ANDERSON — Becoming a mother was, for Hannah Sprouse, “the worst and best experience of my life.”
The birth of her daughter, Sadie, in November 2024 required 57 hours of labor, and she endured a difficult delivery. Her recovery, in her words, was “really bad.”
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