Motherhood By Design

I started back to work when my son was about 3 months old.  I extended my maternity leave a week to recover from my dermoid cyst removal sur...

Remembering when I used to cry as I watched my son sleep.  Realizing he was growing and changing in front of my eyes, I would mourn the loss...

After the MRI, the doctor determined that a laporotomy would be the best way to get my dermoid cysts removed.  He asked us at each preoperat...

So we left off with me being pregnant, jobless, in a new city... and absolutely ecstatic! The pregnancy went smoothly, no worries, no probl...

How did I get here?  It's not the mountaintop I planned for myself, or even imagined. It's not really a precipice I saw coming. It ...