My Daughter Has Kept Me Waiting…For Forty Years

From conception to the present, motherhood is an exercise in radical patience that has challenged me to my core

Martha Manning, Ph.D.
Age of Empathy
Published in
8 min readMay 2, 2024

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An infant sleeps
Photo by Taksh on Unsplash

Confirmation

With the first drops on that magic wand, I waited out the interminable minutes that would confirm my daughter’s existence. The watching, the waiting…

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.
Age of Empathy

Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.