The Mother is Me
September 23rd, 2025 | by Jacqueline Berkman
How am I supposed to do this? I ask myself. How has anyone ever done this
Browsing the "c-section" Tag
All of the Hidden Almosts
April 22nd, 2024 | by Megan Mizanty
Once you cross the line to the other side of delivery, people share more about their own birth experiences
A Story of Two Births
April 26th, 2022 | by Jennifer Alessi
Someone hit the call button. No one came.
Scars: A Photo Essay
November 6th, 2018 | by Lyndsay Knowles
“What is that?” my son asks, his finger reaching out, pointing to a small stretch of skin above my belly
No One Is Watching
October 24th, 2018 | by Sarah Stuteville
I should have shoplifted more while I was pregnant. People mostly try not to notice pregnant women, and if they
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
I WANTED A PERFECT BIRTH: Lilly Bright on Fractured Plans
September 19th, 2016 | by Lilly Bright
“….I have become a mother, which is an unspoken agreement to be forever vulnerable.” Terry Tempest Williams, When
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
SEVEN BIRTHDAYS by Katherine DM Clover
January 20th, 2016 | by Katherine Clover
Monday It is two in the morning. I slept for what, two hours? For a moment I lay awake in
CHARLOTTE O’BRIEN on How Not to Die During Childbirth
November 23rd, 2015 | by Charlotte O'Brien
I didn’t know I was dying. These days, women don’t typically die during childbirth. I’d read all the books, taken
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