The Mother is Me
September 23rd, 2025 | by Jacqueline Berkman
How am I supposed to do this? I ask myself. How has anyone ever done this
Browsing the "newborns" Tag
Forward Facing
June 2nd, 2025 | by Cheryl Klein
People are always trying to predict things about babies: their gender, which parent they’ll look like, whether they’ll be full of grace because they were born on a Tuesday
Appraisal
December 23rd, 2024 | by Jennifer Alessi
That Christmas night, my daughter in my arms, my cat by my feet, my heart glowed like a ruby wedged under rock
Maternal Dread
July 8th, 2024 | by Anna Rollins
During my first pregnancy, I was consumed with hypervigilance and fear
Accepted, Not Earned
January 25th, 2024 | by Xinran Maria Xiang
I developed an allergy to doing less than two things at the same time. How dare I dawdle when I needed to prove my usefulness to society?
“I Knew That I Could Do This”: Excerpt from THREE QUEERDOS AND A BABY
December 21st, 2022 | by Nina Packebush
Having a baby at seventeen ruins any chance you can ever be anyone’s idea of an ideal mom
Not My Newborn’s Mother
July 26th, 2022 | by Allison Grace Myers
What right did I have to hold this wondrous, just-born human in my arms?
First Unbroken Sleep
June 13th, 2022 | by Anna Laura Reeve
After four and a half hours of unbroken sleep I feel like a swan The ‘trying to
POEMS by EVE
April 9th, 2014 | by Eve Lyons
Two Week Wait It starts the minute you’ve finished breath still moving fast cunt pulsing. The hope: This time it