall into a thick sleep on the sofa. Turns out it’s quite a thing growing another person. Who knew?
