Proverbs for Pregnancy

A ninety-two-piece IKEA crib wasn’t built in a day.

Rachel Reyes
The Belladonna Comedy
2 min readApr 8, 2024

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Photo by Andre Furtado on Pexels

An apple a day keeps gestational diabetes away.

A watched pot of Kraft mac and cheese never boils fast enough, and you’re starving now, damn it!

Laughter isn’t the best medicine for nausea — Unisom is.

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Rachel Reyes’s humor writing has appeared in McSweeney’s, Points in Case, Slackjaw, and elsewhere. Check out her work at rachelnreyes.com.