Bliss scheduled her twenty-week ultrasound at the hospital in Braddock, but in the meantime, Carly’s doula, Dolores, came to check on her. Bliss looked forward to those visits as if they were from an angel on high.
The woman was just so reassuring. Puking your guts out into the sixth month? “Totally normal. It doesn’t happen to all women, but it can happen.”
Sleepy all the time?
“Very normal. Again, everyone’s experience is different, but there’s nothing so far that concerns me.”
“What about emotional meltdowns? I feel like I have one every hour on the hour.”
“Completely—”
“Normal,” Bliss finished for her. “I guess I should stop worrying, is that what you’re trying to say?”
“It’s normal to worry.”
They both laughed. Dolores unwrapped the blood pressure cuff from around her arm. “Ha
