Unrealistic Birth Plans and A Reality Check: On Giving Birth to Baby Number Five
August 7th, 2018 | by Marion Ruybalid
I had my whole birth plan thought out with baby number five. Our bedroom would be almost dark except for
August 7th, 2018 | by Marion Ruybalid
I had my whole birth plan thought out with baby number five. Our bedroom would be almost dark except for
January 5th, 2017 | by Heather Jackson
I got pregnant in high school at the very end of 2000. My daughter just started high school. I remember
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
November 3rd, 2016 | by Samantha Barrow
BIRTH THREATENS CLOSER The water level rises under my skin Swollen Bloated —logical terms to capture this state
June 8th, 2016 | by Jade Sanchez-Ventura
“Whether or not you have or want children, please don’t ignore the reality it is still permissible, in 21st-century America,
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
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
October 7th, 2015 | by Elisa Albert
It was a perfect day right before the fall equinox. Emily Gould had brought us together as part of a panel
October 2nd, 2013 | by Sarah Maria Medina
It has been so rainy, indefinitely rainy, since the hurricanes have begun passing through our mountain town that I often