Raising The Fifth

Seven Reasons Women May Not Be Into Breeding Right Now – Jianna Heuer

Seven Reasons Women May Not Be Into Breeding Right Now by Jianna Heuer Medical Women’s bodies are a wonderland. They are also consistently under-studied in medicine, especially their reproductive systems. This seems astounding, considering conservatives go on about women needing to reproduce, and liberals are obsessed with the right to choose. Both are tall measures […]

To Those In Their Late 20s Trying To Decide – Anonymous

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To Those In Their Late 20s Trying To Decide Taken from a conversation in late 2023 with ‘Anonymous’ Make sure that your heart’s full for you first. If you want to have a baby because society says that’s what you should do, or pressure from the boyfriend or somebody else, think first. The most important […]

Shoulda Woulda Coulda – Jo Gilbert

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Shoulda Woulda Coulda by Jo Gilbert I need you to know, there’s nothingyou should do, if you don’t want to.The shoulda woulda coulda code doesn’t exist, it’s a myth.Stone tablet commandmentsare made to be smashed.If someone tells you otherwise, say: what’s it gotta do wit you/shut it/fuck off/mind yer own bizniss**delete as appropriate. Published in […]

Choices – Wendy Mundy

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Choices by Wendy Mundy I want you to know that you may not actually know whether you want children or not.Changing thoughts, external pressures, broody feelings, that ‘ticking clock’.I want you to know that whatever you decide is OK. If the choice is taken from you, infertility is a cruel burden to bear. Even more […]

I Want You To Know – Leanne Moden

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I Want You To Know by Leanne Moden                                                     I am not defined by the absence. Absence implies lack, implies need, implies want. But I amnot defined by what I […]

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