Birth Pains

“For the first time in my life, I understand the concept of home: it is not a refuge, not necessarily a snuggly place of warmth and cheery domesticity, not some essential rightness like the satisfying click that releases a lock, but rather a sense of peace with contradiction. It is a giving in, an acceptance,… Read More Birth Pains

March 9, 2015June 29, 2022 Rumbi Goredema GorgensLeave a comment

On What I did not Expect

I don’t know quite what I expected. For the longest time (and I know how lucky we are that for us, that only meant months, not years), we’d been planning for this pregnancy, working as hard as we could emotionally to conceive our miracle, fighting the despair that threatened to overwhelm anything positive about… Read More On What I did not Expect

October 11, 2014June 29, 2022 Rumbi Goredema Görgens2 Comments

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Birth Pains

On What I did not Expect