Everyone Out Including the Baby
October 25th, 2017 | by Andrea Askowitz
At midnight, my midwife, Dana, drove me to the Hollywood Birth Center. My mom, her boyfriend Bob, and my two
Browsing the "birth story" Tag
Now the “I” is Us—A Birth After IVF Story
April 23rd, 2017 | by Nadine Kenney Johnstone
The National Infertility Awareness week runs from April 23rd to 29th. In observing this week, I’d like to share the story
“You Forget How Painful It Is” — An After-Birth Story from THE BEST WE COULD DO
March 24th, 2017 | by Thi Bui
This event is such a blur to me now. I’m glad I recorded it, because it was the change
ON THE CORNER OF AVENUE I AND OCEAN PARKWAY: A Birth Story in Comics by Summer Pierre
December 23rd, 2016 | by Summer Pierre
Having a baby in the back of a minivan in snowy Brooklyn was not in my birth plan, but when
THE BEATING: A Birth Story by Jennifer Lewis from RAD FAMILIES
December 9th, 2016 | by Jennifer Lewis
I’m lying on the operating table crucifix-style with leather straps binding my arms. The needle in my spine has erased
BIRTH THREATENS CLOSER—Poems by Samantha Barrow
November 3rd, 2016 | by Samantha Barrow
BIRTH THREATENS CLOSER The water level rises under my skin Swollen Bloated —logical terms to capture this state
THE HOURS (AND HOURS, AND HOURS…): An Interview with Pamela Erens
September 28th, 2016 | by Meg Lemke
How long? How many hours (and hours, and hours…)? New mothers find ourselves urgently asking each other for numbers, after birth. We
Incubated from the World: HILA RATZABI’s Premature Birth Story
July 12th, 2016 | by Hila Ratzabi
Through a haze of painkillers, I awoke in the postpartum room to the sound of the news on TV: hundreds
QUIET PLEASE: A (Still) Birth Story by Nina Capelli Oppenheim
February 18th, 2016 | by Nina Capelli Oppenheim
Later I thought of it as the walk of shame. A nurse led Tommy and me from a hospital observation
Real MUTHAS! Video Series: SHOSHANA VON BLANCKENSEE
February 12th, 2016 | by Haley Jude
We drove five miles per hour, the speed limit, through the picturesque streets of Alameda, a little island just across