Tag: maternal love
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My Mother Will Never Know Her Grandchild, and I’m Heartbroken
Get Pregnant Fast It’s 6:30 a.m., and my son has been awake since 3. The exhaustion I feel is overwhelming, threatening to drag me under with every blink. I realize, with a jolt, that I haven’t managed more than three hours of continuous sleep since my little one entered the world. It’s astonishing to love…
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We Should Appreciate Our Firstborns More
Parenting Get Pregnant Fast When I found out I was expecting my second child, I felt a rush of happiness, but it didn’t quite compare to the overwhelming joy I experienced during my first pregnancy. I couldn’t help but cry (more than once) as I considered how this would affect my eldest child. I felt…
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The Unique Challenge of Losing a Parent While Raising Young Children
Get Pregnant Fast When my mother passed away, I found myself confiding in sympathetic friends, “We’re all going to experience this someday. I just happen to be the first.” In an instant, I became the only person I knew in a club I never wanted to join: parents of young children who had lost a…