pregnancy

Logically speaking, I fully understood and appreciated the necessity for the shift, but my heart was far less forgiving.

Getting pregnant after postpartum depression may have stolen a lot from me, but it gave me a lot more.

After gaining as much as forty pounds and pushing a cantaloupe out my vagina, I wondered: will my body ever be the same?

I can’t remember the last family function where my husband and I weren’t faced with the all-too-personal question, “So… when do you thin

I’ve been pregnant three times, and I have two beautiful, amazing, awe-inspiri

When I turned 21, my body crashed.

When a bereaved mother is left alone, how deep into the recesses of her mind does she wander? Does she surface for air? Does she want to come out at all?

Whether this is news to you, seemingly irrelevant to you, or deeply personal to your experience, this truth remains that statistically speaking, one in every four pregnancies will end in miscarriage. Some of you are vaguely familiar with this, many of you have suffered this loss yourselves, and the likelihood is high that almost all of you know someone who’s lost a child in utero, whether or not they’ve ever spoken publicl about it.