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My name is Amber Page—the loving mother of one very special little girl. I had her at the age of 33. I got married at the age of 23. We were not celibate. So, obviously, I used birth control.For most of that time, I paid for it out of my own pocket. And you know what? It wasn’t always easy. It cost me 40 bucks a month, and sometimes it was the last 40 dollars in my checkbook. But I was willing to pay it. I wanted the choice of when to become a mom to be mine.  Read more >

Everywhere we go, people tell me how much my daughter looks like me. “Wow. She’s a dead ringer for you,” I hear at every family get together. “Man. You’ve got a Mini Me there, don’t you?” I get asked when introducing her to someone for the first time. “It sure is obvious who her mommy is,” I’m told when dropping her off with someone new at daycare. And it’s true. She does look a lot like me. Put a picture of me as a toddler next to a picture of her and the similarities are almost creepy. But it’s hard for me to accept.  Read more >