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One symptom of pregnancy I wasn’t expecting second time around? Red hot rage.


by Sarah McGinn
20th Jul 2023

Young pregnant woman covering her mouth while food in the kitchen is making her sick.

Sarah McGinn was taken by surprise when the first 14 weeks of her second pregnancy found her shuffling through the house growling, sighing, burping (it was the indigestion) and overcome with rage. Got to love those pregnancy hormones.

Red-Hot Rage.  The one feeling I didn’t expect when I found I was pregnant with number two.  And no, that wasn’t the initial emotion I had when I took the pregnancy test and finally saw the word we had been looking for for months, PREGNANT. We were over the moon, delighted and to be honest, bloody relieved. No more tracking cycles, peeing on ovulation sticks and waiting for that flashing smiley face (IYKYK).  It had...

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