Delicate Condition

by Danielle Valentine

How much more was I going to be expected to sacrifice to make this happen? I’d already given my body, my hormones, my time. And now, it seemed, my mind. And I wasn’t even pregnant yet.

The things that made you lucky could also be the things that made you suffer. Io wished people would stop telling women they

should be grateful for their suffering instead of trying to help them with it.