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Category: birth mother

100 Stories of Transgression/birth mother/grief

19th Story of Transgression: I Took 5 Years to Process Birth Mother Grief

Posted on April 27, 2018 by April Cheri / 0 Comment

I found out I was pregnant and chose open adoption in November of 2012. It is just this year that I finally feel free of the black cloud that descended on me th...

adoption/belonging/birth mother/transformative justice

The Best Day of 2017

Posted on December 4, 2017 by April Cheri / 0 Comment

        Though I felt big anxiety and a bit of dread going into it, the best day of 2017 was the Friday three weeks ago when I became an Amm...

adoption/birth mother/transformation

The Pain and Necessity of Dissociation as a Trauma Response

Posted on November 21, 2017 by April Cheri / 0 Comment

It was 5 years ago around this time of November that I learned I was 17 weeks pregnant at 39 years old with my third child. I was devastated by the news because...

art/birth mother

Because My Heart Walks Outside of My Body in a Dangerous World

Posted on July 2, 2016 by April Cheri / 0 Comment

Because I had to initiate myself as an artist through the blood, then and now. Because I am a woman who bleeds. Because I am a mother whose blood became life. B...

authenticity/belonging/birth mother/joy/life purpose

Stripped by Self Love

Posted on May 12, 2016 by April Cheri / 1 Comment

I am being stripped down to the essentials by acts of loving myself. A couple years ago I gave up my third child and full-time motherhood, my hometown community...

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