I have struggled since the summer of 2014 to write this piece. It was so personal yet I thought something that other women could related to. I thought it was important to share it, but I had a hard time letting the story go.
The absolute repulsion when the beer
hit my tongue startled me. I willingly sacrificed years of my life
learning to enjoy all types of beer, including the bitter taste of hops.
I didn’t realize that this one, single sip of beer was the first sign
that something was very wrong.
Years ago, I heard that women don’t
enjoy the taste of hops because of our biology. In the earliest days of
human history, women developed the ability to detect poison in a food
source before feeding it to children. Bitter meant toxic food. Although
I’ve never found a citable source, it always made sense to me.
But, I am stubborn and it took a few
more weeks of choking down IPAs and feeling like I was going to puke
before I figured out what was wrong.
I felt paralyzed as I started at
the definitively positive pregnancy test in my shaking hands. It had to
be wrong. It just had to be.
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