Something must be in the water.  There seem to be babies EVERYWHERE lately.  My cousin just gave birth to her first child, Chris’ cousin is due with her second any moment now, and there are countless other friends who are trying/expecting/experiencing their first days at home with their little smidgens.  The baby influx has hit my immediate family as well…as few as three years ago we were a tight little family of mom, dad, three grown daughters and two boys who joined through marriage.  Then BOOM! I got pregnant. When Addie was 18 months old my older sister, Thayer, and her husband Craig adopted newborn Jackson and then BAM! my younger sister, Caroline, found out she was pregnant.  The family is no longer so little.

All this new life has inspired me to write a series of posts about the untold truths of pregnancy and parenthood.  When we are preparing for our babies, whether they arrive from our own bodies or through other avenues, there are things that just go unsaid. Important things.  Things that, when they happen, shake our confidence in ourselves as capable mothers.  If being honest about those hard topics helps just one parent it will be worth the discomfort that is inevitable when exposing such personal feelings.

I am not planning on writing from the collective viewpoint because, well, I can’t.  I can write what I have felt and experienced and can safely assume that other people have experience the same or similar – mainly because I’ve talked to a lot of other parents! So, here goes.  They will all be titled The Truth: ________ (topic) If you are interested in following them, please do. If not, I will pepper in my usual writing as I go.  If you want your own parenting truths posted, let me know.  I want this to be a conversation so we can all learn from one another!