The warmth from your chest melted on to my own, chilled and shaking from three hours of pushing you out of me. In the end, it wasn’t enough. And men and women in blue scrubs filled the room, preparing to intervene. The doctor, white hair and wrinkles around his eyes, tied a mask around his …
On preparing to be a parent [and the things we just can’t prepare for]
I am less than 3 weeks away from our due date. This amount of time feels both super close and terribly far away. Both exciting and terrifying. Baby bird [who is a boy--for those of you who only follow the blog] is kicking and moving and our midwife keeps calling him a little peanut because …
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Be the __________: a look at how our choices make a global impact
IJM recently raided a factory location in India because women and children were being forced to work a ridiculous amount of hours each day in manual factory labor. They were locked up. Unable to sleep. Hardly eating. Thank goodness, a just government official caught wind of the situation and reported it to higher authorities. I …
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