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4 Tips for Bonding with Your NICU Baby

March 4, 2020

When you find out you’re expecting, it’s normal to feel a flood of emotions. You’re excited, nervous and eager to meet your little one. You’re careful throughout your pregnancy, you follow the advice you’ve been given, and you create your birthing plan with a little help from your midwife and partner. Labor begins and even […]

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Diagnosis, Trauma Tagged With: baby, neonatal, newborn, nicu, premie, special needs

A Letter to My Daughter – An Unnamed Mother’s Story

December 15, 2016

My beloved Natasha, You’re only two years old now, and the world seems so exciting and bright and wonderful to you. I wish it would stay that way forever, and that I could protect you from the things that will hurt you one day. But I know that’s not what life is like. We lie […]

Leave a Comment Filed Under: Divorce, Single Mom, Trauma Tagged With: abuse, daughter, domestic abuse, dreams, grown up, hopes, letter, safe, sexual assault, shelter

No One Should Have to Live Eight Years with Abuse – An Unnamed Mother’s Story

October 3, 2016

I was only 23 when I met him. It was my last semester at university, and I looked forward to a bright future. But then Alex came into my life. At first he was like a knight in shining armor, and then he became a devastating hurricane that left a broken shell of a human […]

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The Difference a GOOD Foster Mother Makes – An Unnamed Mother’s Story

April 4, 2016

My parents divorced when I was nine years old after being separated for eight. I am the middle child of three children. My older sister was eleven, and my little brother was eight when our parents divorced. In June of 1997 on Father’s Day I told my father that I was moving in with my […]

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Wildflower Movie Review and Giveaway!

March 27, 2016

This week I was given a free copy of the movie Wildflower to review, and another copy to give way here. Although it doesn’t have a direct motherhood message, the plot sounded interesting to me because of my desire to help women heal from the shame and hurt of their pasts. Movie Background Chloe is a […]

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Story of Gold – Megan’s Story

March 13, 2016

The story of my mothering is generations long, and rooted most recently in my 38 year-old relationship with my own mother, who passed away in 2014. I loved my mom. She was one of my best friends, and I feel her with me every day. But my mom somehow allowed child abuse in her home, […]

3 Comments Filed Under: Life Coach, Motherhood, Trauma, Working Mom Tagged With: megan barella, parent loss, poetry, trauma survivor

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Hi! I'm Wynter. Wife to Jonathan and mama to Chloe, Adaya and Liam. I am a writer, artist, MarCom professional, freelance editor, and an avid gardener, TV lover and chocolate-covered cherries addict. Come back here each week for new, powerful stories of motherhood from real moms across the mother spectrum. Read More…

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