By Melanie Forstall I Love That My Kids Are Growing Up. Is That So Wrong?
Almost daily I stop and ask myself the same question, “Is it just me?” and I promptly reassure myself and…
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By Leah Outten To the Tired Mother Who Feels Broken in the Marriage Bedroom
Dear broken momma, I see you. I’ve been you. Perhaps you had your world tainted as a child, like mine…
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By Rochelle Deans Having A Daughter Made Me Realize I Wanted More Than Motherhood
When I was 15, I had a clear idea of the way I wanted my life to go between then…
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By Britt LeBoeuf We’re Mothers Not Machines
Sometimes I feel like the mom version of the Terminator. Unlike Arnold Schwarzenegger's iconic character, when I look at my…
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By Karen Johnson This is the Kind of Village Moms Really Need
A friend and I were joking recently about the things we used to say, before kids, or when our firsts…
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By Sonni Abatta Can I Be a Mother to a Baby for Just One More Day
Long live the flour sack days, that short period of time where your whole, warm body melts right onto my chest.…
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By Tierney Cashman Fighting For My Daughter Against My Anxiety
I rarely put my daughter to bed. My husband doesn’t mind, he says. He enjoys getting the final snuggles before…
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By Arianna Freelen My Body After Baby Will Be Perfectly Imperfect
I walked in and saw them. In every shape and color imaginable, they stood and I stared and longed.…
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By Allison Struber Learning When To Push My Child—And When To Stop
A year ago my husband and I pulled our three-year-old son's unconscious body from the bottom of a pool.…
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By Candace Alnaji To My Firstborn as We Become a Family of Five
It’s been almost three years since we brought you home from the hospital, a tiny bundle of need wrapped in…
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By Kayla Runkel I’m Not Always the Mom You See on Facebook
I am crying. Sobbing. Literally, the tears are rolling so hard down my cheeks as I write these words, I…
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By Lisa Mullen What My Son Told Me Changed My Mothering Forever
Do you have any talkers in your family? I do. His name is Aidan, he’s three years old, and he…
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