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Are you interested in being a guest author for the Columbia Mom? If you're local and you're a mom (or have awesome and relevant information for local moms), we'd love to hear your ideas! Email us at info (at) thecolumbiamom (dot) com.

What It’s Like to Be a NICU Mother

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The first time I saw my baby he was only a tiny bundle wrapped in wires inside a plastic box, face obscured by a breathing mask and bathed in purple light. I cried. It...

Anonymous Stories in Motherhood :: I’m Scared to Send My Son to Middle School

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Middle school.  It's a big step in the life of a child. They are moving from that young elementary kid to a pre-teen, discovering who they are, living through puberty, making friends, and beginning to...

What It’s Like to Have a Difficult Relationship With a Parent

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To be honest, I am not quite sure how to start this story, but here it goes... My mother and I have a complex relationship, to say the least. She is a great person and...

Mom Confession :: I Don’t Treat My Kids Equally

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Recently I was in a situation with a family member – whom I’ll refer to as Grace. Grace stated, “I would never do something for one of my kids and not do it for...

Cavities :: An Unwelcomed First

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We’ve had many firsts in our family that we’ve celebrated, some of which were a pretty big deal. We’ve also had some not so exciting firsts, and cavities were one of those unwelcomed ones. According...

Preparing My Girls for the COVID-19 Vaccine

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One minute it was 2019; a pretty good year in general. It was a time when we thought the year 2020 was going to bring nothing but new apps and more ways for our...

Anonymous Stories in Motherhood :: I Don’t Like My Husband’s Parenting Style

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It's no secret that we all have different parenting styles. There are "crunchy mammas," helicopter parents, those with a more laid-back approach to parenting, strict parents, and so on. You have to do what...

A Holiday Gift Must-Have :: The Story of Gobbledy

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Before I could write full-time, I worked at a greeting card company. Christmas started in May when catalogs and holiday material went to design. From design to proof, proof to print, print to customer....

The Challenges Of Teaching During A Pandemic

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I'm in my second year as a middle school teacher. And while last year was challenging and frustrating for a variety of reasons, this year has been worse. And we've only been in school...

The Feelings Nobody Talks About While Waiting to Take a Pregnancy Test

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I have been immensely lucky to have had three healthy pregnancies without much of a fuss. Since the very early stages of each one of them, my body was eager to let me know that...

Finding My Pride

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If you told me ten years ago that at age 36 I would be a proud and open member of the LGBTQ+ community, I would not have believed you. Not that I ever had...

Let’s Be Honest :: Reflections On Mother’s Day

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Mother's Day has come and gone, and it's left me thinking. Actually, if I'm being honest, I've had quite a few thoughts on this holiday for the past few years now; thoughts on how I...

A Love Letter to my Struggling, Doubting Daughter

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My daughter has depression and recently tried to kill herself. We hospitalized her for her safety, and I'll write about that later - I know it's an important story to tell, but I'm still...

The Talk About the Birds and the Bees

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Something unexpected happened this past Christmas. Between a trip to the zoo and going out to see Christmas lights, my eight-year-old started asking questions about her changing body. And I was unprepared. I had friends who...