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Emma's avatar

Congratulations! I’m so happy for you and so excited to read whatever beautiful work emerges from this pregnancy experience.

Alicia's avatar

Congratulations!! I’ve enjoyed following your thoughts on motherhood as I move through similar stages (our third was born this morning!).

Philippa Moore's avatar

Congratulations!! You’ve captured it all so poetically (unsurprisingly ☺️) ❤️

Whitney Bauck's avatar

Ah congrats Amy!!

Anna Shane Stadick's avatar

Congratulations, Amy! I’m pregnant too, just a tad ahead of you, due in August. (And writing about it on my own Substack!) It will be so meaningful to read all of your words during this pregnancy and postpartum. Also, that poem was stunning.

Dlaine's avatar

Congratulations! I so treasured your writing on your first pregnancy on your blog- which I read before I was pregnant with my first. I was pregnant at a similar time to you when you were pregnant with your second, and now I am pregnant with you again, this time with my second. I am due in early August. It feels special to be sharing this time with you again even though we do not know each other. Also, yes yes yes, first trimester is brutal and all-consuming.

Carissa Pluta's avatar

Congratulations and prayers for you and your growing fam!

Brittany's avatar

Oh Amy, congratulations! I'm really excited for you. I just had my first baby at the end of last year, and it's absolutely wild how much just having one baby gives me an emotional context for the idea of being pregnant again and having another baby. I can now understand the hugeness of what it means to have a family, how much you stretch and expand, how much your heart explodes, in agony and love! I've been enjoying learning from your journey, reading some of your recs (After Birth, I have Matrescence on hold) and following along. Sending you a hug through the ether for surviving first trimester! You're amazing!

Krystiana Kosobucki-Howell's avatar

Congratulations, Amy! Sending wishes for the nausea to abate ASAP xoxo

Hannah | A Feral Housewife's avatar

Oh, congratulations Amy!!! I've been there with the surprise baby, and it's jarring. Hopefully you get some relief once the second trimester rolls around!

Taylor Hine Barretta's avatar

Congratulations, Amy!! We’re expecting our third, too, this July. Makes what you’re sharing especially meaningful to me right now.

Molly Wizenberg's avatar

I so appreciate your honesty in everything here — ups, downs, and in-betweens. ❤️

Elizabeth's avatar

Congrats, Amy + family!! 💛