Normal parents are our well-meaning friends and families, the people who effortlessly procreate and are able celebrate others’ joyful pregnancy and birth announcements. Normal parents are the strangers in the store whose innocent question about your baby’s red hair quietly reminds you that you couldn’t pass on your own DNA. Normal parents are the fertile population that doesn’t understand that having a baby cures childlessness—but not infertility.
I’ve paired up with Julie from Happy Together Children’s Book to host a book giveaway! She is giving away a…
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“Does red hair run in your family?” It’s a question I’m asked every time I venture outside with my daughter….
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Eighteen weeks. (And two days, if you’re counting… who, me?) Halfway there??? I am well into the second trimester. Being…
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I caved and tested two days earlier than I said I would. Early Saturday morning, a full bladder awakened me….
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Earlier this year I wrote a post about how I wish more people would be open about egg donation –…
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