Tag: childbirth

After a traumatic experience with childbirth, Rachel Somerstein struggles to bond with her newborn daughter.

In the wake of childbirth and postpartum complications affecting her mental health and her marriage, Ukamaka Olisakwe picks herself up and starts over — in grad school.

A visit to Auschwitz makes Eliza Margarita Bates only more determined to have a baby, despite her painful chronic illness.

No one ever said expelling a tiny human our of your body would be easy — or if they did, they shouldn’t have.

Hanna Neuschwander grapples with ending a wanted pregnancy, and finds that “right” or “wrong” fail to describe the moral reckoning.

Stories of women of color dying of childbirth have dominated headlines — but little has been done to change postpartum care.

A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.

When you don’t need to worry about the big things, you can start obsessing over the small ones.

Rachel Pieh Jones, a Christian American living in Djibouti, reflects on her friendship with a Muslim woman there, and the more universal aspects of faith.

Shelby Vittek reflects on the bittersweet experience of watching herself be born — and her now-divorced mom and dad become parents — again and again.

On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.

Beyond the tired binaries of midwife vs. doctor and home birth vs. hospital birth. 1. “How We Made Our Miracle.” (Melissa Harris-Perry, MSNBC, Feb. 2014) After political commentator Melissa Harris-Perry shared pictures of her newborn daughter on Valentine’s Day, she wrote about her past health problems, her history with childbirth, and making the decision to […]

“No one makes it through life unscathed, but you usually get a grace period at the start. My son would not be so lucky.”