Delicate Condition

by Danielle Valentine

My favorite superstition is the one that says more women deliver during a full moon than at any other time of the month. Transforming into mothers instead of wolves. Howling like wild things.

she explained about eggs and sperm,

Still a mystery to me

“You mean like women who don’t want to have kids?” I’d always envied them a little. I’d even pretended to be one of them for a while.

Real morning sickness is like a low-level hangover that you have all day, every day. It often comes with exhaustion so great that you find it hard to get out of bed in the morning, and it doesn’t go away, even if you manage to throw up. Oh, and it lasts for three months—at least.