Healing after abortion is possible
I made a ton of horrible choices that led me to a very dark and lonely place. One of the most haunting decisions I have made was to have an…
When PCOS Nearly Ruined My Chance at Becoming a Mother
It was 2007. I was a first-year teacher, getting settled into my career. My husband and I were married two years earlier, and although we had planned to wait three…
Sadie Robertson’s wise postpartum advice after mom unfollows her
Can’t a postpartum girl catch a break? Apparently not if you’re Sadie Robertson, who gained fame on the show Duck Dynasty and had an adorable baby in the past year.…
10 Things I Wish Others Knew About PPD
They lifted her onto my chest, and for a moment, the world stopped spinning. I admired her tiny fingers and toes in a way only a mother can admire fingers…
No, I will not call breastfeeding “chestfeeding”
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…
I want to be called a woman, not a “birthing person”
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…
To the C-Section Mom with a Lot of Emotions
Editors Note: April is C-Section Awareness Month As a mom of three preemies born via C-section (the youngest of whom was born at 25 weeks), I want to preface this…
Pregnant Leading into Breastfeeding for Almost a Decade
An entire decade. After celebrating my fourth baby's 1st birthday, I have come to realize that by the time I am done breastfeeding her, I will have been pregnant and/or…
We need to stop telling women miscarriage is like a bad period
Trigger warning: miscarriage. Just recently, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry shared they are expecting another child after suffering a miscarriage last year. Whether you care about celebrities or not, I…
Congrats to Harry and Meghan!
In a story appropriate for Valentine's Day, Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, announced that their son, Archie, would be a big brother. "We can confirm that Archie is…
“Another girl, are you going to try for a boy?”
"It’s a girl!" I remember yelling as the pink silly string came out. Here we were at our first gender reveal party and announcing our third baby was going to…
Blind Dad-to-Be Gets Most Amazing Gift
Nathan Edge is 26 yeas old and a father-to-be. But he cannot see. He's blind. Typical of most pregnancies, his partner Emma received a 12-week ultrasound scan of the baby…
