Momologues

Sixty-two self-identifying mothers responded to 18 text prompts. Read them here.

Dec 13, 2020

What right did those people have to take her baby?

You’re getting fat. What are you pregnant? I smiled, having known that this moment was coming. She sat across from me, her own belly...

Dec 13, 2020

This baby felt foreign to me and I couldn't tell anyone.

I know now that I experienced postpartum depression with both of my boys, but to different degrees. Back then, there really wasn't a...

Dec 13, 2020

It was a shock to me.

Trigger Warning: This story contains subject matter relating to suicide. It was a cool November morning. I was cleaning up the kitchen...

Dec 13, 2020

Baby absorbing baby.

Trigger Warning: This story contains subject matter relating to Vanishing Twin Syndrome. We had tried just about everything to get...

Dec 13, 2020

You never really get rid of that muscle memory.

I don’t usually talk about my pregnancy, birthing story, or the first two years of my son’s life. I stick to more upbeat topics. I was...

Dec 13, 2020

My partner deserves it. I do too.

I’d done the single parent deal, and the “force it to work because we have a kid” situation. I’d made multiple attempts over the first 6...

Dec 13, 2020

Five things that I didn’t know about pregnancy:

1. When you’re pregnant, even your vulva gets fat. 2. After you have the baby, it still rules your body: breastfeeding, diet, back...

Dec 13, 2020

Impending vomit all day.

Morning Sickness: A cutesy, sweet, non-threatening, non-medical sounding term. Clearly invented by men. For me, so called MORNING...

Dec 13, 2020

I write this not knowing what the future holds

Trigger Warning: This story contains subject matter relating to miscarriage. Pure exhaustion, beyond any flu; vulnerability that can’t be...

Dec 13, 2020

They didn't push him up, they didn't sew my cervix shut

Trigger Warning: This story contains subject matter relating to death. Something felt wrong. I went to the bathroom and knew something...

Dec 7, 2020

"Get it All Out" Kind of Vomiting

Right around the time I was figuring out that I was infact pregnant I vomited in a trash can at Save-U-More. It was in the front...