Fair warning: gentlemen, you may wish to avert your eyes. The backstory: I have a very uncooperative reproductive system. I have suffered from severe endometriosis since my teens. It's a complete pain in the ass, or, to be more specific, it's a complete pain in the lower abdominal area and sometimes the back, much of the time. My uterus was reluctantly coaxed into hosting the Chickadee and the Monkey until their respective baking times had elapsed, but even that was quite the production. And the bleeding... oh the joy, the bleeding! If bleeding were an Olympic sport, I would be a contender....

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