No one warned me how bittersweet the last baby would be. The joy. The finality. The aching knowledge that every first is also a last....

What if the small losses were grief too? Meet Tenderings—soft, subtle moments that teach us how to hold what life asks us to let go.

There are two thresholds we rarely walk with ease: The one that marks life’s beginning, and the one that marks its end. Motherhood and...