First
*Trigger warning: miscarriage*
Today would have been your first birthday. One whole year around the sun with you, if we had made it that fa
Pregnancy & Loss
Megan
- Oct 4, 2021
- 0 min
I took a bath today
I took a bath today. To anyone else that might not seem like such a big deal, but to me? It was a huge deal. And I almost chickened out as s
Megan
- Jun 6, 2021
- 8 min
Meredith's birth story: I’m terrified of my bathtub and here’s why
Did you know today is international homebirth day? Did you know that this day (not by choice) applies to my family now? It has taken me a...
Brittany
- May 4, 2021
- 2 min
The Other Side of Mother’s Day
This is the pretty side of Mother’s Day.
The picture perfect celebration, bouquet of flowers, matching dresses side. But there is another
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 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...
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..
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 18, 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.
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
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.