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It only takes looking at you and seeing in your eyes how much you love us. 

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And I have taken two months to learn that time passes so quickly it is tragic and so slowly it loses meaning. That emotions are in such great contrast they become paradoxical, and though confusing, these are the most real of feelings.

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Guilt is the virus that attacks stay at home parents, work at home parents, and working parents. Guilt is the virus that already lurks in my home, and now Coronavirus is threatening my safe bubble too. 

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I don’t want a baby because they will absolutely ruin my life.

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You aren’t technically a person yet, but I already love you with all my heart.

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What I want most for you in this life is for you to love yourself unconditionally.

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I think as moms we can all recall a time when someone—friend, family member, random old lady in Target, or indie goddess on Instagram—shared some advice or judgement that made us get in our car, lay our head on the steering wheel, and cry.

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Pregnancy was the greatest freedom I have known. Though indebted in all that I took in and gave out to this being I was host to, I felt so very free—and for that, well, beautiful.

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As long as I have breath, I will try to give you the world.

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Four years ago, she put her life on hold, stopped all things, to save her daughter.