This article examines fascinating, yet not widely researched, forms of graphic storytelling located at the intersection of comics studies, feminism, autobiography and the medical humanities, namely comics devoted to pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. I focus on two contemporary Polish autobiographical comic books, Agata Nowicka's Projekt: Cz & lstrok;owiek ('Project: A human being') (2006) and Olga Wr & oacute;bel's Ciemna Strona Ksi & eogon;& zdot;yca ('The dark side of the moon') (2014). Torn between their roles as 'bodies' and Delivered by Intellect to:their personal and professional aspirations and needs, both authors visually conceptualize their pregnant