Home / Parenting This is: Becoming a mama By Motherly December 21, 2020 Rectangle We become parents in many different ways—through birth, adoption, surrogacy, step-parenting. Regardless of how you got here, there is nothing like the gravity of that moment when it hits you. When did you first feel like a mama? Categories: Parenting Related articles News Joss Stone is shocked to find out she’s pregnant—weeks after adopting a baby boy January 2, 2025 Motherly Stories The bittersweet birthday of a SAHM August 28, 2024 Celebrity News Chrissy Teigen and John Legend welcome another baby to the family via surrogate! June 28, 2023 Motherly Stories I’m done having babies, and I wasn’t ready for the grief August 29, 2022 Celebrity News Erin Napier says she went through a ‘period of grieving’ before the birth of her second baby March 9, 2022