Can you get ready for pregnancy YEARS before you plan on having a baby?
I’m not planning on having a kid for a few years, but it’s totally cool if I get my body ready now, right? Right?!
Finding peace with my new stay-at-home life
All the pregnancy books have one sentence about how difficult it can be transitioning to stay-at-home life… but I didn’t anticipate a full-on identity crisis.
Endometriosis didn’t crush my baby-making hopes
I think the first time I experienced “the pain” was around 15. After describing these very scary occurrences to my gynecologist, she ordered an ultrasound where they found multiple grape sized cysts and endometriosis on and around my ovaries.
Did you find out the sex of your baby?
Did you find out the gender of your baby? If so — did it change how you felt about the birth? If not — why not?
Surrogacy Part Two: Why did I choose this?
In part two of her surrogacy series (you can read part one here, A.M. discusses her pregnancy and goes into why she became a gestational carrier in the first place.
Surrogacy Part One: How I became a gestational carrier
In the first of a two-part installment, A.M. explains how she became a gestational carrier for a same-sex couple.
I want to be pregnant… but I don’t want to be a parent
I have a birth plan in place, know that I want to use a birthing center instead of a hospital, and I drink my morning coffee while watching Birth Day. Here’s the tricky part: I do NOT want kids.
Dig piñatas? Learn to make a Uteriñata!
When ISN’T a uterus-shaped piñata appropriate for a baby shower?!