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“Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.”

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Book:Two-Week Wait: Motherhood Lost and Found

Source: Two-Week Wait: Motherhood Lost and Found

“I had often fantasized about a forced hiatus where I could catch up on the classics and while away the hours. But the dark secret about this fantasy is that you only end up on a forced hiatus if something bad is happening to you.”

Pain Marriage Feminism Memoir Pregnancy Partnership Chronic Pain High Risk Pregnancy Bed Rest

Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“This stratification of Judaism is confusing, so I'll explain it as it relates to bacon. In Judaism the major players are: Reformed eat bacon and love it; Conservative- eat bacon only in diners; Orthodox-never touch bacon but secretly wonder what it tastes like; Ultra Orthodox--no way, feh, it's treif, and Chassidic-what is this bacon of which you speak?”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“I sympathized with elderly people who lived inside flesh and bones that couldn’t keep time with their soaring spirits. I knew now what it meant to be in pain every single moment of the day and how it could change someone’s entire personality.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“I was disappointed in my doctor for not mentioning how psychologically strenuous bed rest would be. It’s a fact of life that people miscarry. But like bed rest itself, it doesn’t seem to hold a lot of weight out there in the world.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“The phone rang, and I scrambled to answer it, hoping that whoever was on the other end would be my salvation. It was a telemarketer. Here, I thought, was an excellent opportunity to make new friends.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“I stopped listening to everyone else’s horror stories and unhelpful advice. Bad things happen every single day, but if I was going to obsess over other people’s misfortunes, I’d never have the strength to confront my own.”

Pain Marriage Feminism Memoir Pregnancy Partnership Chronic Pain High Risk Pregnancy Bed Rest

Author:Aileen Weintraub

“What did it mean, he thought I never needed to be on bed rest? Why was he so flippant about it? I wasn’t a statistic. You don’t stop another human being’s life for months and then say you didn’t have to go through that, but no biggie, right?”

Pain Marriage Feminism Pregnancy Partnership Memoir Writing Chronic Pain High Risk Pregnancy Bed Rest

Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

“When we had first wed, our farmhouse with its false foundation had been in danger of collapsing. But we'd secured it with a solid beam. Didn't our marriage deserve the same? Maybe seduction could be accomplished in ten seconds, but making a marriage work takes a lot longer. Maybe even a lifetime.”

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Book:Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir

Source: Knocked Down: A High-Risk Memoir