ORIGINALS

'It is so very hard to accept that one isn’t responsible for a miscarriage and that nothing can be done to save a pregnancy such as this.'

'Defining home since becoming a mother has been a roller-coaster of emotions.'

'Motherhood is treated as something other, rather than as something that is one aspect of a woman'

'I will not tell you to treasure every moment, neither will I tell you to wish it away. All I can say, all I have learned, is this: don’t be yourself: be all of yourself.'

'I thought motherhood was for someone else / something I never thought possible. / Yet, I wanted my own family, a unit of love, / something I could call my own.'

'... becoming a mother is a process and one that continually deepens, shifts and grows.'