A personal essay in which Paulette Kamenecka recalls how, during her high-risk pregnancy, driven by a longing for normalcy, she tried out a class for parents-to-be.
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Parenting Class Dropout
During her high-risk pregnancy, driven by a longing for normalcy, Paulette Kamenecka tried out a class for parents-to-be.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Parenting Class Dropout
During her high-risk pregnancy, driven by a longing for normalcy, Paulette Kamenecka tried out a class for parents-to-be.
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Getting Out the Message To Save Himself
In Don Waters’ short story “Full of Days,” a grieving Las Vegas man uses an anti-abortion billboard to justify his own pained existence.
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The Uncommon Sadness of the Common Miscarriage
After a miscarriage, Laura Turner faces the sadness of returning to everyday life.
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The Wait: Is There Such a Thing as a Good Miscarriage?
Jessica Grose recounts the agonizing waiting period after an inconclusive ultrasound, and considers whether there is such a thing as a good miscarriage.
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The Wait
On the agonizing waiting period after an inconclusive ultrasound and whether there is such a thing as a good miscarriage.
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Biological Clocks and Biological Gender: Trans Women and the Dream of Pregnancy
Belle Boggs writes in Guernica, exploring what the possibility of uterine transplants — no matter how remote or unaccessible the science is — means for trans women.
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Mother Science
Uterine transplants are frontier science, but they offer hope of possibility for trans women and others seeking parenthood.
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Choosing to Set Him Free: The Stillbirth of Charlie Showman
At The Walrus, Georgina Blanchard reflects on the stillbirth of her son, Charlie Showman.