Pre-20th century accounts from pregnant women?

Factual Questions
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So I’ve been reading up on late-19th century Viennese misogyny (you know, as one does) and especially the works of Otto Weininger, Hitler’s favourite Jew.

Amongst the many, many retarded things he wrote, I found this:

Well… That can’t be right, can it?

I’m assuming there must be plenty of accounts from pregnant women of their hopes, dreams, worries, fears, expectations, etc. when carrying a bun in the oven (as well as plenty of self-portraits and the like), but right off the bat I can’t think of a single clear, unambiguous example.

I mean, I suppose the Venus of Willendorf and other such early figurines could, possibly, be self-portraits by pregnant women, as this study argues. And then there’s old-timey poems such as this one, but we don’t know for sure that a woman wrote that one, either. (Plus it only mentions childbirth in passing, anyway… Oh, and it seems to be written from the viewpoint of a goddess, too, rather than a woman.)

So, I now turn to more well-read Dopers to enlighten me further: Are there pre-20th century accounts from women of their feelings and thoughts during pregnancy?

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Anne Bradstreet’s Before the Birth of One of Her Children would seem to qualify, unless he’s talking specifically about physical sensations and feelings.

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Whoa, what a crushing poem. Very poignant, too, and an excellent example of what I’m looking for here.

Thoughts and emotions are just fine, by the way. In fact, they’re what I’m primarily looking for, though strictly “physical sensations and feelings” are cool too.

Weininger had “Empfindungen und Gefühle” in the original, by the way, which should cover the whole gamut from physical sensations to thoughts and emotions.