Emily Leithauser thought she had overcome the OCD that plagued her in childhood and again in college. But in pregnancy, she became consumed with counting her daughter’s kicks — a compulsion that brought her to the hospital more than two dozen times.
I’m in grippy socks and a paper gown, and it’s 4 a.m. and absolutely no one in the labor-and-delivery triage area is worried about me. But one of the nurses is at least compassionate or seems so. I’m relieved I haven’t met her before, given it’s my t... [21737 chars]