I had always viewed becoming a mother as perhaps the least extraordinary thing a woman could do. This was not to say that I didn't want to have children—I did very much—but I was wary of the consequences, of becoming obsessive about diet and back problems, the endless conversations about strollers, teething, the right kindergarten. It all just seemed so dull.
So when I learned I was pregnant, two years after accepting an international correspondent job with CNN's London bureau in 2015, I was determined to be different, to take pregnancy and childbirth in stride. I didn't broadcast the news to my colleagues right away. It was too early to be confident the pregnancy would advance, but I was also a little apprehensive about how it might change everyone's perceptions of me. My secret did, however, make an assignment in Greenland for a documentary on climate change a little tricky.
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