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Nov 16, 2020
2 min

Today

*Trigger warning: miscarriage* Today should have been your due date. Today should have been the day that our little family was eagerly wa...

A changing pad in the corner of the room

Megan

Oct 4, 2020
4 min

A changing pad in the corner of the room

Why does someone else’s loss make me feel like I need a mental day? Like I’m the one that needs to curl up with my husband and daughter...

Megan

Sep 30, 2020
4 min

The most un2020 day

I am exhaling, I am dreaming of our future family of four, I am reveling, and I am remembering how lucky I am to have the people around me..

Megan

Sep 23, 2020
3 min

Jealousy

I cry when I see people sharing their pregnancy news. Almost all of the announcements that I have seen are ones that will be due well...

Megan

Sep 16, 2020
2 min

I was that mom

I was the mom I never thought I’d be today. Sitting in the dentist’s chair, I had to disclose that I was very newly pregnant so that we...

I hated being pregnant but I love being a mama

Megan

Jul 31, 2020
4 min

I hated being pregnant but I love being a mama

I hated being pregnant. Yup, I said it. I didn’t like it. And because I didn’t like it, I was so nervous that that meant motherhood wasn’t..

Normalize not asking couples when they’re having kids

Megan

Jul 8, 2020
3 min

Normalize not asking couples when they’re having kids

Did you read that title? No? Shame on you, you always read the title first, you rebel. Now go read it. If you did read it, gold star! Now go

Megan

May 19, 2020
3 min

One mother of a day

Mother’s Day was a beautifully hard day for me. Some of you, who have kept up with my recent writings, might be able to guess why.

You miscarried, but at least you know it happened for a reason

Oh- Four the Love

May 8, 2020
3 min

You miscarried, but at least you know it happened for a reason

You know one of the worst things I heard after finally working up the courage to confide in someone that I had had a miscarriage?

Oh- Four the Love

May 6, 2020
3 min

Questions

What did I do wrong? Was it because I painted the door? Was it because I lugged the 40lb bag of dog food?Why did this happen again?

Oh- Four the Love

May 1, 2020
2 min

What I Need You to Know

I am 1 in 4. And no one seems to know what to do, or what to say, or how to treat me. So let me hit "pause" on my internal devastation

An open letter to the child I may not get to meet

Megan

Apr 24, 2020
2 min

An open letter to the child I may not get to meet

I hope I get to meet you. Snuggle you. Smell you. See who you will become and what things you will accomplish. I hope I get to witness it al

Megan

Apr 17, 2020
3 min

One week to break

How do you tell the world that you are broken and hope that they don’t look at you with eyes that mirror the way you feel? How do you tell

Megan

Feb 11, 2020
4 min

My Run in with PUPPPs Rash

The PUPPPs rash started on my stomach and then spread. Because, ya know, that wasn’t uncomfortable enough, so let’s just throw a rash on it.

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