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I live in Wilmington, NC with my daughter Genesis, my two dogs, and my cat. I have been writing for longer than I can remember, and I intend to keep doing so indefinitely!

Creative Writing > Memoirs Testimonies: Pregnancy and weight gain

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I remember looking in the mirror one day at my round belly and thinking, "Where did my waistline go? And when did I get attacked by a bear?" Everyone knows about weight gain during pregnancy. What nobody tells you about is its evil sidekick, stretch marks. I like to joke that I started gaining weight before I even got pregnant. I never lost any weight, even in my first trimester. I never threw up, either, which could be a contributing factor to the "never losing weight" thing. No, I just ate. And ate. And ate some more. All my friends would tell me to "go ahead and eat" because I was "eati...

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