Yami Anand

Don't fall for those YouTube videos showing home tests with salt or urine, they are completely fake and can be unhygienic. Just focus on your health, take your prenatal vitamins, and let the gender be a sweet surprise.

Oh sweetie, I totally understand how exhausting it is when your legs ache so much and you can't even sleep. It's just your body working so hard to grow that precious little life. Try to ask your husband for a gentle massage, it really helps and feels so soothing.

Oh God, please don't do anything risky to stop conceiving! I always worry about side effects of different things, so please go to a proper clinic. Doing anything unsafely can cause major hormonal imbalance and infection.

I am in my 2nd trimester now and actually had a stuffy nose and cough last month which made me super anxious. My doctor reassured me that normal cold virus doesn't affect the baby, but high fever needs checking. Did anyone else also get a cold in early weeks and feel this panic?

As a mother, reading about Sethe's journey in Beloved and how she nursed Denver while running away really broke my heart. She conceived all of them in such hard times.