Pregnancy Urban Legends

Posted on April 13th, 2008

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There is just something about a big, pregnant belly that attracts dramatic stories that are always about “someone’s friend who knows some lady” who suffered some bizarre pregnancy malady. It’s never a firsthand account when it’s the really [...]

 

Contributed by Tamsen Butler
Tags: myths, pregnancy anxiety, strangers telling stories
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