Lauren Wilde
@wilde
Lauren Wilde
Pregnancy loss almost always results from something out of your control (read: not your fault). About 80 percent of pregnancy losses occur within the first trimester, and about one-half to two-thirds of those occur because of chromosomal abnormalities.
But the issue of children and who looks after them has become, in my view, profoundly political, and so it would be a contradiction to write a book about motherhood without explaining to some degree how I found the time to write it. For the first six months of Albertine’s life I looked after her at home while my partner continued to work. This
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from my upcoming collection
✨Stars at Last✨
releasing September 1st
#poetrylovers #poetrygram #poetrystatus #motherhood #motherhoodpoetry #motherwound #breakingthecycle
instagram.com“Researchers from the UK’s Mindlab International measured subconscious brain activity in sleeping men and women and found that while a baby’s crying was the number one nighttime sound most likely to wake up a woman, it didn’t even figure into the male top ten—lagging behind car alarms. And strong wind.”
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Two parts of the rebrand of the stay-at-home parent: 1. It’s immense valuable work 2. We’re still growing and learning. Why? So we get the support and respect needed during chapters of caregiving and the time away from the traditional workforce is respected and supported in our transition back to the paid workforce.
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The truth is that motherhood is as beautiful as it looks on the congratulations cards, but it can also be a mess. It’s important to be honest about this. No real change is possible until working mothers stop trying to be all things to all people—perfect at work, perfect as partners, and perfect as mothers, with each role kept entirely separate.
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