Category Archives: birthing
The Rabbit Hole
You start out on a journey without a compass or a clue. You don’t realize that nothing could have prepared you for this. You are hurled into a new timeless existence where day and night are just figments of your imagination. At first you are too bewildered to know what happened. You know you should (…) MORE »
The Two Percent
Nathaniel is my only child. He’s 20 months old. I had him when I was 40. For most of my life, I never planned on having children at all, then I met my husband who used to answer, “A dad,” when he was a kid and adults asked him what he wanted to be when (…) MORE »
Are We Done?
First, I need to apologize to all my friends that have heard this a million times already. I am sorry, but not that sorry because I value your opinion, but I do realize this question can only be answered by my husband and me. How do you know when you are done? Even the question (…) MORE »
I’m expecting . . . but I don’t know what
“When you lose your expectations, all that’s left is hope.” This is the theme of my first book based on my first pregnancy and the birth of my first child. I confess, there are no blog categories in our Get Born dashboard for the birth of a book, so I tagged this post as birthing (…) MORE »
Finding My Center – Again and Again and Again
It is a year after giving birth. I hug to my chest a 50-pound bag of sand, struggle across the deck, and find myself wobbling at the top of the stairs, pulled off center. My blood thumps as I steady myself. This massive bag of sand nearly pulled me off balance down those wood stairs. (…) MORE »
