Motherhood M
Tatem Marbut found out she was pregnant while she was a senior in high school. She faced an interesting set of obstacles on her journey into motherhood.
otherhood comes in many forms, but the one constant is that no matter what the situation, a mother’s love is unconditional. In a short 10 months, a woman's body goes through the unimaginable. Her organs shift, her emotions heighten, her cravings are never satisfied, and all of this happens because she is growing a human being. Her body becomes a vessel and makes room for the growth of a child. She feels tickles at first, then the defined feeling of an actual kick. She wakes up in the middle of the night with a weird feeling, which turns out to be her baby having the hiccups. She has a dream that she will give birth to a cat or to a baby with a full set of teeth. Through all of that, she buys clothes, toys, blankets, dolls and everything she needs to decorate a room and welcome her child into the world surrounded with every luxury possible.
24 | May 2020
Story by Jordan Privett
In reality though, when her baby comes into this world, it will not need stuffed animals or a fancy nightlight, the only luxury her baby needs to be surrounded by is the arms of its mother. The day that her baby decides to make its journey into the world is, to the mother at least, one of the scariest moments in life. She is excited, after all she has dreamed of holding her baby and seeing its face for months. But, there is a not-so-pretty, not-so-comfortable process that she must go through before that glorious moment. Childbirth is the single most exhausting, amazing, terrifying, anticipated, humbling and joyous experience in life. Physically, her body will go through pain, and emotionally she will be circling around as if on a merry-go-round. And then, the pain, worry and fear all disappear, the incredible journey her body just went through is no longer painful or scary, she has her baby, it is
