EARTH MOTHER

Grief was and is a large part of motherhood. And we don't talk about it enough. 

 I mourned for my birth story as many of us do. I mourned for myself and my body.  I mourned for...

Thoughts as I nurture Violet to sleep...

Between Nursing

Pumping

Eating enough to produce milk

Anxiety with milk production 

Bathing 

Naps

Engorged, leaking breasts

Bruised, chapped...

Notes from pregnancy:

I wrote the following notes 3 days before delivering my daughter. I had just left my OB appointment and was full of fire.

"The word induction has been thrown around for the...