Mommy’s Groove

When I was pregnant, it seemed to me that there was one irrefutable truth: my body, not my mind, knew how to develop this baby and it knew how it was going to get it out. No manner of intellectualizing was going to change how my body would labour and birth my baby. It was totally out of my hands.

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Even with my oldest, dearest friend I’m aware of holding back as I listen to her most recent progress report — she and I are at different places on the continuum of becoming a mother.

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