Antonia Welsch

Antonia Welsch is a writer, photographer, and mother living in Minneapolis, MN. She has written candidly about her journey to (and through) motherhood on her blog, www.iamantonia.com.

Life

To the stranger who asked if my son was a boy because of his long hair

If boys were boys and girls were girls and there were none of the beautiful spectra of individuality that I'd come to recognize and appreciate in my own life.

Life

Hearing I was gaining too much weight during pregnancy almost broke me

I had this idea that my nine months would be some kind of guiltless-free-for-all. But it hasn't been like that. At least not for me.

Life

What I didn’t know in the first year of motherhood

I didn't know that when you would fall asleep on my chest, it would feel like my heart moved up to greet you.