English to Italian Other Journalism

Salve, sto traducendo un articolo giornalistico sulle donne transgender, e mi chiedo se ho tradotto bene un verbo, poichè credo che si tratti di un'espressione slang.

Per rendere chiara la comprensione metto il paragrafo intero e il verbo su cui ho dubbi tra virgolette.


During the first five years of my transition, I had to educate my family. I would wage these personal wars with them, constantly telling them, “It is unacceptable to use inappropriate gender pronouns with me, to not refer to me as Danielle.” After all, my middle name has always been Danielle! (My father contended that it was misspelled, but my mother told the real truth—how she’d carried me'' with the hopes of having a girl. But upon learning that I was born male, she made it my middle name.)

pensavo di tradurre ''she'd carried me'' con ''lei mi teneva in grembo''.