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Cecily Harrison
Writer/Photographer
She is a single mother and writer/photographer living in Los Angeles with her toddler daughter, Arabella. She loves being a mother and treasures the friendship and exchange of information from other mothers, single or otherwise.

"...thirty-six hours, two birthing rooms, two nurse shift changes, and two anesthesiologists later.  The doctors and nurses—everyone—has been reading my birth plan and keeping up.  “Pink, perfect, healthy, beautiful,” says the neonatologist, and I look into my daughter’s eyes.  Nothing can prepare you.  A lifetime of waiting, satisfied in a moment.  Every heightened sense, beauty, brilliant idea or prose, it’s all there, as Arabella stares back at me, her eyes pinched as if to say, “What kept you.” In her story Implant  - the experienced of being a single mom by choice.

She can be reach at: 323.461.3562 or via mail at 5164 Clinton Street Los Angeles, California  90004

Health Article
Breastfeeding and Your Hospital Birth - by Cecily Harrison - The big day is coming--soon, you’ll have your baby in your arms.  If you’re delivering in a hospital, you’ve had the tour, you’ve seen the room, you’ve imagined the moment you meet your newborn.  You cry just thinking about it. Then, your baby is here.  Perhaps you delivered without medication, the baby was early, late, you were induced, had an epidural, a C-section.  You intend to breastfeed, hopefully, you took a class.  But there is such a whirlwind of events with a hospital birth, and every woman is different, so every breastfeeding experience may be as well.  Your mother may not have breastfed, your grandmother isn’t around.  The nurse is busy, the doctor said congratulations and goodbye an hour ago.

Surviving Colic, and all the advice comes with it -  I had waited so long, I wanted the entire experience of motherhood to be instinctive, natural.  I pictured my little angel smiling sweetly when she wanted to nurse, and afterwards, drifting to sleep in her Moses basket as I floated from one bohemian setting to another. “Women have been doing this for thousands of years,” I kept repeating, and each time someone with children suggested being a parent was the hardest job around, I’d say, “Bring it on.” Then somewhere around five weeks, all hell broke loose.  My sweet little lamb with the heart-shaped mouth started crying. She cried each time I put her down.  She cried when she nursed, tormented by gas.  “Colic,” said the pediatrician, and prescribed Mylicon ‘round the clock. 

New Mom Article
Implant - Single Mom by Choice - as Arabella stares back at me, her eyes pinched as if to say, “What kept you.”  I will tell her how I toured the world, in cars, subways, and taxis, dreaming of her, how I named her, and held her in the mother’s arms of my mind. I will respect the miracle that she is, and tell her things as they become apparent and appropriate, and I will love her to the heavens and more. I made this baby and she made me.