She Knew She’d Become a Mom — Just Not How - a conversation with Zoë Kellett

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For many of us, there’s an almost automatic assumption that when we become parents, we’ll do it with a partner. We rarely begin the journey thinking, I want to do this my way — and I think I want to do it on my own.

Zoë did.

She knew from the beginning that becoming a parent was something she wanted to experience on her own terms. She also knew she wanted to have two very different experiences of becoming a parent: pregnancy and birth, and adoption.

For Zoë, pregnancy wasn’t necessarily about having a biological connection to a child. It was about wanting to know what it felt like to grow and…