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Amy Pittman was thrilled astir her archetypal pregnancy. She instantly downloaded a gestation app, and she was charmed erstwhile it showed her babe had grown from the size of a lavender bud to the size of a cocoa chip. When she miscarried, she deleted the app and the cocoa spot avatar, but the net ne'er caught on. Seven months later, Amy received a illustration of babe formula. Although she had deleted the gestation app, the babe look institution didn’t cognize — and thought she was a caller mom. She laughed — what other could she bash — and loved the thought that her cocoa spot was retired there, trolling the internet.

After her miscarriage, Amy had a son, Simon. We cheque successful with Amy astir beingness with a preschooler, the lasting interaction of grief and the strangeness of an net that won’t fto you fto go.

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• “The Internet Thinks I’m Still Pregnant,” Amy Pittman

Hosted by: Anna Martin
Produced by: Julia Botero, Hans Buetow, Christina Djossa, Elyssa Dudley and Anna Martin
Edited by: Sara Sarasohn
Engineered by: Dan Powell
Theme Music by: Dan Powell
Original Music by: Dan Powell
Read by: Sam Desz
Written by: Amy Pittman
Founder, Modern Love: Daniel Jones
Editor, Modern Love Projects: Miya Lee