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Lately, I’ve noticed a change in my circle of moms. I’ve been the expectant mom or the mom with the little ones in tow for the past 5 years. But now, things have shifted. I am not pregnant. My youngest daughter just turned 1 last week. I have several friends...

As someone who has served as a hospital chaplain in the dark, dark night and a sociologist who studies the world’s ills, I know thoroughly that grief can be everything from expected to a taboo. An area of grief we still struggle to recognize is that of a lost embryo...

Background on me: I am a long-distance runner who is addicted to high-intensity workouts. If there’s a new Shaun T workout, I’m completing it while I attempt the latest crossfit WOD on my Instagram feed. I enjoy hard workouts.Enter pregnancy.During my first pregnancy, I assumed my workouts would stay relatively...

  Our country’s attitudes toward birth rights are rapidly changing, and this is true in my home state as well. My husband and I had compromised that I would birth my babies in a hospital (this pacified his fears after his younger brother and mom almost died during birth) and...