And Now We Have Everything: On Motherhood Before I Was Ready

by Meaghan O'Connell

They can measure the thickness of my baby’s neural tube eleven weeks after he was conceived, but they can’t tell me if his head will fit through my pelvis? What is science even for?

The whole world expects you to do it but it’s not like it waits for you. People don’t accommodate you. They don’t even know where to look when you do it.