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Kiersten Fishburn's avatar

I felt so emotionally connected to your post about motherhood I wanted to write. I’m the other side of this for you - when I was diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer I already had a 13 year old and a 6 year old. Every day I think about whether they will be left without a mother. But every day I also look at them as amazing people in the world in their own right. Who know for whatever time they’ve had a mum who adores them. My cancer was oestrogen fed and I’ve wondered to my partner was that the same hormones that let me have an easy natural pregnancy at 43. Would I have missed my girl being in the world for not being hormonal - not for a second. I’d take the cancer in a flash. I wish you all the best with your thinking and maybe decisions. Kids or no kids though your love for people and animals and the creative spirit shines through - you saved my sanity and I’m sure for so many others. And that’s also a kind of mothering.

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Dr Vicki Connop's avatar

My heart resonates deeply with this post, having been unable to have children due to an autoimmune illness that cast a shadow over my 30s and early 40s. Fear of failure was a strong theme through that whole chapter. In some ways I felt like I failed to graduate from the University of Womanhood, though these days I'm much more at peace with the reality that life had a different path for me. Wishing you well on your journey as you figure out your own path and whether motherhood is part of it. What I will say is there are many ways to embody and express the mothering energy (puppy love being one 😊❤️)

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