Thought I’d share a poem I wrote about pregnancy and post pregnancy♥️ it’s mainly about when everyone says your baby looks like their dad and the emotional impact it has sometimes on mothers 🥺

“All Daddy’s Face” They say she’s all her daddy those eyes, that cheeky grin As if I was just a vessel, That held her to begin They say, “she’s got her daddy’s smile,” as if that’s all it took not months of feeling as if splitting open And a very painful cut. But they weren’t there for the needles, The sugar counting days, A pregnancy turned battleground in sweet yet bitter ways No one held my shaking hands through the nights I couldn’t breathe a clot lodged in my lung like stone, as death brushed past my sleeve They didn’t see me constantly scared, counting heartbeats through the night, wondering if I’d live with my daughter, or vanish in the fight They missed the tears I swallowed whole, the ribs she pushed apart, the silent war of body that wrapped around a special heart. And now they say “She’s all daddy,” like she grew from someone else. But every inch she took from me She carved out of myself. So let them name her daddy’s face and see no trace of mine. I’ll hold the parts they cannot see the ones I bled to find. She may look like her daddy, but she lived because of me. And in the quiet, she is mine in ways they’ll never see.