“Parenting is the most humbling thing we will ever do in our lives,” someone once told me. “You are inevitably going to fuck up and it will hurt the ones you love most in this world ( Read more... )

"I heard voices in my head, telling me to do the most horrible things to my baby girl ( Read more... )

I could feel his little feet kicking in my belly, kicking, kicking, kicking... incessantly, constantly, dear God this child is never still and he's not even born yet.

"That means he's growing stronger, aren't you glad?"

Of course I'm glad! I'd be devastated if something happened!

But something about feeling this child of mine move, live, grow ( Read more... )

I had heard the rumors in advance. I'd seen snarky comments float by on the Facebooks and interwebs at large. I am passingly familiar with the phenomenon myself.

But, then... it started to happen. In real life. In my life ( Read more... )

I stared at the plastic test in complete and utter disbelief. I was still sitting on the toilet - hell, I was still peeing. “It said three minutes!” I told it, like it could hear me. “It’s only been three seconds! Not even ( Read more... )

"It's impossible,"
said pride.
"It's risky,"
said experience.
"It's pointless,"
said reason.
"Give it a try,"
whispered the heart.

~Author UnknownDear Stardust Baby ( Read more... )

Dear Stardust Baby:

Oh, child yet to be, you do not yet know what lies in store for you - an entire lifetime of triumphs, mistakes, love, heartbreak, pain, joy, with scattered moments that take your breath away for their sheer impossible perfection. May you find impossible perfection in more places than you ever realize.

Will you climb Everest? ( Read more... )