Bonding and Unbonding: Poems
October 29th, 2019 | by Marion Deutsche Cohen
“What is it about babies?” #Poems
Browsing the "Breastfeeding" Tag
The Tooth
October 24th, 2019 | by Marisol Cortez
If the heroine is cautious or follows the rules, she remains a Good Girl, unchanged--end of story. But if she is a Birth Warrior, she does the One Forbidden Thing
Who Needs the Diagnosis?
September 19th, 2019 | by Jericho Vincent
1 in 7 mothers experiences postpartum depression. And yet, naming it still makes me uneasy. Women used to be given the diagnosis of "Hysteria" if their minds or bodies rebelled.
Extended Breastfeeding: A Lesser Known Punishment
September 10th, 2019 | by Aja Haynes
Many of us know the story: God makes a forest. God puts man and woman in the forest. God tells
On Weaning
May 27th, 2019 | by Kira Garcia
My son arrived via c-section after an astonishingly easy DIY queer conception and a much more complicated birth. He emerged
so much of the world inside: Poems
January 10th, 2019 | by Carole Symer
so much of the world inside I dreamt I was slurping up the world’s mother-water river by river pushing back
Wild and Precious: Breastfeeding As Formal Meditation Practice
July 19th, 2018 | by Meghan LeBorious
Resting against the wall, breastfeeding my tiny son in the quietest stretch of night, I watch from the fourth floor
Mama don’t have time for low fat: Poems
April 27th, 2018 | by Elana R.L. Story
For the body of a mother In the end, I wished for stretch marks to line my body like
Milk
March 29th, 2018 | by Christina Yovovich
When I was pregnant, my psychiatrist asked me if I planned to nurse. I said I didn’t know. I was
Like Pulling a Baby Out of a Hat
March 27th, 2018 | by Carla Bruce-Eddings
I remember when the promise of adulthood spelled money, success, and power. An end to clumsiness, both bodily and emotional,