Pregnancy #2: When My Medical Training and My Intuition Synced Perfectly

By this point, I’m not just a mother.

I’m a mother who has spent years dissecting obstetric literature the way other people dissect celebrity gossip.

This time, I could feel every layer of physiology.

I could sense the placental function like a second language.

I could tell what was normal, what was noise, and what was a physician fishing for control.

I had become dangerous in the best way:

an informed patient with a spine.