Comments on: Welcome to the Sisterhood

By: Losing My Mother’s Mother | ...infinitely learning...

Losing My Mother’s Mother | ...infinitely learning... — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:48:51 +0000

[...] how one day I will lose her. And my children will lose me. And in the same way that I celebrate the lineage of my baby girl being born with the very eggs that may one day be my grandchildren; that the very egg that was to [...]

By: Sister-in-Love East Coast Style

Sister-in-Love East Coast Style — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:47:40 +0000

[...] in each other’s lives. We are much more than just friends and a dear, dear member of my sisterhood. It is something special and we needed a special way to describe it. Sister-in-love just fit the [...]

By: flowers

flowers — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:56:52 +0000

Oh Stacy, I know. I’ve actually really been wrestling with my joy of having a girl, because it brings up what it would mean if it wasn’t a girl. I mean really they are people over gender and gender comes on such a spectrum anyways. It’s been lots of fun, but also has given me lots to think about.

We are going through lots of tenderness thinking that this is our last. It’s just so sweet.

By: flowers

flowers — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:55:04 +0000

Oh and I love the idea of a mother daughter journal. Definitely going to try and remember that one!

By: Stacy (Mama-Om)

Stacy (Mama-Om) — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 19:58:12 +0000

I felt tender reading this post, because I have always wanted to be the mother of a daughter… I longed for that at the same time I feel that somehow I was fated to have boys, whom I love so, so dearly!! We (my husband and I) are also coming to terms with having no more children, and that brings up some grief and acceptance about not being a baby-mama again, to either a boy or a girl. But it has ultimately been a healing process to go through.

I love that you have so many strong women in your family, still living and close. What a gift to you and your daughter, and your entire family!

Blessings,
Stacy

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:56:54 +0000

I love the sisterhood! I’ve been blessed with 5 sisters and now that I’m having my second in a few months and I know its a girl, I’m very happy that my first born daughter will be able to “be sisters” with someone.

By: deb

deb — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:30:43 +0000

i love having a daughter! and i dressed in her every little frilly item i wanted when she was a baby – so glad i got it out of my system cause once she got her voice she chose much more functional stuff and hasn’t turned back since – she now, at 16, has developed her own completely wonderful sense of style – love seeing her outfits!

By: flowers

flowers — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:52:03 +0000

That’s so interesting that you say that Jessica, because since she’s been born “feeling complete” is a feeling I’ve had. Actually in a way that I’ve never felt it before. I’m not sure if it’s because she’s a girl, b/c it’s our third and we feel done or if it’s just something specific to her coming at this time and space.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:26:11 +0000

That is how I felt too. I had three sons before my daughter was born and I had really accepted that I was not going to have a girl. Then she arrived and I couldn’t believe my luck! So many friends asked me if I felt more complete now that I had a daughter, and I wasn’t sure how to answer. I wonder if fathers feel more complete after having a son?

By: flowers

flowers — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 02:53:13 +0000

AFter hearing from both you and Amber I’m thinking about how birth order is playing such a role in my emotions towards having a daughter. I think I had to really come to place of accepting that I might not have a daughter and so to have her here is feels like I won the lottery or something.