The first sign wasn’t a missed period or a wave of morning sickness. For Maya, it was the nose.
“Allergies,” she muttered, reaching for the tissue box. It was April. The cherry blossoms were in full riot outside her window. Of course.
Two pink lines.
And on a cold December morning, after a long, roaring night of labor, she held her daughter—a red-faced, perfect-lunged little girl named June.
The missed period arrived on Friday like a quiet librarian. No fanfare, just a notable absence. pregnancy symptoms stuffy nose
“Are you… okay?”
It started on a Tuesday, three days before she was even late. She was sitting at her desk, proofreading a client’s quarterly report, when she realized she had just inhaled through her mouth. A sharp, conscious sniff confirmed it: her left nostril was completely, utterly sealed. The first sign wasn’t a missed period or
“So we’re having a baby,” Leo said, pulling her into a hug, “and you’re going to sound like Darth Vader for nine months?”
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