Alice Bradley was recently published in The Sun Magazine. Rather, her article, Eighteen Attempts At Writing About A Miscarriage, was published in The Sun.
I read it, as well as this post on her blog, from the perspective of a young, accidental mother with no desire for more children, at least in the next several years. I’ve never felt that it was selfish to not want more or to not want to give my daughter a sibling. I cannot tolerate people who think it’s selfish not to have children at all and I froth at the mouth with unwanted lectures of personal fulfillment and overpopulation, anyway!
I don’t even know where I’m going with this except to say that her emotional posts have given me a deep, deep appreciation for what I do have, what I probably never deserved but got anyway. I’m not sure I knew just how completely and totally fulfilled my daughter makes me. All fifty pounds of that kid, scrawny and bright, are more than enough.
That whole ‘kids as gifts from heaven’ is cliché and holds no meaning to an atheist but I kinda think that if Kiddo had come wrapped in a big glittery bow… it might have just been appropriate, is all.
-CJ
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