Sarah Menkedick writes that “[m]othering, radically defined, is the glad gifting of one’s talents, ideas, intellect, and creativity to the universe without recompense.” We refuse to allow obstetric violence to diminish that gift, the gladness with which it is given and the better world it will birth.… Read More Roses are Red
I have finally made peace with my birth story. It’s been a long journey. I know that my story is not the stuff of which natural birth fairy tales are made. Although I did (unknowingly) labour, and had the support of a wonderful doula, my birth was not ‘physiological’. I had a C-section that… Read More A Woman’s Right to Choose
In the end, we – or I – caved. My son was measuring big, huge, large, especially his head. There was no way I was even going to try to push him out. Yes, I carry that shame. And I still feel the need to justify it. But his head was huge, look at him,… Read More A Birth Story
“For the first time in my life, I understand the concept of home: it is not a refuge, not necessarily a snuggly place of warmth and cheery domesticity, not some essential rightness like the satisfying click that releases a lock, but rather a sense of peace with contradiction. It is a giving in, an acceptance,… Read More Birth Pains
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