Birth Stories

Facing my 40s single and childless – and after several IVF attempts -- it was time to pursue adoption. I hired an...

So Dani wakes me up around 3am and tells me I need to start setting up the birthing tub. Nothing she says...

As I sit here and stare at a blank piece of paper, in the same space I birthed her, almost a year...

The bright glow of the full moon had passed behind the quiet Hale Mahina in the distant west. The twinkle of the...

An unmedicated home birth is what I wanted. I believe it’s what my soul needed after conceiving via IVF and having been loaded with...

On my daughter’s 33rd birthday, the memories are still vivid. At 26 years young, I was the first of five siblings and most of...

Every woman’s birth transforms her to the deepest of her core. It rocks her out of this world and into a deep inner space....

After months of anticipation I walked in the big glass hospital doors to the Birth unit. This was the day I had been dreaming...

It blows my mind to think I grew an actual human being in my belly and gave birth to it. What a miracle! With...

The first birth I ever attended was my sister’s birth of my nephew Kaikuolo. All natural - peaceful, intense, beautiful and at home. Fast...