015: 22 reflections on motherhood

Musings on pregnancy, mothering multiples, loss, and more for your (hopefully) solo time tonight

What does it mean to be a mother? When do you become one? 

Is it that raw second, exhausted, when you meet your baby? Is it nine months before that, when you see a faint line? ⁣What if it’s earlier—the unbeknownst moment a new life begins to form? 

Or what if it’s no moment at all but, rather just a feeling, a knowing—that, baby in your arms or not—you are