Rejecting the Selfless Mother
November 9th, 2023 | by Megan Evans
I was nine months clean and sober when I got pregnant. In the naivete of early sobriety, I thought I had life figured out and was ready to share this wisdom with a child.
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Alone
August 29th, 2023 | by Caroline M. Grant
I look around my comfortable house—its walls and roof dramatically sturdier than the shelters on Alone—and I am grateful, but: I kind of want to run away.
“Our hopes for healing must be bigger than ourselves”: An Interview With Poet Eugenia Leigh
April 13th, 2023 | by Cheryl Klein
Those mama bear metaphors are spot-on. I will do anything to protect my child. And now, I’m finally pissed off at all the people who did not protect me
Liminal Village: Adoption, COVID, and Homes in the Air
September 27th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
The NICU social worker said Joey was ready to graduate. She talked to us like we were already his mothers.
Smash It ‘Til You Break
May 17th, 2022 | by Naomi Racz
Content note: depression, suicide, pregnancy loss Smashing It Smashing it meant starting a career transition in the midst of first
Postpartum depression during a pandemic
February 15th, 2022 | by Amy Mattes
The house is living and breathing windows lifting curtains let old air out. An air between seasons. Her body is living and breathing open organs stretching in the
Home
January 20th, 2022 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura and Ro Agents-Juska
Though I’ve lived, mostly happily, in the same apartment for seventeen years, I spent this past September and most of
Omicron Echolalia: It’s Kind of Like Last Year, It’s Kind of Not
January 17th, 2022 | by Cheryl Klein
When you reach the front of the line, there is no mobile clinic, just a lone woman in blue scrubs. “The van didn’t show up today,” she says
A Better Mother: On Breastfeeding in a Pandemic
January 13th, 2022 | by Julia Nusbaum
There was a pandemic raging outside the walls of my hospital room. All I wanted was to keep my baby safe.
Big Wave Surfing and Motherhood
January 5th, 2022 | by Sara Weiss
I have become much more risk-averse as a mother in part because I feel that my life is not entirely my own.