Getting better care was the group's purpose, but finding new friends was a welcome surprise
Reporter Jenny Gold and her husband, Alex Gourse, with their newborn son at Prentice Women’s Hospital in Chicago two days after his birth. Courtesy of Baby Bella Photography
I had always imagined going through pregnancy surrounded by family and friends. But when I found out I was pregnant, my husband, Alex, and I had just moved from San Francisco to Chicago. I knew almost no one.
I ended up finding a community where I least expected it: at a medical office.
