“She has a lot of hair.” That’s the first thing I remember hearing when my daughter was born. After 18 hours of labor, two hours of pushing, several emotional breakdowns, one near-spiritual level of exhaustion, and enough hospital monitors beeping around me to feel like I was piloting a spaceship, that was the sentence that […]
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I found out I was pregnant three months after moving to the United States. Three months. I was still figuring out which grocery store I liked, still getting used to driving everywhere for things that in Sydney would’ve been a 12-minute walk and a coffee stop, nothing felt fully familiar yet.. And then: a positive
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I’m Colombian. But I’m not the version that usually comes to mind. I’m quiet. I notice things. I think before I speak, sometimes too much. I’m the kind of person who can sit in a loud room and still feel like I’m watching it from a slight distance, present, but processing. That probably sounds like
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