Prompts for pregnancy and early motherhood
A single poem. Three guided prompts. Space to think about what you are living through.
This edition of the Looking Closer Series centres on With Child by Genevieve Taggard — a poem she wrote around the time of her own pregnancy, first published in 1921. It does not idealise pregnancy. It is one of the most honest things ever written about what it means to grow another life inside your own.
You don't need to know anything about poetry to use this prompt pack. You only need to be a mother in the earliest season — pregnant, newly arrived, or somewhere in between — with a desire to sit close with your experience.
Read the poem slowly, more than once if you can, and let the prompts take you from there.
What's inside
A short welcome
The full poem, with notes on the poet and the work
Three guided journaling prompts
Format — PDF · print-friendly
Prompts for pregnancy and early motherhood
A single poem. Three guided prompts. Space to think about what you are living through.
This edition of the Looking Closer Series centres on With Child by Genevieve Taggard — a poem she wrote around the time of her own pregnancy, first published in 1921. It does not idealise pregnancy. It is one of the most honest things ever written about what it means to grow another life inside your own.
You don't need to know anything about poetry to use this prompt pack. You only need to be a mother in the earliest season — pregnant, newly arrived, or somewhere in between — with a desire to sit close with your experience.
Read the poem slowly, more than once if you can, and let the prompts take you from there.
What's inside
A short welcome
The full poem, with notes on the poet and the work
Three guided journaling prompts
Format — PDF · print-friendly