I’m the 1 in 4.

Michelle Wilkins
5 min readFeb 14, 2023

I’d never spotted between periods. Yet here I was, staring down at the splotches of dark color as I sat down in my bathroom.

“That’s weird,” I thought. Then my heart skipped. “What if I’m pregnant?”

I’d read about implantation bleeding. Another heart flutter. Could it be? After months of trying, was it really finally happening?

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Michelle Wilkins

Writer of words. Feeler of feelings. Big fan of Jesus. Enneagram 4. All day I dream about doing something that matters.