Motherhood
A 20-year gap between siblings. A first pregnancy — with twins — at 44. Later-in-life mothers share our unique joys and challenges.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled worrying for a bulletin about how awesome you are.
These close friends have stuck together through happy times and painful ones. And since they’re both obstetricians, they delivered each other’s babies!
I tried to reserve emotional room for my dear, childless friend as I cocooned into a life of cribs, bibs and sleepless nights. But so little of my new identity affirmed hers, and the reverse was also true.
I noticed my brown beauty racing toward the car, panic-stricken and panting. She slammed the door shut, flashing wide-eyed fear...
