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In the NICU You Proved You Were Tiny But Mighty

I waited seven long months of pregnancy for your arrival but still wasn’t ready for the moment you came early. Suddenly, everything seemed scary…

Can we just stay like this? It’s midnight and I’m barely awake, but you’re finding comfort in the warmth of my skin. You’re snuggled up, head…

Today my daughter would have been one month old. I have been through more at 22 than most people go through in their entire lives, but I will never…

I wish I would have known about all the pressures of motherhood. The ones placed on me by society and the ones I would place on myself. I wish I…

Dear new mama, It’s going to be hard. It is going to be scary. There will be days when you feel you will never be able to make it. You are…

There’s no way this is postpartum depression. How could it be? I remember thinking this to myself as I received the diagnosis seven months after my…

If I had to rate all of God’s gifts to us mere mortals, the ones that reassure us of His love and presence in our lives, surely one of the top…

I used to grab him every morning at 5 a.m. when he’d cry out for me. I’d trudge my tired body to his nursery, I’d scoop him up, and I’d carry…

It seems like yesterday I was watching you dance in my belly, anxiously awaiting your arrival. Now you’re going to be ONE at the end of this month,…

My mom always said she loved giving birth, and she’d do it over and over again. Each time she said that, I thought she was crazy. Giving birth is…