I gotta say though, just to start. To me, when you say the negatives and the positives

of pregnancy, and I'm just like, there's no negative for me.

Yeah, I think also our perspective of nada que sea, you know, related to pregnancy is negative

is definitely una perspectiva que lo Latino tiene, right? But if we talk about our feelings

that are negative and not so nice and colorful, no kidding, so that doesn't allow us to completely

exercise our experience of becoming, of transitioning. And obviously we're in a pandemic, so that

comes with its own set of feelings. I think for me, with my child, I didn't have him

during a pandemic, but I felt like I was living in my own pandemic because I didn't like

being pregnant at all. I was like, this sucks. Really? Yes, I was like, because the first

three months you were sick a lot or what? Three months? And the end of the whole time.

No, I was not interested. Here's the thing, like you can want to have a child and you can

want this baby and you can want to be pregnant, but the experience might not necessarily reflect

that and people aren't interested in knowing those feelings. From Futuro Media, it's Latino

USA, I'm Mariano Rosa and today we're going to get real about pregnancy. Today, dear

listener, we're going to break down the pregnancy journey from the positive to the negative,

depending on how you view it. While some of us tend to view everything surrounding pregnancy

with a glow of sunshine, there are very real issues that can be cloaked in darkness.

Within the Latino community, the challenges people go through before, during or after pregnancy

are often taboo. Miscarriages, berythes, fertility struggles and pre or postpartum depression

are rarely discussed when they're in fact very difficult to navigate. This leaves those dealing

with these issues in isolation, force to keep secrets and left to figure these challenges

out on their own. So how do we as a community better support women on the path to pregnancy

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