Maya Vorderstrasse had less than a Pinterest-perfect pregnancy with her second child. She learned just two months after giving birth to her first daughter, Zoey, that she was pregnant again.
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While some mothers find pregnancy “blissful,” Maya was chasing around her crawl-walking baby and just trying to stay awake under complete and utter exhaustion.
“Some days were so rough,” she writes on Facebook. “I was achy, sore, exhausted, emotional.”
Maya often uses humor to overcome her daily struggles through life. So she decided to take her symptoms and turn them into laughable board message “Bumpdates,” about how even the difficult things are worth it.
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“I decided to laugh my way out of the symptoms and was so thrilled to be cooking our missing puzzle piece!”
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Her hope was that in sharing the message boards, other people would be able to relate, and also realize it was normal to have “very crappy days,” she says.