On the day I found out I was pregnant with this baby, I told my husband quietly, as if saying it out loud might cause something bad to happen. We didn't cry and laugh like we did with our first. We were excited, of course, but with the unspoken knowledge of how this could end permanently written on our hearts. It's hard to let that go. It's hard to live in hope.
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I’m 41 years old and pregnant with my last baby. I realized the other day that this is the final season during which I’ll answer a predictable series of pregnancy-related questions such as: When are you due? Do you know...
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In a follow-up appointment after my third C-section, my OB/GYN asked how I was doing. I gave the generic answer that I was healing well. She remembered my reaction from that first talk about this pregnancy. She gently told me that I was no less of a mom, that my scar was the first of many sacrifices of motherhood.
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I’m not sure why I’m so nervous to become a mother to a girl. I wasn’t nearly as nervous having our son and definitely wasn’t worried about what I would say to him. Maybe that's because I thought my...
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The Women’s Center Tarrant County Needs Teddy Bears!
The biggest, ongoing need is for . . . teddy bears! The Women's Center can’t seem to keep them on the shelf!
