"Grief is hauling a suitcase with a broken wheel that is packed heavy with things you can’t leave behind. Being here won’t be a reset, but maybe it’ll jolt my senses awake." www.cntraveler.com/story/winter... #condenast #grief #surrogacy #endometriosis #venice

"My tailbone and knees soon feel like they are outside my body. I wonder if you could ice grief the way you ice other wounds. It wouldn’t help for long, anyhow. It always hurts to thaw." | medium.com/modern-women...

“I disappointed a lot of people. They all told me I was too gifted to leave science and too young to give up on my uterus, but I swallowed hard and did it anyway. I never expected to be proud of being a quitter."- In today's @huffpost.com

“'During the pregnancy, you’ll be a spectator,' Margot warned us, drawing the delicate boundary between her pregnancy and our child. This is our first surrogacy journey, but we are Margot’s third parents." @kristinakaspa.bsky.social @electriclit.bsky.social electricliterature.com/i-am-the-oth...

Kristina Kasparian ( @kristinakaspa.bsky.social ) on the complex guilt, shame, and grief of losing a baby carried by a surrogate electricliterature.com/i-am-the-other-in-mother

We don't talk much about #surrogacy, and, when we do, we talk about it as a last resort or a happy ending or a lifetime bond. But what happens when it's none of that? Thank you @electriclit.bsky.social & @katiehrob.bsky.social for helping me tell this story. electricliterature.com/i-am-the-oth...