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Read more about the article What happened when a boy sent my daughter a horrid text message

What happened when a boy sent my daughter a horrid text message

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:November 10, 2021
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My oldest child, Grace, is nearly 15. While she is growing into a beautiful young woman, she is still a child and even though I trust her, I do check…

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Read more about the article My family of 10 had COVID and here’s what helped us

My family of 10 had COVID and here’s what helped us

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:August 30, 2021
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This past month I contracted COVID during a work event from a vaccinated individual. As it happens with most families, I passed it onto my entire family, which meant all…

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Read more about the article No, I will not call breastfeeding “chestfeeding”

No, I will not call breastfeeding “chestfeeding”

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:August 13, 2021
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Update 8/13/21: The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine has caved and will now call breastfeeding, "chestfeeding" and refer to women as “human milk-feeding individuals.” Hard pass. Honestly, it's offense that women are…

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Read more about the article Moms, don’t doubt your calling

Moms, don’t doubt your calling

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:July 5, 2021
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One more flight. My body is aching to hold my kids and to have them crawl all over me. I’ve been gone all week. Traveling. Speaking. Working. It’s work. But…

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Read more about the article I want to be called a woman, not a “birthing person”

I want to be called a woman, not a “birthing person”

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:May 7, 2021
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I have eight children, seven of whom I've given birth to myself. I'm a woman and have the necessary reproductive organs to grow a child inside my womb and then…

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Read more about the article The Mommy Wine Culture Needs to Go

The Mommy Wine Culture Needs to Go

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:April 8, 2021
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When does a joke about moms drinking to get through motherhood - and the current coronavirus pandemic - cross the line? Is it when her friends are on the verge…

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Read more about the article Obesity is Not Healthy and “Body Positivity” Won’t Change That

Obesity is Not Healthy and “Body Positivity” Won’t Change That

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:January 8, 2021
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I haven’t been “skinny” since I was a small child struggling with asthma in the 80s and early 90s. I don’t come from a family of petite people. No one…

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Read more about the article Part I: Walking Through Darkness: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression

Part I: Walking Through Darkness: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:December 1, 2020
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The day I found out I was pregnant with Grace, I don’t remember being happy. I remember being terrified. Doug and I had only been married for a few months…

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Part II: Walking Through Darkness: My Journey with Postpartum Depression

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:November 30, 2020
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Read Part I of my journey with postpartum depression here. A Brief Respite Doug was a teacher and had taken some time off after Grace was born, but was now…

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Read more about the article Grace Upon Grace

Grace Upon Grace

  • Post author:Abby Johnson
  • Post published:November 16, 2020
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My baby girl is 14 today. This girl changed my life. After she was born, I suffered from terrible postpartum depression/psychosis the first year of her life. I didn’t know how to…

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