Momologues

My entry into motherhood wasn't sunshine and daisies. From the moment I found out I was pregnant I was scared. And I remained scared for...

As a college student in the early 1980's, I married young and briefly, and had two abortions. I trusted a man who turned out not to be ...

Listen, I never liked kids before having my own. I never cared about childhood development. I never knew babies were whole humans that...

I realized I had lost something I hadn’t had before, after touching base with my new neighbor, years after I had lost it. She was...

My daughter lied. My sweet, quiet, honest (wasn’t she?!) daughter lied. And not just a little lie, but a big one - the kind with real...

I’ve got a kid that hangs back. When it comes to new places and faces (or old ones, frankly), she buys her time. She watches. Assesses....

With my second child, my water broke nine days early with the full moon, so baby was not really in any mood to join us yet. But we needed...

Morning Sickness: A cutesy, sweet, non-threatening, non-medical sounding term. Clearly invented by men. For me, so called MORNING...

My nurse on the day we left the hospital: “isn’t it amazing, it’s like your heart left your body and is now in the world” she said. This...

Around age 3 my daughter asked me why girls have two butts. “We don’t have two butts, just one.” I said. “I have two. My little butt (her...

I gained a lot of weight during my late thirties pregnancies. I nursed two babies for a combination of 51 months. Both left my body with...

My daughter discovered a tampon in an old purse of mine and said,”I know what this is for. Girls but them up their butts to keep babies...

“I hate to tell you this girl, but, we’re made for this shit.” That’s what my sister-in-law told me. Three months post baby, I was...

Right around the time I was figuring out that I was infact pregnant I vomited in a trash can at Save-U-More. It was in the front...

When my daughter was about four she finally noticed that her Dad's parts were different than hers. We were taking a family sauna and she...