I Love Being Pregnant
It’s hard, it’s exhausting, it’s painful, enough to bring you to tears. But here’s the thing—I love being pregnant. I know plenty of women…
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To the Mom With the Traumatic Birth Experience
In 2016, I gave birth to my son after a challenging and stressful pregnancy. From the first month of my pregnancy, I suffered from a complication…
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My Husband Asks Why I Cry So Many Nights, But I Just Can’t Tell Him the Truth
It’s beginning again, just like I remember. Tears come uninvited, streaming down my face. My voice rises; my patience with my kids dwindles. It has…
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Miscarriage: One Year Later
It’s been one year. One year since I put my hand over my womb and silently sent you my love, my final goodbye, as they wheeled me into the surgery…
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After a Traumatic Pregnancy, I’m Scared to Have Another Baby
I stared at the pregnancy test, my heart racing with anxiety. As I waited for what felt like hours, two pink lines became noticeably visible. Right…
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My Kids Were All Unplanned
I had my first son at 17. You can probably assume this pregnancy wasn’t the result of ovulation-tracking and intense planning. You can most likely…
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Dear Baby, You Weren’t Meant to Stay
Hi Baby, We had been trying for you for over a year. So needless to say, we were very excited when we saw the two pink on lines on three pregnancy…
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Dear Baby, I Already Love You
Dear baby I haven’t met yet: They told me not to fall in love with you too quickly. They told me to wait. To wait until . . . Until I saw a…
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How Can I be a Mother Without My Mom?
“We will share the good news with my Mom when she gets home from the hospital,” I said to my husband as we were driving home from the ultrasound…
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Infertility Stole the Joy of Motherhood
“I’m going to be a mother” was something I avoided saying out loud. Sometimes I dared to think it, but struggling with infertility…
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