Parenting 101

“Clearly, You’re trying too hard to be perfect…”

That’s what she told me; my therapist told me this today. She then asked me, “What are your expectations for yourself?” I felt dumb. I sat there not knowing the answer. I flashed back to childhood– I’m sitting on the carpet; my mother is sitting in a Lazy Boy, rocking a fat baby boy with

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*Trigger Warning* Contains talk of death, Neonatal emergency care, NICU, and suffrage

In the middle of a documentary on normalizing, HUMANIZING death… I was seeing the footage of the NICU and watching moms cling to the lives of their little babies. It set me into a torrent of tears.  The flooding of memories from the day I rushed to the hospital with my baby. We were swiftly

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