Momologues

How to cry in secret. How to love a baby, a child in my arms like a mama monkey. How to rub feet and make tea. How to worry and fret. How...

Our toddler was potty training. Like most kids at this age, her interests in the curious sights and sounds offered from the wondrous...

I was fifteen years old, “madly in love” and thought I had met the partner who I would eventually marry. I skipped a couple of periods...

After a surprise pregnancy and 9 months getting used to the idea of my new role, I had outlined my birth “preferences”. I had always...

Everything is still so fresh and new for me with my 10 week old son. I remember before he was born I didn't completely understand the...

Grief has been an old friend to me. Since I was a young girl I’ve lost many friends and family member to an array of deaths dealings;...

On July 4th, 2022 my husband and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. Twenty-five years ago, I was focused on finishing up a work...

I was 23 when I had an abortion. I was a senior in college and getting ready to study and travel abroad for my final semester. I was...

I had been engaged for about 6 months. I had been feeling ill for several weeks, and when I missed a second period (because who on...

We were interrupted unexpectedly and he bolted out the back door so no one would know. The phone rings. On the other end was him. He said...

It was 1969. A few months earlier a man I was on a date with had forcibly raped me. Now I was in Australia at a college friends sheep...

I had a complete hysterectomy that removed my uterus and a baby with a healthily beating heart the night before Roe v Wade was...

"I never had to grapple with a decision that would change my life one way or the other. When I found myself pregnant in a toxic ...

This photo is from a time when my then-husband was out fishing and I was, simply put, not okay. My body was broken in many ways after a...

Storytelling is my love-language and you'd think that I'd be able to be loud and proud over this, but as you know, or can imagine, it's...

I was drugged and raped in college. If I hadn't miscarried I would have aborted. To this day I don't even talk about it with my husband...

My husband and I really wanted a baby. We were in our mid thirties. We’d been trying for a year. I got pregnant. We were ecstatic. I...

A different twist. My mom had two abortions when I was a teenager. Granted, she was seventeen when I was born...three months into being...

I had just graduated college. 22 years old. Left my boyfriend. Had a fling. Learned I was pregnant. Not sure which guy. Fresh out of...

When I was 32, after having my two daughters and numerous failed pregnancies, I had an abortion. My husband and I knew that we were done...

I was only 23, just started my first “big girl” job. I was engaged, but my fiancé was involved in an unpaid apprenticeship. My god we...