Reflections: Motherhood 47 Articles

by Marcy Yarbrough

If you're a mommy, you know that when it comes to your kids, the buck stops here. It doesn't matter how many family members are willing to help or how many wonderful people you have in your life; when all is said and done...read more

by brandi anne

A mother and son relation can be one of great joy and one of many emotional conflicts. A son depends on his mom to guide him through the stages of his life, including those of new relationships. She is there through every...read more

by Brookwren

I am not a mother, its impossible. We're talking about the girl who was mistaken for a boy until she was 16 years old, and wasn't particularly bothered by that. The same one who left her parents' home at 18 and moved i...read more

by Erin Hackney

Chicken Nuggets and French Fries are you CRAZY! When I found out in May of 2005 that I was pregnant I decided right then and there what type of parent I was going to be. I was going to be the cool mom. I was going to b...read more

by Debby Peebles

Motherhood, motherhood, motherhood. I wonder where that word comes from and what it could possibly mean. Is it perhaps due to some ancient, Celtic ritual that women performed in a cave before sunrise on the first day of ...read more

by Kristin Dorsett

Reluctant or Not, Here I Come At our annual family picnic, I arrived, with screaming baby in hand. We'd been stuck in traffic en route for over an hour. My baby hates riding in the carespecially when it's stopped, or b...read more

by Tee Tee

The struggles that come with being a mother. Dear Sister, You are always going to be told things you are not going to like, but sometimes it needs to be said. You may resent that person and stop speaking to them bu...read more

by Mary Walker

Four days and she'll be one year old-not a baby anymore. She's been a baby her whole life, doesn't she know what she's giving up? Okay, fine, I'm going to miss being the mommy of a baby. I was like this when my olde...read more

by Mengying Xie

I was reading " Harry Potter" to my 5-year-old son. When I read that Dobby sacrificed his own life to save Harry, my little son felt very sad. I know how he like Dobby, so I put down the book and told him it's the bed time...read more

by Dossie M Terrell

There is nothing comparable to the joy you experienced when you held your little bundle of joy that very first time. Many thoughts flitted across your mind as you looked into her tiny little face and down the corridors of ...read more

by Grace Brentley

I was anxious the entire time I was pregnant. The pregnancy was planned and everything was sailing along smoothly. The problem was that I didn't really consider myself a baby person. I could count the number of babies I...read more

by Shaheen Darr

'I am never going to have any children mum!' that is how I used to dismiss motherhood when I was a young woman. The thought of having children, going through the pain of childbirth and the responsibility that came after t...read more

by Janette Merrill

It was in the delirious pre-dawn haze that I woke up with Anayi this morning. Just over a year old, she still wakes up at 4 am pretty much without fail, every morning. This morning she seemed especially agitated. Usually s...read more

by Sandra Cole

ECHOES OF LULLABIES I spent about ten minutes last night singing lullabies over the telephone to my daughter, Christy, a twenty year old college junior. She called from her dorm room around ten to tell me she wasn't feeli...read more

by Christina Rivas

When I was a young girl, I used to dream about getting older so that I could grow up, get married and have children of my own. One day my mother said something and although I did not believe her at the time, I now find mys...read more

by Kari Trail

"I think I have the flu," I told the doctor as I sat on the cold, hard table in her office. "I don't think so. Your lab results came back positive;" the doctor looked at me. "That means that you are pregnant." The look...read more

by Rebecca Roche

Motherhood can be a frightening journey but at the same time the most rewarding journey any woman can make. I gave birth to my first child one month before turning twenty. He was a beautiful six pound, three ounce boy wi...read more

by Cheryl Oliver

It is no small thing when one so fresh from God loves us. Those words mean so much to me. When I look into the eyes of my new son, or his brothers and sisters, I know why I was placed on this Earth. I was born to be a m...read more

by Magi White

Hey! How about reflecting on motherhood from a males point of view? After all, what's the difference between a father and a mother besides stereotypes and social genre classifications or roles? Anyway, I became a mother ...read more

by Dina Mcnulty

A Mother's Dream I remember feeling depressed when I was in my early 20s. I didn't have a serious boyfriend and many of the young women I knew were married with young children or were planning a wedding. I longed for ...read more