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Dear Belly: My Pregnant Letters

This is a collection of writings and letters I wrote chronicling my pregnancy and birth.  Before I knew Isaiah was a boy, I wrote letters to my unborn child, and named her Veronica.

  • 40 Days of Writing, Day 4: What Do You Wish You Would Have Been Told As a Mother?
  • Gendered Pain: A Free Write on Birth, Partnership and the Woman’s Body
  • Birthing a New Feminism
  • New Mommness
  • The Pregnant Process of Writing
  • The Frontlines of Motherhood
  • Letter #12
  • Nobody Said Choice was Easy: Pregnancy and Vaccination
  • The Argument for Realism and Dangers of “Positive Thinking”
  • How Intimate and Functional is Your Feminism?
  • The Collision of Sobriety and Humor
  • Two Questions during Pregnancy
  • The Complicated Life as a Regular Person
  • Raising Isaiah
  • The Last Ungendered Day
  • It’s A Boy, It’s a Girl
  • Letter # 8
  • It Will Feel All That You Feel
  • This Pregnant Feminist Will Eat You Alive
  • Letter #5
  • Letter #4
  • Letter #3
  • Letter #2
  • The Path to Pregnancy
  • Letter #1
  • My New OB/GYN is, I swear, Mrs. Potts
  • Fork in my Life
  • Feminist Mothering
  • What Would Happen If I Were Pregnant
  • Veronica Rose
  • Halloween Inspires (my future) Daughter
  • Pending Motherhood

  • 40 Days of Writing, Day 12: Letter to My Son
  • Isaiah 14 weeks
  • A Near Apologetic Letter
  • Letter #3
  • Letter #2
  • Letter # 1 – About 3 Months to Go
  • Letter #10
  • Letter #9
  • Letter # 8
  • Letter #9
  • Letter #8
  • Letter #7
  • Letter #6
  • Letter #5
  • Letter #4
  • Letter #2
  • Letter #1

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