Momologues

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

Sep 23, 2022

The Sonogram Tech Gave Me No Signs

Three. For some reason three was the magic number in my head. Number one was so hard to conceive, to carry, to birth, to nurture. Number...

Jul 11, 2022

I was not ready to make this commitment, and neither was he.

When I was in college, after a spell of indiscriminate sex partners who were not at all interesting or good to me, I met an artist who...

Jun 28, 2022

I wanted that baby so much

I had a complete hysterectomy that removed my uterus and a baby with a healthily beating heart the night before Roe v Wade was...

Jun 25, 2022

I thought, “I can’t work through another pregnancy”

When I was 32, after having my two daughters and numerous failed pregnancies, I had an abortion. My husband and I knew that we were done...

Jun 25, 2022

I fell pregnant again 7 months later

I was only 23, just started my first “big girl” job. I was engaged, but my fiancé was involved in an unpaid apprenticeship. My god we...

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

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

The day he didn't show up.

I’m going to start in the middle, on the day my husband forgot to show up. The day I gave birth to my second child. He showed up in body...

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...