Pregnancy never ends.
I mean, yes, technically once you deliver your baby you are no longer "with child," but there are parts of your body nowhere near your uterus that somehow don't get the memo.
It is cruel but still understandable...
Editor's Note: Erena Shimoda, our guest contributor for today, specializes in underwater photography and takes her services to a whole new level, working with clients who are cancer survivors and have overcome other significant obstacles in their lives. Her...
It’s hard to find the good in something like a miscarriage—a tragic misfortune that doesn’t discriminate. It can happen to anyone, and it’s more common than you think. Statistically, one out of every four women will experience a miscarriage...
After I told my husband that I was pregnant with our second (surprise) baby, my mind immediately went to telling the kids. We'd crossed this bridge before, telling my then eight year old step-daughter that I was pregnant with...
We had only been trying for about three months the first time I got pregnant. A few days before I
took my first test, I had a full blown emotional breakdown because I thought I was “broken." I
was in my...
Sipping tea and eating petit fours is a lovely way to spend a baby shower, but it's not very exciting. If the baby showers you've been to lately have blended together in your memory as quiet affairs spent making...
When you’re pregnant for the first time, it’s almost like you’re a newborn, yourself. Your body is changing day-to-day; you have aches and pains and excretions from places that you never knew existed; you lose control of your emotions,...
If you look at all the details that need to align to become pregnant it is quite miraculous one even becomes pregnant; yet somehow, our bodies make it happen. We make a baby, grow a baby, and then deliver...
My husband and I both agreed early on that we wanted to find out the sex of our baby. While I have several friends who are incredibly happy to have waited until their babies were born for the big...
I was recently going through some old files and came across a notepad that had a very intricate schedule and timetable of when my daughter would sleep when she was about three months old. It brought back both funny...
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