Becoming A Mother: A Reflection for Mother’s Day
On my first date with my husband, about three hours after we had our first glass of wine, I told him, “I am not having a child.” Poor guy. Of course, I put on my Match.com profil...
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On my first date with my husband, about three hours after we had our first glass of wine, I told him, “I am not having a child.” Poor guy. Of course, I put on my Match.com profil...
I wrote a memoir about how motherhood almost broke me—and what convinced me to have another child anyway.
I was raised to expect danger everywhere. Teaching my children to embrace the world meant unlearning everything I knew.
As a single woman in your thirties, you may find yourself doing a quiet kind of accounting — weighing what motherhood means to you, whether it has to happen inside a marriage, and...
Recently, I took a trip to Idaho to visit my son. He’ll be 56 this July. I adopted him when he was six weeks old, and from the moment he came into my life, he brought me more joy t...
My complicated relationship with my mom made me fear parenthood. Then came psychedelics.
I went through childhood looking for a mom. I found 181.
Most kids, growing up, try to please their parents. If one parent isn’t around much, the effort naturally shifts to the one who is.That’s where things can take an interesting turn....
On a warm spring evening recently, I stood outside the entryway to the chapel on campus while one of my students said good-bye to me. When I first started in campus ministry, he wa...
Read how new mothers can recognize how far they’ve come–and the strength they’ve built as a result of the challenges of motherhood. The post Mother’s Day: A Love Letter to My Young...
By Marcy T. I’m a first-time mom who has a pretty unique background! Before I had my own baby, I worked as a doula, midwife, and peer lactation counselor for many years. I went int...
There is a moment in motherhood that arrives without announcement. No milestone. No celebration. No clear language for what is happening. Your children are grown. They are living t...
A trait that helped me build a career was making me a worse parent. Here's how I used my own clinical techniques to dial it down.
Twenty years ago, Hope Edelman, author of the bestseller "Motherless Daughters," founded a global support network for women who, like her, were young when their mothers died – to s...
You would think books would be full of wise mothers to learn from. Actually, they’re a library of missteps, aberrations and eccentricities. In 2021 when I was pregnant and padding...
If you’re exploring adoption, you may find yourself asking: What is a birth mother? Understanding this term is an important step in learning how modern adoption works and how relat...
Happy Ma’s Day! Really, I don’t think I ever called the woman who bore me “Mother” or “Mom.” But what I would call her is one of a kind. Like so many moms, Helen borrowed heavily f...
Caring for my mom from afar changed the way I think about motherhood, grief, and what it means to show up for people.
As the days were fast approaching, 30 days exactly before her big day, Nchimunya could not help but wonder what it would be like to be addressed as a “Mrs” and be a mother. Anxiety...
Motherhood exposes women to profound emotional challenges, making it a powerful path toward understanding oneself. Stories can help women reflect on their experiences.
One of the strangest parts of midlife motherhood is realizing your children still matter deeply to you while also realizing they no longer need you in the same way. No one really p...
Sitting in the car with my mother, I kept quiet. I’d already said enough. It was Thursday. My project on the state of North Carolina was due Monday. My fourth grade teacher, Mrs. B...
Learning I was infertile in such a reckless way forced me to acknowledge that I was never meant to be a mother.
When I was a teenager, my mom received a thyroid cancer diagnosis. This moment was particularly difficult for her because, when she was 15, cancer had claimed the life of her own m...
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