“Right now I am day 6 post loss 5. I am drinking prosecco and eating popcorn and writing a blog that I will probably never post.I knew I lost it as soon as I looked in the toilet. I had bled the night before and it was bright red. Not the transparent bloody discharge and spotting that’s normal in early pregnancy, but red like a rose and the color of hell. I told myself it […]
I have a handful of news podcasts that I listen to on a regular basis and several of them have talked about the Kate Cox case in Texas regarding abortions for lethal fetal anomalies. I’m glad that case got national news coverage. It should. The debate surrounding “late term abortions” is not about people who carry a pregnancy for two terms and then all the sudden decide they don’t want the baby, it’s about couples […]
I have found it surprisingly easy to both talk about and write about my first miscarriage. Maybe because it was the beginning of everything. It’s easy for me to start things, to set the scene, to introduce the characters, to begin. When I was in school, I always wrote great introductions for my papers. Finishing things was harder. I have a lot of half-finished projects, a lot of unrealized aspirations. Finding a clear path through […]
Adventures of a Misbehaving Uterus 