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“When I was pregnant with my first child, I was vomiting way more than usual and getting really painful burps that felt like I was being stabbed in the chest. My OB told me, ‘Oh, it’s only heartburn,’ after trying every anti-nausea medicine possible.”
“Flash forward two months later — four weeks after giving birth — it was still happening to the point that I went to the ER at 4 in the morning. They found my gallbladder was full of stones and needed emergency surgery to be removed before it ruptured. Apparently, the surgeon told me post-op, gallstones are common with pregnancy.”
—Anonymous, 40, Florida
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