By: Hilary

I’m so glad to see this article here! I’m utterly sick of women being held to such exacting standards when it comes to reproduction and giving birth to healthy children. My seventy-something mother apologized to me a year ago because I had an extremely mild birth defect, and she felt guilty. It’s mind-boggling. We can’t control every environmental factor, but somehow society expects women to do just that during pregnancy.

I feel curmudgeonly.