If this is the information this mother (who never got to mother her child and obviously grieves or would not have mentioned it) wants to provide, it’s her right to do so. I say “Bravo!” for sharing.
I think it is quite pertinent information. I was adopted one week after birth and I know that my birthmother treasured her marks as a signifier of my time with her. Thank you birthmom for your candor.
Welcome to Dr. Karen Rayne's and Midwife Christy Tashjian's Belly Project! Karen is a sex educator for parents and teenagers and Christy is a homebirth Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) currently working on her nurse practitioner degree. Both are located in Austin, Texas. You can follow Karen on twitter if you like. Everything Belly-Project-related gets tweeted about there.
Women (and sometimes men…you know who you are…) can be obsessed with their bodies. Hair, nails, toes, skin, breasts, hips, eyes, they all get fixated on. But perhaps nothing is as preoccupying to us as our bellies. Our bellies are intimately related our sexuality and to our reproductive lives. It’s a complicated interaction, that confluence of sex and babies.
So, with that in mind, this blog is a place to come and put our bellies in perspective and to share them anonymously with the great wide Internetz.
We will include pictures of women’s bellies, their age, and the number of pregnancies, abortions, and miscarriages they have had.
So do you want to be part of the belly project? E-mail your belly picture, your age, and your reproductive history to
thebellyproject@gmail.com and we'll get your belly into the project!
7 Comments
January 12, 2009 at 3:01 am
[...] 59 years old, 1 pregnancy (baby given up for adoption 40 years ago) [...]
January 12, 2009 at 5:18 pm
unnecessary information
January 12, 2009 at 5:19 pm
yea
January 13, 2009 at 7:52 am
If this is the information this mother (who never got to mother her child and obviously grieves or would not have mentioned it) wants to provide, it’s her right to do so. I say “Bravo!” for sharing.
January 13, 2009 at 11:47 am
I agree, Julietta. The adoption of her baby is an integral part of her reproductive history for her.
May 14, 2009 at 11:34 am
I think it is quite pertinent information. I was adopted one week after birth and I know that my birthmother treasured her marks as a signifier of my time with her. Thank you birthmom for your candor.
June 25, 2009 at 9:22 am
Somewhere there’s another woman saying “Gosh I can’t believe I’m 40!” and grateful to be alive. Thank you for your sacrifice.