3:20amThese nights don’t feel like they used to when he was smaller and younger. I used to embrace them, find joy in them even a lot of the time. Even when we’d have to come to the living room and play a bit in the wee hours, I’d feel a stillness emerge in the cracks of my sleepiness. I’d feel...
Melissa is the mother of a 3 year old named Jonah with another baby on the way, the founder of Motherhood Pages, and an educator. She's worked in the sexual health education field, taught elementary school, taught yoga and meditation, and supported women with postpartum education and recovery. The role that’s challenging her the most to shift her deepest patterns and find her deepest confidence is the one she's currently doing full-time: mothering.
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A Mother
I see you. Your beautiful hair pulled up, your bangs swept across. The elastic on your T-shirt is tattered and pulled, no doubt from the countless requests for milk each day. It exposes your regal collarbones. The throne on which sits your precious breasts, nourishing him day after day. Connecting you. For life. When you stand up tall, you look fearless. A queen. How you deserve to...
Sleep
You just fell asleep in my arms nursing while I read you one of my favorite books - Wherever You Go My Love Will Find You by Nancy Tillman. Your eyelids got heavy, and you closed your eyes as I read this passage: In the green of the grass...in the smell of the sea...in the clouds floating by...at the top...