Does The Pandemic Remind You of Being Pregnant, Or Is That Just Me?

Kristine Laco
3 min readJan 26, 2021
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It seems long ago now that I was pregnant with my youngest being 17. But I started having flashbacks to a time when I was pregnant and concerned. It took me some time to figure out why.

I have distinct recollections of going to my OB/GYN and asking about certain strange things that were happening to my body.

“Heartburn?” I would ask.

“Normal.”

“Metallic taste?”

“Normal.”

“Cankles?”

“Normal.”

One day my doctor added, “Look. It’s all normal unless you lose a limb. That’s probably something we should discuss.”

I started embracing my body’s changes, and by embracing, I mean complaining until my husband started Googling, “Temporary Housing.”

Fast forward to today. Those strange symptoms I experienced while bringing an ungrateful human into the world are plaguing me again.

I have heartburn. So I googled, “Is heartburn a symptom of COVID-19?”

Don’t do that. Just don’t. Learn from my mistake.

The experts at Google told me my heartburn meant I was overweight. So what? I’m working on my cankles. Can you blame me?

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Kristine Laco

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