When kindness, bravery, and love saved a life
“It seems like you know something I don’t.” This from a vulnerable and frightened nineteen year old college freshman; pregnant and scheduled to abort her child in three days time.…
“It seems like you know something I don’t.” This from a vulnerable and frightened nineteen year old college freshman; pregnant and scheduled to abort her child in three days time.…
"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…
As the country prepares for a decision from the Supreme Court’s hearing of the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization case that could possibly overturn Roe v. Wade (the case…
With with a generous dose of hindsight I attempted to assess my mother’s mood in the old picture. Sitting with company around the dining room table, wearing a loose house…
I have heard some pretty lame lies in my lifetime. Lies are told by children to get out of trouble, thinking that if they lie, they might be believed and…
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 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…
Well, this is one of those birth stories that will be told at Thanksgiving for the rest of this kid's life. You sometimes hear about women who don't know they…
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…
For men, pregnancy can be very confusing. There are physical changes, lifestyle changes, appetite changes, emotional changes, sleep pattern changes, hormonal changes, doctors appointments, and on top of all that,…
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…
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…