Keeping A Journal Helped Me Cope With My Rainbow Pregnancy

Before I could bring myself to talk about it, my journal was there to listen

Nikki Kay
The Partnered Pen
Published in
10 min readSep 27, 2021

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Photo by Eugene Chystiakov on Unsplash

4 weeks, 6 days. And so it begins.

Early pregnancy is so damn unfair. The days drag on as if their sole purpose is to drive me mad. Every time I use the bathroom, I check the toilet paper for blood. Every time…

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Nikki Kay
The Partnered Pen

Words everywhere. Fiction, poetry, personal essays about parenting, mental health, and the intersection of the two. messymind.substack.com