What to the Boricua Does Infertility Mean?
December 5th, 2023 | by Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado
The bloodBetween my legsAnother month, another reminderOf what my body cannot doDo what bodies do What to the BoricuaDoes infertility
December 5th, 2023 | by Jennifer Caroccio Maldonado
The bloodBetween my legsAnother month, another reminderOf what my body cannot doDo what bodies do What to the BoricuaDoes infertility
December 6th, 2022 | by Karen Kovach
These nightmares—these realities—somehow only increased my own desire to conceive
September 15th, 2022 | by India Garms
This is where I finally got to cash in on my “Person-with-a-Uterus-Who-Wishes-to-Do-Away-With-It” Punch Card: I had already given birth (at 16, no less), I was married, I was 30. Tic-tac-toe, three in a row
February 26th, 2021 | by Jennifer Berney
Culturally, we tend to conflate three disparate things: sexual desire, the impulse to nurture, the ability to conceive and bear a child. We act as if a woman’s longing is proportionate to her fertility. I longed deeply, and therefore I was fertile—or so my logic went
January 8th, 2019 | by Allegra Hirschman
For me, trying to conceive was a clusterfuck of hope, disappointment, preoccupation, self-care, and self-doubt with a side of amateur
September 12th, 2018 | by Megan Pillow Davis
My husband makes sunny side up eggs with a side of hash browns and sausage. He gives my shoulder a
August 6th, 2018 | by Cheryl Klein
I haven’t read a single parenting book all the way through. I’m no fan of taking pride in ignorance, but
April 7th, 2017 | by Robyn Jordan
The older I get, the more I see themes and threads repeat and return that I might have thought were
March 23rd, 2017 | by Shannon Mowdy
“Have you tried standing on your head?” It is a bright Sunday morning, and my future mother-in-law and I are
May 4th, 2016 | by Lucy Knisley
Congratulations, Lucy! In fact, double congrats: These comics are gestating into a whole MUTHA-freaking graphic memoir about motherhood. Kid Gloves the book will