The Lasting Grief of a Birthmother
As a birthmother, you are made to feel you are not good enough to parent your child. You are made…
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As a birthmother, you are made to feel you are not good enough to parent your child. You are made…
Continue ReadingSomeone let my family down in a very painful way this past week. Someone we wholly trusted with all we…
Continue ReadingTomorrow is Mother’s Day. For many, it’s a day full of joy and laughter, but for some, including me, it’s…
Continue ReadingI just bought a house. My first house. My biggest adult purchase, ever—without you. There have been so many big…
Continue ReadingI have three scars on my tummy that remind me I’m a mommy, too. As Mother’s Day approaches and my…
Continue ReadingNot having a mother on Mother’s Day sucks. My mother passed away when I was young, long before I became…
Continue ReadingWhen I lost my father unexpectedly, I felt like my life stopped along with his. I wondered how I would…
Continue ReadingFebruary 3rd . . . a day that changed my life forever. It was the day my Mom went to…
Continue ReadingWhen I write about my daughter, I often feel I need to bookend it with (but she didn’t die). Still,…
Continue ReadingLast week was Infertility Awareness Week, and no one is talking about it. Unless your life has been tragically altered…
Continue ReadingMaybe if we still tore our clothes today, people would understand the grief we’re experiencing, I think to myself as…
Continue ReadingBefore you were gone, you were here. Before you left my womb incomplete, you were whole. Before you met our…
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