**Two Weeks Later**

*Cat*

I woke up and stretched, rubbing at the tightness in my hips. As my belly had grown bigger and bigger, it had become almost impossible to find a comfortable position to sleep in.

Other women in my life who’d already had babies told me that sleeping with a newborn was even more difficult than sleeping at the end of their pregnancies, but I had a hard time believing that. At this point, I was already waking up every couple of ...