Eulogy for a Life That Wasn’t
November 11th, 2024 | by Johanna Stephenson
I had fallen unexpectedly and overwhelmingly in love with someone who was ten years into a committed partnership that included iron-clad baby-making plans
Browsing the "Baby Dreaming" Category
Please Rate Your Expectations of Motherhood (excerpts from a pregnancy diary)
November 7th, 2024 | by Brittani Sonnenberg
snippets of a pregnancy diary, illustrated
The Unbearable Ambivalence About Children
July 24th, 2024 | by Susannah Dainow
Summer is tough because everyone is pregnant. After Victoria Day Weekend, the official start to Toronto summer, when the sun
Facebook Asks “What’s on Your Mind?”: Selected Posts
June 3rd, 2024 | by Megan Hanlon
The little ad to the right says “Are you a mom?” No. And thanks for rubbing it in
Claiming and Curating Infertility: The Editors of a New Anthology Talk Trauma, Healing, and Creating
October 3rd, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
There are so many privileges here. To be able to conceive in the comfort of one’s own home. To be able to conceive without a third party or a medical provider involved. To be able to conceive for free
Does personal always have to mean private? On the language we lack around infertility
July 25th, 2023 | by Sammi LaBue Hatch
My first weekend out after the reign of the Delta variant, a rainy March night in 2021, I stood at
Variations of a Flush
July 13th, 2023 | by Jessica Harvey
If I were just three years earlier on this game, I might have produced fifteen follicles, and if I had had my shit together ten years earlier, I may have made a wild thirty.
Count to Ten and Stop Counting
December 6th, 2022 | by Karen Kovach
These nightmares—these realities—somehow only increased my own desire to conceive
I’m Not Going to Pop: In Search of Better Pregnancy Metaphors
November 17th, 2022 | by Finn Schubert
What other shapes can we give a pregnancy narrative
Book Excerpt: Crybaby
October 20th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
This would become a mantra: If it gets us a baby, it’s worth it, as the universe upped the ante on what “it” was