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I’m sure they had rules on using special characters in the title of the bowl but “were pregnant” really keeps throwing me. Like you are saying we “were pregnant” but not anymore

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Nope just my bad english. I fixed and thank you for calling this out.

I would like this bowl to focus on the 9 months of pregnancy and have it be very specific to women journey during g pregnancy then overall motherhood.

Women can start in the fertility bowl and then hopefully end up in the were pregnant bowl

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Congrats OP :) Consulting moms bowl is very helpful btw.

I really hope I will be joining that bowl sometime in the near future 🙏

You will!

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