There is a particular kind of exhaustion that belongs exclusively to pregnant women in a Georgia summer. It’s not the general heat fatigue that everyone around you is complaining about — it’s something more intense, more immediate, and more deserving of your full attention. The woman who was perfectly comfortable at 78 degrees three months ago is now sweating through her shirt at 70. The afternoon walk she used to enjoy has become genuinely difficult. The car feels like a furnace before the AC has a chance to catch up.
Month: July 2026
The Decade Nobody Warned You About: Understanding Perimenopause
You’re in your early 40s. You sleep well, eat reasonably, exercise when you can — and yet you’ve been waking up at 3 a.m. drenched in sweat. Your periods have become unpredictable. You feel irritable in ways that seem disproportionate to the situation. Brain fog rolls in mid-sentence. You’ve started wondering if you’re developing anxiety, or if work is finally getting to you, or if something is just quietly wrong.
