When You Find Out You’re Pregnant—Then Suddenly, You’re Not.
After several months of trying, it happened. The pregnancy test read “pregnant,” along with another four, just to be sure.…
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After several months of trying, it happened. The pregnancy test read “pregnant,” along with another four, just to be sure.…
Continue ReadingHi peanut! You don’t know me yet; your mama and I are best friends. It hasn’t been very long since…
Continue ReadingDon’t ask her if she’s pregnant. You can't know the insecurity she’s feeling from the weight she has gained as…
Continue ReadingShe was the second person I shared the news with, just as soon as my husband and I were finished…
Continue ReadingIt happens when I’m in Target, passing the baby section and see a couple excitedly scanning items for their baby…
Continue ReadingTo the presumptuous woman at Target, I’m not even sure how to begin. I suppose I want to make it…
Continue ReadingI’ve been pregnant with anorexia before. This isn’t my first rodeo. Almost three years ago, I was pregnant with my…
Continue ReadingThis is the tale of two brothers, each born with separate life-threatening medical conditions. I am their mother. I prayed…
Continue ReadingToday was the day. I should be laughing and smiling with my one-year-old daughter, but I’m not. I should be…
Continue ReadingI'm sitting here staring at the two lines—the two lines that are about to change our lives forever. The two…
Continue ReadingI remember worrying that the feeling wouldn’t come. That I’d never feel excited to become a mom. When people asked…
Continue ReadingI never expected to be absent during my (possibly only) biological birth. And even if it isn’t my only birth…
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