“Out beyond ideas of wrong-doing and right-doing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.” –Rumi For the past nine months, my three-year-old daughter has been taking me back to parenting school. The irony, that this amount of time [...]
“There's nothing that symbolizes loss or grief more than a mother losing a child.” – David LaChapelle Some one million women per year suffer miscarriages in the United States alone. Depending on many things, the bond between a mother and her unborn baby might vary in strength. A miscarriage may be a barely-noticed blip on the radar screen [...]
Now that you’ve started in vitro fertilization, people seem to always be asking, “How do you feel?” Do you ever wonder how you should answer that? Are friends and family really asking how you feel physically? Do they want to know what the tests are like, or if the procedures bother you? Are they curious if your body is cooperating? Of [...]
