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March of Dimes

by Judy Schwartz Haley

My brain stopped working when the words Neonatal Intensive Care Unit came out of the doctors mouth. I sat on the exam table in my paper gown, strapped to monitors spitting out ticker-tapes, and tried to unhear those words. This is not an eventuality for which I had prepared myself. All those nights I [...]

Baby Update: She’s Here!!

by Judy Schwartz Haley

Baby Genevieve made her appearance at 6:16 this morning. She was still two weeks early, but she officially made it to full term last week, and she’s a good healthy size – 20 inches, 7 lbs 9 oz.

She’s perfect and we couldn’t be happier

Genevieve

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Pregnancy

by Judy Schwartz Haley

a journey started in a moment of heat making love, making a child at the same time making myself something more than myself changing from woman to mother

I am not the same person

Invaded, my body is not my own my belly rolls and kicks with a power I don’t possess I am possessed [...]