Still Blasts
February 20th, 2024 | by Jessica Phillips Lorenz
Nine floors above the grid of moving dots and doers doing, is the short stick pile
Browsing the "hospital" Tag
Love and the Terror of Loss
June 26th, 2023 | by Elizabeth Bird
And then we turn. Where are you? My second-born, not quite two
The Act of Breathing: A NICU Glossary
August 4th, 2022 | by Anahita Vieira
Trauma (medical): Poorly understood and rarely acknowledged. Symptoms include, but are not limited to: rage, shame, helplessness
A Story of Two Births
April 26th, 2022 | by Jennifer Alessi
Someone hit the call button. No one came.
The Golden Hour
March 10th, 2022 | by Alyssa Sinclair
She wore only a diaper. There was an oxygen tube in her nose. There was an IV in one arm, bulky gauze taped in various spots on her hands.
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
Beds
August 16th, 2018 | by Marianna Marlowe
1 She falls back on the bed, spreading her legs. She is still fully clothed, as is he. He fumbles at
Of Firsts and Donuts: Comics
May 4th, 2018 | by Grace Farris
I started drawing comics as a child, and wrote a daily comic strip for my college newspaper. I came back
Shared Labor: A Birth Story
December 15th, 2017 | by Julia Whitehouse
When I told my husband, Ben, that I wanted to have a home birth with a midwife and a doula
WHAT TIME IS IT: When a Feminist Shakes it for Morris Day
October 19th, 2017 | by Gayle Brandeis
I thought I was hallucinating. A couple of days before, I had been sitting next to my six year old
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