Hmm, I kind of hated this?? An interesting concept, but it was entirely boring and disjointed. It could have gone further into a horror angle in my opinion, otherwise it was just kind of magical realism and misogyny: the novel. I didn’t get Irene, I never quite understood why she even wanted a child (other than for “you’re supposed to do this” and “keep your husband happy” reasons), so her going through all of this trouble just didn’t make sense to me. Also why was she so rude all of the time? I mean, being pregnant and having bad things happen to you is definitely reason enough to be angry, but she just seemed to be mean at strange times that didn’t make sense to me. The ending was bad and didn’t do anything for me. Especially at the end, the conflation of fertility/motherhood with being a woman (and not having the “right parts” to have children as being a curse that mothers pass on to their daughters) was kind of icky to me? I’m just not sure I liked what this had to say about being infertile, being pregnant, or being a woman on the whole. I don’t know, I have read a lot of the “pregnancy/motherhood as horror” genre and this did nothing new or interesting.