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One time I got Pregnant... A light at the end of the tunnel

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When I went to Boston, my whole attitude started to change. I randomly ran into a friend who I studied with in Jerusalem. She had just moved there with her husband and was also pregnant! Just 2 and a half weeks due before me. My friend Amy from my study abroad in Jerusalem Seeing her so excited and talking to her about pregnancy and babies and giving birth and nursing made me realize that having a baby was not my funeral. We went shopping for maternity clothes and talked about how determined we were to have a natural birth ( I mean really... if people have been doing it for a couple thousand years without meds how hard could it be...? Yeah... you really don't understand labor pains until you've been through them). Then something magical happened. While I was sitting in Dan's hotel room reading a book, I felt my stomach spasm. Usually my spasms are quick (who the heck has spasms? I get them regularly in my legs..weird I know) and so when this one kept going, I drop