I was afraid to write this birth story, afraid, and a little ashamed of myself because I feel like I don’t remember very well, like nearly all of my labor was a fog. A couple of weeks before my due date, I felt like I just shut down. I wasn’t checking Facebook. I wasn’t reading [...]

To give life to another always means coming to the end of yourself. I’m coming into my third trimester, looking so very big, and feeling so very small. The hormone bath has become a sea, and it seems the salt water is always on my cheeks as I try to keep my head above the [...]

Shopping for a baby shower has got to be one of my all-time favorite things to do. I like it so much that when my husband offered to swing by Babies “R” Us on his lunch hour to save me from having to lug four children out in a cold, pouring rain, I said, no [...]