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Please green the vaccines. I’m asking as an undecided, expecting mother who already has a child with autism.
Statistics show that I’m 10 times more likely to have another child on the spectrum. Only it’s not that simple. It’s thought environmental factors could trigger autism in an already genetically predisposed baby. My baby.
This leads me to [...]

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Naming a baby isn’t going to be easy. I’m 11 weeks pregnant and already hitting a roadblock.
Just so you know, I’m not unreasonable. In fact, I’m fairly flexible. My guidelines for names are: They can’t be in the top 100 of the social security popular names list, it needs to sound pleasing and Jimmy must [...]

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I’m not dying; I’m pregnant.
It had been sixteen years since I last tested positive for a baby. It wasn’t the result I expected my primary care doctor to return. I’d gone to see him because I thought my colon might be infected.
Yes, my colon.
Mind you, I didn’t pick that to worry about at random. A [...]