Momologues

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

How Our Generational Parenting Practices Were Interrupted

I didn’t understand with my first child how much historic trauma had damaged my ability to be touched and express love with my kids. I ...

It’s hard to be a mom when the word MOTHER somewhere in your psyche terrifies you

My childhood was filled with intense emotional and physical abuse. My mother was a single mom in the 80’s. My mother was mentally ill, ...

My mother is a grandmother now.

"My mother is a grandmother now she says to me let’s catch up so I put my book down take a deep breath say sure and she is already...

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...

MOMMM! You are beautiful!

I gained a lot of weight during my late thirties pregnancies. I nursed two babies for a combination of 51 months. Both left my body with...

They don’t tell you so much. They can’t.

"They don’t tell you so much. They can’t. No one can tell you what it will be like to be ten days overdue, lost in a hazy world of...

They had to sedate her

Trigger Warning: This story contains subject matter relating to suicide. I work in the deli at Hannaford. I am in the chicken room...