If someone had tried to explain to me how much my life would change by becoming a mother before I became one, I don’t think I would have understood.  Really, I’m not sure there are words to really explain it.  Motherhood is such a continual, high-level adaptation process, that it’s amazing any of us survive it.  The very beginning is all physical, and that alone is a miraculous, but crazy thing. Along with the big belly … Read entire article »