We were promised that we could have it all. And I never questioned if I wanted it all. Before the birth of my twin girls, I assumed I would add the label “mother” to my repertoire, and shift back into my life after maternity leave.

I didn’t know about the unexpected gift of motherhood.

Nothing is the same for us after the birth of our children. And some of these changes I expected, like the changes to my body and hormones, the interrupted sleep. Some were not. Like the seismic shift in my identity.