Motherhood Will Change You:  on losing yourself after having a baby

Motherhood Will Change You: on losing yourself after having a baby

    “It’s not like I’m going to let motherhood change who I am,” I remember saying, with unintended smugness, hand hovering over my resplendently pregnant belly.    It was my first baby, I felt beautiful and powerful, and morning sickness was only a...
Eight Years Postpartum:  on motherhood and the medicine of time

Eight Years Postpartum: on motherhood and the medicine of time

  Oh, sweet mama, I know.   You’re wondering:  so, when does it end? When do I feel like myself again?   When do I feel just a little less like there’s a thread tied to the ventricles of my heart and fastened so securely to this tiny being a...