Birth stories and more … Whether deliberate, unplanned, shocking, or longed for, pregnancy and birth are about the most profound things that can happen to a woman.  Please share your feelings, reactions, and stories about your own experiences.

What have you discovered? … Motherhood teaches us many things, and usually they’re things we never expected to learn.  What’s been your profoundest moment?  Latest epiphany?  Kicking-and-screaming reluctant realization?  Do tell.

When getting by is all we can manage … We do things to just survive as moms, and often our personal care and development suffers.  Do you make time for yourself?  Have your priorities been upended and you don’t recognize yourself anymore?

Bursting as the seams more often than not? … Life alone is insane at times, not to mention when we add kids and relationships into the picture!  Among all the hormones, craziness, and new emotions, chances are good that you’ll overload.  Often messy, sometimes productive, and necessarily cathartic … tell us where you’re at and how you cope!

All relationships are complicated … The addition of a child (or more) to relate to has a huge impact on ALL your other relationships, whether it’s in bed, on the phone, over the fence, or all in the family.  What’s your experience?

Get it off your chest … Sometimes you just have to!

Categories, labels, assumptions … We give ourselves labels, have them applied or assumed by others, and often are in conflict with them.  Here’s your chance to weigh in.

Projects, back burners, old lists … Chances are pretty good that you’ve got buried passions, abandoned projects, half-baked ideas, and dusty 100-things-to-do-before-I-die lists lurking around somewhere.  Momhood tends to bury them, and it’s often not healthy.  Dust them off and see what happens …

What goals are you driving towards? …  Care to share them and get some encouragement and feedback?  Put them up for the rest of us to see, and we’ll help keep you motivated!

What keeps you humming, encouraged, inspired, and content? … Share a favorite quote or poem or whatever makes you settle when things are rough.