In an opinion piece, Bryony Gordon describes her pregnancy experience and says she developed intrusive thoughts that felt extremely convincing. She reports becoming “driven so wild” by these thoughts to the point that she believed she had sex with a stranger, and she describes her reaction as being more common than many people realize. The article is framed around recurring social pressure related to having another child, including the question of when she would give her existing child a sibling. Gordon uses her own experience to argue that intrusive thoughts during pregnancy—sometimes dismissed or misunderstood as “baby hormones”—can be distressing and can lead to doubts that feel real. Rather than presenting new medical findings, the piece focuses on personal experience and perception, aiming to normalize discussion of intrusive thoughts in pregnancy and to highlight that not all such thoughts reflect actual events or desires. The account appears to be based on the author’s perspective.