Kenya Smith thought her postpartum recovery was “normal” — until it wasn’t.
“The first symptom was that it was hard to lay on my stomach,” the Utah-based content creator and mom of three recalls, of the moment she knew something wasn’t right with her body. “I wasn’t having a lot of other symptoms. And then, after a couple of months, I was having trouble using the restroom. My stomach was always bloated — it felt constantly bloated, and it never shrank back down.”
Smith, 27, wasn’t just bloated. Months after giving birth to her third child in March 2022, she looked pregnant. But it wasn’t a baby: It was a 20-pound ovarian cyst. At the time, however, Smith had no idea what was going on with her health, and she struggled to find doctors who could give her a straight answer.
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