The Body Remembers
April 7th, 2026 | by Hana Melroy
At the hospital, hands pressed and prodded, clinical voices assessing me as if I couldn’t hear them
Browsing the "pain" Tag
And Then There Were Two
August 22nd, 2025 | by Adele Failes-Carpenter
I am home alone with Cora the evening the nerve pain makes me turn to prayer
“You Have to See People and Listen to Them”: Erin Williams on WHAT’S WRONG
January 30th, 2024 | by Cara Gormally
There are 20 million people living in this country who have chronic pain
Uterine Rupture
April 14th, 2022 | by Alyssa Sinclair
I am not sure I would call it the second time I gave birth, because it was more like it was just taken from me.
An Inheritance of Pain
September 3rd, 2020 | by Miun Gleeson
I became mother-less six weeks before I became a mother.
The Full Baby Scrum or DEAR MOTHERS IN CHRONIC PAIN by Megan Moodie
November 17th, 2016 | by Megan Moodie
I was in labor for like eighteen hours until I had just finally had it. I didn’t want to, but,
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
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