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June 29th, 2021 | by Rachel Parsons
I’m so tired, I say. When do I get to stop? When the baby comes, the doula said
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My Pandemic Valentine Baby: A Comic
February 12th, 2021 | by Jillian Dickson
A pandemic baby with a February 14th due date: fun times!
Joanna Clapps Herman’s NOA SONGS
December 11th, 2020 | by Joanna Clapps Herman
This creatura, miracoluccia, piccinina, thislittle, especially against my chest, arms splayed, loosened to comfort, in surrender.
How to Have an Unmedicated Childbirth
November 12th, 2020 | by Mary Grilli Jacobs
The most important thing to do, from the very beginning, is to follow all the rules. Go to school, and
The Only Way Out Is Through
October 29th, 2020 | by Marie Holmes
On my son’s eleventh birthday, nothing went as planned--just like on the day he was born
In so many blinks of an eye
March 9th, 2020 | by Zhenya Bourova
It is 8.46am when I see you for the first time, impossibly small and slick with blood as they hand you to me in the operating theatre.
Soon You Will Be A Mother, But First You Will Be Sick
January 22nd, 2020 | by Rachel Berger
You will spend the next 8 weeks trying to figure out how to make the nurses see you as anything but a sick fat pregnant person.
Liminal State: The Mire
December 5th, 2019 | by Maria Photinakis
This is a comic about giving birth in a time of loss; the final installment in a four-part series.
Liminal State: The Descent
November 1st, 2019 | by Maria Photinakis
A comic about giving birth in a time of grief.