Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how I have been unintentionally exclusive in some of my posts. I know it’s unreasonable to expect all moms (or even most moms) to identify with everything I write. But for some reason it has been bothering me that so many of my posts about motherhood involve some mention of carrying another human being inside me. While this might be how many of us became mothers, I know it is not a necessary part of motherhood.