Holy $%&#! Catherine, this was so badass and powerful. I loved it. Listening to the jubilant, patronizing messages IS exhausting. You have conveyed this perfectly. Be the bear, yes!
Hi Catherine, this is the first post I read from you. Exceptional. Heart breaking and well done—truth telling. Thank you for pulling this together and being a BEAR! I love bears, I had to raise myself as one. Love to you.
Well, I’ll be a bear a wolf or some wild beast to grow through different layers of how patriarchy harms people. my mama bear initiation began when my twins were born at 1 pound each unnecessarily. And honesty and it took me a long time to recognize. It was a hospital at Stanford. my first baby was born at home naturally blissfully. When I was six months pregnant with the twins, I was helicopter to Stanford. Once he became their patient. I was unable to leave even though I did not need to be there. I was having Braxton Hicks.
I’ve had a bear over and over again take care for my children.
Wrote a memoir about navigating this journey and the incredible joy that comes to raising these girls
That would be a great title for a book how I raised myself as a bear.
Now I’m just having fun with you and please excuse typos. I’m using talk to text on my phone.
Holy $%&#! Catherine, this was so badass and powerful. I loved it. Listening to the jubilant, patronizing messages IS exhausting. You have conveyed this perfectly. Be the bear, yes!
Brilliant. “Be the bear”
Hi Catherine, this is the first post I read from you. Exceptional. Heart breaking and well done—truth telling. Thank you for pulling this together and being a BEAR! I love bears, I had to raise myself as one. Love to you.
Appreciate your kind words. Raised yourself as a bear? I must know more.
Well, I’ll be a bear a wolf or some wild beast to grow through different layers of how patriarchy harms people. my mama bear initiation began when my twins were born at 1 pound each unnecessarily. And honesty and it took me a long time to recognize. It was a hospital at Stanford. my first baby was born at home naturally blissfully. When I was six months pregnant with the twins, I was helicopter to Stanford. Once he became their patient. I was unable to leave even though I did not need to be there. I was having Braxton Hicks.
I’ve had a bear over and over again take care for my children.
Wrote a memoir about navigating this journey and the incredible joy that comes to raising these girls
That would be a great title for a book how I raised myself as a bear.
Now I’m just having fun with you and please excuse typos. I’m using talk to text on my phone.
Nice to connect with you
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thank you for sharing. we need these stories
There's a reason they call us Mama Bears.
Yup, and that's what I'm most focused on, protecting the young.