“No one told me I’d have days where I’d cry for no reason at all. I had no idea I’d have to give myself injections in my abdomen. But I knew I was meant to be a mother.”
- Love What Matters
- Children
“No one told me I’d have days where I’d cry for no reason at all. I had no idea I’d have to give myself injections in my abdomen. But I knew I was meant to be a mother.”
“I didn’t do it because I love pregnancy: I absolutely HATE pregnancy. I did it out of the love I have for ‘my person.’”
“For years, I couldn’t even manage to nourish myself. 15 years later, I am nourishing my body enough to feed my own baby and many others!”
“How you feed your child is nobody’s business but yours.”
“We heard it all. ‘You’ll have no trouble getting pregnant! There are so many things you can enjoy without kids!’ I was crushed in a way I hadn’t known was possible. I felt like part of me had died.”
“We had our boy, we had our girl. We felt complete, but the desire to be pregnant again still lingered.”
“When he came to us, his rap sheet was already long. His mother drank while pregnant and moved without him. We didn’t know how to help this broken little boy.”
“I ate, slept, and breathed getting pregnant. I tried every old wives’ tale and even drank a tonic from our local mystic store owner. I became consumed.”
“Because of the unique way you came into the world, you’ll be a very special person. You’ll be the exact baby we are supposed to have.”
“If only you knew she spent the first 10 months of her life utterly alone inside a sterile metal crib, with nothing to comfort her. If only you knew how we will spend years trying to override the part of her brain that screams ‘trauma’ and ‘not safe.’ If you only knew this baby now whimpers when she’s put down instead of when she is picked up.”