The Life I Fought For
Courtney-The Life I Fought For, Helen Bradford-Swire, Vaughan | Becoming Mom, Natasha KentonPersonal Essays about creativity, motherhood, loss, and what happens when the life you planned falls apart—and the life you rebuild is deeper, truer, and more beautiful than you imagined.
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A Lesson From the Waiting Room
After publishing last week's essay about fertility clinic waiting rooms, I realized I'd left out the most important thing they ever gave me.
I used to sit there watching home renovation shows on HGTV or flipping through People maga...
The Waiting Room
A note for fertility doctors & patients:
I’ve wanted to write this article for a while, and am thrilled to be joined by four other incredible women who have each spent time warming the chairs of various clinics around the glob...
I Braced Myself For Disneyland
At the beginning of summer, my 12-year-old made a summer bucket list and pinned it to the bulletin board in our art room.
“Mom… wanna see it?”
My stomach tightened.
What if she’d written:
Disneyland.
Swim with dolphins.
See Taylo...
No One Would Plan This
America’s 250th. David’s 20th. Parker’s 12th. Birthday Week 2026.
The first week of July has become absolute chaos in our family. Fireworks. Birthday candles. More birthday candles.
But it all started with a walk up a very long driveway i...
The New Person In The Room
They’d forgotten I was coming. I showed up at MCA Records in Santa Monica, CA, an overly eager—but equally intimidated—twenty-year-old. It was the summer after my sophomore year of college, and a neighbor of mine who worked at Universal had...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Singer-songwriter & memoirist writing about motherhood, creativity, loss, and plans rewritten.
Financial/legal journo & news editor. Here, writing about our IVF journey - all the highs and lows and everything in between.
Essays on motherhood, fertility, identity, and the bumps along the way that shape us into the mothers we’re becoming. For women still figuring it all out.
I'm a CO mom & wife, but native to VA\ud83e\udd0d We pushed through the trenches of infertility & IVF for 4 years before being blessed with our son. After our 4th embryo transfer ended in a hysterectomy, I'm here to be a voice & create space for others stories
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