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I’m off to have a baby, and I’m taking no tips from the new pregnancy influencers | Hadley Freeman

Where once just not vomiting in my hair was enough, now I’m supposed to wonder how cute my bump looks in my lingerie selfies
Amy Schumer on Late Night With Seth Meyers: an overdue antidote to the pregnancy influencers. Photograph: NBCU/Getty Images

By the time you read this I will be days away from having a baby taken out of my body – something that, even as I stare down the barrel of child number three, will never stop seeming extremely weird to me. So this is the last you’ll hear from me for a few months. Who will I rant to every week? Will the baby want to hear my thoughts on politics? If his or her first word is “Trump”, we’ll all know whose fault that is.

I’ve been

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