Things my mother taught me.
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...
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Momologues
Sixty-two self-identifying mothers responded to 18 text prompts. Read them here.
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Jul 7, 2022
"Look Mumma, a Jellyfish!"
Our toddler was potty training. Like most kids at this age, her interests in the curious sights and sounds offered from the wondrous...
Jul 7, 2022
Abortion was illegal in our state
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...
Jul 7, 2022
My body seems foreign but my baby is healthy.
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...
Jul 7, 2022
No matter the gender of my child
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...
Jul 7, 2022
Momma Held it Down
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;...
Jul 6, 2022
Avoid bearing children at all costs
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...
Jul 6, 2022
I owned that choice
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...
Jul 2, 2022
Too Poor
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...
Jun 29, 2022
I squatted, reached inside and...
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...
Jun 29, 2022
I was terrified, alone and ashamed.
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...
Jun 28, 2022
I wanted that baby so much
I had a complete hysterectomy that removed my uterus and a baby with a healthily beating heart the night before Roe v Wade was...
Jun 27, 2022
Two different choices can evoke the same emotions
"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 ...
Jun 26, 2022
Because it was the right thing for me
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...
Jun 26, 2022
My body felt different immediately
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...
Jun 26, 2022
I was drugged
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...
Jun 25, 2022
My healthcare team saved me.
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...
Jun 25, 2022
I never asked
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...
Jun 25, 2022
I was depending on my IUD to work
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...
Jun 25, 2022
I thought, “I can’t work through another pregnancy”
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...
Jun 25, 2022
I fell pregnant again 7 months later
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...
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