The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

GROWING UP
There are moments, usually short spaces in time, that I desire to delay my children’s dawn into adulthood. They have already passed through babyhood, no longer suckle at my breast or cry to have their diapers changed. Their first words and tottering steps are well behind them. They grow so quickly that […]

One thing I have discovered while going through old photographs is that although infant feeding has changed drastically since the Depression and War era, one thing has remained constant: motherhood. Mothers are a special breed on Earth; we love our children unconditionally and make the best of all situations to ensure our children’s lives remain […]

Following is a poem by Annie Donwerth Chikamatsu from Tokyo, Japan. Thanks for your submission to MotherVerse Annie.
Here is her bio…
Annie Donwerth Chikamatsu is a former university instructor having taught in the United States, Malaysia and Japan. Her work has appeared in publications in Japan, the U.S. and the U.K and cyberspace. She lives with […]

I always knew I would breastfeed my child, that she would sleep in my bed and not a crib ( topics, among many, alot of mothers would shun each other for), that she would sleep in whatever way she wanted to-whether it be on her back or-god forbid- her stomach.
Yeah, I read all about SIDS, […]

“Don’t let him change the baby’s diaper. It’s not a man’s job. He’ll find another wife if you let him keep doing that.”
That came from one of my relatives.
“Don’t let him do too much around the house.”
“When a woman lets her husband do too much around the house, she will lose respect for him.”
Again, from […]

For every fifty bottle-feeding photographs I come across, I run into about -3 breastfeeding photos; they’re really that rare. But on occasion I do stumble upon photos that catch my attention, but I cannot tell whether a mother is actually breastfeeding or not. So, I am enlisting you to help me with a little detective […]

Pronounced : Sheervavigadash
The weeping and feasting of it all……
In the summer of 1990 I had just returned from Europe and was on a commuter train heading out to visit a friend in Wilton Connecticut from New York City. I opened the New York Times to find an article about a wonderful book called They Have […]

MotherVerse will now start featuring reader-submitted art and writing from mothers on the blog as regular special content from MotherVerse Magazine.
You can submit your short works(1000 words or less) to be posted by MotherVerse on the blog(under the MotherVerse category). Please submit your mother-focused short fiction, essays, reviews, poetry, humor, visual art, informative articles etc […]

Recently, my daughter has discovered Mary Poppins (‘pop’ as she calls it) and The Wizard of Oz.

It has, very literally, been years since I’ve seen either one. They were both iconic to my childhood. I was very nearly rabid about both of these classics, demanding to watch them over and over and over, driving my […]

I am an avid proponent of looking to history to help us evaluate our past mistakes, celebrate our collective accomplishments, and glean insight into the trends of our current culture. That said, I am quite honored to be guest blogging at MotherVerse for the next couple of weeks to share historic photographs of American infant […]