Stories of women of color dying of childbirth have dominated headlines — but little has been done to change postpartum care.
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Posted inNonfiction
Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
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.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Why America’s Black Mothers and Babies Are in a Life-or-Death Crisis
Reporter Linda Villarosa reports on the racial disparities in health care that contribute to black women being three to four times as likely to die from pregnancy-related causes as their white counterparts, and black infants being more than twice as likely to die as white infants. Threaded through the piece is the story of Simone […]
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Only Downside to Lower Infant-Mortality Rates? All Those Baby Books
When you don’t need to worry about the big things, you can start obsessing over the small ones.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction, Story
A Muslim, a Christian, and a Baby Named “God”
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.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Joys and Sorrows of Watching My Own Birth
A personal essay in which Shelby Vittek reflects on the bittersweet experience of watching the video of herself being born — and her now-divorced mom and dad becoming parents — again and again.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
The Joys and Sorrows of Watching My Own Birth
Shelby Vittek reflects on the bittersweet experience of watching herself be born — and her now-divorced mom and dad become parents — again and again.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story
The Joys and Sorrows of Watching My Own Birth
Shelby Vittek reflects on the bittersweet experience of watching herself be born — and her now-divorced mom and dad become parents — again and again.
Posted inNonfiction
I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural
On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.
Posted inNonfiction
I Think, Therefore I Am Getting the Goddamned Epidural
On midwives, metaphysics, and intensely natural births.