Bloody Show
January 4th, 2022 | by Ariel McCleese
I said I missed my mom, and the nurse started crying and told me to think of the women upstairs, the ones who have COVID and are doing this alone.
Browsing the "Birth Stories" Category
Coming Up For Air
September 20th, 2021 | by Joanne Gallant
In our weeks spent in NICU, our son’s brain forgets to send his body the message to breathe
From a Volcano to the OR: A First Birth Story
August 3rd, 2021 | by Lara Henneman
The question that (so many) people will ask you is, will you try for a natural birth or get an epidural? Maybe they mean, are you a mother goddess or a weak modern girl?
Count
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
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.