Sitting on the floor of her Duncanville, Texas, home, 20-year-old Mariah Gaines gently rolls a ball to her 8-month-old son Ezekiel. When he catches it, he drops the ball into his mother’s outstretched hands and looks up at her, uncertain of his task, only to be reassured each time by her smile.
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Read the Urban Institute’s profile of NFP mom Mariah and her nurse Vicki in “Becoming Mom”