I didn’t learn anything about these emotional or existential aspects of pregnancy in the week-by-week books or the apps, which mostly discussed the size of the baby in comparison to fruit. Kiwi, banana, pineapple. Even though most pregnancies involve a level of stress and emotional disturbance, such as anxiety, depression, worry, insomnia and impaired concentration, the information in pregnancy emails was about baby outfits and how much coffee one could drink. The psychological destabilization that came with being inhabited by another person was left unaddressed.
