This is a piece that I wrote back when I was still pregnant with my daughter. I considered fitting its perspective to the present, but I thought it would remain more powerful if I kept it in its original form, to demonstrate that it is possible to achieve peace even…
My Breech Birth Story
I was 35 weeks pregnant when my mom began to pester me nearly every time she called. Why haven’t they done an ultrasound recently? Don’t they need to know how big she is? How do they know she’ll fit? She had a nagging feeling that because I’m so tall, I…
Forming Emergency Birth Plans…then Letting Go
Childbirth can be intimidating, am I right? It seems like our brains come up with so many what if scenarios—even before we read other women’s emergency birth stories online or endure random strangers piling on other worries that keep us up at night. What if I don’t make it to…