A year and change ago, I gave birth to my son Jude.
I’ve never wanted the role of “mother” to be the singular one that defines me. Yet I can’t contain motherhood in a box; it touches (changes?) everything.
Here are 13 lessons I’ve picked up from the first year of mothering — many of them centering on this tension.
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