Reaching for Motherhood

A woman.

She’s anticipated her entire life, motherhood.

She’s dreamed of it since a little girl.

Longed for it.

She’s waited for it it, charted it, temped it, felt it, timed it.

And now she’s standing in that aisle.

The one with the shelves and shelves of condoms, and in some places, other forms of emergency contraception.

She stands next to another woman.

The other woman is looking for ways to prevent motherhood.

And there they are, the two of them, shopping together.

There she is,

reaching for motherhood.

Particularly in the larger chain stores, so many items are available in multiple places:

kids hangers, are both in the kids section, and in the hangers section.
Vaseline is in the ethnic healthcare section as well as in the lotion aisle.
lunch boxes and travel coolers are in the school supply section as well as the camping section.

The contraception aisle might be a great place for some women to find pregnancy tests, but why not give more options to the placement of pregnancy tests?

Imagine, this woman, being able to finally enter into the baby section of the store, if she wanted to.

A section where people go for baby registries, after all.

A place that is affirming of what her dreams are.

I’m not suggesting moving all of the pregnancy tests to the baby section – but, why not give more options to where women can find them?

Imagine, what would it mean, for this woman, to simply know she has the choice to determine where she will go when

reaching for motherhood.

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BIRTH & BEREAVEMENT QUOTES

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She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

I am strong.

— January, founder of Birth Without Fear

When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time—the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes—when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever—there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.

— Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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