The End of Reproduction
December 19th, 2017 | by Katie Rose Alexander
My husband had a vasectomy. “Congratulations!” my friends said. “Good man! Halleluiah!” They did not understand that although I was
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Chasing Respectability
October 3rd, 2017 | by Jen Bryant
Recently, my sixteen year old son and I went out to dinner at a local pizza place. Homework-free evenings are
The Enormity of the Everydayness
September 20th, 2017 | by Sophia Wiedeman Glock
Still waiting to tip over the precipice and finally meet her
Ragged: A Stillbirth Story
May 12th, 2017 | by Gabriella Belfiglio
Scattering Here bone and here skin— no teeth in these ashes—you didn’t have time to grow that sharp bite
I’D PREFER NOT TO—on Debating the Choice to Stay Childless
April 12th, 2017 | by Sarah Mirk
I’ll be honest: I don’t really like babies. I don’t have that “mothering instinct.” The smaller, the scarier, I say.
HEARTBEAT
March 20th, 2017 | by Carla Rachel Sameth
After almost four years of trying to become a mother and three miscarriages, I was pregnant again. I had reached
THAT SMALL BLACK NIGHT by Liz Asch
February 6th, 2017 | by Liz Asch
That small black night I pushed my t-shirt over my head, slipped my bra off, slid my underwear and shorts
#MOMLISTS Times Two — and Time to Make Your Own, by Minna Dubin
December 19th, 2016 | by Minna Dubin
This is the second installment (read the first) of #Momlists at MUTHA. Our modern-day connector—social media—is a barrage of happy
BIRTH THREATENS CLOSER—Poems by Samantha Barrow
November 3rd, 2016 | by Samantha Barrow
BIRTH THREATENS CLOSER The water level rises under my skin Swollen Bloated —logical terms to capture this state
YOUR UTERUS HAS ITS OWN IMMUNE SYSTEM: A. V. Klotz on How She (Finally) Got Pregnant
April 30th, 2016 | by A. V. Klotz
You feel the blood before you see it, and by the third time, you know before you know. As if