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 story" Tag
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?
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
Breathe, Memory
April 16th, 2020 | by Sacha Mardou
There's a meditation I keep returning to... and for me, it's always this day, the day my daughter 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.
The Train to Chongqing
June 13th, 2019 | by Rachel Aimee
July 7, 2010 “I feel like we’re on a train in Asia.” I was actually lying in a bed in
How to Give Birth in Two Days or Less
July 17th, 2018 | by Laura Morgan
Contractions become more and more frequent until they are one minute apart and one minute in duration. During this time
CUPCAKES AND CANCER
January 22nd, 2018 | by Kristen Forbes
The day my daughter was born, I sent my parents on a mission. The plan was simple: while I was