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Everyone handles grief differently. Some shut down and retreat into their own world, while others throw themselves into work, the roles we assume, relationships, and other things… any thing, that will fill the gaping hole that loss has left behind. For me, the moments after my miscarriages were still. I quickly learned that no amount […]
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I first miscarried in 2011. Only a few people even knew I was pregnant, and I didn’t talk about it until a year later. I stood up in my sisters wedding a week after the loss, I went back to work, and I moved through life pretty numb. I remember one of my friends, who […]
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Before I got pregnant, I wanted a c-section. I was terrified of a vaginal birth, like could not even fathom the idea. I even used to talk about how I was going to convince my doctor to let me schedule an elective c-section bc I was not about that human out the vagina life. Then, […]
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Wednesday, September 6, 2017 3:28am // Water breaks Labor at home for 4.5 hours 8am // Arrive at hospital, 3cm dilated Pump to naturally induce labor for 5 hours 3pm // Epidural + Pitocin, 4.5cm dilated Wait… 8pm // 10cm dilated Push for 2.5 hours 10:30pm // Fever + infection, Selah’s heart rate gets […]
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You may have noticed, I’m a take charge kinda gal. I like shit done + I like it done my way. She was due Saturday and I just knew she wasn’t coming. I also knew that since she wasn’t coming on time, I was shutting this party down + inducing by the 10th. Someone had […]
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I know this looks a lot like the same shot I posted a couple weeks ago, but if you look closely, you will notice it’s changed in small ways. It has slowly been filled with sweet notions that represent myself, James, our hopes of who she will be + hopefully inspiration for whoever she […]
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I met Roxanne Bellamy [@roxannebellamy] on a shoot last summer in Mia. She was assisting the photographer and agreed to take some bts shots of me. I loved her eye + every shot she took. So, when I knew we’d be in Miami and I’d be huge, I reached out for her to shoot me. She […]
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When I was younger, I thought it was so easy to get pregnant. Once, I agonized for weeks over a penis that touched my thigh! Then my period came and I thought, close call bitch! Fast forward to 35 years old, when I was actually trying to get pregnant, and found out that I missed out […]
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Given my history, I really thought that being pregnant was going to be the happiest time of my life. I thought each day was going to be happier than the last, that the selfies and bumpies were going to be endless, and that I would be flooding your social media with ridiculous stories of how […]
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