Being pregnant in Germany as an expat: The first trimester
One of the most common concerns I would hear from friends when I announced that I am pregnant was “I’m so worried about you being pregnant and birthing in a predominantly white society”. This obviously made me worry a lot as well because of how often I would hear it, and it changed my entire perspective of pregnancy and childbirth in Germany to a very negative/dark one. I kid you not when I tell you that had this post been written 2 months prior, I would have said everything is SH*T; without even blinking or thinking twice about it. However, now that I have had time to process and debrief, I can safely say that my pregnancy journey was top tier. My husband and I had been discussing having children, and though we did not put pressure on ourselves by deciding on a fixed timeframe; I wanted to fall pregnant on our pre-honeymoon which was scheduled for June 2020. Therefore, I started booking appointments in February 2020 with the Gynecologist and Traditional Chinese Medicine Pr...