Here’s what giving birth during the pandemic looked like
On March 13, 2020 when the world ended in California, I was 20 weeks pregnant. My husband and two girls went for my anatomy scan where we were to find…
My birthday feels different this year and it has nothing to do with the pandemic…
So often it has been so easier for me to count my mother’s shortcomings. How terrible I’ve been to feel resentment at times for what I didn’t have or what I’ve gone through. And now I see her through such a different lens. I see my Mom as a hero who did the absolute very best she could with what she had.
I kept my baby…
I kept my baby.Even though I was sixteen, even though I didn’t know how I would, I kept my baby.Even when everyone told me “kids shouldn’t have kids”or that I’d…
Grace Upon Grace
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…
