Lawton, Oklahoma
August 2nd, 2022 | by Melissa Wabnitz Pumayugra
Mere hours after she died in the room alone, stale potato chips left on the adjacent table, my son emerged.
Browsing the "birth stories" Tag
What’s in a Name?
April 5th, 2022 | by Cathy Humikowski
We gathered again in the conference room, beige and windowless, at the end of a corridor in a hospital basement.
A Better Mother: On Breastfeeding in a Pandemic
January 13th, 2022 | by Julia Nusbaum
There was a pandemic raging outside the walls of my hospital room. All I wanted was to keep my baby safe.
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
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
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
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.
A Beginner’s Guide to Birth in the Field
July 23rd, 2019 | by Linda Baird
You know it’s love when your husband helps tie off your newborn’s cord with his shoelace in the back of
Holding Breath
April 30th, 2019 | by Shannon Brescher Shea
Lying on a hospital examination table, shivering despite the thin blanket draped over me, I stared at the ceiling and
Release
December 18th, 2018 | by Lenore Eklund
Once there was a woman who was a maker and a man who was a baker. The woman would make