The MotherVerse Blog: mothering out loud

Leaving home to come home.
I open the door and am struck by the smell of darkness and wet concrete. It has been over a year that I have been struggling with this depression and anxiety and the smell of the evening is the smell of that struggle in some perverted way. I make my way […]

I always worked hard to make our home a safe haven for the family members in the rat race of life. I wanted my kids to feel “at home” and safe when they crossed the threshold of our home. I felt successful at this goal in my first marriage.
I have the same goal for our […]

Baby turned one last Sunday. Instead of rejoicing, my apprehension about his upcoming immunization intensified. I had all my three children vaccinated. With Baby, I had him go through the vaccinations too, up till the ninth months immunizations. However, with each visit, my heart felt heavy. I had read about the vaccination controversy here and […]

A Mother’s Day suggestion from Gwendolen Gross.
“The Other Mother” by Gwendolen Gross is perfect for mother-daughter discussion — a chance for you to think about the choices we all make. Selection of four national book clubs, Booklist called The Other Mother “an electrifyingly complex and explosively gripping portrait of contemporary, have-it-all motherhood.”
“The book was amazing […]

I opened the door to my freezer last night expecting to find a fudge pop on top shelf. All I wanted was something sweet to snack on while I watched the latest episode of Deadliest Catch after a very long day. 
What I found, instead, was my son’s latest “science experiment”. 
To call it a science experiment […]

By the time I became pregnant for the second time, we had been trying for a year. My firstborn son was three-years-old. I became pregnant almost instantly with my first child so we were surprised and confused by how long it took for this next pregnancy to happen.
I knew I was pregnant at the first […]

It’s all I think about.
I’ve been on leave from work for one year. I’m one of the lucky ones. Every time I bemoan the fact that I have to return in July, another mother trumps me.
“I had to go back after four months.”
“Two months.”
“Six weeks.”
On Friday I visited a daycare people in town had raved […]

A Call to Action from MomsRising
“The evidence is mounting. After years of concern about the safety of baby bottles, children’s care products, and other food and beverage containers which contain the chemical bisphenol A (BPA), the verdict is in–and it’s not good.
Yesterday the Canadian government announced it is planning to ban the use of […]

When I was pregnant with my youngest son, my mother had a sudden medical crisis. An ulcer (we did not know she had) perforated and she was profoundly and acutely sick for much of my pregnancy.
My mother required emergency surgery and spent several weeks in ICU. My sisters and I would visit her daily and […]

Do you ever have a day when you feel like you never catch your breath, never complete a thought, and never sit down (except, perhaps, to drive)?
I have those days a lot as a Stay-at-Home mother of three. Until having a child, and now living the life I do, I never imagined a person could […]