The Last Days of Pregnancy: A Place of In-Between 

“The last days of pregnancy — sometimes stretching to agonizing weeks, are a distinct place, time, event, stage. It is a time of in between. Neither here nor there. Your old self and your new self, balanced on the edge of a pregnancy. One foot in your old world, one foot in a new world. Shouldn’t there be a word for this state of being, describing the time and place where mothers linger, waiting to be called forward? Germans have a word, Zwischen, which means between”.